“It was difficult because it was me being called out”.
The Silent Hill series has complex lore and an insanely detailed backstory, and this is a big part of why the franchise attracts such a passionate and devoted fanbase. However, that commitment can sometimes boil over into more questionable activity, and that’s something that former series producer Tomm Hulett has discussed recently on Simon Parkin’s excellent My Perfect Console podcast.
Hulett had a role on Silent Hill: Origins as an associate producer and was a producer credit on Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, Silent Hill: Book of Memories and Silent Hill: Downpour. While he says it was an “exciting” time to have joined Konami, “the weight of what was going on and the negative response hit me during Downpour’s development” when an internet documentary went live that “made a lot of false claims and a lot of assumptions and that came out while I was in the Czech Republic with the developer… and that was kind of a depressing trip from then on.”
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“It was difficult because it was me being called out”.
The Silent Hill series has complex lore and an insanely detailed backstory, and this is a big part of why the franchise attracts such a passionate and devoted fanbase. However, that commitment can sometimes boil over into more questionable activity, and that’s something that former series producer Tomm Hulett has discussed recently on Simon Parkin’s excellent My Perfect Console podcast.
Hulett had a role on Silent Hill: Origins as an associate producer and was a producer credit on Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, Silent Hill: Book of Memories and Silent Hill: Downpour. While he says it was an “exciting” time to have joined Konami, “the weight of what was going on and the negative response hit me during Downpour’s development” when an internet documentary went live that “made a lot of false claims and a lot of assumptions and that came out while I was in the Czech Republic with the developer… and that was kind of a depressing trip from then on.”
Read the full article on timeextension.com
