It’s important to note that, at this time and for its entire existence as an internal studio at Konami, Team Silent was only a small group of developers. Hirayuki Owaku would go on to write the story for the game itself. The idea to adapt these themes to a Silent Hill game came after Takayoshi Sato, the CGI director of the first game, read the novel and pitched the game’s rough outline to Team Silent a few months after the release of the first game. The novel deals with the man’s struggles with guilt and paranoia as he faces the consequences of his actions.
The initial concepts for Silent Hill 2’s themes of punishment were inspired by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, the story of a man who kills and robs an innocent pawnbroker in an attempt to liberate himself from poverty. While the original game was definitely ahead of its time with fully voice-acted FMV sequences and early attempts at cinematic storytelling similar to Metal Gear Solid, Silent Hill 2 pushed things even further with a heavier emphasis on story, emergent use of symbolism, and visual metaphor. RELATED: How Resident Evil Village Successfully Executed One Important Formula From Silent Hillĭespite being developed within two years of the first game’s release, Silent Hill 2 is a major step up from the PlayStation 1 original in terms of storytelling and game design. However even against such tough competition, Silent Hill 2 managed to become one of the year’s best games.
For many newer horror franchises, releasing in such a tumultuous year would leave them at a major disadvantage. That's including Konami’s own Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, which itself was also making huge strides in terms of pushing video games as a storytelling medium forward. Despite the series’ absence since 2014, the legacy of Silent Hill 2 has endured to the point where it is still considered one of the best horror games of all time.Ĭoming out in 2001, the first major year for the PlayStation 2 and one of the biggest years in gaming history, Silent Hill 2 had some major competition. When discussing the games that have had the biggest impact for pushing video game storytelling forward in the past two decades, it’s almost inevitable that Silent Hill 2 will be mentioned.
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