E309: Silent Hill Shattered Memories Interview

[Mourheartzz]

This idea of no weapon really makes the game realistic. Well, I mean you don't randomly find a gun on the floor or kitchen bench in some other games. It just doesn't make sense without explanation.

[rawBot1]

@Mourheartzz But there's one thing about that. In Silent Hill 2 you found the pistol in a shopping cart in a room full of bullet holes in the walls and doors. That's creepy justification for an average item.

[XXxxretrogamerxxXX]

the cell phone was a great idea. so was no weapons. it makes it scarier. i dont understand why people didnt like those ideas

[CadenceButterfly]

I've always been the person who appreciated the deep, emotional, and connecting storyline in each silent hill game rather than graphics or gameplay. The story within each game is moving in it's own way and Shattered Memories is NO exception. However, it's a shame you can't tell how beautiful the story is until the end. It makes it hard to believe it'll be any good. But goodness, when you get there, it is such a worthwhile experience.

[miridem]

I'd have to disagree with his statement. If anything I think the newspaper scraps and other document only add to the depth and immersion

[TheRealBlackPuma]

I was absolutely fascinated by the Silent Hill 1, 2, 3, 4 and Homecoming. Each with little pieces of the true story of Silent Hill (and surroundings). But, it looks to me that they're starting to alienate the original.

Is this true? Are they re-imaging the entire series or just this game for the Wii? Because that would be damned shame. Silent Hill has like one of the most compelling concepts of all. I'd REALLY love to know more about Silent Hill, but with that I mean the original Silent Hill.

[pattn1000]

voll das psycho game xD ich hab schiss davor

[susuhamdan]

i played all silent hill's games..but this game i don thtink its silent hill..!!..i think ((silent hill 4:the room)) is the best ever :P..!

[dilver23]

silent hill: shithead memories......this is not silent hill. its stupid, a phone?? run? HARRY MASON KILLED NURSES WITH A PIPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WITH HIS OWN HANDS!!!!

[deadlybug]

that guys is talking waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too fast.

[ChazWMathews]

idc what anyone says...this is not silent hill..it may have the title "silent hill" but we all know that this is trash compared to the real silent hill...silent hill 1 2 and 3 are the best ones...silent hill stands out of all others...its crazy rusted and bloody nightmares and its one of a kind music and its symbols and its creatures and storyline...these american companies and the uk companies cant compete with team silent from japan..im sorry i love america but please..let japan have silenthil

[88HELLHATHNOFURY88]

@ChazWMathews And I quote: "a reimagining of silent hill 1, It's not a remake"

It's not supposed to be the same- I'm assuming you haven't actually played the game, at least all the way through, because you haven't been blown away yet... I think if you appreciate SH for its story and symbolism (but not always voice acting), not only the gameplay then you will likely enjoy Shattered Memories. Slick controls, great graphics, amazing story. Good change of pace. Well worth a buy, or borrow it..

[BloodPigsIX]

I was personally impressed with this game. I really loved how a lot of things changed as you went through the game and the whole thing in general was really well done. Minus the first time I was trying to run from monsters and the wii mote fails going left to right. But definitely worth the play and after Homecoming, this definitely makes up for not sucking. The lack of being able to use weapons definitely did add intensity to the game.

[Chachuization]

took me 1 day to beat this game. it was sooo awesome but damn not replay value... still 5/5

[Rmukia]

Great game but not so scary imo

[ilan1206]

i finishd the game in 1 week!

[slash11895]

what ever bro. all im sayin is this silent hill aint 4 me, k

[slash11895]

???? and your a giant douchebag !!!!!!!

[slash11895]

???? "no woder ur mum like grammer"...? ar you n idiot, what the fuck does that even mean

[slash11895]

no, i think you fail if you cant even spell fail... dipshit

[slash11895]

shit! wtf only 1 type of monster, no weapons and the icy appeal is fucking retarted and worst of all ITS NOT ON XBOX360

[zweg2]

Your really a dumbass if you can't appreciate this game. It really wasn't meant for you. This game is real horror, not that fake ass bull shit in silent hill 2, 3, and 4.

