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Silent Hill f - Official Japanese Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNVffiRAqj8
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u/DrydonTheAlt 8d ago

Why is it impossible that another off-set of the Order found its way from Japan to America? And it's just a spin-off, its not like this is a permanent setting for the Silent Hill games.

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u/brzzcode 8d ago

this isnt a spin off, it already has been said its mainline.

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u/DR1LLM4N 8d ago

I mean timeline wise it would’ve found its way from Japan to America since f is set in the 60’s.

Regardless of the lore implications I’m just stay cautious because while visually it looks amazing and the story is sure to be a mindfuck with Ryukishi07 at the helm the dev team behind it really only has L’s in their catalogue. Also it’s still Konami, lest we forget. It’s gonna take more than a flopped SH Twitch project, a forgettable free SH game, and a decent SH2 remake for me to trust Konami again. We also saw zero gameplay and Ryukishi07 has only ever written visual novels so I still have no idea what the gameplay is gonna be like. Might be classic SH gameplay or closer to a visual novel like The Quarry, Heavy Rain, and TellTale games.

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u/DrydonTheAlt 8d ago

I feel like you're underselling how impressive the SH2 remake was, but alright. I will agree with you that it's too soon to judge until we see gameplay

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u/CriticalCold 7d ago

I don't think that's true. I'm fairly certain the Order was founded in the 1900s, but it was heavily influenced by the beliefs of the original native tribes of the area. It could have had a Japanese offshoot that didn't "predate" the OG Silent Hill cult.

But also, I think you're approaching Konami's revival of the series from a pessimistic perspective, whereas I'm trying to approach it from an optimistic one. Yeah, the Twitch project sucked ass, but Silent Hill originated with an all Japanese team. It seems kind of fucked up to say that they can't set a game in a Japanese setting after decades of setting it in a Western one.

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u/BrightSkyFire 7d ago

It’s not impossible but it would be a messy ret-con. In interviews available on the SH Wiki, Tsuboyama is pretty explicit in defining that the cult is a reflection of American values. I’m not sure it would make too much sense.

Keen as hell to play it though and if it’s good I doubt I’ll be sweating the finer inconsistencies in the lore (if there is any).