A while back, Konomi announced a new Silent Hill game : Book of Memories. Cool, right? Not so much. Apparently, Konomi didn’t properly communicate with the fan base before the announcement and as you might have guessed, things did not go well. Check out the deal below complete with screenshots and a couple of goodies to boot.

From the official press release:

“Silent Hill Book of Memories is a dungeon crawler style survival horror game with RPG elements, set in the Silent Hill universe, using the PS Vita’s unique touch controls. Each night your personalised character enters a nightmare world, made up of a series of corridors and rooms, filled with monsters – some familiar, some new -special items, missions and traps. SHBOM offers multiplayer co-op play, where up to 4 players can join in.”

Here are a ton of screenshots released recently:

People went nuts! A dungeon crawler?  A straight hack and slash? WTF? OK you have been heard. Now sit back and take a deep breath. The game wasn’t made for you. Hear me out. People get upset when you deviate from the formula, however, they get upset when you don’t either. This is not a major console release, its a fun little diversion. When people take this stuff to heart and cry that its the death of (insert your appropriate title or activity here), I have to ask myself, how empty is your life?

Hell, this game won’t detract from the original any more than that sorry remake of The Fog did to the original Carpenter classic. If its so horrible, it will simply fade into oblivion and eventually fetch ridiculous prices on Ebay by the next generation. Besides if this Fan Made Silent Hill Kart Racer ever became a reality, tell me you wouldn’t want to play it.

All I’m saying is, wait till a game comes out and you play it before you start passing judgement. You may be surprised.

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