Silent Hill 2 Remake Adds Dodge Button, Explorable Buildings, New Puzzles, More Gameplay Details & Story Trailer Revealed

Not only did Konami reveal a new story trailer for the upcoming Silent Hill 2 remake, but a bunch of info has also surfaced as well. There’s a lot of new Silent Hill 2 info to sift through, so read on!

Check out the story trailer below to see three minutes of footage that bridges the gap between nostalgia and creepiness.

Silent Hill 2 Remake New Gameplay Details:

The info below have been collected from the hands-on preview that have been shared by various publications, which we’ve linked below.

Exploration:

• There are more explorable buildings in town compared to the original that may have extra items hidden inside, as well as monsters – welcome addition that encourages exploration
• Gorgeous” game, lots of detail in grime, grotesquerie, and yes, lots of fog
• Expanded areas: Neely’s Bar, for example, “no longer feels like merely a small, derelict cube, but looks like an actual abandoned bar”
• Layouts of areas like the Wood Side and Blue Creek Apartments have changed ‘significantly’ in order to challenge returning players

Improvements:

• Original composer Akira Yamaoka returns, with the soundtrack reworked but still familiar, “wrapped in all-new layers of dissonance, static, synth, and intensity”
• New puzzles that have you collecting multiple items in order to solve, some have clever references to the original game
• No loading screens when traversing between rooms anymore, monsters can ambush you if you’re not careful
• You can set the difficulty for puzzles separately
• All original endings included + brand new ones in NG+
• 60fps mode confirmed
• New puzzles confirme
•  Zones have been expanded and item locations moved around

Combat:

• Dodge button and aiming reticle added to make combat smoother
• Monsters are more aggressive and can counter attack
• The boss encounter with Pyramid Head now takes place in a larger, ‘more intense’ warehouse like area
• Combat is smoother, although Bloober Team stresses SH2 is not a combat oriented game
• Some enemies can now counter-attack between the player’s attacks; you can dodge these counter-attacks and time your retaliation
• Combat “actually feels perfectly in service to the rest of the game”; like the original, it’s not combat-oriented, but sensible improvements have been made to make it more fluid
• Robust amount of accessibility options (“pages of them”), like color and boldness of your reticle, alternate color palettes, text settings, etc

Overall, the previews have been quite positive, as it’s being referred to as a faithful adaptation, and how the game in’t focusing on combat that much. Bloober Team is aware how the game’s quiet moments help establish that sense of dread in the original, and aren’t straying from that.

Silent Hill 2 is set for release this October 8, and you can check out the different editions and pre-order bonuses players can expect here.

[Sources: GameSpot, VGC, IGN, PlayStation Blog via Okami, Shinobi]

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