Here's Why Silent Hill Fans Really Don't Like The Medium
Content warning for discussion of sexual assault and child abuse
Silent Hill is back in the headlines as rumours continue to circulate around multiple projects currently in the works. We are set to receive remakes, new titles, and individual short stories if leaks prove accurate, with Konami seemingly finding a newfound belief in a property it has for decades left on the backburner.
This is all hugely exciting news for huge survival horror fans like me, yet also a cause for concern when taking a deeper look at the rumours and who exactly is involved. I don’t want to keep beating the dead Bloober Team horse, with the studio responsible for Layers of Fear, Blair Witch, and The Medium now repeatedly attached to rumours that it will be helming a remake of Silent Hill 2. I’m not fond of its work, and I worry about how it will approach Silent Hill and understand the nuance of its themes and characters.
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The Medium is a bad game. It fails to understand any of the reasons Silent Hill is a horror icon while continually trying to ape its aesthetic, themes, and characters with the grace and decorum of a reversing dump truck without its tyres on. Even before this game, the likes of Layers of Fear and Blair Witch handled stories of mental illness with an almost comical level of heavy-handedness, seeking to explore them in ways that were ultimately damaging and pointed to careless writing and a lack of knowledge on the subject.
The Medium further compounds these problems to an astonishing degree. Mechanically and visually it is a perfectly solid horror game, and those who aren’t interested in delving deeper might not see it as problematic, so allow me to
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