Silent Hills cancellation “makes no fucking sense” says Del Toro

By now we should have accepted the fact that Hideo Kojima and Guillermo Del Toro’s Silent Hill’s is no more, but that doesn’t mean that we still can’t be pissed at Konami for their baffling decision to cancel the game and perhaps no one is more pissed then Mr Del Toro himself.  When speaking to Bloody Disgusting, he said that their game would have been “remarkable” and Konami’s decision “makes no fucking sense”.  We hear you Del Toro, we hear you.

When speaking of how excited he was for the project, Del Toro said that when he saw some of their ideas implemented into The Last of Us (he’s not implying that Naughty Dog pinched their ideas of course), he knew that they were on to something big:

We (Hideo Kojima) had a great experience and had great story sessions with hundreds upon hundreds of designs,” he added. “Some of the stuff that we were designing for Silent Hills I’ve seen in games that came after, like The Last of Us, which makes me think we were not wrong, we were going in the right direction, The thing with Kojima and Silent Hills is that I thought we would do a really remarkable game and really go for the jugular.

But when Del Toro spoke on Konami’s decision to cancel the game, his frustrations become very clear:

We were hoping to actually create some sort of panic with some of the devices we were talking about and it is really a shame that it’s not happening. When you ask about how things operate, that makes no fucking sense at all that that game is not happening. Makes no fucking sense at all.

Even now after all this time, fans are still angry at Konami and rightly so, as the thoughts of Del Toro are echoed throughout the community.  The hype that surrounded that P.T announcement at Gamescom last year was like nothing I’ve ever experienced and despite P.T only being a demo, it was that dam terrifying and bloody good, even fans that were never interested in the Silent Hill series wanted a piece of this game.  From a creative perspective it makes no sense and from a financial perspective, it makes even less sense, as whatever year Silent Hill’s released, it would have surely been one of the best selling games of that year.

Oh well, what can we do? It seems Konami don’t care about how much the fans want Kojima’s and Del Toro’s adaptation of Silent Hill, but at least I still have my P.T demo to play I guess.