In charge of the game's fifty sound effects, Yamaoka wanted to surprise the player with different sounds and create an unsettling environment. While working on the character designs, Sato and his team sketched human faces and various expressions. The soundtrack was favorably received, and reviewers described it as moody, [7] [78] atmospheric, [2] and helping to create tension. It contains new voice actors for the characters of both games, along with the option in Silent Hill 2 to listen to the original cast. The planned story of Silent Hill 5 was to focus on a damaged human being summoned to Silent Hill for a certain reason.

The game received generally positive reviews for its graphics, plot, voice acting, soundtrack, and its use of the Wii Remote, and has been favorably compared to M. The story of the second installment, Silent Hill 2, was conceived by CGI director Takayoshi Sato, who based it on the novel Crime and Punishment, with individual members of the team collaborating on the game's actual scenario; [86] [87] [88] the main writing was done by Hiroyuki Owaku and Sato. For the game's artistic style, the team drew on a variety of influences: the work of film directors David Cronenberg, David Fincher, David Lynch and Alfred Hitchcock, along with films similar to the 1990 psychological thriller/ horror film Jacob's Ladder, and painters such as Francis Bacon, Rembrandt and Andrew Wyeth. His version of the town fades as he comes to term with his guilt and responsibility for his actions.Matt Wales of IGN also included the game in a list of overlooked Wii games, and wrote that the combination of various elements which he regarded as positive delivered "a meticulously-constructed, expertly-paced experience quite unlike anything the series has seen before". Silent Hill 2 makes extensive use of sound effects ranging from screams to footsteps on broken glass. In 2019, the soundtrack was re-released on vinyl by Mondo, who previously gave the same treatment to the soundtrack of Silent Hill in 2016. During the 2015 San Francisco Film Festival on April 26, del Toro revealed that he would no longer be involved in the project with Kojima, presumably due to Kojima leaving Konami.

Exclusive Interview: Devin Shatsky Talks Silent Hill: Downpour, Shattered Memories and HD Collection". These combat moments were meant to take advantage of the Wii controller to create a real and intense experience using improvised weapons. Jon Thompson of AllGame stated: " Silent Hill 2 feels a bit rushed, and although it might not live up to the dizzying horror of the first game, it packs enough of its own punch to make it a worthy sequel. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic.

It will be console exclusive on the PlayStation 5 for the first 12 months but will also be released for PC. The constant presence of monsters was also thought to be irrelevant to Shattered Memories; director Mark Simmons said, "this Harry Mason is not a guy who is constantly under attack from monsters. For example, the hotel transforms from being just as it was three years ago, [14] to its true form of a mostly burned-out structure. How many children wake up screaming because they had a dream where they beat up a zombie with a baseball bat?