I don't think I've ever said this before, but Silent Hill is a gaming series that I spend every day hoping and praying that it never comes back.
My reasoning is simple: there is absolutely nothing that Konami could do that would make up for their cancelling of the undeniably perfect comeback the series was going to get: Kojima, Del Toro, Reedus and Junji "This hole was made for me!" Ito was such a ludicrously perfect team to put together that any alternatives wouldn't even come close.
It was clear from Day 0 that Kojima knew what he was doing: P.T. was and still remains the greatest horror experience I've had this console generation. Absolutely nothing else has come close in the way that short one-room demo terrified me, and it brought back so much of the aesthetics and dread that I used to feel in the first four SH games. It was a brilliant piece of promotional material and left me feeling excited for the series' return.
It now remains my biggest gaming disappointment. I find myself getting literally ANGRY at the thought of Konami choosing to make a new Silent Hill on their own. I can't think of any alternative that would be just as exciting: even if they rounded up the core members of Team Silent and gave them a blank check, it still wouldn't cut it. That's also not going to happen: the more likely scenario is they're going to once again hire an American studio and director who doesn't know shit about what makes Silent Hill great, and we'll instead get another laughable abomination like the Mailman from the last few games.
That fucking Mailman....
