Kojima Wants to Reboot Silent Hill, but not Until He's Ready for Daily Nightmares

Rely on Horror: In an interview with Geoff Keighley, Hideo Kojima stated something that a lot of Silent Hill fans would no doubt freak out over if it came to fruition: a reboot of Silent Hill under his direction. When asked via a fan question what Konami series Kojima would like to reboot or direct himself, he quickly responded with "Silent Hill".

[MrSwankSinatra]

The only ones that can truly reboot silent hill are team silent themselves. Unfortunately most of team silent don't even work for Konami anymore. RIP Silent Hill

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[yewles1]

Three of the OG's are now Project Siren, enjoy Gravity Rush 2 when it releases...

[Matt666]

as long as it like SH 1-4 then I be happy the where the best Silent Hills.

[MrSwankSinatra]

Akira Yamaoka was the soul silent hill, without him there is no silent hilli don't care who you have developing silent hill, whether it be Kojima or anyone else.

[GameSpawn]

"Akira Yamaoka was the soul silent hill"

You have no idea how true that statement is. The music made those games. It was what really set Silent Hill apart from other survival horror games.

As far as Kojima "rebooting" Silent Hill, I have mixed feelings. Silent Hill, specifically 1-4, have some nostalgia that a reboot could kill or have a very hard time living up to. I feel that a Kojima Silent Hill while the gameplay may shine, the story and overall theme and atmosphere may suffer. I believe the last three things mentioned are the hardest challenges for anyone besides the original teams to match and overcome.

[MysticStrummer]

"The only ones that can truly reboot silent hill are team silent themselves. Unfortunately most of team silent don't even work for Konami anymore."

You gave point and counterpoint in the same comment. Reminds me of Zipper Interactive making SOCOM4, when most of those guys had nothing to do with the good SOCOMs.

Kojima is one of very few devs that would make me truly interested in a Silent Hill reboot, beyond just saying "I have low expectations but I'll keep an eye on this".

[THamm]

Kojima= best character build up
Do realize nobody makes more memorable characters than KojiPro. I think they would do a spectacular job on this.

[SaturdayNightBeaver]

Real fans know that. But i wouldn't mind if Kojima tries to do something with it. I believe he would know what to do. After all Downpour wasn't made by original silent hill team but i loved it and i think it was mostly OK.

[Iltapalanyymi]

Kojima pls. I have wanted this since ages.

[on_line_forever]

i have faith on Kojima to do this right

1 - take the horror from silent hill 4
2 - take the story from silent hill 1
3 - Akira Yamaoka must be involved in this (NO Akira Yamaoka then NO silent hill )
4 - fox Kojima engine
5 - if you do it Kojima you must play silent hill from part 1 to 4 you must feel what we want from silent hill the atmosphere Kojima the atmosphere dont forget it .

[SaturdayNightBeaver]

Yea , the music and the atmosphere was like the half of silent hill games.Too many games went with that awfully generic orchestral hype building sound or the nonsense you can hear in latest Thief game , it crushes the spirit of the game in half...

[Activemessiah]

Cut scenes by the dozens coming your way soon.

[Lowsnamebrand]

I Take it You Dont Like Great Story Telling? Maybe Stick to mindless shooting is more your style.

[Linsolv]

Linear-narrative-driven video games are an oxy-moron. The medium is built from the ground up for nonlinear interaction-driven narrative. If you think that MGS is "great" storytelling and if you don't like it then you're only suited for "mindless shooting" then you've obviously never played an RPG worth playing.

[MysticStrummer]

"Linear-narrative-driven video games are an oxy-moron. The medium is built from the ground up for nonlinear interaction-driven narrative."

Way to ignore most of video game history.

[Activemessiah]

@Lowsnamebrand No idea where you got that I like shooters, I mostly play platformers and fighting games.... would you kindly tell me where you that idea from?

