Nostalgia can be comforting, but it is also anaesthetising; live in the past, and you never have to confront the future. James Sunderland returns to the resort town of Silent Hill, a ‘special place’ for him and his late wife Mary, after an impossible letter promises that she’s waiting there for him.
That was the premise of Silent Hill 2, Konami’s 2001 survival horror classic on PS2, and now Bloober Team’s ground-up remake only on PS5. Silent Hill 2 has always been a story about longing to return to a time and place that no longer exists. Understandably, news of a remake was met with scepticism, to say nothing of Bloober’s own dubious track record of crafting horror that handles sensitive subject matter tactfully (2021’s The Medium was a miserable experience).
