Konami reportedly returning to its hottest (and uncared for) video games

Konami is reportedly fascinated with reviving fashionable online game franchises it allowed to fall dormant, together with Castlevania and Steel Gear Stable.

Konami’s enterprise has total taken a dip in the previous couple of years — in line with monetary disclosures earlier this yr, its digital leisure enterprise is the one a part of its enterprise that was rising throughout the pandemic period. Now, most probably as a result of it’s seeing how fruitful video video games have been within the final year-and-a-half, Konami is allegedly planning to return to the market in a giant approach.

In accordance with a report from VGC, Konami is fascinated with making new video games in a few of its long-neglected gaming franchises. Particularly, it has new Castlevania, Silent Hill, and Steel Gear initiatives within the works, all video games which might be highly regarded with enormous fan followings and all video games that Konami has proven little outward curiosity in for years.

The final time the corporate launched video games in any of these sequence, it didn’t end up so effectively. Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 obtained tepid critiques. Steel Gear Survive was excoriated by sequence followers. And the frustration over the cancellation of Silent Hills, the sport teased by P.T., continues to be being felt and expressed to today.

Castlevania, alternatively, has obtained a brand new flood of curiosity following the highly regarded Netflix animated present, which might make it a main goal for a brand new sport. Konami is allegedly planning a sequence reboot. The corporate can be presupposed to have a number of exterior studios engaged on Silent Hill video games.

Konami is outwardly making remakes of its present Steel Gear properties, together with a Steel Gear Stable 3 Remake that’s within the works at Virtuos, a studio greatest identified for its work on ports. Whereas many followers received’t settle for a Steel Gear sport not made by Hideo Kojima, others have expressed curiosity in a brand new model of the sport with its graphics up to date to match these of its counterpart pachinko machine.

If nothing else, doing it will probably offset a number of the poor consideration Konami is receiving for the discharge of eFootball, the reimagined PES sequence. That sport’s poor high quality have reached near-memetic ranges, and most probably solely one thing drastic like “new Castlevania” or “Steel Gear Stable 3 remake” will blot out.