Silent Hill 2 fans change game’s review scores on Wikipedia page because it’s ‘woke’ --[Reported by Umva mag]

Some Silent Hill fans are trying to wipe Silent Hill 2 remake’s positive reception from the record, despite it getting the approval of the original game’s director.

While most people were nervous when Bloober Team were announced as the developers behind Konami’s Silent Hill 2 remake, the final product managed to put all those concerns to rest.

As highlighted in our glowing review, 2024’s Silent Hill 2 turned out better than anyone expected. The praise was largely unanimous too, with the game sitting at 87 on review aggregate site Metacritic.

While most people have welcomed having a genuinely great Silent Hill game, for the first time in around two decades, a certain corner of the internet is trying to erase all the positivity, for the most pathetic of reasons.

As noted by Twitter users, the Wikipedia page for the remake was briefly altered to replace all the positive reviews around the game with lower scores. For a short time, the edited page stated that it had received ‘the worst reviews imaginable from critics’.

To counter this rewriting of the facts, Wikipedia has temporarily locked the game’s page so only ‘established, registered users’ can make changes.

While it’s unclear what exactly is motivating this, it’s seemingly stemmed from the kind of people who cry ‘woke’ over redesigned female characters – similar to the outcry over Stellar Blade showing slightly less skin than promised.

There also seems to be a small contingent who are quite precious about any changes to the 2001 original, with some unhappy with the new voice acting, animations, and the involvement of Bloober Team.

What has Silent Hill 2’s original director said about the remake?

Despite all this, the director behind the original Silent Hill 2, Masashi Tsuboyama, has praised the remake for making it available to a new generation of players.

‘I think the value of the remake is that a new generation can play it,’ Tsuoboyama wrote on Twitter. ‘As a creator, I’m very happy about it. It’s been 23 years! Even if you don’t know the original, you can just enjoy the remake as it is. Whether it’s good or bad doesn’t affect the original.’

While he was critical of the way the game’s technical improvements have been promoted over the game itself, Tsuboyama highlighted the shift to an over-the-shoulder camera perspective as a highlight, noting that he was ‘not satisfied’ with the camera in the original game.

‘The differences between the original and the remake, 4K, photorealism, the bonus headgear, etc. are all mediocre,’ he wrote. ‘Who is this promotion going to appeal to? It seems like they’re not doing enough to convey the appeal of the work to the generation that doesn’t know Silent Hill.

‘The thing to note is the change in camera (perspective). The change in playable camera has a significant impact on many aspects, combat level design, art creation, etc. While the impact on the story may be relatively small, it brings a big change to the playfeel [sic] of the game.

‘To be honest, I’m not satisfied with the playable camera from 23 years ago. Depth and angle were limited by the processing load. It was a continuous process of hard work that was not rewarded. But that was the limit.’

Released in 2001 on the PlayStation 2, the original Silent Hill 2 utilised a mix of fixed and moving camera angles as you navigated the environment, while you moved protagonist James Sunderland using clunky tank controls.

The Silent Hill 2 remake is among a slate of new Silent Hill projects in the works under Konami. The next mainline instalment is Silent Hill f, while a spin-off is also in development called Silent Hill: Townfall.

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