[slash11895]

dude WTF. silent hill 1 and 2 are some of the most greatest horror games of all time. so i dont no what the fuck your takin bout ???

[zweg2]

After silent hill the series grew old, and stale. Same old thing.

Silent Hill 2 and on sucked. The games got so damn repetitive and complicated. It was always the same on Silent Hill 2. Enter new building, systematically go through dozens of similar looking rooms picking stuff up and solving puzzles. Rinse, wash and repeat... BORING D:

Silent hill shattered memories is the only SH game i've bothered to complete, and is a truly scary game.

[victoriyabaku]

@slash11895 if you want to play game on xbox 360 with weapons and more monsters go and play left 4 dead idiot

[Madtown45]

based on my second opinion another thing that pisses me off is that they only gve you one defensive move and its just a flare that last for a few moments, even thoug ht thyere trying to get us to see what really survival horror is just let us keep at least one weapon not a damn flare

[TheCrazyNekoGirl2123]

I have to say the fact that you really can't defend yourself is going to be really annoying. Sort of like clock tower 3 but stilll they have point alot of games like that had lot of pauseing and converstaion and games based on survival horror are supposed to keep you scared. I still can't wait to play it it comes out next month

[bjmensz]

you can defend yourself, you just can't make yourself safe by being a pipe-wielding monster exterminator.

it's definitely experimental, but its a minority of the game anyway for people who don't like it.

the hardest thing about the monster sequences isnt that you cant kill them, but that you can't outrun them. thats going to make some people frustrated if theyre bad at navigating the nightmare sequences.

[TheCrazyNekoGirl2123]

Well the fact that the wii version is out and I have seen the sequenes for the nightmare world i can say they are good but they are sorta hard to get through I haven;t played it but my hubby has and he is having a tough time with the second one in the woods cause it is so easy to get lost there. If they could have at least given you a knife or something besides flare which you have to find anyway and the flare doesn;t least all but 30 seconds but I do see your point

[Madtown45]

Ok i do like the gameplay but the fact that they removed the advantage to fight and defend yourself really bothers me i want to have the option to fight you dont need to be a fucking super soldier to use a freaking pipe

[helo871]

well said madtown45 :)

[brkatibrkica]

I'm not bothered by the absence of weapons, I passed 1-4 mainly by running away or by using just the basic weapon, I am, however, bothered by the fact that checking your inventory doesn't pause the game. If the game is doing what it's supposed to do, namely terrify you, you will need a break (I remember in SH2's prison level, pause and map buttons were my best friends).

Also, I really don't want to be killed while consulting the map if I'm escaping towards the right direction.

[XinBiDe]

@brkatibrkica The whole point is to not know for sure. In real life you wouldn't have time to whip out your map for a breather and see "hmmm... let's see, i'm going north.... I SHOULD be going northwest... Right, so take a left at the fork ahead..." There's a fucking demon on your ass. Run. I agree that an option for pee breaks would be nice, though.

[bjmensz]

its probably an unintended feature, but you can technically always pause by hitting the Home button on your controller.

[Katzhader15]

hands down for PS2 being able to handle this kind of Game Graphics..

[c00lb0y10]

its not real to shoot monsters!? i would get a shotgun and blow the fuck out of them

[JohnyJoe]

Man... I can't make sense of the criticism for this game. Not that I think the game shouldn't be criticized... but think of a real criticism for Christs sake. Having no guns isn't flaw - it's a gameplay mechanic. If they do it right, it will work as well as any game that aims for good combat.

[cannibalsex]

Would have watched your video but the intro music made me want to puke shards of glass out of my ass.

[zweg2]

You should be shot, you fucking idiot. You can't appreciate psychological horror, you piece of shit.

