Konami and Bloober Group have insisted repeatedly within the lead-up to their upcoming remake of Silent Hill 2 that the sport goes to be fairly trustworthy to the 2001 authentic, even when it closely modernizing the expertise from a visible and technical degree. With the horror remake set to launch not lengthy from now, they’ve launched one other new chunk of footage that illustrates that but once more.
Sitting down with PlayStation, Bloober Group has proven off a particular part of Silent Hill 2‘s upcoming remake whereas evaluating it on to the 2001 authentic, providing a transparent take a look at how issues have modified, been tweaked, and in the end nonetheless stored largely the identical.
The brand new footage first showcases James and Laura’s encounter in Brookhaven Hospital, the place we see that the dialogue has largely been stored intact (together with Laura’s well-known “fartface” line”), although in fact, with the usage of efficiency seize and a few slight dialog modifications right here and there within the remake, the scene does tackle a distinct look, even whether it is aesthetically and tonally fairly trustworthy.
Additionally in contrast are each video games’ model of the boss battle towards Flesh Lips that instantly follows the Laura scene. Right here, we see that issues have been modified slightly bit extra. For starters, the remake sees James taking up a single Flesh Lip as an alternative of two within the authentic.
In the meantime, although the Flesh Lip bears the identical design and nonetheless assaults James by crashing down from the ceiling, mechanically, the boss battle is kind of completely different now, with gamers being required to shoot the Flesh Lip down onto the bottom to then assault its cage within the first part of the battle. The second part additionally sees the Flesh Lip utilizing the mangled stays of its cage as a weapon to assault James with. Take a look at the video under for extra particulars.
Silent Hill 2 launches on October 8 for PS5 and PC. Critiques for the title will reportedly start going reside on October 4.