10 Cancelled Video Games You Won't Believe Were In Development

3. Silent Hills

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Silent Hill has had a bit of a rough patch, really. It’s easy for us gamers to criticise Konami for abusing their intellectual properties and relegating them to occasional slot machine decorations and pachinko fodder, but clearly it’s making them a ton of money.

Sadly, Konami making bank doesn’t do anything for our intense desire for more Silent Hill, which by this point is more intense than Harry Mason’s desire to reconsider the IVF halfway through the first game.

Though the later games in the series were of varying quality (with Homecoming being very little more than a movie-retread “best-of” game, Downpour being... pretty decent, and Book of Memories being... well... there), it wasn’t until the arrival of PT (or, “Playable Teaser”) that the fans returned in droves, eager to get a taste of that deliciously macabre canapé for what would become Hideo Kojima and Guillermo Del Toro’s Silent Hills project.

However, no doubt due to the growing tensions between Kojima and Konami becoming more than just an overbearing presence (gnarled and twisted like an Abstract Daddy), Silent Hills was canned, and we must all live with the grief of seeing Silent Hill once again demoted to casino sideshows.

Thank goodness that we have Shattered Memories’ psychologist to vent to, eh?

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