Silent Hill 2 (08.10.24)

[Para]

gab dann heute auch eine neue welle an previews. der grundtenor ist eigentlich im grunde nur, dass alle sehr überrascht davon sind, wie gut das remake in fast allen punkten umgesetzt wurde. klingt sehr positiv. positiver als alles was wir bis jetzt so vom spiel gesehen oder gehört haben.

Hands-On: Silent Hill 2 feels like it’s getting the Capcom-style remake treatment it deserves | VGC

Bloober Team’s remake nails the atmosphere of the original game…

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We came away from Silent Hill 2 far more confident about the remake than we were before we played it. The gameplay feels great, the game is graphically impressive, and the atmosphere of the original has been replicated perfectly. It’s an inherently different experience in the transition between fixed camera to third-person, but at no point does it feel like the heart of Silent Hill 2 has been lost.

Crucially, for the health of the series, Silent Hill 2 feels like it’ll be exactly the kind of shot in the arm that will bring the series back into vogue. The Resident Evil remake comparisons will likely be inescapable, but is that a bad thing when Capcom’s latest efforts have been just as genre-defining for modern survival horrors as both Resident Evil and Silent Hill were in the genre’s nascent days?

The Silent Hill 2 Remake Is Significantly Better Than The Trailers You’ve Seen

After spending about three hours with Silent Hill 2's remake, I feel confident the puzzle-driven horror game will honor the original's tones and excite old fans while also creating plenty of new ones.

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In short, I was incredibly impressed by the time I spent with Silent Hill 2 Remake. It is surreal, cerebral, horrifying, and grotesque--all of the things that made the original title such a remarkable title not only for Konami, but for the horror genre as well. Considering I was resigned to the game's beginning hours (and it's worth nothing here that I'd estimate we're looking at a 8 or so hour experience in total based on what I managed to accomplish within the three or so we were given), it's hard to tell if the game will nail its tone and message; if certain plot twists will remain as vile and unnerving and the studio will fully commit to creating a suffocating, psychological hell above all else. But after my time with Silent Hill 2 Remake--and after months of witnessing the internet (and myself) hem and haw on whether or not this Remake even has the capacity to be great--I am no longer on the fence. I am thrilled the wait for the full experience is almost over, and will be brushing up on my bravery until the game launches on October 8.

I’m as shocked as you: Bloober Team’s Silent Hill 2 could be the grand remake we’ve all been hoping for

After three hours with the Silent Hill 2 remake, Bloober Team has done a much more exceptional job than I could’ve ever imagined.

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I previously lacked a lot of trust in both Konami and Bloober Team, and I’ve been very vocal about it. Konami hasn’t done anything meaningful in regards to Silent Hill in a very long time. Even the recent release of spin-off, The Short Message, was lackluster despite the important message it was trying to send.

As for Bloober Team, I wasn’t the biggest fan of the latest Layers of Fear, and I was worried about how the developer would pull something like Silent Hill 2 off; it’s a lot of pressure to have on any single developer’s shoulders, admittedly.

But Bloober Team appears to have turned that pressure into something beautiful (in a sick and twisted way). The first three hours of the Silent Hill 2 remake scream sheer passion and dedication to preserving the feeling and story of Silent Hill 2, while creating gameplay that is enjoyable for modern audiences, whether you’ve played Silent Hill 2 before or not.

Konami is back in a very, very big way this year — especially with Metal Gear Solid: Delta right around the corner — and the publisher appears to have finally honed in on what its fans really want, as well as how to reach new audiences. If Bloober Team (and its collaborators) are able to carry their clear passion for the original game and dedication to preserving it, while resurrecting it, throughout the rest of the game, then the Silent Hill 2 remake might be exactly what many of us have hoped for. If not better.

Silent Hill 2's remake dares to modernise a classic, and is largely succeeding

An early hands-on with Bloober Team's remake of the legendarr Silent Hill 2 - a major challenge which shows some promise.