[darkiller65]

this game looks awesome but there is only one thing that bother me WE HAVE NO WEAPONS!!! i know this is going to make it more scary but who doesnt like to smash or shoot monsters,this make more scary the game because you can running out of ammo or save ammo for bosses etc, and you no need to be a "super soldier" to use a damn iron pipe

[ObiWanGuacamoli]

Call me crazy, but I like having the option of running away or getting rid of an enemy. In SH 1 to 4, you had to make the decision of using your bullets to get rid of the enemies down the hallway and having to deal with a boss with less ammo or using stealth or evasion to get by enemies in order to save ammo for the boss.

Plus, SH 1 to 4 has proven that a game can still be scary even with pauses and text.

[187Sozum]

Very true, silent hill 4 was scary as hell! I think this game is going for a fatal frame 2 type gameplay which was also extremely freaky.

[hipeeps549]

please bring back the camera from silent hills 1-4 :(

i dont like the behind the sholder camera it makes it less scary

[Prygst]

There's a button to look behind you . THIS is what Homecoming should of played like if you ask me. I liked homecoming but it should of had gameplay like this with guns in it :D

[hipeeps549]

So you're saying there's still a freaky camera in this one?

[Simn0thing]

The difference between a GOOD game without combat and any of those PS2/Gamecube, "just run away from an ever-present enemy!" is that any good enemy isn't going to be present all the time. When he IS, yes you should have to run and possibly hide from him, but when the guy is around all the damn time you just get into habit. You get into swing of things and there you've lost all fear for the audience.

[Valtor111]

Wow, this is the anti Silent Hill Homecoming. And it looks badass.

My hopes are high, gentlemen.

[bocampo1310]

Silent hill 2 had the best storyline and characters

[immortalfrieza]

That's probably because SH2 was more about supense and messing with your head, not knowing what was going to happen next or even being entirely sure about what has happened. In other words, SH2 kept you guessing, while things get predictible fairly quickly with the games lately.

[ItsukiMakabe]

Amen dude. I loved it so bad D: Psychological issues presented in SH2 were smoething beautiful xD !

[Players1998]

@bocampo1310  weel i agree wiith you buut noot jamees...he creaps me out!¬_¬`

[0311Enraged]

i need to buy a wii now.

[ShrivyShrivey]

well, the next wii games actually worth buying are this one, metroid other m, new super mario bros wii, and super mario galaxy 2

[WhoreGotShot]

heard that there puting he oignal silent hill the wii from the psp version

[Mii85]

What..? You mean they port Wii version of Shattered Memories from PSP one? If that's what you mean then you are wrong. If you mean original Silent Hill from PS1.. Wow, haven't heard anything about that, when is that supposed to come out?

[WhoreGotShot]

i mean there going to put the origanal game from the ps1 to the wii

[snowquinnn]

whats up with the ice?its always fire in silent hill

[orrthehunter]

It due to Harry's memories. This is Silent Hill 1.5 after all and it unlike the past Silent hill the game, what the characters look like, what the cutscenes are like, what happens to the area around Harry, and how the story progress are determined by Harry's actions from start to finish.

[Sonetodecirene]

No, it isn't. Alessa's Otherwold had fire, because she was burned alive. Angela's had fire because she put her house on fire. Neither James' or Eddie's Otherwolrds had fire since they never had any bad experience with it. You should pay more atention pal.

[sorrowiscool]

this game islooking like its amazin :D

def a big change in the series

it doesnt look as clunky as some of the silent hils where

[g4betty]

japanese people connot get this game.

[Sonetodecirene]

Why not?

[sleepy131993]

no weapons that pretty gay i mean they dont have to add alot of weapons but at least some so that you can protect yourself with.

[Sonetodecirene]

Harry 2 can kick and punch the monsters when attacked, I guess he can protect himself very well without a weapon.

[Adriandeportivo]

"Just a guy, he's not a supersoldier"

He's right...

