Bloober Wants to Show What They Can Do on Their Own, Feels They Found Their Niche With Horror
Earlier this month, developer Bloober Team released the Silent Hill 2 remake, which is probably the studio’s most high-profile release, and the best reviewed as well. However, the studio isn’t done there, as they also recently revealed “Cronos: The New Dawn,” which is an entirely new game based on their own IP.
Speaking in an interview, studio director Wojciech Piejko mentioned how the studio felt the pressure when it was revealed that Bloober was the studio tasked to re-imagine Silent Hill 2, and how the negative comments did not go unnoticed. Now that’s out of the way, the studio now seeks to show gamers what they can do on their own ideas.
“It was tough for those couple of years before [Silent Hill 2’s] release, They made it. We made it. Bloober made it. And now, it’s very good spirits inside [the studio.] We want to show what we can do on our own, how we can evolve our ideas.”
In the same chat, producer Jacek Zieba mentions how Bloober wants to be known as a “horror company,” and thinks that they found their niche with horror video games.
“We want to be a horror company. We want to find our niche, and we think we found our niche, so now we just–let’s evolve with it. […] And how that happens is more complex, but it also happens organically in a way, like with [2016’s] Layers of Fear, people in the studio were like, ‘Okay, we made some shitty games before, but we [can] evolve.”
Based on what was shown for Cronos: The New Dawn, it looks like Bloober is on the right path. Will it be as good as Silent Hill 2? We can’t say for sure, but this time around, the expectations are much, much higher, and we here at MP1st hope the studio can deliver on that when the game’s released next year.
If you’ve yet to play Silent Hill 2, go read our review of it here where we state, “Bloober Team manages to make this horror classic better in every way, and in turn become a classic of its own. Hopefully, this very promising start means we’ll see Bloober Team continue to remake the rest of the series’ games in the coming years.”
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