Call me unhappy upon reading Konami's official announcement of the Silent Hill: Shattered Memories title. Yep in less than 24 hours since my last entry, all that excitement and anticipation for this title has turned into ranting as i'm dismay with konami's lack of faith in the franchise and Wii console to whore this potentially great remake out to a last-gen console and more insultingly, a handheld system. I'm not much of an eagle-eyed gamer when it comes to graphics but i suspected that game was running on Origins engine when i first saw the captures for the Nintendo Power spread yesterday.
It turns out my suspicions were true as konami announced that this game was also heading to the PSP and PS2 this fall though i remained puzzled how they plan to achieve this with the psp having only one analog stick to control both the character and flashlight? It made sense to launch this title on a platform completely new to the Silent Hill series such as the Wii but Sony fans and system has played host to particularly all of the past Silent Hill, is it really wise make this multi-platform? Regretfully the Wii will have to settle for sub par graphics as the PSP and PS2 are less powerful beast compared to the Wii and considerations will likely to be made to accommodate all three systems. The only consolation i got out of this announcement was konami confirming the first silent hill to be out-of-print (duh!) thereby somehow justifying their decision to bring this to the Sony system i believe. Looks like i'll holding on firmly to the original and probably play this remake on one of the two Sony system which means neither Nintendo nor Konami will likely be getting my money this time... nor will Sony i might add.
It turns out my suspicions were true as konami announced that this game was also heading to the PSP and PS2 this fall though i remained puzzled how they plan to achieve this with the psp having only one analog stick to control both the character and flashlight? It made sense to launch this title on a platform completely new to the Silent Hill series such as the Wii but Sony fans and system has played host to particularly all of the past Silent Hill, is it really wise make this multi-platform? Regretfully the Wii will have to settle for sub par graphics as the PSP and PS2 are less powerful beast compared to the Wii and considerations will likely to be made to accommodate all three systems. The only consolation i got out of this announcement was konami confirming the first silent hill to be out-of-print (duh!) thereby somehow justifying their decision to bring this to the Sony system i believe. Looks like i'll holding on firmly to the original and probably play this remake on one of the two Sony system which means neither Nintendo nor Konami will likely be getting my money this time... nor will Sony i might add.
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