Best Buy listing for SH2R hints at new "origin story" to play through.
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Silent Hill 2 remake pre-order lists a "new origin story" for Pyramid Head [UP: Apparently not. See threadmarks]
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Oh yeah this'll probably be bad if Bloober contribute even a single letter of dialogue to it. Reminder - one of their latest games wanted you to sympathise with the peodophile... yeah. Great fucking choice of a dev to work on SH2 there Konami...
I mean Masahiro Ito has been abundantly clear about what Pyramid Head is. Over and over again. For years. The last thing he would EVER sign on for is a new origin story for him.
The more I hear about this game, the more of a train wreck it sounds like.
Looking forward to it. Silent Hill is already dead and Konami already mutilated its corpse many times over. I find Blooper games to be pretty good at (unintentional?) comedy, so will probably have a look at some point.
Looking forward to it. Silent Hill is already dead and Konami already mutilated its corpse many times over. I find Blooper games to be pretty good at (unintentional?) comedy, so will probably have a look at some point.
Maybe but then again, there's generations of people who have only experienced Pyramid Head in games like Dead By Daylight. That could potentially be a selling point lol.
You're probably right lol I remember him being upset at Homecoming's Pyramid Head. Which makes this the likely case that it's 100% Bloober lol Oh gosh….I don't get how Pyramid Head can have an origin story when he's a manifestation born from James. Unless they're adding more to James 😬
All media is just Surf Dracula Remakes now. Once a character is recognizable, you have to give them a fully fleshed out backstory and prequel no matter how pointless or against the spirit of the original that might be. Gotta generate more content to go in the fan wikis, don't spare a single detail.
I remember one time he said the only time he would ever come back to make another SH game is if they let him kill off PH forever in the first scene, lol. He's so sick of that character.
The game makes his origin abundantly clear. But hey, a new origin means they can keep bringing him back even where he doesn't fit because he is just so "iconic" or some shit. This remake is going to be so fucking awful, and it will be the only reasonable legal way to play SH2 for the forseeable future. Between this and Ascension they should have let the series rest.
I just kind of lament that the series got to the point where like of course they were going to make a big deal about Pyramid Head here, I can't blame them. It was the most obvious thing to do when remaking a game like this. It just feels like cheap pandering "Hey, scary guy with the big knife everyone knows is in this one!!", when there's obviously so much more you can say about about the character and the entire game.
"Fan favourite character Pyramid Head" it sounds like they're about to add him to Smash Bros, lmao.
Ito has been vocal about many things that obsessed fans and video essayist have been incorrectly extrapolating from the game, like that its snow and not ash etc and people have still argued that he's wrong. It's a lost cause.
I absolutely love this tweet while he has a an profile pic of PH lol Pyramid Head's gonna haunt him forever. Konami turned him into the series' mascot
Synopsis: Pyramid Head was an american 30 year old male called Jack that came to Silent Hill looking for his… sister… and after fighting off sexy nurses (which represented his lust for his… sister?), rabid dogs (which represent his wrath for his… sister?) and Polygon Head, it is revealed to him that he killed his sister right before entering Silent Hill and that the whole town is a representation of his guilt. Just as Alessa Gillespie finishes name dropping every Silent Hill 1 character and disappears into thin air, Jack removes the polygon helmet out of Polygon Head, and wears it, transforming it into a Pyramid helmet. This is a metaphor for guilt too. The entire story is a metaphor for guilt.
I'm hoping this is just a case of poor wording and it actually means "Pyramid Head is here, as is Born From a Wish".
A Pyramid Head origin story is the kind of idea that stands to add nothing to the narrative or the character. If that is indeed what we're getting, I'm preparing for the shlockiest of shlock.
A Pyramid Head origin story is the kind of idea that stands to add nothing to the narrative or the character. If that is indeed what we're getting, I'm preparing for the shlockiest of shlock.
Born from a Wish is for Maria, not Pyramid Head. So if that's it that sentence is written pretty odd
Also you should feel very bad for him for wanting to have sex with his sister. You see, it's the bad people who are the ones who you should be sympathetic for, not their victims. We are very deep and very controversial. Please make video essays and reaction videos about our games.
Crazy that Pyramid Head was James' brother, Tommy Sunderland, the whole time. He has a nondescript mental illness or something, I don't know.
Part of the problem with Pyramid Head is that he's literally a manifestation of James' own particular psyche. He's a reflection of James Sunderland specifically. And so every time they try to trot him out in another game or use him in a movie or recontextualize him, it weakens the original character more and more.
We know what his deal is, it isn't a mystery. It doesn't need "deepening". But Bloober has absolutely no ideas and Konami has never understood Silent Hill as a publisher, but they know PH is marketable. So here we are.