Tears of...

I've read a certain interview with a certain person who happens to be working on part 5 of a certain game series I love. It petrified me.

You can read it here and here. I'll try to be as gentle and polite as I can discussing the person's statements one by one but inside I'm terrified as well as aggravated. Everything that particular person was kind enough to say may not necessarily make Silent Hill 5 just a next worthless horror-shooter, but... AH FUCK WHO AM I TRYING TO FOOL?!?

sigh...

The person's favorite part is Silent Hill 3. It's not a crime, anyone is entitled to like whatever they want to like. This means however, that the person does not care much about the game events changing the protagonist emotionally by exposing him to some personal hell (and thus changing the gamer's point of view - if you don't know what I'm talking about play Silent Hill 2) - he cares for a "good" story. We come, we see a problem, we solve it, we win the game. We don't commit suicide.

The game designers are supposed to provide an even heavier atmosphere than in the previous ones by creating weird locations and monsters. Which is just what those previous ones did. That is the basis necessary for a Silent Hill game. Will those weird locations and monsters suffice to make it the most disturbing part of all?

The protagonist is a soldier who is supposed to be making perfectly rational decisions seeing the world suddenly decaying around him and being attacked by malformed creatures - well, not very likely a behavior, but not entirely impossible either. Let's just hope these will more than obligatory "what am I supposed to do now? I know, I'll shoot some monsters" approach. Moreover, the protagonist is supposed to have some knowledge about what is really going on in Silent Hill. I'm dying to see (not really) how the designers will explain that.

The story is supposed to reveal how the Silent Hill events influenced more people that the players think - maybe we will meet the whole society living within the nightmare world, which would be an obvious movie rip-off. Maybe not.

The best for the last:
The person claims that some of the reasons for which he was hired by Konami are him being a huge Silent Hill fan, being very knowledgeable about the series and wishing the series a continued success. I sincerely hope there were other reasons. MUCH more of them. I'm a huge Silent Hill fan too. FallingStickman is a huge Silent Hill fan too. There is a chance of you being a huge Silent Hill fan too. If we are huge Silent Hill fans that we probably are very knowledgeable about the series and wish it a continued success as well.
He also claims to have bought and played the game the very week it came out. I hope he didn't mean it as some sort of achievement.

Apparenty Silent Hill 5 will not concentrate on some personal hell like some of it's predecessors - instead begin based on solving things and answering questions, which in my opinion is a promise of flat 2D characters no one could care less about. It will probably involve a lot of shooting, not a lot of puzzle solving (I can't imagine the protagonist, supposedly being a man of action, figuring out how to insert 3 coins into 5 slots the right way) - so that's one gaming hope going to hell in a hand-basket. It will probably tell a story about the infamous Order - a gathering of deranged people trying to summon some kind of demon. I know that's a crucial element of the Silent Hill universe but that brings SH5 to a typical action-game scheme one good guy versus some bad guys. The lack of such painfully chiched rules was the most important reason why Silent Hill games were so special in the first place.

I have a wish.
I wish that I'm wrong.
I wish that everything I've written above will turn out bullshit.