'Silent Hill: Book of Memories' Footage is…ummm…
When Konami first announced Silent Hill: Book of Memories for the upcoming Playstation Vita portable, I assumed that it would be another third-person romp through some jerk's fragmented psyche (seriously, anyone else notice that most of Silent Hill's protagonists are total assholes?) punctuated by increasingly terrifying creature design. Well, I was wrong…but I think I may have preferred my previous theory. Check out the first…interesting…gameplay footage after the break.
Silent Hill: Book of Memories, developed by the incredibly busy WayForward Games, is a cooperative multiplayer top-down action title. Just let that sink in for a few minutes. OK, now here's the plot: your customizable player-character finds a book (the titular Book of Memories, natch) that has all of the details of their lives recorded. The player can alter their reality simply by altering the writing in the book.
OK, maybe I'm missing something here, but how the hell is this Silent Hill? Books that alter reality? Huh? Cooperative multiplayer? What the hell?
Even more questionable, why would editing your life lead you back to Silent Hill? Know what my story would be edited to? Carl Lyon's life on a solid gold yacht filled with supermodels and Wild Turkey. Oh, and I find the cure for death. Nowhere would I ever write "I go to a supernatural town filled with all of my guilt and dysfunction made flesh." Seriously.
