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If you're not a pedantic horror game fan, it's likely you haven't heard of Dementium: The Ward. It's understandable you never dared to venture into such an inhospitable world on the not very immersion-prone DS, the only console you could play it on, until now.
Nearly twenty years after it debuted on the Nintendo DS, Dementium: The Ward will be reanimated and remastered in 4K glory for Steam, and it's totally worth checking out.
Dementium: The Ward has a heartbreaking origin story
When the original Silent Hill came out back in '99, it naturally inspired countless teens and children who probably shouldn't have been playing it to try and make their way through that world. A few years later, the developers at Renegade Kid had a blueprint for a game they dreamed could be a Silent Hill title, and even got to talk to Konami to pitch it. Sadly, Konami met them with disheartening dismissiveness.
In an interview with Nintendo Life, Jools Watsham remembered Konami saying something in the vein of "We wouldn’t give the Silent Hill IP to a team like yours." How's that for a horror scene about meeting your heroes? Undeterred, they set out to make Dementium something else, and the result is a scary and atmospheric mix of Silent Hill and the action of Doom that had no business being as immersive as it turned out to be.
The original version of Dementium: The Ward did quite well with critics and players alike. This got the people at Renegade Kid another meeting with Konami, which this time dismissed them not for their merits, but only because they didn't want to venture into the world of the 3DS. A victory is a victory, right?
The remastered version of Dementium: The Ward will hit Steam on Oct 27, featuring 4K resolution and various retro visual options, such as the beautiful scanlines many miss so dearly from the LCD age that do such a great job of intensifying immersion in such titles.
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