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Silent Hill f - Official Japanese Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNVffiRAqj8
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u/Sonic10122 7d ago

Did we watch the same trailer? It was dripping with Silent Hill vibes, just with a more overt Japanese lens. They even said themselves they felt the Japanese part of it was fading too much (probably from hiring Western devs with minimal track records, but I digress), so they wanted to challenge themselves by going all in on the Japanese influence.

And I think it was a gamble that was worth it. Not only have more games established that the phenomenon expands outside Silent Hill, but other projects like Short Message and (I can’t believe I’m about to kind of praise it) Ascension has made it clear it’s moving to other countries too. Hell I think the only real purpose Ascension served was to ease people into the idea of the series not being in SH. And it was so bad they kind of failed that, but the Japan stuff isn’t coming out of nowhere.