I bear in mind studying a overview when Tremendous 8 got here out, with one critic calling JJ Abrams a “Spielberg Cowl Band”. it simply caught with me all of those years. An individual whose emulates a specific type with out actually providing their very own tremendous distinct imaginative and prescient.
Bloober is like that for me. They learn the cliff-notes of what makes psychological horror “psychological”, and with out actually eager to extrapolate additional, ape different video games to cowl their bases with out totally understanding what makes video games inside the style work nicely past the spooky ticking of a clock or “room with doorways that disappear behind you”.
We have seen it time and time once more with Soulslikes. Builders who *virtually* cross the odor take a look at as a result of the sport will no less than visually seem just like a FromSoftware recreation, however normally falling in need of refined fight and atmosphere intricacies that in any other case outline their titles.
Bloober — like Abrams and like Deck13 –have all of the elements in entrance of them. Go on Youtube, and you will see that numerous hours-long essays about what makes Silent Hill 2 so damned efficient. There’s nothing to misconstrue.
I hope for the most effective, and am cautiously optimistic. However even Konami themselves have botched the franchise, and their horrendous remastered variations had the “SILENT HILL” signal written in comedian sans.
We’ll see quickly sufficient.