

Answers given to the psychological tests in the therapy session affect various gameplay elements in Harry's journey.Īfter designing the Silent Hill prequel (2007), which intentionally replicated elements of the first installment, Climax Studios wanted to try a different approach to creating a title in the series. Gameplay takes place in two parts: a framing, first-person psychotherapy session, and an over-the-shoulder perspective of Harry's journey through Silent Hill, which is periodically interrupted by the occurrence of a shift to a more dangerous environment. Shattered Memories is a reimagination of the first game and retains the premise- Harry Mason's quest to find his missing daughter in the fictitious American town of Silent Hill-but is set in a different fictional universe and has a different plot, and altered characters, alongside new ones. In April 2014, it appeared on the PlayStation Network in Europe. It was released in December for the Wii and ported to the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable platforms in January 2010. Hopefully nobody bought the game thinking they could play it on PS Vita, or else there may still be some fallout to come.Silent Hill: Shattered Memories is a 2009 survival horror game developed by Climax Studios and published by Konami Digital Entertainment. We’re not sure how exactly this incorrect information was allowed to erroneously exist for so long and whether it’s an error resulting from a mistake from Sony or Konami, but what’s done is done. The final nail in the coffin was PlayStation Blog’s Jawad Ashraf confirming that the releases were PSP only a few hours ago: If this changes however, we will let you know!” The original Konami blog announcement title has been changed from “Two Silent Hill titles head to PlayStation®Vita!” to “Two Silent Hill titles head to the PlayStation Network!” Additionally, even though Konami UK tweeted out “#SilentHill Origins & Shattered Memories are coming to PS Vita!” they followed-up today stating “Regretfully the games aren’t available on PlayStation Vita we’re afraid.


As the games were supposed to release today and didn’t, however, it’s become clear that the PS Vita announcement was a mistake on Konami’s part. Silent Hill fans and PS Vita owners were excited a few weeks ago when Konami announced that Silent Hill: Origins and Shattered Memories would be released for PS Vita via PSN.
