Silent Hill HD Collection Does Not Have Original Voices For Silent Hill 3 March 24, 2012

I know I already did a post that Silent Hill HD Collection gave users a choice to listen to the original voice over for Silent HIll 2 or a newly recorded voice over.  It turns out Konami did not offer players this choice for Silent Hill 3.

When Silent Hill HD Collection was announced, the developers announced that they would be recording new voice overs for the re-release, but they only mentioned that it would be new voice overs for Silent Hill 2.  The response to this announcement was overwhelmingly negative (as I noted earlier).  In fact the response was so negative Konami changed their mind and included both the original and new voice over for Silent Hill 2 in the final version of the game.  As far as I know what has gotten no mention was that new voice recordings were apparently also done for Silent Hill 3, and unlike Silent Hill 2, there isn’t a menu option to choose the original.

My apologies for taking a while to post about this, espessailly after the quick post that Silent Hill 2, but unlike Silent Hill 2, I never actually played the original version of Silent Hill 3, and had no frame of reference for if the voice over changed or not.  I did however, upon starting a playthrough of the game, compare the game’s voices to online recordings of Silent Hill 3, and noted that the voices do not match.

The Playstation 3 version of the game did recieve a 250mb or so 1.1 patch this week.  I have not been able to find any patch notes about it online so I don’t know what it did to the game, but when I did check the voice over it was after the game had been patched, so the patch did not affect this.