Summary
Silent Hill 2 Remakeproducer Motoi Okamoto has revealed that developer Bloober Team actually pushed back against certain changes that the original game’s creators wanted to make, as it would have “turned out to be a completely different remake.”
Silent Hill 2 Remake developers Bloober Teamhave struggled to get fans of the original game on boardin recent weeks, with each new trailer giving one set of fans something to be excited about, while angering another.Both of the game’s more recent trailers, including a 13-minute-long gameplay demonstration, have more dislikes than likes on YouTube, and the character models for Angela and Mariahave come under intense scrutiny this past week.
Bloober Team needs some positivity at the moment, which is why it makes Silent Hill 2 Remake producer Motoi Okamoto’s comments about the developer resisting changes from the game’s original creators all the more perplexing. In an interview withFamitsu(translated byVGC), Okamoto claims that the staff that worked on the original game, including Pyramid Head creator Masahiro Ito and sound designer Akira Yamaoka, wanted to change parts of the game, but Bloober Team refused.
“The Japanese staff, including Masahiro Ito, the designer who worked on the original version, and Akira Yamaoka, the sound designer, said ‘we want to change this part’, while on the other hand Bloober Team often replied saying ‘no, we don’t want to change this’! Sometimes the opinions clashed, but in the end I think we managed to get it right.”
Silent Hill 2’s Original Creators Wanted To “Completely Change” The Remake
When asked why the original developers wanted to change so much in the remake, Okamoto thinks that it was partly a desire to have players experience something new, as game creators don’t want to “make the same thing they created all over again.” Okamoto goes on to praise Bloober Team for standing strong and creating a “highly respectful” remake as a result.
He even claims that if the development team for Silent Hill 2 Remake had been formed in Japan with developers of the original on board, it could potentially have been “a completely different remake.” Unfortunately, it seems as though Bloober Team was adamant on a faithful remake, so we’ll never know what the original creators wanted to do with Silent Hill 2.
