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There's multiple games in development and multiple announcements, so don't give up yet. There could be at least one (even a few) that grips you.
How would you define a remake? Suspiria (2018) was marketed as a remake, was a work that couldn't be done unless Luca Guadagnino secured the rights to the original, and was textually in dialogue with the original. Sure, it introduced things that the original didn't (e.g. the sociopolitical slant) but "Actually, it's not a remake" was a topic I don't remember that was widely discussed. People just accepted that it was a remake because that's what the marketing implied, and thinkpieces post-release inevitably compared the differences between the two.
Would it though? The last time we talked you were so adamant that death of the author cannot apply to a title as "personal" and as "impenetrable" as SH2. Making your own vision off of a preexisting premise is an act that fundamentally needs you to kill the author so you yourself can do your own writing. Are you now okay with this remake purportedly having new endings? With the inevitable cleaner camera that won't express James's troubled state of mind as overtly? I'm not sure what you want outside of a dev team other than Bloober to handle the remake, but that's a non-starter given the confirmations we're now receiving.
Yeah, we did talk about all this. It's a DK frustration I strongly resonated with. I agreed with him that I wish the original (and the other titles while we're at it) was easily available. I just want to be excited about this remake because it's been way too long, and maybe it's easier for me to be excited because I don't have history with Bloober, but I don't need to be right for being excited. I just don't want to feel wrong.
Silent Hill 2 Remake was always the least interesting thing about the revival projects anyway. If we get Sakura today alongside announcements of a proper SH5 and the Annapurna thing, there will be plenty to check out even for people who refuse to touch the Bloober SH2.
I was referencing this:
Luca Guadagnino Isn’t Remaking ‘Suspiria’: ‘It’s An Homage to the Incredible Emotion I Felt When I Saw It’
Don’t expect Luca Guadagnino’s “Suspiria” to be anything like Dario Argento’s classic.
www.indiewire.com
I'm only talking about the remake in replies to my inbox, since people don't want me to talk about it until we see something, but here's one of my older comments.
For sure. I think fatalism is a huge drag, and I know how you feel. The Bloober games I've finished don't make me hopeful for this, but I'm always rooting for a new Silent Hill release to be good. No one's wrong for feeling being excited about stuff.
This too. Here's hoping the remake is able to retain a lot of what made the original so good, for a new audience, but the new games help cushion the blow regardless of how it turns out.
I don't think Abandoned will be mentioned even a little bit. That scam doesn't even deserve joke references.
I believe they can deliver a good remake since it's already being build on an existing basics and with the involvement of two of the most solid pillars of the original series Masahiro Ito and Akira Yamaoka.
I am just so curious to see if they're able to resist the urge to put "their own spin" on an absolute gaming masterwork and, like, put a bunch of new stupid Bloober endings into it.
Akira Yamaoka never did anything with the games outside music, which is important on one level, but his involvement means nothing about any other element. He did the music for every Silent Hill game sans Downpour. His involvement means pretty much nothing outside the music will be good. Ito is different, but one has to assume he has a lot of direct involvement and isn't just doing art design as he did for other post-Team Silent games.
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Wrong.
He was also involved with the production of the original series as well.
To be honest this is the only concern that I have.
Silent hill fans about to go from nothing to a whole multi course meal! And not surprise at Sony snatching it all up, I guess they thought that was worthy compensation for pt & silent hills falling through.
He became a Producer on SH3 and 4, but his primary job on all the titles were related to music. This is pretty well known and you can see it in the official credits
Akira Yamaoka Video Game Credits and Biography - MobyGames
Akira Yamaoka has been credited on games developed by the following companies: Team Silent, Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo, Inc., Grasshopper Manufacture Inc., Konami Corporation, Climax LA, Climax Solent, Yuke's Co. Ltd., Konami Computer Entertainment Hawaii, Inc., Climax Studios Limited...
And as I said, he did that for every game outside Downpour. So his involvement doesn't mean much outside music
Only Silent Hill 3-4. He had no involvement with the stories of the first two games and has even given bad information:
Notes from the Director - Silent Hill Memories
Silent Hill movie: information, review, cast, props, media, photos, videos
www.silenthillmemories.net
View: https://mobile.twitter.com/adsk4/status/1216647897267097600
View: https://mobile.twitter.com/adsk4/status/1417144804966690820
View: https://mobile.twitter.com/adsk4/status/1417148997848887298
He also served as a story consultant on the western games, which didn't stop them from contradicting the originals.
As I mentioned, He was involved in the production in the original series.. so I said nothing untrue here.
Yeah, and neither have we, because it's well known his primary job was about music and sound design. His 'involvement' didn't help Origins, Homecoming, Shattered Memories, or Book of Memories. He was 'involved' with The Medium, too. So like I said, outside music, I don't think his involvement is going to matter all that much. But the sound and music should be very good at least