A tweet from Konami's official Twitter got fans anticipating a reveal related to interest in the game and its characters 19 years after its release.
There's no question that the masterful sense of foreboding and terror. When it was revealed as a teaser trailer for Silent Hills, the next game in the Silent Hill franchise, anticipation skyrocketed for the title. Unfortunately, less than a year later, Konami unceremoniously cancelled Silent Hills and pulled P.T. from the PlayStation, a move that drew no shortage of ire from fans.
Official news on the beloved horror franchise has been scarce ever since, and despite initial evidence to the contrary, it doesn't seem like fans will be getting more any time soon. On Friday, July 31, remake for the new console generation. It's been 8 years since the last entry in the series, fans clearly had cause to be excited about something like this.
But Konami was very quick to curtail that excitement. It only took six minutes for the publisher to kill any hope of Silent Hill news coming any time soon. Konami claimed that it had just been inspired to share the audio simply because "We were watching streams of the noise and feel of being hunted." The publisher clarified that any official announcements would come from an event, or from the Silent Hill franchise's Twitter first instead of Konami's. Then, humorously enough, Konami apologized, saying "Sorry everyone, did mean to kill your Friday mood." This was presumably a typo, but if it wasn't, then killing everyone's Friday mood was the only thing the publisher managed to do successfully.
The Twitter replies to this little gaffe are thick with outrage, and it's easy to see why. The most generous interpretation of these events indicate that Konami hopelessly misread the room in of Silent Hill news. Dangling a minute-long audio clip in front of Twitter s' noses as an empty promise of something that will never come feels a lot like a small-scale version of what happened with P.T. six years ago. Any resentment fans still had for Konami from that calamity were rightfully inflamed this Friday. Silent Hill 2 is doomed to remain solidly in the past, and as for the rest of this franchise, fans still clearly have a long wait ahead of them before they get any real, solid news.
Source: Konami
