Bloober Team may be working on SILENT HILL & SILENT HILL 3 {RUMOR}

[jdnation]

Bloober has officially announced a new project with Konami.

They only say it is a Konami IP and published by Konami.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2 ... ct/.221625

It is likely another SH Remake, but we don't officially know yet.

[Droo]

I still think it's SH1, even though SH3 would allow them to reuse assets from covering the same terrain in Silent Hill itself.

[leftshoe18]

If Silent Hill 3 is remade, I hope they move the Silent Hill portion of the game to the other side of the lake instead of reusing Silent Hill 2's map like the original game did. I've always thought it would make way more sense to have Heather tread the same ground Harry did when she goes to Silent Hill. If they do go that route, it would be another reason to do SH1 before SH3 so they can reuse those SH1 assets.

[Droo]

If Silent Hill 3 is remade, I hope they move the Silent Hill portion of the game to the other side of the lake instead of reusing Silent Hill 2's map like the original game did. I've always thought it would make way more sense to have Heather tread the same ground Harry did when she goes to Silent Hill. If they do go that route, it would be another reason to do SH1 before SH3 so they can reuse those SH1 assets.

That is a brilliant idea. Do SH1 first and then have Heather revisit locations her father did with reusable assets.

[Chris Sunderland]

SH3 needs to move the hospital from Brookhaven to Alchemilla. And cut everything from the mall/subway to Harry's apartment and replace it with something more interesting.

I agree with your first part and I've been saying that for awhile. I think what they could possibly do is have you go Brookhaven and when it goes otherworld, it transmutes into Alchemilla. To which you'd be in Paleville when that level was complete. Assuming they remake SH1 first, they could potentially have assets for both halves of SH.

As far as cutting EVERYTHING between the Subway and Harrys apartment, no. Hilltop is SH3s best level and one of the best in the series. You can cut the sewer and all that, but leave Hilltop alone.

[CaLviN_BR]

I think that the reason why they reused the Silent Hill part from SH2 (also Brookhaven instead of Alchemila) was due to budget and time constraints. It is said (but I couldn't confirm the source) that the game was developed in only 9 months, between September 2002 and May 2003. There is an old interview (https://www.ign.com/articles/2002/06/12 ... -interview) with the team where they confirm that the team working on SH3 was smaller than SH2, and given that SH2 was not such a big hit in Japan at the time, and Konami was also developing SH4 almost simultaneously, I always assumed they were under a tight budget and ended up reusing assets from SH2.

About time and budget, what we do know is that for a while the game was supposed to be an on-rails shooter that was eventually scrapped. Masahiro Ito confirmed once that this ended up wasting time and some of the budget: https://x.com/adsk4/status/1098546135801556993 (that is actually a pretty good thread)

[Chris Sunderland]

I always felt that SH3/4 are almost polar opposites in their pros and cons. SH4 is original, fresh, bizarre, but a mess in execution. The back half escort mission and the general reusing of the environments.
Don't get me started on those ghosts.
SH3 is too safe, lacks the strange Lynchian vibe present in the other games, but is a solid paced and playing survival horror game. I imagine this is due to the time constraints. While both games are classics, I do think they both stand to benefit from ground up remakes, SH4 especially.

[Jonipoon]

Hilltop is SH3s best level and one of the best in the series. You can cut the sewer and all that, but leave Hilltop alone.

You can also switch things up so that Hilltop is located in Silent Hill instead. If you think about it, it makes more sense for Heather to meet Vincent for the first time in the, you know, ACTUAL town of Silent Hill.

Man, Silent Hill 3 is really such a mess in terms of story and pacing. It would absolutely benefit from a remake.

[Chris Sunderland]

SH3s problems aren't the fact that it's not located in SH for the first half, it's what you described. Pacing especially. I do think SH sections could be expanded.

[Droo]

Heck, just even tie the office building into Heather's story personally. Make it be where the lawyer's office was when administering Jodie's will after her death or something.

[Jonipoon]

I'm all for the idea to make the locations have more of personal connection to Heather, so that visiting these locations makes sense from a story perspective. I mean, what does Heather actually take with her from Hilltop center? She meets Vincent and the only new thing she learns from him is that Harry "hid the truth about her mother" to her, but Vincent actually leaves Heather with more questions than answers.

