Cronos: The New Dawn and Silent Hill 2 Remake developer Bloober Team has set to retro gaming community alight over assumptions that the Polish horror games studio is working on a remake of Rule of Rose.
A late-era PlayStation 2 horror game developed by Punchline, Rule of Rose is one of the most expensive games for the 26-year-old games console. Some sealed copies of the PlayStation 2 title sell for over $1,000.
Released in 2006, the game saw very few copies released over a moral panic over content that was never actually in the game. (Hey, we see that a lot on Twitter nowadays.) However, following a recent teaser of the Bloober Team’s soon-to-be-announced horror game, many gamers assumed the team was hinting at a remake of the game.
“If this is teasing a Rule of Rose remake by Blooper Team that would actually be insane,” said popular Twitter account Radec in response to the teaser. To be fair, the teaser did include an image of a red rose, the studio is known for remakes, and the studio is firmly situated in the horror genre. As a theory, it did make sense.
Unfortunately, for Rule of Rose fans, Bloober Team CEO Piotr Babieno has confirmed that the studio isn’t working on a remake of the PS2 game. In fact, the studio’s mysterious project isn’t a remake at all.
“Nice guess, but no,” Babieno said on his personal LinkedIn account. “It definitely doesn’t refer to any remake.”
Alongside the studio’s upcoming mysterious game, Bloober Team is actively working on a remake of the original Silent Hill. After its fantastic recreation of the second game, that same team is recreating Harry Mason’s original 1999 journey for modern consoles.
Very little is known about the studio’s upcoming projects, although they are working on multiple games simultaneously. There’s also no known release date for the upcoming Silent Hill remake, which is painful as I wish to wash my eyes of Return to Silent Hill as soon as possible.
