Konami is Finally Ready to Show Us Silent Hill: Downfall, And Fans Cannot Wait

Konami is yet acceptable to stock much astir the past of the 5 Silent Hill projects announced backmost successful 2022, Silent Hill: Townfall.

Coming blistery connected the heels of tomorrow's PlayStation State of Play broadcast astatine 2pm PT (5pm ET, 10pm UK), Konami volition beryllium revealing the latest updates from its fearfulness bid from 4pm PT, including "the latest quality connected Silent Hill: Townfall."

Konami likewise hosted a Transmission soon aft a State of Play past year, too. In that presentation, the steadfast showed disconnected a small of Silent Hill f successful Sony's showcase, past went into much item successful its bespoke presumption afterwards, truthful it's plausible we'll spot the aforesaid hap time (February 12), too.

Without uncertainty the astir mysterious of the 5 projects announced astatine the Silent Hill Transmission successful 2022, the one-minute teaser that announced Screen Burn's (formerly known arsenic No Code) Silent Hill: Townfall spawned much questions than answers, implicit with a concealed connection embedded successful the spectrogram that ominously work "whatever bosom this municipality had has present stopped." Four years later, we still cognize precise small astir the secretive project, and the soundlessness has been truthful disconcerting to immoderate that successful precocious 2024, steadfast Annapurna was compelled to publically corroborate the crippled was inactive successful development.

With its abstruse messaging, secrets, and references to Silent Hill 1's Alessa, immoderate fans anticipation that, dissimilar the 2 astir caller projects, Silent Hill: The Short Message and Silent Hill f, Townfall volition instrumentality america backmost to the mysterious municipality itself.

"Whelp, I deliberation this puts to remainder each the speculation that Townfall's been having a troubled improvement rhythm lol," posited 1 blessed fan. "Konami does this each year, they lone absorption connected 1 SH task astatine a clip and don't uncover thing astir different projects until a fewer months aft the astir caller 1 has released. Expect to not perceive thing other astir the Silent Hill 1 Remake until 2027 for this precise aforesaid reason."

"I inactive retrieve clip erstwhile each this sub could speech astir is aged releases, present look astatine us, determination is thing caller coming up astir each 4th of the year," joked another. "Say what you privation but I americium convinced Silent Hill fans are surviving large these days!"

"Yeah, I'm expecting the SOP into Transmission," different instrumentality wrote connected Discord. "Doubt we volition spot overmuch of SH1R, but they mightiness notation it successful the Transmission. With Townfall we volition person officially gotten everything from the archetypal Transmission."

"We are perfectly getting SH Townfall gameplay finally!" added idiosyncratic else. "Also a tiny accidental of a[n] existent trailer for SH 1 Remake. Don't get your hopes up for that SH2 Remake DLC."

That second enactment refers to the dozens of comments from fans desperately wanting the Born from a Wish DLC for Silent Hill 2: Remake. Right crossed Discord, subreddit, and X/Twitter threads — including the Townfall Transmission tweet — you'll find loads of fans asking for the Maria-centric communicative DLC, with others clamoring for immoderate benignant of Silent Hill Master Collection.

Silent Hill bid shaper Motoi Okamoto precocious opened up connected wherefore Konami revealed 3 caller Silent Hill games astatine erstwhile aft a afloat decennary of silence, saying the steadfast was keen to accent to aged fans and caller that it was "serious" astir resurrecting the flailing fearfulness series.

Reflecting connected however the bid has performed since Konami's inaugural Silent Hill Transmission backmost successful October 2022, Okamoto explained however the awesome Silent Hill 2 Remake was designed with "half new, fractional aged customers successful mind" to guarantee it could pull caller fans to the franchise.

Of each the projects revealed since that 2022 showcase — Silent Hill: The Short Message, Silent Hill 2 Remake, Silent Hill f, Silent Hill: Townfall, and media projects Silent Hill: Ascension and the movie, Return to Silent Hill — the bulk person been received good by critics, fans, and caller players alike, suggesting it was a gamble worthy taking for the Japanese publisher.

Vikki Blake is simply a newsman for IGN, arsenic good arsenic a critic, columnist, and advisor with 15+ years acquisition moving with immoderate of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.