There are lower than two months to go till Bloober Team’s highly-anticipated remake of Silent Hill 2 drops, and in case you are making an attempt to determine how lengthy it’ll take you to beat Silent Hill 2 Remake from starting to finish, the sport’s director lastly has some solutions for you.
In a few replies posted on X/Twitter, Silent Hill 2 director Mateusz Lenart responded to two separate posts to clarify how lengthy it will take for somebody to beat the sport. In accordance to Lenart, the primary playthrough is predicted to take gamers “round 16-18 hours” on common.
First playthrough is round 16-18 hours avarage 🙂
— Mateusz Lenart (@Mateusz_Lenart_) August 19, 2024
In case you are the completionist kind or an avid trophy hunter itching to get the platinum in Silent Hill 2 Remake, Lenart (*2*) that you will want to put in a couple of extra hours. Explaining people who “like to spend [their] time trying to find every thing” that yow will discover in-game, then it will take you “greater than” 20 hours to full. Nevertheless, Lenart added a caveat that he was not factoring in new recreation plus or any of the alternate endings when disclosing that quantity.
If you happen to like to spent your time trying to find every thing that we put into the sport and issues we have hidden for you, it’ll take you greater than 20h for certain 👀! I am not couting the brand new recreation plus and all endings after all. I am curious how briskly will you get all of them👽🐕🚸💧🕯👱♀️…
— Mateusz Lenart (@Mateusz_Lenart_) August 20, 2024
Regardless, Lenart’s numbers are fascinating, and it confirms that the remake will already be an extended recreation than Silent Hill 2. As IGN’s sister site HowLongToBeat notes, the unique Silent Hill 2, launched in 2001, took roughly 9 hours should you solely deal with the primary story or 10 hours should you decide to do the optionally available stuff. If you happen to needed to 100% full the unique Silent Hill 2, it will take about 16 hours.
Silent Hill 2 Remake was formally introduced in 2022. Like some current remakes, most notably 2023’s Lifeless House Remake, Silent Hill 2 Remake’s story will stay the identical. Regardless of the plot remaining unchanged, the remake will, as you’d count on, present visible and technological enhancements, together with “seamless” gameplay with no loading screens, in accordance to the Blooper Team.
“Silent Hill 2 definitely wanted a recent coat of paint and a tune of the engine, and Bloober Team has offered that in spades, however every thing else is a particularly trustworthy reimagining that largely resists the urge to alter the profitable formulation of a stone-cold basic,” my colleague Dale Driver wrote in his hands-on preview.
Silent Hill 2 Remake launches on October 8 for PC and PS5.
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