The publication of an instagram post should not a priori spark so many rumors, but the story between actor Norman Reedus and the video game franchise Silent Hill is such that it is difficult to stop the speculation machine: after a recent video posted on the favorite social network of millennials, fans were eager to imagine their biggest fantasies - until they questioned a possible return of Hideo Kojima on stage ...
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We cannot say that the publication in question is very explicit. A short video, very rich in flashy lights and saturated colors, features Norman Reedus in a skeleton costume alongside the character of Robbie the Rabbit, first seen in the 2003 episode Silent Hill 3. The Legend is not more generous in information: a simple "G'nite", or "'Nuit" in French, accompanies the publication. With nearly 100,000 likes, the video has undoubtedly had its small effect ...
Small reminder of the facts: Norman Reedus, international star for having played Daryl Dixon in the series The Walking Dead , was to interpret the protagonist of the reboot of the horror game franchise Silent Hill by Hideo Kojima, the Japanese game designer to whom the we owe the Metal Gear Solid and Zone of the Enders franchises . But the relationship between the Japanese designer and publisher Konami prevented the game from seeing the light of day.
After the development in the penalty of Metal Gear Solid 5 and the controversy around the PT demo . - which secretly announced the return of Silent Hill but which was developed without Konami's agreement - Kojima was fired from Konami in 2015, and hopes of a possible return of Silent Hill were logically impacted.
Should we therefore see a possible tease from Norman Reedus? Konami is unlikely to have decided to recall Kojima for the possible possibility of a Silent Hill return; but several rumors affirmed that games taken from the franchise would indeed be in development at the moment, including a reboot in the style of Telltale's adventure games in collaboration with Sony. But when we know that the rumors surrounding Silent Hill are well established without leading to concrete games, caution is necessarily in order ...