The devs behind Silent Hill have actually made clear of just how much David Lynch's filmography has actually affected the series, however one veteran of the group has just recently exposed that a person specific film's impact might have made Silent Hill 2 a much various video game.
“Some accounts have actually asked me if David Lynch's movies were the recommendations for Silent Hill 2,” veteran Team Silent art director Masahiro Ito states on Twitter. “Yes, obviously, a few of them were. When we were developing the overview of the story, there was a concept that 2 or 3 guys were the primary lead characters like Lost Highway's story. If we had actually picked the strategy, the story would have ended up being too made complex. And after that the strategy was declined.”
2/2)But, if we had actually picked the strategy, the story would have ended up being too complicated.And then the strategy was rejected.August 23, 2024
We've long understood just how much Lynch and other speculative filmmakers affected Silent Hill 2 in specific, going all the method back to interviews with outlets like IGN prior to the video game's initial release in 2001. If the devs have actually ever spoken about the possibility of it including numerous lead characters before, those remarks are well buried – and now that the video game has actually been sealed as a survival scary classic, it's difficult to envision it taking a majorly various kind.
With the Silent Hill 2 Remake on the method, we'll require to get utilized to seeing the video game in a brand-new light. The remake intends to remain devoted to the initial in numerous methods – the shot-for-shot “love letter” to the old 2001 trailer is proof of that – however we understand it's going to include some really brand-new things. Our current hands-on sneak peek of the Silent Hill 2 Remake kept in mind that there are brand-new endings this time around, and the devs have actually just recently recommended that the remake will take around 20 hours to finish, which is much, a lot longer than the initial.
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Dustin Bailey signed up with the GamesRadar group as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is presently based in Missouri. He's been covering video games (with periodic dalliances worldwides of anime and professional fumbling) considering that 2015, initially as a freelancer, then as a news author at PCGamesN for almost 5 years. His love for video games was stimulated someplace in between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and nowadays you can generally discover him splitting his home entertainment time in between retro video gaming, the most recent huge action-adventure title, or a long run in American Truck Simulator.
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