Silent Hill 2 trailer didn’t “capture the spirit of the game” claims devs

During the most recent PlayStation State of Play, the long awaited and much-anticipated Silent Hill 2 Remake was finally shown off properly for the first time. Unfortunately, fans took immediate note of the game’s tonal and gameplay shift when compared to the PS2 original. It seems as though this disparity is more of a function of the trailer and not the game itself, with Bloober Team claiming that the trailer failed to “capture the spirit of the game.”

Following the release of the ‘Silent Hill 2 – Combat Reveal Trailer’ Bloober Team’s co-founder and CEO Peter Babieno sat down with inwestorzy.tv to discuss reactions to the gameplay, revealing (as translated by Eurogamer) that Bloober have no say in the game’s marketing and that the Konami-created trailer is “not the spirit of what used to be, or what we're creating now,” adding that they are trying to “fully capture this romantic vision of a game that debuted 22 years ago.”

According to Babieno, when players get to see the “real game” they will “judge it in a completely different way.”

In going to the YouTube page for the Silent Hill 2 combat reveal trailer, it is clear that fans of the series are less-than-enthused by what was shown off, with some of the top comments including statements such as “That QTE prompt was the scariest thing in the trailer…” and “The nurse vaulting over the wall like it's a tactical shooter is hilarious”. Hopefully Bloober Team are correct in that the trailer is a misrepresentation of the game. We will have to wait and see.

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