Bloober Team

For a long stretch, being a Silent Hill fan meant living off old memories, rumors, and the occasional pachinko machine.

Then the 2024 remake of Silent Hill 2 from Bloober Team showed up and proved people still cared about James Sunderland and his [chuckles] very bad week.

A year after that, Silent Hill F dragged the franchise all the way to 1960s rural Japan with a new look, a new combat style, and a story that had nothing to do with the town everybody knows.

Three autumns in a row, Konami has handed us something new from this series.

The fresh setting is a big part of why Townfall is interesting at all.

There's also something to be said for letting new teams in.

Bloober Team brought their style to the Silent Hill 2 remake.

Neobards and writer Ryukishi07 brought theirs to F.

The quality of their recent games is unquestionable, and they are critically and player popular.

How would you rank these studios in order of best to good, and are there other studios you would place on this list? Asobo, Bloober- Hazelight and Remedy

Uh, let me do it for J- John.

Can I guess yours?

You can guess mine.

You would have, you would have Hazelight number one, Asobo number two, Bloober number three, and Remedy number four.

Hmm, no.

Has he Remedy the least good?

And, and what's interesting is that Silent Hill games are always about beating them multiple times, 'cause there's always multiple endings, and Silent Hill 2, and the remake especially, like, is fucking sick.

Like the Blooper Team one where I, I, I with pleasure played through that game, like, four times.

So I'm just trus- trusting my own instinct on this, that that's still the superior modern Silent Hill game by a mile, in my opinion.

But, uh, f was just too combat-oriented and too weird for me in a lot of different ways.

Can they really keep the quality high when they're releasing a new game every 12 months or so? So far, at least, I would say the answer is yes, and the secret has been letting different developers take a crack at things.

So the remake of Silent Hill 2 came from Bloober Team, and that was a really well-done adaptation that, uh, was true to the original, but improved on it in meaningful ways.

Neobard came next with Silent Hill F from last year, and they took the series in a cool new direction by setting it in 1960s, uh, rural Japan.

And now, Scottish developer Screenburn is up with what I think is maybe the most unique take on the series, uh, in a while, Silent Hill: Townfall.

It just get-

We've got Bloober Team executives listening in.

That's gonna be the Bloober...

Yeah.

[laughs] To Blade Runner Krakow, yeah.

"I'm going to observe you"

Did you know Bloober Team are, are publishing or I guess developing Onyx The Dark Grip?

[laughs]

That's kind of what I want, but they do take a lot out of me.

So this is from Bloober Team.

I suppose, as a starting point, we spoke just briefly there about survival horror or horror or however people want to genre these.

What's your verdict and experience with these types of games? Are you, you've been playing for a long time.

So I've been there since the beginning, Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 3, all original, and onward, of course, the Silent Hill series.

Yeah.

And on and on and on, up until present day when we're blessed with all of these fantastic remakes from Capcom, of course the new Resident Evils, and Bloober Team's own Silent Hill 2 remake.

Yes.