What’s your philosophy with that in this game?
PSB: An important part of Action-RPGs is leveling up and gaining new abilities. It’s not a totally different genre that doesn’t make any sense, it’s just sort of a new angle on Silent Hill. So then we can kind of mess with it if I’m with my friends and we get separated, that’s a classic horror trope right there. Phantasy Star Online does it, and Diablo of course. So we started to experiment with different gameplay styles, what was kind of compelling, and through a long random assortment of events and demos, we came across a dungeon crawler, action/RPG thing which is really compelling with multiple players. Survival horror is a very particular genre, but with PS Vita’s online capabilities, it just made sense to do multiplayer here. We really wanted to experiment with multiplayer. Tomm Hewlett, Game Producer: We heard about PS Vita, and we really wanted to make a Silent Hill that was specially suited for that. Jeff Rubenstein, PlayStation.Blog Social Media Manager: How do you adapt an incredibly scary survival horror series into this action/RPG format? Why did you choose this genre? After sampling the game at PAX Prime, I met up with the game’s producer, Tomm Hewlett, in San Francisco to find out how Konami plans to please fans of both genres. Like chocolate and peanut butter, this is a mashup I can get into. Silent Hill: Book of Memories is a Survival Horror Action-RPG coming to PS Vita later this month. Never really had much of an interest in the series, even… until now. I’ve got a gaming confession to make: I’ve never played a Silent Hill game.
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