Though director Guillermo del Toro's critically acclaimed gothic haunted house, romance horror movie Crimson Peak is currently in theaters and garnering plenty of praise, the filmmaker keeps getting asked about his cancelled Konami video game project with gaming legend Hideo Kojima, Silent Hills. Despite the immensely popular P.T. gameplay teaser and actor Norman Reedus' involvement, the plug has been pulled on the highly anticipated game, but this week the filmmaker has shared somewhat of an update on the project - though it's a bit bittersweet. He has compared the gameplay ideas to that of The Last of Us, the 2013 survival horror video game from Naughty Dog.
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Nowadays, comparing your gameplay to The Last of Us should be a no-brainer. The 2013 Game of the Year is basically a masterpiece in the gaming world, with basically every developer aiming to reach the heights of this title. According to del Toro, he and Kojima had a similar idea when it came to the gameplay and story of Silent Hills, which sounds amazing!
"We had a great experience and had great story sessions with hundreds upon hundreds of designs. 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 filmmaker said in a new interview with Bloody Disgusting, according to Gamma Squad. "The thing with Kojima and Silent Hills is that I thought we would do a really remarkable game and really go for the jugular. 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 f*cking sense at all that that game is not happening. Makes no f*cking sense at all."
This might make you feel a bit sad about the cancelled project, but we can always hold out hope that it eventually comes back to life.
Though we won't get to play this video game any time soon (or possibly ever) we can still enjoy Crimson Peak! Watch a trailer for this movie right here:
