{"id":119194,"date":"2020-10-09T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/10\/the_man_behind_silent_hill_shattered_memories_is_working_on_a_follow-up_but_theres_a_catch"},"modified":"2020-10-09T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T16:30:00","slug":"the-man-behind-silent-hill-shattered-memories-is-working-on-a-follow-up-but-theres-a-catch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/10\/09\/the-man-behind-silent-hill-shattered-memories-is-working-on-a-follow-up-but-theres-a-catch\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man Behind Silent Hill: Shattered Memories Is Working On A Follow-Up, But There&#8217;s A Catch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/78905f01bfef1\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/78905f01bfef1\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Silent Hill Shattered Memories\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/78905f01bfef1\/silent-hill-shattered-memories.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/78905f01bfef1\/silent-hill-shattered-memories.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Silent Hill Shattered Memories\"><\/a><span class=\"image-credit\" title=\"Image Credit\">\u00a9 Konami<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2016\/08\/feature_the_making_of_silent_hill_shattered_memories\">Sam Barlow&#8217;s<\/a> stock has risen sharply in recent years thanks to the award-winning FMV titles <strong>Her Story<\/strong> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/telling_lies\"><strong>Telling Lies<\/strong><\/a>, but back in 2009, he was employed at Climax UK as the lead writer and designer on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wii\/silent_hill_shattered_memories\">Silent Hill: Shattered Memories<\/a><\/strong>, a horror title which has since gone down as one of the most unique games for Nintendo&#8217;s million-selling Wii console.<\/p>\n<p>Barlow kicked things off with a rather cryptic tweet regarding a potential successor to the original game, which broke new ground by removing the player&#8217;s ability to engage in combat:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">TFW an interviewer asks what you&#8217;d do to make a Shattered Memories follow-up today but you can&#8217;t tell them because you&#8217;re currently pitching that thing <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ztnbcjjBck\">pic.twitter.com\/ztnbcjjBck<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Sam Barlow (@mrsambarlow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mrsambarlow\/status\/1313936960193429505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 7, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Spotting that his tweet had gained traction, Barlow clarified that the project, while being considered a successor to Shattered Memories, was not going to be part of the wider Silent Hill series and wasn&#8217;t being pitched to Konami:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">To clarify: this isn&#8217;t for Konami. The impetus comes from (a) people asking me for it* <i title=\":smiley:\" class=\"twa twa-lg twa-smiley\"><\/i> &amp; (b) the market has hit a point where these kinds of games actually make sense, looking at what Remedy did with Control &amp; Kojima with Death Stranding, the emergence of the Triple-I game <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lT6Gefavdd\">https:\/\/t.co\/lT6Gefavdd<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Sam Barlow (@mrsambarlow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mrsambarlow\/status\/1314179266641305602?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 8, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>It sounds like whatever this ends up being, it <em>won&#8217;t<\/em> be in the Silent Hill family but will instead borrow concepts from Shattered Memories \u2013 which suits us just fine, as that game always felt like a bit of an outlier in the wider franchise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9 Konami Sam Barlow&#8217;s stock has risen sharply in recent years thanks to the award-winning FMV titles Her Story and Telling Lies, but back in 2009, he was employed at Climax UK as the lead writer and designer on Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, a horror title which has since gone down as one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}