Silent Hill revival thoughts
Finished my final playthrough of Silent Hill f. Got every ending. Didn't get 100% achievements due to some missing item pickups and my first run being on a pirated copy but this is good enough for me. Did it on Lost In The Fog difficulty with both puzzles and combat, though I had some help with the unlimited item stack and weapon durability mods just to decrease some of that friction for repeated playthroughs.
I still feel like the only person who actually understands and appreciates the game lol. Is this how Star Fox Command fans feel?
I can't help it, I like the game. It can be a little ridiculous and it's not anything like a Silent Hill game but it still resonates with me. It is absolutely stuffed with its own lore and symbolism that is definitely Japanese in nature, and none of it has anything to do with Silent Hill. SH was specifically influenced by the modern-day west and SHf is the direct antithesis to that. If the game were completely detached from the franchise and were called something IN JAPANESE with an English translation (like Higurashi!), I think it would have been much better received. It wouldn't have sold as well, but that makes it feel all the more dirty.
Still, I'm not impressed at the Silent Hill revival as a whole. We had an absolute abomination of an interactive series with Ascension. The Short Message was gay and retarded, not to mention locked to PS5. Then there was Silent Hill 2 Remake which is decent but bloated and they changed stuff unnecessarily. Then there's SHf which is not really a Silent Hill game as much as it is just an interesting psychological horror game. Then there was the absolutely dreadful Return to Silent Hill movie that made me actually laugh several times.
I don't expect Townfall to break the trend. I thought SHf was going to be dreadful but I still gave it a chance, so I'm going to do the same for Townfall, but given that it's being marketed as a first person action game... my hopes aren't high. Also, I really am not a fan of the "Silent Hill Effect" or whatever the fuck it is that they're trying to do now and that does extend to SHf as well.
I think SH1 Remake is going to be okay. It's going to be different of course, but with how primitive that game is there is just so much more room for Bloober to change and improve things without fucking something up.
Honestly, after all of these projects are done, I think it's time to lay SH to rest and hopefully just get something new. We don't have to keep beating the dead horse.
Dude, another absolute banger: https://youtu.be/PLm1ooqjJl8
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