Silent Hill fans have been one of the most tortured groups of people in the gaming sphere for quite some time, outside of maybe Hollow Knight: Silksong fans. Having dropped an all-timer in 2014 with PT, the series took on its name and went silent, with almost nothing for eight years while Konami poured money into pachinko machines.
Bloober Team is making an earnest attempt on Silent Hill 2, so maybe we should be cautiously optimistic
When the company finally decided to make games again, it thought that Silent Hill Ascension was an acceptable product to release, a game that nobody wanted and nobody liked. Konami then released Silent Hill: A Short Message, which was also pretty terrible, but for completely different reasons. With that in mind, you can understand why there was so much skepticism surrounding Bloober Team's upcoming remake of Silent Hill 2.
Bloober is a developer that has a reputation for making iffy horror games, and there was a general feeling of unease as soon as fans found out its name was attached. Now that the game is getting closer to release, and reviews were about to drop, fans were braced for the worst while simultaneously...
