Silent Hill 2 fans change game’s review scores on Wikipedia page because it’s ‘woke’

Some Silent Hill fans are trying to hitch Silent Hill 2 remake’s affirmative reception from the record, contempt it getting the support of the archetypal game’s director.

While astir radical were tense erstwhile Bloober Team were announced arsenic the developers down Konami’s Silent Hill 2 remake, the last merchandise managed to enactment each those concerns to rest.

As highlighted successful our glowing review, 2024’s Silent Hill 2 turned retired amended than anyone expected. The praise was mostly unanimous too, with the crippled sitting astatine 87 connected reappraisal aggregate tract Metacritic.

While astir radical person welcomed having a genuinely large Silent Hill game, for the archetypal clip successful astir 2 decades, a definite country of the net is trying to erase each the positivity, for the astir pathetic of reasons.

As noted by Twitter users, the Wikipedia leafage for the remake was concisely altered to regenerate each the affirmative reviews astir the crippled with little scores. For a abbreviated time, the edited leafage stated that it had received ‘the worst reviews imaginable from critics’.

To antagonistic this rewriting of the facts, Wikipedia has temporarily locked the game’s leafage truthful lone ‘established, registered users’ tin marque changes.

While it’s unclear what precisely is motivating this, it’s seemingly stemmed from the benignant of people who outcry ‘woke’ implicit redesigned pistillate characters – akin to the outcry implicit Stellar Blade showing somewhat little tegument than promised.

There besides seems to beryllium a tiny contingent who are rather precious astir immoderate changes to the 2001 original, with immoderate unhappy with the caller dependable acting, animations, and the engagement of Bloober Team.

What has Silent Hill 2’s archetypal manager said astir the remake?

Despite each this, the manager down the archetypal Silent Hill 2, Masashi Tsuboyama, has praised the remake for making it disposable to a caller procreation of players.

‘I deliberation the worth of the remake is that a caller procreation tin play it,’ Tsuoboyama wrote connected Twitter. ‘As a creator, I’m precise blessed astir it. It’s been 23 years! Even if you don’t cognize the original, you tin conscionable bask the remake arsenic it is. Whether it’s bully oregon atrocious doesn’t impact the original.’

While helium was captious of the mode the game’s method improvements person been promoted implicit the crippled itself, Tsuboyama highlighted the displacement to an over-the-shoulder camera position arsenic a highlight, noting that helium was ‘not satisfied’ with the camera successful the archetypal game.

‘The differences betwixt the archetypal and the remake, 4K, photorealism, the bonus headgear, etc. are each mediocre,’ helium wrote. ‘Who is this promotion going to entreaty to? It seems similar they’re not doing capable to convey the entreaty of the enactment to the procreation that doesn’t cognize Silent Hill.

‘The happening to enactment is the alteration successful camera (perspective). The alteration successful playable camera has a important interaction connected galore aspects, combat level design, creation creation, etc. While the interaction connected the communicative whitethorn beryllium comparatively small, it brings a large alteration to the playfeel [sic] of the game.

‘To beryllium honest, I’m not satisfied with the playable camera from 23 years ago. Depth and space were constricted by the processing load. It was a continuous process of hard enactment that was not rewarded. But that was the limit.’

Released successful 2001 connected the PlayStation 2, the archetypal Silent Hill 2 utilised a premix of fixed and moving camera angles arsenic you navigated the environment, portion you moved protagonist James Sunderland utilizing clunky vessel controls.

The Silent Hill 2 remake is among a slate of caller Silent Hill projects successful the works nether Konami. The adjacent mainline instalment is Silent Hill f, portion a spin-off is besides successful improvement called Silent Hill: Townfall.

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