If the remake lets us dive more into Jodie's personal items it could create a more interesting dynamic between Heather and Harry's relationship. Did Jodie wish for Harry to tell Cheryl that she was adopted earlier? Was she open to the idea to let Cheryl visit Silent Hill again? Or did she write down in her will that Harry must promise her to never let Cheryl return to Silent Hill?

I feel the issue here is that you can't get too personal with anything until Heather gets home and witnesses Harry's dead body - that's the cataclyst for the real main story and everything before that is just "teasing". In the car drive to Silent Hill with Douglas, that's when we truly learn that Silent Hill 3 is a direct sequel to the first game. So yeah, honestly, the whole subway/sewers/hilltop stuff is just senseless filler. After the shopping mall, Heather should get her ass home immediately. I would prefer to add the sewers and Hilltop Center to the old Silent Hill map instead, and as mentioned before, make them connected to Heather's personal journey.

SHOPPING MALL
HEATHER GETS HOME [MISSIONARY BOSS]
DRIVE TO SILENT HILL
HILLTOP CENTER
BROOKHAVEN - TRANSFORMS INTO ALCHEMILLA
SEWERS
LAKESIDE AMUSEMENT PARK
CHURCH

[Droo]

Do we know that Cheryl didn't know she was adopted all along? Clearly Heather didn't, but I don't recall if SH1 ever indicated one way or the other if maybe Cheryl knew all along.

[Jonipoon]

It doesn’t matter. A remake can tweak this minor detail to its advantage.

[The Adversary]

Do we know that Cheryl didn't know she was adopted all along? Clearly Heather didn't, but I don't recall if SH1 ever indicated one way or the other if maybe Cheryl knew all along.

If Harry uses the aglaophotis on Cybil, there's a brief conversation between the two regarding Cheryl.

Cybil asks: Harry... Why did they take your daughter? Why her?

Harry responds: I'm not sure, myself. But you know, Cheryl isn't my biological daughter. I actually haven't told her yet. She probably already knows anyway, though. We found her abandoned on the side of the highway. Nobody knew where she came from. We didn't have any kids of our own. My wife was sick, and it didn't look like she was getting any better. So we took Cheryl in.

[emphasis added]

[Droo]

Ah, that seals that then. Thanks!

[Chris Sunderland]

I like the idea of adding a more personal touch to SH3s story but I don't feel Hilltops placement is the problem. It's the lack of any major story beat aside from Heather/Douglas/Claudia's introduction in the mall until you get to Hilltop. You go from the Subway, underground and sewer with no narrative push. Honestly if it were me I'd cut the whole sewer/underground area and add something new in Silent Hill.

[Droo]

If they remake Silent Hill 1, I would love for them to increase Lisa's screen time. Maybe even make her accompany Harry around the hospital a bit during that section. It would make the emotional effect of her later death scene even more powerful and upsetting.

The amount of affection I felt for Lisa in the original by her death even with her limited screen time was quite a feat. I think they should make her more of a main character this time around so her death will be all the more unexpected and sad.

[Utherworld]

To me, it was quite clear that both SH1 and SH3 asset/environments were considered when the SH2 remake was made. In the same way, RE Village was used for the RE4 remake.

[Chris Sunderland]

If they remake Silent Hill 1, I would love for them to increase Lisa's screen time. Maybe even make her accompany Harry around the hospital a bit during that section. It would make the emotional effect of her later death scene even more powerful and upsetting.

The amount of affection I felt for Lisa in the original by her death even with her limited screen time was quite a feat. I think they should make her more of a main character this time around so her death will be all the more unexpected and sad.

I think Bloober could do a fantastic job with SH1s story. It's probably the biggest thing that needs upgrading considering SH1 was in the "so bad it's good" videogame dialog era(I know there were exceptions to this even back then). Expanding all the characters roles and interactions with Harry is a must.
I'd also like the lore to be expanded a bit, especially on things like White Claudia. Since a SH1 remake would be a sort of sequel to SH2R it would be interesting to learn more about the split between the north and south sides of Silent Hill. It almost feels like Southvale and Paleville might have been separate towns at one point?

[jdnation]

I don't like the idea of cutting out locations in SH3. I think the office building can stay, but be truncated or improved in other ways. Same for the subway, which also ties into Heather's dreams of being run over the tracks at the amusement park. Bloober did a pretty amazing job overall with the locations in SH2.