Silent Hill 2 developer has a harsh way of describing the studio's older games

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The director and producer of the Silent Hill 2 remake doesn't like the older Bloober Team games.
The studio released several poorly reviewed games before finding its footing in 2016 with the release of Layers of Fear.
Bloober Team recently announced their next horror game called Cronos: The New Dawn.

Producer in the company Bloober teamthe studio responsible for the recent remake Silent Hill 2suggests that he doesn't look back too fondly on the studio's past work. The Silent Hill 2 the remake was released in early October to rave reviews, surprising many players who felt the game looked subpar in its pre-release previews. Konami's remake of the 2001 horror classic has become the highest rated game in Bloober Team's fifteen year history with an average score of 87 on OpenCritic.

It's safe to say that Bloober Team's early history has been less than stellar, with the studio releasing several relatively unknown and poorly reviewed games such as Amen, Paper Wars: Cannon Fodder, and Crawling through the basement. 2016 marked a significant shift for Bloober Team as the studio released a solidly rated horror hit Layers of fearwhich definitely gave the developer its horror identity. In the following years Bloober released some good but not great horror games like Observer, Blair Witch, The Mediumaa Layers of fear continuation. Recently, the team revealed their next horror game at the Xbox Partner Preview show, a new IP named Cronos: A New Dawn.

Team Bloober seems to be having an important moment right now

Following the success of the Silent Hill 2 remake, developer Bloober Team has made an impressive name for itself in the industry.

Just weeks after release Silent Hill 2 To critical acclaim, remake director and producer Jacek Zieba spoke to Gamespot about the studio's history and future after revealing Cronos: A New Dawn and Bloober Team searching for its identity as a horror house, referencing the studio's past work. “We want to find our niche and we think we've found our niche, so now we just — let's evolve with it,” Zieba said. “And how that happens is more complicated, but it also happens organically, like Layers of fearpeople at the studio were like, 'Okay, we've already made some damn games, but [can] develop.”

Bloober Team Producer Calls Studio's Past Games “Sh*tty”

Zieba makes it clear that the “sh*tty games” he's talking about are ones Bloober Team made before 2016. Layers of fear place the studio on the map. Yet with the new level of praise the studio has found Silent Hill 2 a remake after years of somewhat mediocre horror games Layers of fearZieba could be interpreted as a reference to all of Bloober's work beforeSilent Hill 2. It's clear that Bloober Team is looking to continue their newfound success and become considered one of the best horror studios in the business. One way to do this after remaking a 20-year-old horror classic is to create an original IP like Cronos: A New Dawnthat horror fans are already comparing themselves to respected EAs Dead universe franchise.

We want to find our niche and we think we've found our niche, so now we just – let's evolve with it. And how it happens is more complicated, but it also happens organically, like [2016’s] Layers of Fear, people at the studio were like, 'Okay, we've made some damn games before, but [can] develop.”

Bloober Team doubled down on horror and became a more respected studio as a result Silent Hill 2, fans of horror games should definitely have Bloober on their radar moving forward, and Cronos: A New Dawn it already has a lot of noise around it. Since it's been tagged with a 2025 release window, there's a chance Cronos could reappear with more information in December at Geoff Keighley's 2024 Game Awards.