Konami has revealed the next Silent Hill Transmission.
The official Konami Twitter account shared this message:
“Join us for the SILENT HILL Transmission, where we’ll share the latest news streaming March 13 at 3:00pm PDT.
This Transmission will uncover SILENT HILL f.
We will share the stream link soon, so please watch this space.”
Konami originally announced Silent Hill f all the way back in October 2022. That was also the same Silent Hill Transmission where Konami announced the revival of the Silent Hill franchise itself, and we were told of several projects. The Silent Hill 2 remake by Bloober Team has turned out to be a huge success for both Bloober and Konami. So Konami is definitely looking to build on that success with this new project.
But Konami is also taking a lot of risks with Silent Hill f, and if fans didn’t expect Bloober to step up with their remake, we don’t think even Konami knows how well this game will turn out. This time, their partner studio is Taiwanese developer NeoBards Entertainment. NeoBards’ curriculum vitae includes Devil May Cry HD Collection, Marvel’s Avengers, Resident Evil: Origins Collection, Resident Evil: Resistance, and Resident Evil Re:Verse. As both support and main development studio, we at least know they have the experience to work with bigger Japanese publishers.
While Silent Hill f is being director by NeoBards’ Al Yang, Konami has assembled an eclectic supergroup of sorts for the title as well. Writing the game is Ryukishi07, who is most famous for visual novel Higurashi When They Cry.
Meanwhile, assigned as producer is Motoi Okamoto. Okamoto has been working for Konami since 2019, but he also had a decade’s tenure at Nintendo, in the GameCube and Wii era. Lest some gamers feel misled, Okamoto was also producer on Bloober Team’s Silent Hill 2 remake, so he may also prove to be the steady hand that makes sure this project turns out well.
Ryukishi07’s story is itself breaking with Silent Hill’s continuity completely. The game is moving to 1960s rural Japan, and will feature creature designs from an artist also outside of Konami, Kera. With all of this going on, we aren’t sure if we’ll be seeing a Swinging Sixties’ version of Pyramid Head, or if we’ll be getting some completely new creatures with a completely different vibe this time.
While we can’t predict what Konami are about to show us, we will say that 1960s was a particularly fertile period for Japanese horror. Before the creepy women of Ring and Ju-On, Japanese horrors where existential sociological character studies that freely adopted multiple genres, from Jigoku, Matango, to Blind Beast. When we remember how Silent Hill 2 itself pushed the entire horror genre forward in 2001, who knows what Konami has in store for us in 2025?
