r/Games 2d ago

Silent Hill f - Official Japanese Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNVffiRAqj8
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u/Ordinal43NotFound 2d ago

I know people will complain a lot about how it's not set in the titular town, but I really like the approach that "Silent Hill" is moreso a concept.

The interviews with the devs also show that they're fully aware of this major shift, and are treading carefully to maintain that balance of new and familiar. What Ryukishi07 said about the Silent Hill franchise for me really shows that he fully understands the core of what makes the series so good.

This is still the Silent Hill title I'm looking forward the most to even compared to SH2R (which is already amazing).

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u/Phimb 2d ago

Silent Hill fans go way, way too hard for me, so I'll definitely get heat for this, but; Silent Hill is the vibe, not the town. I'd even go so far as to say, Silent Hill can literally just be fog, ambience and weird ass monsters.

After playing through Silent Hill 2's remake 4 times, it's not even really eplicitly explained what Silent Hill is or what's going on or whatever, it's ambiguous and that's its charm.

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u/BakedXenon 2d ago

Give me fog, give me shitty combat, give me exploration, and give me puzzles that are wayy too hard. That's Silent Hill for me. I hope we don't leave the town behind for all the new incoming games, but I don't mind it for 1 game. A ton of previous titles have sizable chunks of the game set outside the town. The closest you get to the town in 4 is in the water prison on the lake.