Akira Yamaoka Would “Be Happy” To Work On Silent Hills

Since the awesome Playable Teaser for Silent Hills arrived last week, Silent Hill fans have been going crazy with excitement; in fact it’s even got new fans stirring that have never played a game from the survival horror franchise.

The dream team of Hideo Kojima, Guillermo de Toro and Norma Reedus are reasons to get excited alone, but then throw in the might of the Fox Engine and you have one scary recipe for success.  But as awesome as that team is, there’s still one Silent Hill ingredient missing which begs the question; “who will be composing the soundtrack?”  Fans (including myself) have been calling for Akira Yamaoka to be brought into that dream team to become Silent Hills missing ingredient.

Akira Yamaoka is of course the composer of Silent Hill games from before and will be especially fondly remembered for his work on the first three amazing Silent Hill titles.  However with Yamaoka leaving Konami in 2009 (though it is rumoured that he did have some involvement with Love Psalm in the top down PS Vita title Silent Hill title: Book of Memories), it meant he never did work on the questionable Silent Hill: Downpour and beyond.

But it has been said that despite leaving Konami, Akira Yamaoka has been open somewhat to the idea on working on his beloved Silent Hill again one day.  So when the Silent Hill fanpage MySilentHill sent Mr Yamaoka a question asking, would he consider working on the new Silent Hills? He replied with the words “Sure I’d be happy too!”

Now this isn’t official confirmation from a Konami perspective, but hopefully Hideo Kojima will learn of this news and give the master horror composer a call.