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Silent Hill Homecomin’
Posted on September 9th, 2009 18 commentsKonami has finally gotten around to officially canceling a Japanese release for this game.
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“Due to assorted issues, the Japanese release has been canceled.
We deeply apologize.
Please look forward to future games in the series.* This page will be removed on 10/30/2009.”
The game was released nearly a year ago in the US. Konami had the game playable at TGS ’08 and floated a June ’09 release to retailers at one point, but summer passed on by without any news. A Japanese blogger sent Konami some mail about the game on September 4, nearly 10 months after the last update to the Japan homepage, and got a reply that the game was “still under development.”
The good-but-not-great response Homecoming got in America likely has nothing to do with this. The most direct culprit would likely be CERO, which would never in a million years give even a Z rating to a game with non-optional scenes like this (warning: gory). Indirectly I suppose you could also blame Konami for (a) allowing Double Helix to not worry about CERO (b) not seeing the point in spending money censoring the game for Japan.
Silent Hill hasn’t had a Japan-developed entry since 2004, long after SH1 director Keiichiro Toyama and scriptwriter Naoko Sato moved to Sony and kicked off the SIREN series. You could argue that it was one of the first victims of the game industry’s globalization and Japan’s difficulties dealing with it.
8 responses to “Silent Hill Homecomin’”
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Image link’s broken!
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I am the Japanese blogger who sent an email to Konami.
In fact, the day when I sent an email is August 20.
Konami gave an answer to me on the next day.
I was at a loss for two weeks whether I showed the contents with my blog.I finally decided to show it with blog.
The few days later, that this game became the release cancellation was announced.
I examined it about this matter originally afterwards.
Perhaps release cancellation seems to have been decided in April of this year.
The details are going to show it with my blog for the future.
Because I become the description in the Japanese, please wait for what is translated into English who it is.
Thank you.
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@tsukinowakumax
Thanks for the reply! I look forward to reading about the details. -
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Sub September 9th, 2009 at 22:57