Originally, Silent Hill 4: The Room was supposed to be a spin-off game set in the same universe as the Silent Hill series. Executives however decided it would make more money as an SH title, and handed it over to the remnants of Team Silent. It is commonly believed that the game became a Silent Hill title very late in the development process, and that any differences between The Room and previous installments were because of its original status as a different game. However, Team Silent has stated that the changes were intentional, having been made early in the production process, and that the game was even originally supposed to take place in Silent Hill. We wanted to make a sequel after Silent Hill 3 and you could say that was the initial concept, but upon that we needed to implement a lot of new flavour to the sequel, otherwise it would have been the same old Silent Hill. So for that, we created The Room as the concept for the game, so that we could use to represent the contrast between the normal and the abnormal life which changes suddenly. For the scenario we got our general influence from a book called Coin Locker Babies, which was written by a Japanese writer called Ryu Murakami. It talks about a baby abandoned in a coin locker. That was the general background. - Masashi Tsuboyama, on the changes in Silent Hill 4. Source: archive.videogamesdaily/features/konami_interview_sep04.asp This video depicts a Japanese interview with Akira Yamaoka, in which he states that the game was originally supposed to take place in Silent Hill, but the devs decided they wanted to make it different. youtube/watch?v=xNMEgqcMfwE
Posted on: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 06:48:09 +0000
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