As part of the annual Famitsu New Year’s messages, Motoi Okamoto, main producer of the Silent Hill series, also spoke. Okamoto’s key word for the new year is “delivery” and he confirms that 2024 will be the start of new Silent Hill game releases.
The producer’s ambition for 2024 is to further expand the Silent Hill series with both games and other types of media. Motoi Okamoto mentioned the November 2023 release of the interactive streaming project Silent Hill Ascension as one of these types of non-game media for the franchise.
Konami originally announced production of three Silent Hill games and two non-game titles for October 2022. Silent Hill f is a new main installment in the franchise developed by Neobards Entertainment and written by the author of the sound novel series “When They Cry” Ryukishi07. Bloober Team is developing the “Silent Hill 2” remake for PS5 and PC in collaboration with artist Masahiro Ito and composer Akira Yamaoka.
Konami is also collaborating with publisher Annapurna Interactive and “Observation” developer No Code on the upcoming “Silent Hill: Townfall.” None of these projects have a release date yet. If you believe Okamoto, one or two titles are likely to be released this year.
With the live-action film “Return to Silent Hill”, another multimedia project for the franchise is coming up, for which director Christophe Gans is responsible. Gans previously directed the first live-action Silent Hill film.
via Siliconera, images: Silent Hill 2, Konami, Bloober Team
