Guillermo del Toro spoke at the San Francisco Film Festival today, part of early press work for his upcoming movie Crimson Peak. However, as us gamers are very familiar with, del Toro is also involved with an in-development project that has some controversy swirling it around it right now. del Toro, as ever, was more than willing to speak his mind on the current situation regarding Silent Hills. The news is not good.
According photo-journalist Matt Hackney, who was live-tweeting the event, del Toro announced that his collaboration with Hideo Kojima on Silent Hills would no longer happen. His exact words were, noting that he's talking about collaborating with Kojima and not the status of the game:
"It's not gonna happen and that breaks my greasy heart."
For those unfamiliar, Silent Hills was announced late last night as part of the P.T. (Playable Teaser) horror demo released by Konami. The short and mysterious demo was released to much viral online excitement and only after its completion was Silent Hills officially unveiled. Also revealed was that it would be a project led both Guillermo del Toro and Hideo Kojima. The quality of P.T. itself, as well as the names attached to the project, made Silent Hills one of the most highly anticipated games in development.
Then came one of the oddest events in modern gaming history. Konami began to remove Hideo Kojima's name from all of his digitally available previous works, including material related to the upcoming release of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. Word eventually came that Kojima was no longer a part of Konami, instead working as a contractor in order to finish his work on MGSV. He'll leave Konami fully later this year.
The status of Silent Hills was questioned, but no further details on the project followed. One might assume that gamers preferred to just close their eyes and hope that Silent Hills was still in production. That security blanket disappeared this past week when news broke that P.T., the demo that started all, was to be permanently removed from the PlayStation Network soon. Today's confirmation by Guillermo del Toro, while still not confirming the game's cancelation, does not paint a pretty portrait.
Silent Hill, in one form or another, will certainly return eventually. Will it be a Silent Hills project unassociated with Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro? Who knows, but the dream that began with P.T. is certainly in stormy waters. You should probably download that if you have a PS4 before it's gone forever. As for Guillermo del Toro, hopefully he's not too busy for the next 20 years with Pacific Rim sequels to try again in video games. Third time's the charm, right?
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