Going to watch someone else's playthrough of Silent Hill: A Short Message. Since, you know, I don't have a PS5 and probably never will unless I find one on the side of the road.

This is gon' be good.... and by good I mean probably trash. Those leaks we saw a little while ago for a new Silent Hill game coming soon with the girl that had the post-it notes with "homo" written on them or whatever? Yeah, 100% real.

Take this and juxtapose it to Silent Hill and Silent Hill 3's warnings. They are content warnings of course, but it doesn't sound like they're trying to coddle the player or take some social stance. The warning screens from those games even add a little bit of extra spice... you know you're in for a ride and it's time to prepare yourself before you dive in. Shattered Memories has an ever creepier one because of its unique gameplay mechanics. Even fucking Doki Doki Literature Club doesn't have to be all "suicide is bad, guys, we don't condone it." It just says you might have a bad time if you suffer from certain mental illnesses.

Silent Hill 2 doesn't have a warning screen PERIOD and it's got suicides, calls to suicide, PTSD, sexual abuse, and murderers. What the fuck is going on with the world? Is the Silent Hill 2 remake going to have a content warning that's the length of a damn EULA you have to scroll through slowly before you can play?

Man you know it's great when the game hasn't even started yet and I'm already malding xD

It's also worth mentioning that it's not like suicide wasn't a problem back when SH2 came out, either. Especially in Japan. This kind of shit is 100% because companies are worried that Twitter users who don't even play the game are going to get their panties in a bunch and they can't have "journalists" talking shit on their game because that is going to affect their bottom line or something.

Here's another thought... Silent Hill 2 did thing really tactfully. A lot of people find that even though the game has some really fucked up stuff in it, they felt sort of comforted while playing it despite suffering from a lot of these same traumas. It's not too dissimilar from how child abuse victims may consume or draw stuff like lolicon. I'd wager to say that the people who created Silent Hill 2 all suffered from things like depression and sexual trauma as well, and they used the game as a creative outlet for that. I would not be surprised in the SLIGHTEST.

This piece of shit is probably going to be way too blatant about bullying and suicide and all that garbage and not have any sort of tact whatsoever. I hope I'm proven wrong but I already know I'm right because the damn art on the home screen already shows off everything you need to know about how well this game actually treats the issue.

I always forget CW is a thing lol, really helps keep the local timeline organized better xD I need to use it more when I post a shit ton of stuff.

Anyway, you get the content warning AGAIN when you start a new game lol.

There are live action cutscenes. What's the deal with these things?? I hate them every time I see them. Takes me out of the experience immediately. I can understand going for it if the idea is to be a little corny, like in the original Resident Evil, but when games are trying to use it for a serious effect it just doesn't do anything for me man. Feels way too detached from the rest of the game.

Hmmmmmm.... subtle. Angela in SH2 carries that knife around with her and it is clear that she probably harms herself, but it is never explicitly mentioned like this and her scars are never shown because she wears a long sleeve shirt.

There are these automated text message scenes that happen randomly in the middle of gameplay too. They said they wanted to be contemporary or some shit and that's why they're doing it. Did it ever strike anyone that what's contemporary is fuckin' lame? Stopping everything you're doing for a JPEG of a phone to come up with a pre-baked text message scene is so much worse than even having a character call you... at least you can still walk around in that case. Shattered Memories even did that astonishingly well since it used the Wiimote's speaker. This is just boring as hell and the rate of the texts coming and going is also super unrealistic lol.

This is a more minor nitpick I suppose but it plays right in to the cellphone thing anyway. Nobody, and I mean NOBODY actually uses "ur" instead of "you're" (or even "your") these days. Contemporary my ass. You can tell this is some real "hello, my fellow kids" writing. We said "ur" back in the day because texting on a dumb phone with the numpad was ass and you'd shorten whatever you could. Now you can type "you're" by putting your finger on the screen and dragging it twice. Also, what's with the lack of correct pronunciation? We have autocorrect now. cant, dont, id, thats... all of it would be corrected if they were really using a smartphone here.

Waaahhhh I don't have enough social media followers, and the ones I do have keep asking me to post sexy pics! WTF am I supposed to do?? Jump off this fucking building? My friend did it and she's got tons of followers now!

How to build an unlikable protagonist 101. James, despite killing his wife, is still way more likable than this cringelord.

There is actually a correct way to do this, but this is not it bro. This is soooo not it.

LMAO NO WAY AFTER SHE JUMPED OFF IT GAVE THE SUICIDE WARNING AGAIN!!! THIRD TIME!!

Also, the game is soft-looping now. Very PT-esque. Modern day Silent Hill really is just a comical caricature of everything that recent horror game phenomena did right, huh?

Why the fuck is there like some Jeff the Killer knock off in here lol xD