The creators of the first Silent Hill game set in Japan explain how they’re aiming to elevate the whole survival horror genre, with an impressively thoughtful new sequel.

It’s been a strange journey for Silent Hill, ever since Konami announced the return of the franchise in 2022, with a bewildering number of new entries. It’s not like fans were complaining, but it seemed strange given that the original games, like most horror titles not called Resident Evil, never sold that well. But then fans did start complaining, when initial titles like Silent Hill: Ascension and Silent Hill: The Short Message turned out to be varying degrees of awful.

It was beginning to look like the series was awoken from its grave merely to spit on it, but then last year’s Silent Hill 2 remake defied expectations

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