[TMW001]

Who knows proably depending on your choice they may morph into the sexy nurses.

[LivingButDeadBand]

Should leave the handgun in the game and screw the other firearms.

[PoisonWar]

dont forget the pipe!!

[hijkul]

I liked the fifth game because you finally had a character that could fight.

[L0rdAltair]

Shit, now I gotta buy a Wii.

[iziksquirel]

i love the nationality tard.

[TrueAdam]

I'm not sure if I like the ps2 ice effects more than the rusty-bloody pixels of ps1. I guess the second one did the job the most.

[hohahi123321]

What the dude says in the interview about running ad not fighting makes sense. But making sense is not the point. We need a good game. Who gives a damn if it doesn't make sense. Most of the good games don't. The fact that this game has monsters in it already doesn't make sense, so just go with it. Do everything you can to make it better. Screw logic.

[blakkelure]

I think this game will fail hardcore, tbh.. Survival horror just gets fucking annoying after a while because you really just wanna turn around and smack em after the first 20 mins of running around avoiding shit..

[StaticLandMine]

well if annoys u dnt play. simple as datt mayne...

[blakkelure]

Ill try it and prolly get bored with it like Clock-Towers and other games like.

I simply need the ability to put an enemy down.. Not continously run away from it. It's just personal preference really.

[immortalfrieza]

Heh, I just hope it isn't going be just like what Resident Evil was not too long ago, a run-from-room-to-room-avoiding­-enemies-when-that's-near-impo­ssible-just-so-you-find-a-key-­and-backtrack-and-do-it-all-ov­er-again game. I played Clocktower 3 and liked it, because it was reasonable with the whole thing (one enemy most of the time, lots of hiding places etc.) As long as the running away is reasonable, then it won't be too bad. It makes me wonder how they'll handle bosses though.

[Sonetodecirene]

If it were just trying to run faster than them it would be boring, true, but diferent from clock Tower, the monsters in SH-SM know the whole area so they can predict where you are going and take short cuts, they can flank you, set ambushes and when you scape them they'll continue to hunt you by following your sent, foot prints, doors you opened and so on, and there is no way to know when you'll be safe since the game is different for each player.

[edward18517]

I don't, they didn't even make sense to be sexy in over half the games.

[Mrauh]

i miss the hot protagonist here.....: (

[MetalSonicUnleashed]

The demo doesn't show any blood.....hope this isnt rated T >(

[ratchclank1]

no itl be rated m it always is

[TMW001]

well it is a demo so what is the point of adding blood effect in a demo when you could have it in the real game blood effect is something that can easily be added and removed so they proably just didn't add it in the demo because they are focusing on the gameply.

[Mii85]

True. There will be blood, but they don't want to use gore for creating cheap scares like many other game past few years, they're only using it for realism, so people shouldn't expect any gore fest here.

M.Simmons: "It's a psychological horror. It will mess with your mind in many ways. You will be scared, you will be freaked out, and you will feel very disturbed at times by what you see. There is blood in the game, but it's for realism, and not used as a cheap way of grossing the player out"

[lozinlozinlozinmust]

shatered memories: western idiot(garbage game)

silent hill1,2,3,4: japanese genius(awesome game)

[edward18517]

how is a game that isn't out yet garbage?

[EricMarius777]

loz is a Wapanese nut hugger, that's how. This game looks frickin awesome.

[PhemieC]

Wow way to judge a game before you play it based entirely on nationality.

[nirvanafrik999]

i REALLY miss Team Silent :(

[randomBully]

i`m speechless, this looks almost like he`s using an iphone, the monsters are not remotely scary, and there is no atmosphere whatsoever. the next sh protagonist will probably be some rapper to make it trendy and up to date. snow? ok, but freezing everything? fuck off, if they`ll do this to sh2 i`ll hunt them down an show those retards what horror means.

