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The empty streets are falling apart, his mother is catatonic, and his little brother Josh is missing.
“Design-wise, there was a lot of thought about ‘How do we modernise this?'”
“Because at the time survival horror was changing.
‘How action-oriented do we get?’
People might not remember, butResident Evil 4was really controversial within the Resident Evil fanbase.
There were questions about whether it was even survival horror any more.
But then that raised the question, ‘What is our new thing?
How do we make this game not old?
What’s there for tradition, and what shouldn’t be there because it’s outdated?'”
The biggest gameplay shakeup is the close combat.
We were trying to figure out that feeling of a true spar."
When it came to Homecoming’s other elements, the developers took a more tried-and-true approach.
Still, to date no developers had attempted to reimagine Silent Hill from the ground up.
That would all change with the next game: Silent Hill: Shattered Memories.
This feature originally appeared in PLAY Magazine which printed its final issue in 2024.
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