If we return two years to October 2022, when it was formally introduced that Bloober Workforce was the studio that Konami had handed the problem of remaking Silent Hill 2, we’d discover a very skeptical response from gamers. And that’s being beneficiant.
Not being beneficiant, nobody believed Bloober Workforce was the appropriate alternative. And that didn’t change by means of its growth. They had been doubted at each flip, proper up till it launched to rave evaluations from critics and audiences alike.
However in equity to gamers and critics, Bloober Workforce hadn’t given individuals a lot motive to be assured that they might pull it off. Past Bloober Workforce’s Layers Of Concern sequence, which had beforehand been its greatest declare to horror game-dev fame, Bloober Workforce’s different horror makes an attempt had all faltered in a single huge approach or one other.
Video games like The Medium and The Blair Witch Undertaking every had sure components individuals may’ve preferred, however neither actually impressed. And Layers Of Concern wasn’t with out fault.
After Silent Hill 2 Remake although, in a latest interview with GameSpot, Bloober Workforce’s Wojciech Piejko, director on its subsequent recreation, Cronos: The New Daybreak known as it the proof that Bloober Workforce has what it takes to be a first-rate horror crew.
Piejko additionally talked about how tough it was for the Silent Hill crew, and counseled their toughness in having the ability to take the doubt and discontent from the web on the chin, and rise above it by delivering a wonderful recreation in Silent Hill 2 Remake.
“No person believed we might ship, and we delivered. That was a giant honor, that we, as Bloober, might work with Silent Hill and Konami. As horror creators, we love Silent Hill, like, I believe, most horror followers [do.] It was powerful for these couple of years earlier than [Silent Hill 2’s] launch.
…They [the Silent Hill team] made it. We made it. Bloober made it. And now, it’s superb spirits inside [the studio.] We wish to present what we will do on our personal, how we will evolve our concepts.
They recreated a legendary recreation. They made the unimaginable potential, and it was a bumpy highway due to all of the hate on the web. The strain was huge on them, and so they delivered, and for the corporate, it’s a tremendous second.”
Producer and director on Cronos: The New Daybreak Jacek Zieba added “We wish to be a horror firm. We wish to discover our area of interest, and we predict we discovered our area of interest, so now we simply–let’s evolve with it. […] And the way that occurs is extra complicated, but it surely additionally occurs organically in a approach, like with [2016’s] Layers of Concern, individuals within the studio had been like, ‘Okay, we made some shitty video games earlier than, however we [can] evolve.”
Piejko even provides that the success of Silent Hill 2 Remake has already seemingly helped within the reception to Cronos: The New Daybreak. “All of us felt aid. All of the feedback had been like, ‘Yeah, this appears nice. I really like the design of the character.”
Hopefully for Bloober Workforce and horror followers in all places, the studio can proceed to evolve on this upwards trajectory.
Supply – [GameSpot]