[RogersL8]

I think this game looks amazing! I have to say when I first heard there were no weapons, I was kinda like; "Okay?" But, as I thought about it, it makes sense! "Silent Hill: Homecoming" was an absolute waste of my time. They focused way too much on HUD and Weapons. If your character is able to handle hordes of monsters without breaking a sweat, where's the sense of dread?

I am an avid Silent Hill fan and will be purchasing this game when it comes out. SH FTW!

[A11en123]

heres the thing, silent hill will never again be like it was because of these dipshits who keep trying to change it to make it scarier when their just fucking shit up or copieing other fucking things silent hill homecoming was the worst peice of shit and this is probably gonna live up to it, and another reason y it wont be the same is because the old team who made the first 3 arnt even on it anymore and their the only true ones who know silent hill.

[aapkostuum]

its WII and PSP only =) PSP 4 LIFE

[Sonetodecirene]

PS2 as well

[SgtLovecraft]

AND PS2! Cant forget them!

[rockkiller124]

I hope there will be scary bosses in this new silent hill game >.>

[aapkostuum]

you already said that retard

[rockkiller124]

i hope there will be lots of creepy monsters

[ryonafan]

i still hope they do a remake someday for xbox360, this looks like a piece of shit game, but whatever, thats not silent hill for me anyway

[silenceofthehills]

This is what everyone is doing...same same same and not just making it an improvement on production values like StarWars. It's too repetitious.

Thanks to complainers, this has never been done with other films for protection of this bull, they think thay need to change this and that.

It was a once and a life time thing to get re-excited on the same game you loved, but this is just another sequel instead. Maybe if TS make remake later.

Oo lets do to FF7 when we remake it, make it "new".

[silenceofthehills]

I wish they knew what a real remake was. Yaknow, just remaking the production values, gameplay, presentation. That's what we wanted, but then the Ring ripping film came out.

They always say this now. Make a seuel instead then. Rehashing the same damn story is still the same thing...over and over and over and over...same thing.

[Darmani421]

looks good, hopefully it will bring the horror back into the series.

[silenceofthehills]

Was always there, just not Boo like this game will be.

[Darmani421]

this is gonna have more than just "boo!" theres gonna be some tension too..

[silenceofthehills]

Yawn, but i'm not in the mood to pretend I'm scared over it that way. I can play through this game as I did any of their other silent hill games.

I felt nothing, none of it was thrilling or intense. All you guys do is pretend it is or are very small minded.

[Darmani421]

Well you kinda have to be playing it, not watching an interview...

[silenceofthehills]

Sorry, I already know. It's very kidde and simple. Origins & 5 were kinda good because you got the sense that they could mean something and it fit with the experience.

But, they were flawed by being inconsistant as again, they aren't following the order & laws of the previous games story. Agent of The Gods is now The God & everyone can see their own things. More a purgitory thing.

SH1-2 established that it was Alessa and her suffering and finally after 1's events, it could do it to others.

[silenceofthehills]

Anyone can see their own things...from the start of things. (word limits suck)

[Darmani421]

Thats really off topic..

[silenceofthehills]

Don't know what you mean, but I was pointing out how the set of games from the new teams are not following much from the previous to show how more sloppily they feel, if you get it from the start. Feel more typical and less Jaccobs Ladder-ish.

It will continue to get worse from here, even if main stream horror audiances find it good. Gameplay features could be added to the older so it's not that.

[Darmani421]

Thats What shattered memories was trying to do, they wanted something more unique..

1,2 and 3 where good. But it got to repetitive and to much focused on action..

This is just something new. a Re-imagining.

[silenceofthehills]

Ok I hear this too many times, bur we know about the so called re-imagination. Also, you don't need to kill monsters yourself aside couple. I am not focussed on this when I gripe.

A VG is about realistic environmentalism and goals and objectives with many genres, it's up to you on SH1. Did you here me about gameplay elements?

This here is fine, as long as soneone else will at one time will make a simpler improved remake. Point is, they could make their own stand alone game like this.

