Silent Hill 2’s PS5 Remake Has Everyone Wondering If Horror Dev Is Worthy

Some people’s disappointment with Bloober’s approach to horror was summed up in a clip of YouTuber Jerma playing Layers of Fear and breaking down cackling as a ghost child slams into a wall and falls over. The game came out just a year after Bloober released the Bomberman-inspired Basement Crawl, one of the worst-rated PS4 games at the time, and marked the studio’s polarizing turn toward first-person horror. Some have found it refreshing. Others have found it extremely meh.

It was followed up by 2017’s cyberpunk-themed Observer which was genuinely excellent and more widely praised, but would end up proving the exception rather than the rule. While there are those who loved The Medium, Bloober’s most recent string of projects has left others feeling like its talent has been stifled by an over-reliance on worn out psychological tropes and cheesy jump scares. A perfect recipe, in other words, to completely bungle Silent Hill 2‘s return.

Here were some of the reactions immediately following today’s official announcement:

Of course, no psychological horror game could be greater than the one fans are playing with themselves as they pour over comparison shots pixel by pixel while waiting for the game to finally come out.

Update 10/19/22 5:40 p.m. ET: A version of this story originally ran on May 19, 2022. It’s been updated today following Konami’s Silent Hill showcase.