A future Silent Hill game could be set in Central or South America, says Konami producer

But they're not definite which section squad would marque it

Silent Hill f is 1 of the fewer Silent Hill games acceptable extracurricular Silent Hill itself. It transports players from the eternal doldrums of Maine, North America to 1960s Japan, and casts you arsenic a schoolhouse pupil successful the foggy colony of Ebisugaoka. It's precise good, acknowledgment not slightest to a thoughtful and poignant communicative from Ryukishi07. Appetites are present whetted for a Silent Hill bundle tour, and Konami shaper Motoi Okamoto already has a fewer ideas astir wherever he'd similar the bid to spell next. Ideas that, admittedly, marque maine tense astir the anticipation of ham-fisted taste misrepresentation.

"We judge we could possibly instrumentality akin approaches with different cultures crossed the globe," Okamoto told Inverse's Shannon Liao successful a recent, translated interview. "For example, successful Central oregon South America, we could possibly pat into the much local, shamanistic beliefs and spot however that ties in. But we could besides effort to grow our horizons and look into different regions, similar perchance Russia, Italy, oregon South Korea, due to the fact that each those areas person their ain unsocial types of content systems. I judge that volition beryllium a gateway for america to grow our concepts further."

Asked to elaborate, Okamoto commented that helium reads fearfulness books from Central and South America. He besides referenced magical realism, a literate contented successful which myths and folklore signifier portion of regular life, which has precedents crossed the globe, but is heavy associated (in my experience, anyway) with 20th period Central and South American authors including Gabriel García Márquez and Mariana Enríquez. I can't rather archer from the write-up, but it sounds similar Okamoto cited these past 2 authors successful particular.

He besides made much wide - indeed, wide to the constituent of demeaning and reductive - notation to governmental events that could marque a utile discourse for a Silent Hill game. "Those areas person been affected by a batch of subject governments and coups," Okamoto told Liao. "There is simply a benignant of bravado and 'machismo' that comes from these governmental landscapes. There's besides the much folkloric space coming from shamanism and section beliefs." As for the supra notation of Korea, Russia and Italy, Okamoto didn't spell into detail. In his defence, helium was answering questions successful idiosyncratic and, I imagine, trying to debar getting excessively specific, for fearfulness of mounting tongues a-wagging.

Okamoto feels 1 obstacle to mounting a Silent Hill crippled successful Central oregon South America is the lack of a section developer they would spot with the keys to this fearfulness series. "Central and South America bash not person precise galore salient improvement studios for video games susceptible of handling an IP similar Silent Hill," helium said. "So portion they person a batch of absorbing movies, books, and tales, however we would construe that into games is thing we inactive person to explore."

Anglophone writers successful the bluish hemisphere person often done a unspeakable occupation of covering the crippled improvement country successful Central and South America. Well, I person astatine least. But 1 radical who travel to caput are Ace Team, the creators of Zeno Clash, Rock Of Ages, and The Eternal Cylinder. I deliberation they mightiness find Silent Hill a spot sedate visually, but they've surely got an oculus for unearthly creatures and places. There's besides Dual Effect, creators of Tormented Souls, which is successful the close ballpark, but person to Resi and Outlast than Silent Hill.

In the shorter term, there's Silent Hill: Townfall. It's being developed successful Scotland by Screen Burn (formerly No Code), developers of Observation and Stories Untold. I person nary thought wherever it's set, but fixed the studio's past projects, it should person immoderate frightful gadgets successful it.