[TMW001]

exactly and that is what RE is heading down to it was all about horror until 5 with its muscular Chris and weapons that any FPS fan would have a feild day digging through.

[soulviper17]

that rigth! RE will not be a survival horror anymore!

[D33p1Thr04t]

a writer

[JCast478]

WOW.! this is horse shit.

i own every silent hill and to be honest i think ima pass up this one.......

:[ it kills me to say it...

[getadrinfo]

Too bad they re-imagined the series after homecoming it was bad game with all thos movie visuals man I feel sorry for the old sh1,2,3,4, sad they died thos are masterpiece the series sucked after origins , and homecoming if they re imagined the series after 4 it would be great and I hope this game does great and was that aleesa and the mobile o_0 1:03?!!

[AnimePunk10]

hmmm This could be a strange game but always intersing. Just because it's not like the orginals doesn't mean it giong to suck. Sure the ice theme seems kinda weird along with everything being so light colours kinda is weird to me XD. I still wanna get this game

[PlayerPodcast]

I call it a rip off of the first one

[RYANJ0195]

Ice? The flashlight? What did they do to the flashlight?! The weapons are not the same? WHAT THE HELL?!

[Vortexture]

5 answers to your 5 questions:

1. Yes, ice. (Read the Inferno sometime)

2. Yes, the flashlight.

3. Well, you can point it at things. It's an advanced new feature in flashlight technology!

4. They are not. Combat was never SH's strong suit, though, so I don't really miss it.

5. It's a re-imagining of SH1. Not a remake; they're implementing new ideas and abandoning old, overused ones.

[bastardjustice]

Taking the weapons only gives you one tactic in this game, run and hide. I'm not sure if that would really induce fear to the gamers but sometimes enemies are so fuckin' annoying you want to bash their heads off! I really don't know where konami's gonna take SH now. It seems the horror is much more straight forward in recent games. I guess team silent is over now. I better look for other games from now on.

[eattheteeth]

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

[eattheteeth]

Okay you guys... how many of you have acctaully played the first game?...really... this looks terrible i'm to much of a fan to let this happen!!!! aaaaaa!!!! the blasphemy!!!! and jeez the ICE??? WTF! it totaly strays from the original formula and it looks even worse than the ice in Diddy Cong Racing!!!! for crying out loud that was on the freaking Nintendo 64!!!! this is the future of our beloved SH franchise? then i better be able to keep my PS2 forever 'cause i ain't gonna support this!!!!

[simonreo]

I luved Origins but it didnt make me feel empty or alone like the other games. Homecoming had a great storyline. with the sacrifices and stuff, but it had too much action. Action isnt for a silent hill game. :D but this actually looks great!!!

[sabakyuugaara]

Climax have destroyed the Silent Hill series but this actually looks pretty good.

[MikePitcher]

if anything, they are saving this series. Im a huge silent hill fan, but after 4, i was not impressed or scared anymore. this new direction could bring this series back to greatness.

[sabakyuugaara]

We'll have to wait and see. I'm also a huge Silent Hill fan but I was a little disappointed with Origins. I have to say though that Shattered Memories has a certain something about it.

[luv4Aerith]

You know, Origins wasn't my favorite... but it wasn't bad by any means! Just in my opinion, obviously. I still felt and played like a Silent Hill game! But I'm glad that Climax really wants to add a new dimension to the Silent Hill universe with Shattered Memories. I already know this game with be fantastic!!! XD

[espica]

Love the ice :)

[AshenDoll]

Fweeee! I can not wait for this game to come out already! Since I had first heard about the Wii-mote, I've been thinking about a horror game that uses a flashlight. It just tickles me to no end that it was Silent Hill that finally made my dream come true! Weeeeeeeeeeeeee

[fadecy]

I hope you mean, E3, not the music lol

[fadecy]

That opening music really grates on you, I'm glad E3 is over lol