For that reason, I resorted to using a PlayStation emulator on my PC. Unfortunately, the game is pretty difficult to obtain through legitimate means it used to be available on the PlayStation 3 store, but Sony shut that service down earlier this year, so unless I wanted to shell out nearly a hundred dollars for an original copy, I was mostly stuck. Now, for the sake of transparency, I’ll say that I didn’t actually play “Silent Hill” on an original PS1. This was my experience with the very first “Silent Hill,” released for PlayStation 1 on February 23, 1999: So, I did the only thing I could think to do: I went to the source. I wanted to try to understand why this series in particular resonated with so many people in the first place, and why, almost a quarter of a century later, people still feel so strongly about it. “Over the past decade, it’s slowly abandoned the properties and experiences that engendered such a profound affection toward the Konami name in the first place.”Īt this point, I was intrigued.
“A powerful sense of betrayal defines the attitudes many gamers feel toward ,” said Jeremy Parish of USgamer. However, the quiet demise of “Silent Hill” seems to have inspired a uniquely profound sense of disappointment among its fans. Of course, major franchises coming and going is nothing new: “Clock Tower,” “Left 4 Dead,” and “Alone in the Dark” are all examples of critically acclaimed horror franchises, all of which haven’t seen a new release in over half a decade. 2014’s “P.T.” attempted to revitalize the franchise, but the project was cancelled before it came to fruition, and the demo is now no longer playable. At the time of writing, there hasn’t been a main-series release in nine years, since 2012’s “Silent Hill: Downpour” was met with exceedingly lukewarm reception. After the release of “Silent Hill 4: The Room” in 2004, “Team Silent” was disbanded, and Konami handed the keys to their flagship franchise over to various Western developers, with worse and worse results each time. Now, however, the series has fallen on hard times. With Konami’s “Team Silent” at the helm, the series proved incredibly successful, spawning movie adaptations and ingraining itself in the public consciousness, particularly with images like Pyramid Head and the Bubble Head Nurses. The “Silent Hill” series of horror games were once a defining force in the gaming industry, influencing the horror landscape and inspiring countless copycats.
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