Final yr’s Silent Hill 2 Remake was stellar for a lot of, many causes, and composer Akira Yamaoka’s beautiful remodeling of his practically 20-year-old unique soundtrack was undoubtedly one in all them. So once you inform me the entire thing is being launched as a flowery £125 six-disc vinyl version, my energy to withstand – whilst my financial institution steadiness screams in protest – is minimal.
Konami’s newly introduced Silent Hill 2 Restricted Version Deluxe X6LP Boxset is gorgeous in a so-putrid-you-can-almost-smell-it form of means. Every interior sleeve options strikingly dirty art work from developer Bloober Group’s idea work, and every translucent disc – formally described as “brown + pink” – has the lurid purple sheen of rotting meat. Pleasant!
Throughout the six discs – that are being launched by Laced Data in collaboration with Konami – you get 93 tracks from final yr’s remake (I’ll inevitably be sporting a deep groove into Laura’s Theme – Repetition) and there is 32-page artwork guide that includes liner notes from Akira Yamaoka.
And for these with much better impulse management than me, Laced can also be releasing two alternate additions with fewer tracks and a smaller price ticket. The Silent Hill 2 Double Deluxe Vinyl options an ‘important choice’ of 27 tracks from Yamaoka’s soundtrack throughout two “black heavyweight” LPs for £36, and there is additionally an Unique Version Double Deluxe Vinyl model which is an identical in content material and worth, however which comes on foggy hued “milky clear” discs.
All three editions are set launch this October, and pre-orders can be found now.
And if you have not already performed Bloober Group’s Silent Hill 2 remake. Eurogamer contributor Vikki Blake awarded it 5 stars in her overview and it earned itself fourth place in Eurogamer’s finest video games of 2024. All of which is extremely encouraging for Bloober’s subsequent recreation, Cronos, an alternate historical past sci-fi horror partially set in Nineteen Eighties Krakow.
