‘It’s like a shirt someone made with their inkjet printer in 2006’: Fans hate Konami’s new Silent Hill 2 garb (but they’re wrong)

Konami has partnered up with Online Ceramics—the consciously, ostentatiously inelegant fashion house—to produce a line of Silent Hill 2-themed merch. Featuring tees, hoodies, trousers, and plenty more besides, the clothes all feature designs that look like they were assembled by someone with access to Google Images, a copy of Microsoft Paint, and a staggering deficit of aesthetic sensibility. 

They’re kind of amazing.

That’s just my opinion, of course, and the whole world seems to almost unanimously disagree with me, but this kind of ‘I made this in one afternoon when someone left me alone in the school computer room’ style is very much an Online Ceramics trademark, and I think it perfectly matches Silent Hill 2’s haunted ’90s vibes. I lack the verve to wear something as aggressively dernier cri as this hoodie emblazoned with a foggy picture of Maria and the contextless quote “I don’t look like a ghost, do I?” but if I met someone wearing it I would probably do literally anything they told me to.

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But alas, alack, the Silent Hill 2 fandom does not share my enthusiasm. The responses to Konami’s announcement tweet all convey some variant of ‘bruh,’ and most of them regard the collaboration as yet another indictment of Konami’s handling of Silent Hill as a series. “It’s actually baffling how many bad decisions you guys make as a company,” replied roy_oddities (opens in new tab) on Twitter, “Silent Hill deserves to be in better hands”.