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As responsibility for the franchise’s evolution passed from east to west, the Silent Hill movie’s reception convinced Konami US that there was a new casual audience for the series. The resurgence of the Silent Hill franchise in the late 2000s was largely thanks to the box-office success of Christophe Gans’ multiplex-friendly spinoff movie. “The logic was, ‘Hey, if we say this is a Silent Hill remake, it has already been greenlit and we can start working on this project right away.” The seventh game in the Silent Hill franchise was suddenly a go. “At some point before Origins they’d greenlit the idea of a Silent Hill remake,” Barlow explains.

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But, on a global database at Konami HQ, someone spotted a free pass.

“With Cold Heart, the main thing in people’s heads was, ‘Wii’s going to be really big if we get a Silent Hill game on Wii, that’s awesome,’” Barlow explains.Īlthough the producers were keen to get the project moving, it was obvious that getting such a radical overhaul made would involve cutting through a lot of corporate red tape. It also had a psychological profiling system similar to the one mooted in Brahms PD – a persistent feature in all of Climax’s Silent Hill pitches. Swapping out the series’ traditional foggy setting for a frozen world of snow and ice, Cold Heart’s story was based on a psychologically traumatised university student named Jessica as she explored the eerie town of Silent Hill.Ĭonstructed with melee combat and puzzles, it featured dynamic sub-zero environments which required the player to scavenge food and clothing to keep their body temperature up. When Brahms PD failed to find traction with Konami’s higher-ups, Climax decided to put together another pitch for an original Wii outing that it named Silent Hill: Cold Heart. Inspired by his involvement in the interactive fiction community in the late 1990s, Barlow wanted the game to respond to players, not just to the choices they made but also to how they played the game.

Based on your responses, it would analyse your personality type and change the game’s content accordingly – creating a wraparound nightmare tailored for each player. The pitch became Brahms PD, a spinoff from the main franchise that cast players as an amnesiac police detective on the Brahms force looking for their missing partner.īilled as “the world’s first truly interactive psychological horror,” Brahms PD planned to use in-game sessions with a police psychiatrist to analyse the player. He was eager to make a Wii-based firstperson shooter, and invited Climax to pitch for it. However, Silent Hill’s US producer, William Oertel, was pushing his own, rather unlikely, pet project.

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This game has really stuck with me ever since I played it.After Silent Hill: Origins’ release in 2007, Konami wanted to follow it up with another PSP title. Instead, the game we do have is one that just missed out on the brilliance of those titles, but still eclipses every other franchise entry in my eyes, even the latter two Team Silent games. If it weren't for the frustrating removal of enemies from the main exploration sections, which robs the main game of tension and suspense (and thus a lot of actual fear), Shattered Memories would stand right up there with the first two entries as the part of the upper echelon of the series. Kauffman's probing, prodding questions were already disturbing in the context of being asked of Harry, but knowing instead that they're directed to Cheryl, these segments take on a new gendered, age-based horror, that this old man would be so perverted toward a young troubled girl under the guise of helping her. Even the horror of the game takes on new meaning.

Once you understand that it's Cheryl, not Harry, in Kauffman's psychiatry chair, the entire mechanic of these sessions is changed to not be one of 'choosing your own adventure' for the game as the player may have initially thought, but to one of crafting Cheryl's fantasy of the father she never had. The twist similarly recontextualizes the entire game just as in SH2. Despite being a remake of the first game, Shattered Memories actually takes more inspiration from the narrative structure and mechanics of Silent Hill 2, greatly expanding on the psychological profiling system that game had for determining its endings based on player actions.

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Climax demonstrates an understanding of the series' strengths with psychological horror and storytelling that was never replicated by another western studio, which is double impressive given how middling their first game in the series was. This is actually one of the strongest entries in the series despite not being developed by Team Silent.

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