Silent Hill: Shattered Memories announced for Wii

[AJR]

Why are you both being retarded?

[Raziel]

And SH4 wasn't supposed to be a SH game. It was Konami's decision to shoehorn in the SH stuff, not Team Silent's. I don't blame them for that clusterfuck.

Uh, whut?

http://games.kikizo.com/features/konami_interview_sep04.asp

Tsuboyama: We wanted to make a sequel after Silent Hill 3 and you could say that was the initial concept, but upon that we needed to implement a lot of new flavour to the sequel, otherwise it would have been the same old Silent Hill. So for that, we created "The Room" as the concept for the game, so that we could use to represent the contrast between the normal and the abnormal life which changes suddenly. For the scenario we got our general influence from a book called Coin Locker Babies, which was written by a Japanese writer called Ryu Murakami. It talks about a baby abandoned in a coin locker. That was the general background.

[GenoThePeoplesChamp]

In times like this I think the professionals say it best, my friends Ben "Yahzee" Croshaw
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/284-Silent-Hill-Homecoming

[Eusis]

Huh, looking at the quote above reminds me to check out some of Ryu Murakami's work, I've been hearing good things about that and other books.

Anyways! A longish interview with Tomm Hulett with some interjections by Sam Barlow, the producer and lead designer respectively. I'm too easily scared to play most horror games, but what they want to do with the game and the reception it's received at E3 has me VERY interested in seeing just how good it turns out. Plus Gene Wolfe was cited as an influence, so that greatly increased my interest.