Fans may have gotten their hopes up after a tease from Guillermo Del Toro at The Game Awards of something Silent Hill-related, but it seems it was all for naught, as he isn’t working on a Silent Hill game, or any game for that matter.
Speaking to the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Del Toro spoke out of genuine frustration at the fact that his and Hideo Kojima’s collaboration, Silent Hills, was unceremoniously cancelled by Konami. Del Toro basically wanted to poke the publisher about it: "I kind of just wanted to tickle the ribs of Konami, because I don't understand. That was so perfect, what we were going to do was so enthralling."
Not only did Del Toro firmly deny he was working on a new Silent Hill game, he shut down any possibility of working on any game, as he calls himself the “albatross” of gaming due to all of the games he’s tried to develop being cancelled, the other of which was Insanity, which was being developed in partnership with Saints Row developer Volition until it was canceled in 2012.
Del Toro still managed to make his mark on the industry, however small, thanks to his friendship with Kojima leading to a small part for him in Death Stranding. Speaking of that game, it recently had a Director’s Cut release for PS5. It’s also a game that even its creator doesn’t fully understand. Still, a sequel may be on the way. Maybe we might see Del Toro again in that game.
SnivyEyes on December 23rd, 2021 at 16:32 UTC »
No games series has yet captured and influenced me as much as Silent Hill. I bought a PS2 specifically to play the 2nd one and a PS3 to play Homecoming. I haven’t bought a new PlayStation since then, as soon as an offices announcement is made, I will be looking for a PS5. I know how hard it is to find one, but I haven’t really been looking (yet).
fuhgjjuh224 on December 23rd, 2021 at 13:18 UTC »
Silent hill 2006 film was pretty good and full of tense horror. Your gonna tell me the ending wasn’t crazy...
koldkalamity on December 23rd, 2021 at 08:48 UTC »
just like with snake eater, there will only be a future silent hill by licensing out to another studio. the heads there are still salty toward Kojima I bet because they know there's almost no one who could do a better job. they autopwned themselves on the stock market thanks to their own stupidity. It would be hard trying to get back to that project with Kojima attached even if you're a big name like friggin' Del Toro. Bummer we could have had a masterpiece only for it to be taken away by delusional suits.