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It's still a remarkably eerie experience all round, and all of this remains true despite the new free dom in its controls. There was a concern, perhaps, that the tension of Konami's original might be lost in translation - where the game once forced a harder limit on your range of attacks, and even the camera's view in parts. Restrictions only added to its fear factor in 2001. Good news, then, that the remake does still find a source of terror in keeping its secrets doused in shadow - and so much of its monstrous threat veiled by the fog.

In rebuilding such a beloved classic with upgraded visuals and controls, the new combat style fits in surprisingly well then. The puzzles, too, find a natural place in its world. A remake project is a delicate balancing act for any developer, it's fair to say: stray too far from the source at your own risk, while a failure to innovate defeats the point of the whole endeavour. What I've seen so far of Silent Hill 2 Remake, though, shows a team determined to stick to the original blueprint first. It provides the game a comfortingly familiar structure - while allowing new detail to flourish around it like a trellis - and I'm looking forward to seeing where it grows past its first three hours.

I played the first five hours of the Silent Hill 2 Remake and was pleasantly, if not cautiously, surprised

Preview | With one foot in the past and another in 2024, Silent Hill 2 Remake is squaring up against its biggest challenge: balancing the two

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Even this rage is borne of love. For all of Silent Hill 2 Remake's reworks to the form, flow, and style of the original, it more than succeeds at delivering a compulsive survival horror experience. Modern flourishes seek to bring it in line with today's genre standards, falling just shy of making any truly huge moves to break with its core conventions while showing new sides to a beloved franchise that's finally emerging from dormancy. Having had a closer look at what Bloober Team is aiming for on October 8, I'm more than ready to give Silent Hill 2 Remake the chance it deserves.

Silent Hill 2 Hands-On Preview - IGN

Bloober Team has made a lot of the right decisions when building on Silent Hill 2's undeniable psychological horror legacy, even if at times the remake feels a little too safe.

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As a remake, Silent Hill 2 falls more in line with BluePoint’s faithful Shadow of the Colossus rather than Capcom’s rejuvenated Resident Evil 2. It substitutes bold new swings for a slavish dedication to the original, which is by no means a bad thing, just not the radical step some might expect. Silent Hill 2 certainly needed a fresh coat of paint and a tune of the engine, and Bloober Team has provided that in spades, but everything else is an extremely faithful reimagining that mostly resists the urge to alter the successful formula of a stone-cold classic.

 

[Cannibalpinhead]

Wäre schön was das wird... könnte mein erster Kontakt mit Silent Hill überhaupt werden...

 

[Para]

fast 30 minuten unkommentiertes gameplay von der preview version:

 

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[0shikuru]

Geil! Genau so werde ich es wahrscheinlich auch spielen.

 

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Die ersten 90 Minuten [SPOILER!]:

 

[Para]

 

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[Para]

konami hat previews des kompletten soundtracks online gestellt.

 

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[Para]

reviews sind auch vor paar stunden online gegangen und sehen recht positiv aus. aktueller durchschnitt bei 86 auf opencritic und damit schon einmal der höchstbewerteste titel von bloober. mal schauen wie es in paar stunden aussieht, wenn fox den wertungsspiegel postet.

 

[Donald]

Wie erwartet (und erhofft) also sehr gut geworden - die letzten Videos waren allesamt schon großartig!

 

[Fox]

Reviews:

