Silent Hill: The Short Message is dubbed the start of a "new wave" for the series, sweeping ill-fated live-stream project Ascension firmly under the rug
Feb. 1, 2024We’re about to get a lot more Silent Hill games
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Konamihas revealed that Silent Hill: The Short Message is the start of a “new wave” of games for the series, forgetting all aboutSilent Hill Ascension.
Yesterday, during thePlayStation State of Play, we finally got our first look at Silent Hill: The Short Message, which after years ofspeculationwas shadow-dropped during the presentation. The “short-form” Silent Hill game features a new protagonist, explores modern psychological horror themes, and, judging from the trailer, hasP.T. energy.
To promote the game’s reveal, The Short Message’s producer, Motoi Okamoto, discussed the game’s development on thePlayStation Blogand revealed Konami’s plans for the iconic horror series. Speaking about the recently launched game, Okamoto says: “We announced a revival for the Silent Hill series, along with several new titles in development, and this marks the first of that new wave of games to be released.”
Elsewhere in the blog post, Okamoto discusses The Short Message’s story: “We wanted to make a new, modern Silent Hill. As part of that, we explored how we could incorporate contemporary problems. We ended up looking at how modern youth communicate online and through phones, and the role that could play in a psychological horror story.”
You can see this theme in the trailer, which sees our protagonist being haunted by her phone and other mysterious threats that lurk in the darkness.
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