Final 12 months’s Silent Hill 2 Remake was stellar for a lot of, many causes, and composer Akira Yamaoka’s beautiful transforming of his practically 20-year-old unique soundtrack was undoubtedly certainly one of them. So once you inform me the entire thing is being launched as a flowery £125 six-disc vinyl version, my energy to withstand – at the same time as my financial institution stability 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 method. Every internal sleeve options strikingly dirty art work from developer Bloober Workforce’s idea work, and every translucent disc – formally described as “brown + crimson” – has the lurid purple sheen of rotting meat. Pleasant!
Throughout the six discs – that are being launched by Laced Information in collaboration with Konami – you get 93 tracks from final 12 months’s remake (I’ll inevitably be sporting a deep groove into Laura’s Theme – Repetition) and there is 32-page artwork e book that includes liner notes from Akira Yamaoka.
Picture credit score: Konami/Laced Information
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 equivalent in content material and value, 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 Workforce’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 sport, Cronos, an alternate historical past sci-fi horror partially set in Nineteen Eighties Krakow.
