Few things can match the excitement of seeing two of your favorite people take a break from being awesome so they can team up and be awesome together. They could be filmmakers, actors, game developers, superheroes, supervillains — it doesn’t matter. Until we’re privy to the results of that mash-up, all that matters is the potential we immediately see in these dream teams.
I could list a myriad potentially awesome collaborations I wouldn’t mind seeing and none would have been as original as the team that almost brought us Silent Hills. Director Guillermo del Toro and Metal Gear series creator Hideo Kojima are two of the most inventive minds in their respective mediums. It’s cruel that, after all Silent Hill has done for the horror genre, it would be allowed such a spectacular resurgence only to have it taken away on the whims of a spiteful publisher.
When news of its cancellation first broke, I was disappointed, bewildered, frustrated and even a little cautious to believe it after being duped by Kojima so many times before. The anger didn’t set in until Konami took a great big shit on everyone who worked on P.T. by removing it from the PlayStation Store. They devalued the medium by treating a game like it was disposable entertainment, as opposed to the technological and artistic marvels that video games most definitely are.
Del Toro and Kojima might’ve made Silent Hill relevant again, or they could’ve birthed an abomination that brought about the downfall of survival horror followed by 666 years of permanent darkness. I assumed we would never know how it would’ve turned out, then this happened.
The duo is looking at making a comeback, and it sounds as if they haven’t even decided on a project, though it’s safe to assume it will be a video game. Now, we know they’re both interested in developing a horror game, and you may also remember a game called InSANE that got dropped by THQ just before it went belly up in 2012.
InSANE was thrown out before we had a chance to get a real look at it, but it would’ve been the first in a planned trilogy of action horror games based on the works of H.P. Lovecraft. That’s enough for me to want to see what these guys could do with it. How about you? Are you at all interested in seeing it get exhumed from its grave, or would you rather they didn’t?
