Guillermo del Toro still doesn't understand the reasoning behind Konami's cancellation of Silent Hills, the project he worked on with former Konami developer Hideo Kojima.
In an interview with Bloody Disgusting, del Toro talked a little about the canceled video game project, with a choice of NSFW words about his experience and what ultimately happened with the game's cancellation by Konami.
"It was curious," del Toro said. "We had a great experience and had great story sessions with hundreds upon hundreds of designs. Some of the stuff that we were designing for Silent Hills I've seen in games that came after, like The Last of Us, which makes me think we were not wrong, we were going in the right direction.
"The thing with Kojima and Silent Hills is that I thought we would do a really remarkable game and really go for the jugular.
"We were hoping to actually create some sort of panic with some of the devices we were talking about and it is really a shame that it's not happening. When you ask about how things operate, that makes no f------ sense at all that that game is not happening."
These comments suggest that del Toro still scratches his head over Konami's decision, although Silent Hills' cancellation was probably due to the publisher's ongoing feud with Kojima. That feud eventually came to a head, resulting in Kojima leaving the company after delivering Metal Gear Solid V: Phantom Pain.
Konami released a demo of the Silent Hills game last year, calling it P.T. (playable teaser): the demo got downloaded over 1 million times and received praise from both video gamers and critics alike, so Konami angered many when it pulled the plug on the project.
However, del Toro hasn't ever had much luck with video game development. His previous game project, Insane, was also cancelled by its publisher, THQ, in 2013. The intellectual rights for that game, though, remain with del Toro.
With two canceled games now under his belt, del Toro recently stated that he's done with video game development.
In the meantime, Konami has stepped back from developing games for consoles and plans on focusing its future more on the mobile game market, much to the chagrin of fans. But after the company fell under scrutiny after reports surfaced about the feud with Kojima, as well as about its bad treatment of employees, its reputation with gamers has suffered.
In the interview with horror film site Bloody Disgusting, del Toro also discussed his latest film, Crimson Peak, which opened in theaters this week.
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