The much-anticipated Silent Hill 2 Remake will probably be getting a “reworked” soundtrack from the sport’s reprising composer Akira Yamaoka. Introduced at a preview occasion, Yamaoka confirms that the songs have been produced from the “floor up.”

“There are segments and bits and items of the unique tracks which you can hear, however all the tracks have been reworked from the bottom up,” defined Yamaoka to GameSpot. “I perceive that the soundtrack may be very a lot beloved, however in the end I composed over 9 hours price of music and I’m nonetheless questioning how on the earth we’re going to match all of that right into a soundtrack.”

GameSpot’s protection of the Silent Hill 2 Remake preview was fairly optimistic, which must be reassuring for these holding out hope for the Remake. As the positioning reviews in its preview: “Whereas tracks I heard felt much like what already existed, all the things feels a bit deeper now, a bit darker. And it really works extremely effectively.”

Yamaoka stated through the press occasion that it took a number of self-counselling to create the brand new model of the Silent Hill 2 soundtrack as he beforehand labored on the unique 25 years in the past. He informed reporters that he wasn’t financially secure whereas engaged on the unique, so he tuned down his guitar to file bass relatively than getting a very new instrument.

Regardless of some terrible Silent Hill 2 Remake trailers, the sport has previewed effectively with critics. It’s factor too as the sport’s underneath a number of strain to succeed.

“As with every Silent Hill recreation, environment is king, and Silent Hill 2 instantly and constantly places you right into a state of unease,” stated IGN’s preview. “A thick fog surrounds the city like the unique, now benefiting from fashionable lighting and quantity because of as we speak’s technical enhancements.” For the HD remasters of the Silent Hill video games on PS3 and Xbox 360, the shortage of fog was an enormous subject, so including it again is a large enchancment within the remake.

The Silent Hill 2 Remake launches on October 8 for the PS5 and PC.