OpenCritic - 88 average - 91% recommended

Eurogamer - 5 / 5
PSX Brasil - Portuguese - 100 / 100
Sirus Gaming - 10 / 10
VG247 - 5 / 5
Atomix - Spanish - 95 / 100
IGN Italy - Italian - 9.5 / 10
Spaziogames - Italian - 9.4 / 10
Arabhardware - Arabic - 9 / 10
Areajugones - Spanish - 9 / 10
CGMagazine - 9 / 10
Checkpoint Gaming - 9 / 10
GAMES.CH - German - 90%
Game Rant - 9 / 10
GameSpot - 9 / 10
Gameblog - French - 9 / 10
GamingTrend - 90 / 100
Metro GameCentral - 9 / 10
One More Game - 9 / 10
PPE.pl - Polish - 9 / 10
Press Start - 9 / 10
Push Square - 9 / 10
Tom's Hardware Italia - Italian - 9 / 10
Wccftech - 9 / 10
Hobby Consolas - Spanish - 89 / 100
GamePro - German - 87 / 100
The Games Machine - Italian - 8.3 / 10
Everyeye.it - Italian - 8.2 / 10
Hardcore Gamer - 4 / 5
IGN - 8 / 10
VGC - 4 / 5
GamesRadar+ - 3.5 / 5
TheGamer - 3.5 / 5
Gamepressure - 6.5 / 10
GRYOnline.pl - Polish - 6 / 10

 

[Cannibalpinhead]

Schaut ja sehr gut aus...

Glaube das könnte dann meine erste Berührung mit Silent Hill werden... da hab ich ja schon mit der PS2-Version via Emulator geliebäugelt... aber ich glaube als Einstieg ist dann tatsächlich das Remake gar nicht so verkehrt.

 

[Para]

Schaut ja sehr gut aus...

Glaube das könnte dann meine erste Berührung mit Silent Hill werden... da hab ich ja schon mit der PS2-Version via Emulator geliebäugelt... aber ich glaube als Einstieg ist dann tatsächlich das Remake gar nicht so verkehrt.

die pc ports mit den jeweiligen enhanced edition mods wären eh imo der way to go. hab teil 2 und 3 ja selber vor 2 jahren erst damit nachgeholt und war super. müsste noch teil 4 darüber spielen.

 

[Cannibalpinhead]

die pc ports mit den jeweiligen enhanced edition mods wären eh imo der way to go.

Ja, soweit gingen meine Gedanken da noch gar nicht. Hab das Spiel nur im Rahmen meines Emulatoren-Tests mal eingworfen und mir da eben gedacht dass ich noch nie ein Silent Hill gespielt habe. Und per Emulator hat das auch echt sehr gut ausgesehen.
Nen Blick auf anderen Versionen hätte ich dann erst geworfen wenn ich wirklich hätte damit loslegen wollen.

Und jetzt ist es eigentlich erstmal nur ne Frage was als erster Blick auf die Reihe besser wäre: Erst Remake, und bei Gefallen dann das Orginal nochmal, oder andersrum.

 

[El Hermano]

Der Titel kommt auf jeden Fall auf die Liste. Teil 2 habe ich damals zwar gespielt, kann mich aber (zum Glück) an nicht mehr viel erinnern.

 

[Para]

Developer Bloober Team's remake of Silent Hill 2 is a surprise success in its telling of a Konami's original story, backed by an authentic visual recreation in Unreal Engine 5 - with Lumen reflections and GI. Comparisons to the PS2 original are fascinating to observe, where the studio has the bravery to deviate from the script where need be. There are rough points here too though, notably in performance - and sadly neither PS5's performance or quality modes always hold a stable line at their target 60 or 30fps.

 

[Fox]

Ich bin geneigt, auf den (hoffentlich kommenden) Pro-Patch zu warten. Die Einbußen im Performance Mode sind in einem atmosphärischen Spiel wie diesem schon ein Haken.

 

[Cannibalpinhead]

and sadly neither PS5's performance or quality modes always hold a stable line at their target 60 or 30fps

Und das ist ja noch nett ausgedrückt... im "Performance Mode", der nur etwas über 1080p läuft rauscht die Framerate bis in die 40er oder gar 30er Region ab...
Und im Quality Mode sind die 30FPS auch nur "Target" und rutschen alle paar Sekunden drunter.

Das ist doch alles nur noch ein schlechter Scherz... kein Wunder dass die Leute 800€+ für ne etwas stärkere Konsole hinlegen. Aber auch da wird es sehr schnell gehen und neue Titel laufen wieder nur stotternd über den Bildschirm.

Und dann wundern sich die Publisher warum sich ihre Spiele nicht mehr verkaufen...