Konami is such a shell of its former self that this might as well be any other developer doing their own off-brand Silent Hill, and my expectations would be the same.

This is broadly a positive imo but I worry on them giving the franchise to the wrong people. Bloober team I’m not a fan of and especially the ascension stuff with the ceo being really nasty just… Ugh. I’m excited for F though since the writer made umineko which is a batshit insane murder mystery story that uh… Is also kinda a love story. Great stuff there and exciting. But the others? Eh

The thing is, Silent Hill: The Short Message was made by Konami. So this is almost certainly just Konami hiring more people to staff up that team for future projects. It’s not like they’re founding a new team – just expanding the team that’s already there.

I find it very ironic that they now seem desperate to build back the capabilities to make games of that kind after more or less giving up entirely some years ago.

I’m not sure if I can still trust Konami to make quality games. Do they even care about the Castlevania series anymore?