17 years on, Sam Barlow reflects on Silent Hill: Origins: "To pull it out of the bag with a seven-out-of-ten game was incredibly rewarding"

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After years of nothing but radio static,Konamihas found the Silent Hill frequency once again.

Origins was produced by Konami’s US office, which would handle all subsequent Western-made Silent Hill games.

Except in this version, he was 60 years old and a professor of quantum dynamics.

Barlow and the team pushed back, insisting that this goofy take on Silent Hill would be a disaster.

“Sometimes people ask me, ‘What’s the game I’m most proud of?'”

“Creatively, it’s probably a different answer.

He’d be back for more.

This feature originally appeared in PLAY Magazine which printed its final issue in 2024.

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