Unique Silent Hill artwork director and Pyramid Head creator Masahiro Ito has mentioned he was too busy making Silent Hill video games to get a girlfriend.
PC Gamer noticed a handful of X/Twitter posts from Ito who made clear that his time as a sport developer wasn’t all sunshine and daisies — and never simply because he was engaged on the terrifying survival horror franchise.
For a four-year interval between 1999 and 2003, Konami launched Silent Hill, Silent Hill 2, and Silent Hill 3, and Ito was closely concerned of their creation.
“On a regular basis I used to be attending my artwork college or was creating Silent Hill 1, 2, 3, and a cancelled title, I by no means had any girlfriends trigger I had no time for it,” Ito mentioned. “I by no means thought I used to be a genius, however I used to be terribly aggressive. The one strategy to beat geniuses is to offer your self up solely to what you wanna accomplish.”
Although Ito did not say he regrets his time engaged on the sequence, which is presently having fun with a resurgence because of the criticially and commercially acclaimed Silent Hill 2 remake, Ito has been blunt concerning the sequence up to now.
“I want I hadn’t designed f**kin Pyramid Head,” he mentioned in a 2022 publish. This comes alongside criticism of writer Konami too. “To make use of [Pyramid Head] in so many titles makes [Pyramid Head] cheaper,” Ito mentioned in a now deleted publish.
Konami partnered with developer Bloober Group to recreate the sport the place Pyramid Head debuted. It arrived October 8 to glowing crucial reception and robust gross sales too, leaving many followers of the beforehand dormant horror franchise anticipating extra.
In our 8/10 evaluation, IGN mentioned: “Silent Hill 2 is an effective way to go to – or revisit – one of the dread-inducing locations within the historical past of survival horror.”
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.
