And then there was the Silent Hill HD Collection. Book of Memories simply vanished with no word from Konami and was eventually released in October 2012. Huge AAA releases like Mass Effect 3 certainly didn’t help the games market performance, but the titles were all plagued by more than bad timing Downpour released to average reviews and was largely unpolished upon release. Konami planned to release all three of their new titles in the same series in March 2012, and it was a disaster. Finally, the Silent Hill HD Collection, which contained the beloved Silent Hill 2 and 3, was on its way to Xbox 360 and PS3. Through various middling entries that had seen troubled development, the beloved Silent Hill franchise had all but faded from mainstream gaming consciousness after 2012, where Konami decided to release the last three games in the series within the same month.Ī new main entry in the series, Downpour, touted a return to the style of exploration found in early entries. The new PlayStation Vita was also getting Book of Memories, a console-exclusive dungeon crawler. One franchise, however, had already fallen from grace. While there had been a steady decline in the company’s output leading into 2015, they had still put out quality titles such as Castlevania: Lords of Shadow and the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection. Three years ago, a majority of the gaming world was waking up to Konami’s negligence. Konami exists now solely to slavishly hunt for mass-market appeal wherever it can by prostituting its beloved licenses any way possible. Coupled with licensed pachinko games, reports of horrible working conditions, and attempts to suppress Kojima in the wake of MGSV, it became clear that Konami wasn’t interested in making games for any other reason than maximum profit. For many Silent Hill fans, the cancellation of Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro’s Silent Hills was the straw that broke the camel’s back. In recent years, Konami’s disdain for their own franchises has been painfully evident.
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