Konami has announced that Bloober Team's Silent Hill 2 Remake has already exceeded one million copies sold. The game was released last Tuesday, meaning that the feat was achieved in about a week. The publisher did not provide an exact number for the game's total sales, but even without that, it seems clear that horror fans are pleased with the developer's effort to recreate Team Silent's psychological horror classic.
Full remakes of beloved classics often need to walk a fine line in order to attain success and widespread acceptance by fans. If too much is changed or the changes are done too jarringly, many fans will find themselves rejecting it in favor of the original. Such has been the growing case with the 2016 remake of the original Ratchet and Clank (despite initial success when it first launched). However, changing too little tends to lead many to wonder why a remake was made at all, as could be argued for The Last of Us: Part I remake.
The best thing a developer attempting to make a good remake can do is to either go the Final Fantasy VII Remake route and make a very different game that nonetheless maintains...