[CrossingEden]

You would get laughed out of any college level writing class if you were to present Metal Gear Solid as an example of great storytelling. Don't even get me started on what someone like Yahtzee would say to you if you were to say that to him. Games like Metal Gear being considered great stories with great storytelling by gamers who have no idea how proper storytelling works are the reason why video games are still so far behind the film industry when it comes down to simple storytelling principles. In fact, Hideo Kojima seems to realize this himself, hence the reason why Ground Zeroes and according to him, Phantom Pain won't waste your time with overly long monologues and exposition that contains information that could be conveyed in a much smaller amount of time. The only metal gear game that I would consider passable in terms of storytelling would be MGS3, and that's only after if you consider everything in that game to be a satire of spy films with moments that are cringeworthy and supposed to be cool to be intentionally cheesy, like the bee man doing a flip when Snake reaches toward the sky when looking at Big Boss. Not to mention you also have to remove all of the overly long monologues.

[Tdmd]

Yes maybe. But it would be a worthy trade of: that would come in exchange of a level of quality and polish that has yet to be seen in this franchise, as kojima is an obsessive perfectionist. He is also a great storyteller, so there is that as well... ;)

[MysticStrummer]

Awesome cut scenes by the dozens.

[cla2]

Silent hill always had a meta story behind everything that needed good insight to understand, Kojima's really the best to carry on that kind of message and to do that job. :)

[nope111]

YESSSS, do it!

[TomahawkX]

based on the hospital scenes in The Phantom Pain, Kojima would do the series justice.

[Pancit_Canton]

How about a new IP, Instead of reboot and remakes. Only a handful of series that i know deserves that remake status.

[Silly gameAr]

"Only a handful of series that i know deserves that remake status."

You don't think Silent Hill is one of those games?

[DaleCooper]

Kojima could pull it off, as long as he didn't go overboard with the custscenes. Of course a reboot really isn't needed, just make an all new one. The town is the important part anyway, I don't want another retelling of Harry Mason.

[Tdmd]

Do it Kojima! Do it already, you can redeem this series!

[2cents]

Nooooo...

horror is in the mystery and suspense, not hours of waffle and brain tumor inducing convoluted plots.

pyramid head, scary, unknown terror and lots of ash snow. Not hours of blah blah blah.

Do your own thing kojima, leave silent hill alone please.

[iNFAMOUZ1]

Oh shut up kojima no one cares

[RoboticusRex]

I care Kojima, I care

[Crystallis]

Reboot Zone of the enders while you are at it Kojima San.

[LoveForGames]

Am i the only one thinking that Kojima talks lot of shit lately? Slowly he is acting like the japanese Peter Molyneux...

with the only difference that Kojimas games deliver hard!

But still he talks to much MGS Phantom Pain being to big to complete... lol?!

[WeAreLegion]

I won't hit disagree, but I think the difference is Kojima won't tell us something will be in the game when it won't. He probably has these astronomically ridiculous mechanics, scenarios, and set pieces planned that would take more time and money than Konami is willing to give him.

He does seem to be talking more recently, but he's not full of himself. That's what I like about Kojima.

[MysticStrummer]

If his games deliver hard, then he can't be the japanese Molyneux.

[BladerunnerZX]

Kojima directing a Silent Hill would be a dream come true for a long time SH fan like me.

I have no doubt Kojima would create a new fresh Silent Hill series.

As far as I know Team Silent Hill doesnt exist anymore do they?
If not I really think that Kojima could be the only one to do the Silent Hill series right.

[WeAreLegion]

I'm totally ok with this. Maybe he could convince Akira Yamaoka to do the music again?!? :D

[RPG1201]

More like Kojima's bosses want to reboot it.

Team Silent is disbanded, create a new IP and stop bleeding what dignity is left from the name.

[gano]

i agree but....
This is kojima, honestly silent hill almost feel like a kojima side project.
He can def fucin do it.
So snatcher and zoe hafta wait.
No more westernize ver.

[il-JumperMT]

You are not allowed to make any other game until you make a new ZoE!

[porkChop]

Would be nice, something other than Metal Gear. He's been wanting to work on other games for the longest time but Konami apparently won't let him.

[TristanPR77]

Silent Hill deserves to be revived. While I agree that Team Silent are the only one to make a proper SH game, Kojima at least is a good option.

[calvincrack]

Let. Us. Pray.

[Purpleeyeblack]

Yes!!!! That would be awesome. The boss fights would be unbelievable

[mogwaii]

I pray someone recreates the phsycological fear that was the original silent hill but i fear not.

[Picnic]

I just want to play Silent Hill 4: The Room. Maybe they could reimagine that and iron out problems that some reviewers said it had.