Now haloed not only by the remake of the mythical second episode, but also by a new film and three related projects – Silent Hill: Townfall, Silent Hill f and Silent Hill: Ascension – the Konami series does not seem to want to say its last word according to the statements of the current producer of the license, Motoi Okamoto.
The silent world
In the columns of IGN Japan, the latter specifies that it is now time for the Japanese publisher to welcome project ideas: “The fact that we wanted to bring Silent Hill back into the limelight was a secret until now, so we couldn’t really shout from the rooftops, “Hey everyone, tell us about your plans with Silent Hill !” But we can do it now. So if creators around the world, who love Silent Hill, submit their projects to us, I promise to review them all.“
A relatively open approach therefore, which follows the attempts to evolve the imagination of the series – in particular with Silent Hill f – that Okamoto underlines: “I’m happy to see that players are responding positively to Silent Hill f, which is a quintessentially Japanese-style horror game. And all of this with an even stronger interest than I had anticipated. The future of Silent Hill looks bright. I think what’s important about the show is that it’s unique, very artistically driven and quirky, and I’d like to continue to focus on that vision..” A wishful thinking therefore which, given Konami’s liabilities with its licenses, can be taken with a grain of salt.