It's rad that Guillermo's working on it. The dude knows how to convey things without saying it, letting what you see speak for itself. He is, also, from a completely different medium, which can be good or bad depending on how you view it (like whether you remember Spielberg's game involvements more for Boom Blox/The Dig or for Trespasser).

I'm worried about Hideo. While he can come up with really neat gameplay premises and memorable characters, I do not look forward to him going MGS4 and just jamming retcons, lame twists, and plot spackle all over the place just because he needs to say everything that comes through his mind during a script process. My guess is that with Del Toro present, he's going to run into editors for the first time in years, which may or may not be a good thing.

If anything, it'll definitely be pretty cool, as I felt that SH4-and-later games were made by crews who were really under someone's thumb, pressured into making cash-in sequels or re-imaginings (my heart's warmed to Shattered Memories and Downpour, but neither still do anything for me). In this case, there will most likely be some directorial control, which will at least produce something different.

The-Excel wrote:

Greg the White wrote: I'm worried about Hideo. While he can come up with really neat gameplay premises and memorable characters, I do not look forward to him going MGS4 and just jamming retcons, lame twists, and plot spackle all over the place just because he needs to say everything that comes through his mind during a script process. My guess is that with Del Toro present, he's going to run into editors for the first time in years, which may or may not be a good thing. I expect him to go MGS1 on it instead and let out all the backup from not being able to do Psycho Mantis-style gimmicks all over the place since memory cards stopped being a thing. Could be cool if kept under control.

Regardless of my issues with the MGS games, they typically play very well, with a mixture of fun core mechanics and cool extra touches. MGS3 in its entirety and MGS4's first two chapters in particular are goddamned fantastic to play.

The Playable Teaser is interesting. It's got the trope of "walk through repeating scenery, except it's different/more scary each time," that games like to do, but there are glints of what made the Silent Hill games great, as well as some Kojima-like mindfucks. It's promising.