Fans of indie horror feel their favorites have been propping up the genre.
A new Steam update for the Silent Hill 2 remake has added a new screenshot for James, showing an improvement to his character model.
ESRB has rated Silent Hill 2 Remake as Mature due to its explicit content, including blood and gore, strong language, and sexual themes.
Konami's upcoming remake of its survival horror classic, Silent Hill 2, has been rated "Mature" by the ESRB for sexual themes and violence.
It would be nice if it is good as it’s a loved game.
Will it change much if it fails or underperforms?
Possibly because Konami just got back into having games made and this is the biggest one and if it doesn’t do well will they go back to pachinko only mode?
They should have gave it to a more established dev who is good at remakes at least.
I think Bluepoint would have been perfect.
We can only hope it’s done well.
Combat is my biggest concern. Hopefully they hire a competent combat designer and other competent devs. They have a framework so that’s the good part and I do have some hope for it but there are reservations until I have it in my hands and get to play it.
2023 is the year of big games in horror and is expected to be my favorite year all around as horror is my preferred genre.
Alan Wake 2
RE4 Remake
Callisto Protocol
Alone in the Dark Remake
Sherlock Holmes the Awakened
Silent Hill 2 Remake
Dead Space Remake
System Shock remake
Amnesia the Bunker
Layers of Fears
Stalker 2
and many promising titles such as Shame Legacy, Greyhill incident, Fort Solis, Oxenfree 2, Daymare 1994 Sandcastle, Unholy, Spirit Hunter Deathmark 2 etc
It is true I believe that indie horrors carried the weight for this genre throughout the years.
On Nintendo Switch alone (which was generally not associated with horror due to the target audience), I finished over 80(!) horror games with another 30+ being developed.
The majority of those were of course indie games. If you visit youtube channels dedicated to horror you will find dozens of horror games releasing on a regular basis.
I would agree however that Blooper (which I really like because of slow paced games), is not ideal because of the weapon system that needs to be involved in Silent Hill 2, but I am confident that they can create a solid game.