According to new rumours, Konami is about to bring back the Silent Hill franchise, and not via just pachinko machines.

Earlier this year, we already wrote about how Silent Hill is allegedly planned by the Japanese company to return, but there’s a new rumour now. RelyOnHorror reports that a new Silent Hill’s development started about a year ago, and the soft reboot (meaning they effectively keep the universe but provide a new entry point; a hard reboot would scratch everything that happened so far) has three key members that worked on the original Silent Hill in 1999. (It was released only on PS1, but its reimagined version, Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, came out in 2009 on Wii, PS2, and PSP.)

The three people are Keiichiro Toyama (the director and writer of Silent Hill), Akira Yamaoka (the composer), and Masahiro Ito (the monster designer). It’s an all-star team nevertheless (it’s essentially the core of Team Silent…), and it’s not just Konami pushing for a revival but Sony as well. Apparently, SIE Japan Studio is also working on the reboot, and they have a few employees who formerly worked on a survival horror stealth franchise called Siren (or Forbidden Siren in Europe).

Sony is also said to be trying to patch up the relationship between Konami and Kojima Productions to make the 2015-cancelled Silent Hills possible. Sony wants to achieve it because of the hype and the demand, and since P.T. got a lot of clones since then (and let’s admit it, Resident Evil 7: Biohazard also felt like one…), it makes sense. RelyOnHorror claims there is no agreement yet, but Sony has offered Hideo Kojima complete creative control. So this ball is now on Konami’s court.

However, nothing is official yet, so take it all with a grain of salt.

You can read the retro review of one the best games in the series: Silent Hill 2, here.

Source: WCCFTech

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