Silent Hill 2 remake appears to be winning over fans, based on YouTube response

The Silent Hill 2 remake appears to be winning over fans who may have previously been unconvinced by its quality.

VGC analysis of trailer likes and dislikes on YouTube suggests that the game – which had been dividing opinon for a while – is now building positive momentum just seven weeks before its October 8 release.

When Bloober Team’s remake was first announced its first teaser trailer was received extremely well, with YouTube viewers giving it 314,000 likes versus just 8,200 dislikes (around 97% positive).

However, the publication of an infamous ‘combat reveal trailer’ back in January caused some fans to turn on the game, resulting in only 59% likes.

Response to the trailer was so divisive that Bloober Team president Piotr Babieno stated that the trailer didn’t “reflect the spirit of the game”, saying Konami was responsible for marketing and promising that “when players see the real gameplay, the real game, they will judge it in a completely different way”.

These promises did nothing to change the game’s downward momentum, and when another 13-minute gameplay trailer was released in May it received an even lower like/dislike ratio of 53% likes.

Today, though, it appears that Bloober Team has managed to turn things around. A new story trailer posted today currently has 17,932 likes versus just 668 dislikes, an overall positive of 96%.

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While some could say the figures simply suggest story trailers for the game do better than gameplay, VGC’s own 27-minute gameplay footage currently sits at a 97% positive rating.

The Silent Hill 2 remake is released on October 8 for PS5 and PC.

VGC’s new Silent Hill 2 hands-on preview says the game is reminiscent of Capcom‘s recent remakes of its Resident Evil games.

“Crucially, for the health of the series, Silent Hill 2 feels like it’ll be exactly the kind of shot in the arm that will bring the series back into vogue,” we wrote.

“The Resident Evil remake comparisons will likely be inescapable, but is that a bad thing when Capcom’s latest efforts have been just as genre-defining for modern survival horrors as both Resident Evil and Silent Hill were in the genre’s nascent days?”