Bloober Team has admitted it knew it had to “evolve” after releasing The Medium, a choice which led to the event of larger video games such because the Silent Hill 2 remake and the upcoming Cronos: The New Daybreak.
Cronos director and producer Jacek Zieba instructed IGN that The Medium, which arrived in 2021 as a psychological horror journey recreation alongside a Metascore of 71 on Metacritic, turned a turning level for the studio because it regarded to enlarge and higher video games.
“I feel after The Medium it was very clear to us that we wanted to evolve,” Zieba stated. “It was like, ‘let’s finish the chapter of the journey video games.’ Layers of Worry, Observer, and The Medium, [games that were] unusual, experimental, with fastened digital camera instruments. ‘Okay, let’s end with that.’
“We additionally need to evolve, so let’s go into survival horror, let’s create one thing of our personal, one thing totally different than different video games within the style by way of world, story, and in addition gameplay. Let’s create one other recreation of our desires.”
The Silent Hill 2 remake was considerably of a popping out social gathering for Bloober Team to present it may make an enormous finances survival horror journey. It arrived October 8 to glowing vital reception and robust gross sales, and Bloober Team is open to making extra Silent Hill video games too, both remakes or one thing utterly contemporary.
However the “recreation of our desires” talked about by Zieba is Cronos, a sci-fi survival horror set in an unforgiving post-apocalyptic future in Nineteen Eighties Poland. This would be the true check for Bloober Team because it appears to solidify itself as a developer able to mainstream releases with out having the framework of Silent Hill 2, probably the most beloved horror video games of all time, to construct upon.
In our 8/10 evaluate of the Silent Hill 2 remake, IGN stated: “Silent Hill 2 is a good way to go to – or revisit – probably the most dread-inducing locations within the historical past of survival horror.”
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.