Silent Hill: Homecoming not coming home to Japan

Bah, I totally forgot about Silent Hill Homecoming. I finally found gainful employment again after being laid off this summer and rewarded myself with Dead Space and the GOTY edition of Oblivion. Now that I'm somewhat well into Dead Space I kinda wished I would've picked up something else, and being a devoted SH fan that might've done nicely.

I'm not totally in on all the Dead Space hype, maybe I just need more time with it :P

Interesting turn of events, considering that Silent Hill was a Japanese franchise before Silent Hill. I'd be a little sore if I lived over there.

Don't worry Japan, you guys aren't missing much.

I hated Homecoming. Let Japan make the Konami games dammit

And I'm one of the few that likes to play the Warriors games by Koei every once in a while and was ticked off that Warriors Orochi Z isn't being released outside Japan.

I really enjoyed Homecoming. I liked all the little details they put into the game that connected it to other games in the series and the story was pretty decent too. The hotel area scared the piss out of me, too. Turning around to see a hallway full of nurses is just wrong.

Let's hope Homecoming isn't the final game to continue the canon. I'd really like to return to Silent Hill (or even Shepard's Glen) one more time.

The PS3 version is a very bad port i read, so I'm not taking any chances after my misadventures with other bad ports, like Splinter Cell Lag-Headache Double Agent.

I can understand why. That game had to be serious red mark in Konami's books. VGChartz has it at around 400k between the two consoles, though it lacks data for the PC version, it can't have been the extra 600k more or less necessary for that game to break a profit

Konami probably just wants to forget it happened

i found homecoming to be quite enjoyable. amazing bosses. decent story. a lil buggy. it's worth a rent!

Homecoming is a terrific game. Anyone who says otherwise; who makes the comments "youre not missing much japan" are completely full of shit and probably havent even played the game.

I did enjoy this game, But I didnt like the battle system.

wow, is it really that bad? I have it but played it, got stuck, and then didn't go back early on in the game.

Meh, I didn't get the vibe that the game was BAD just...

Difficult and unique.

It gave a spin on the exploration portion of the SH series I wasn't expecting. One way trips, points of no return, no place to continously gain health items...

It upped the ante on everything in the series.

Homecoming is by no means BAD. If anything, I would potentially put it ABOVE 0.

To me, it goes... SH4, SH2, SH3, SH5 and SH0. I never played one but I will redetermine my order this november.

SH0 is last because while I enjoyed it, it did absolutely nothing to break the norm of the series. SH4 is my favorite, because it's the one and only game that still manages to haunt me in my sleep on occasion. Elements from the game tend to be in nightmares I have frequently... That and FEAR.

That alone, means it must be the best out of all of them.

Xbox 360 SH5: HC released a NTSC-J version on 2008-10-10 in HongKong, Taiwan, Singapore. Keep in mind NTSC-J is not only in Japan.

Update your news please, Joystiq.

dogcom is part of my gamertag.

They're not missing out on much. Let the japanese handle the next SH.

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.

I'm gonna run off an play COD2 first. lol.

My backlog in games is....LONG.

I also agree that Silent Hill has gone way downhill when Konami started outsourcing it, but for the record, the American version of SH: Homecoming works on Japanese 360's - it's Japanese 360 games that are almost all region locked.

Homecoming is not home coming after all.

Poor Japan, looking forward to "Silent Hill 6:66 Hour".

...It was scary weird...

And it had Eileen Head.

I agree with Rein - it's not anywhere near as good as the first 3 games, but is better than Origins, and SH4.

I wouldn't recommend the game to someone who isn't a Silent Hill fan, but it's definitely worth renting out if you are.

F Tank - Silent Hill 4 was developed by Team Silent; this is, without a doubt, the WORST Silent Hill game in the series.
Also, US copies are region locked, because they don't work on UK consoles - I thought about importing when I found out Europe had to wait an extra 4-5 months for the game.

Also, please Konami, please make another Silent Hill game!

As you said: "If you've got a Japanese Xbox 360 though, you're out of luck."

Then I said: Not really. Because there is asian version of this game. So you're still NOT out of luck.

I liked how in homecoming the people you meet aren't completely oblivious to whats going on in the town. The battle system feels better in this game and so were the boss battles. They weren't just keep distance, fire gun at thing, it was more dynamic, you couldn't just stand in one place or move back and forth and attack and repeat. Get on up on the floor, cause we gonna boogey oogie oogie till you just can't boogey no more. Theres no time to waste lets get this show on the road, listen to the music and let your body go. The sooner we begin the longer we've got to groove, listen to the music and let your body move.

You might say that Silent hill isn't about the battles, that's true, its all about the story, but if they're going to fill the game to the brim with annoying (let me say that again, annoying, not scary, because after seeing the same things pop up over and over again, you seriously shouldn't be scared anymore) monsters, at least make the fighting not so bland. I started running past monsters in SH 2 early on in the game cause its not worth the time and health.

I also liked that the people here help you a little like the police officer or the main character's galpal.

Oh and also the nightmare world looks better in this game, then again this is the first time SH has been on a HD console.

Why would japanese event want to play this piece of shit.

Raped the whole series.

Best or worst is open to interpretation, because I thought Homecoming and SH3 were the worst and SH4 was right in the middle, imo. I loved it but would have loved it more had it been it's own game like it was supposed to have been and not had the "Silent Hill" name slapped on.
For the record, not playing on PAL consoles does count it as region-locked because there are many other regions outside UK. I've had a Japanese 360 in the US so I made it my business to know what worked and what didn't in my situation