I got nothing. I’m not even looking to buy this game soon. But opening PSN and being immediately confronted with this felt belittling. Like caring so little for the art? Pay More for a dumb outfit to lessen the drama, you mark. Oh Preorder bonuses and Early Access?
Does Deluxe mean my high school student avatar gets to wear pink?
please tell me that the ultra deluxe triple-$ edition also replaces the intro/outro song with this
to fit the effin’ wrong outfit choices to celebrate cashing in (or sellin’ out) on them target audience.
all-in-all this is leaving me 
ing a lot
Am dreading the final level being American town Silent Hill somehow
This seems to be getting nothing but positive reviews. I hope it’s actually good.
I think even the old Fatal Frame games (which SHF seems to resemble) had silly costumes you could get, but fortunately they were easy to ignore.
Happy to see some interesting stuff in the reviews but it felt weird to see so many people spending the last few months acting like the game is already out with a 90/100 Metascore and Konami is hip again. There is a growing disconnect between me and the General Gaming Public that I have to account for and sort of calibrate myself whenever I see any Konami-related headline. Like just yesterday, I saw news about the Delta Force F2P game getting some basic Naked Snake operator content and a comment saying “The Konami comeback needs to be studied”.
I dunno man, it’s a company whose bosses kept destroying decades worth of know-how and tech and human resources for the sake of short-term profit, got an unusually fast lesson about the importance of diversifying your income sources, and are now betting hard on low risk ventures (outsourcing, remasters, collabs, weird monetization models cheapening prestige brands the way the one in the OP does) to save whatever is salvagable from the mess they’ve made.
And the company has undoubtedly hired people who are trying to do their best with limited resources, I love to see M2 working on the classics I love, but those bosses are still there, nearly all my favorite devs are still out or stuck in mines, and the two big acclaimed projects that saved the studio’s reputation were based on Hiring That Man. Like I could call Capcom’s last ten years a comeback, dunno if these slapdash attempts to replace pipelines that require ages to rebuild are the same. Feels like a similar type of meme magic that saved Cyberpunk’s reputation, dozens of broken promises and compromised design and nearly no lessons learned, but too many people invested in the idea of More Potential Content to care.
Anyway, can’t say I’m happy about all the stuff concerning stamina management, i-frame dodges and Shoot At The Cyberdemon Until It Dies prompts, but the NG+ cycle in this sounds legitimately great (there are reviews that completely missed out on it, making me remember why the first playthrough of Nier Automata ends the way it does), I trust in the 07th Expansion guy to deliver something offbeat and I love the handcrafted feel in much of the footage I’ve seen. Here’s hoping!
I’m always gonna say “Silent Hill Respects” in my mind. Is this game seventy dollars?
Is this game seventy dollars?
Yes, unless you want to pay more for the deluxe edition with the pink costume with rabbit ears.
this is a really great post, puts together some loose thoughts banging around my head
The game is making a -very- good first impression. To get the bad out of the way, the combat is slightly too gamey and overcooked (wish they designed it around hidden stamina at least), there are some typical UE5 issues and the script is laying it on thick at times. But the environments and lighting are absolutely amazing, the direction feels purposeful (loved the moody montage of establishing shots at the start and how long it waits to hand you a weapon), the 2D map shifting constantly based on your discoveries is great… Above all, it has an unexpectedly great sensibility for establishing a mystery and typically SH unreality, like walking around dazed with a messed up perspective, getting occasional glimpses of normalcy, feeling you forgot something very important as chills start running down your spine. Really hope they can keep it up without getting too anime.
Enjoying this a lot, am about 2 hours in. I found that the game works a lot better when you have no weapon or the threat of losing all weapons since they’re kinda too effective. The dodge by itself is already pretty powerful. Liking how the world is opening up into a pseudo-stealth long-distance run as you eliminate dead-ends. Enemy behaviour is not entirely predictable as some of the mannequins seem to just stand still and do nothing whereas others have clear patrol routes. I went into the doctor’s house and couldn’t figure it out.
I love that you don’t see any of your family member’s faces with the exception of your mother for about a split second (not counting the illustrations). The twist they’re foreshadowing with Junko’s face being scrawled out even in the illustration feels like we’re confronting our imaginary doll friend’s impetus to help us pass as feminine for as long as possible until our family can’t stand it any more. This will surely manifest as some sort of ‘virgin monster’. Excellent foreshadowing of the UFO ending as well.
If you visit the shrine before Rinko’s house and double back, Shu shows up in a super creepy way to tell you you’re going the wrong way. Like you’re just walking back through the forest and I didn’t even see him coming even though there’s nothing else to look at. They’re doing some nice subtle stuff here. People talking past each other while all this crazy shit is going on is my favourite part of the writing so far.
I haven’t played a silent hill in like a billion years and I really only like 3/4… I was thinking about higurashi the other day because one of the characters in baby assassins buys a replica of the nail ripper. so I’m excited for that guy to silent hill f me… more like silent hill freaking scary… thank you to the world’s fittest latvian for assisting me in this goal…
I hope the f actually does stand for five
Kinda curious about the highest puzzle difficulty but I get the impression they just add a more involved logic puzzle rather than the pretty straightforward hints you get on hard.
Am managing to get through with minimal deaths since I’m on story but its mainly because my inventory is overflowing with food and pills. Weapons really should share the same inventory as items imo.
The highest puzzle difficulty is like old puzzle difficulty hard, yes. This was one of my questions about the game because it’s silent hill and it needs a bullshit puzzles option
Just played the first half hour or so. Strong start! I really enjoyed what I presume to be this game’s main theme. When the Yamaoka 90’s alt-rock drums came in behind that folk singing I was FEELING it.
I love the drawings in the journal. The first monsters are pretty cool and very well animated. I pulled a key out of a bloody face. It kind of feels like Silent Hill is back! The setting is refreshingly different but the vibe carries through quite well.
Most of the time the original quadrilogy’s combat made you feel like a regular person trading blows, struggling to fight off each monster. This game’s 2020’s-ass action combat system trades that fear for the dread that you’ll have to learn parry and dodge timings while a fucked up silent hill monster screams at you.
im not saying to do this, im just posting it because otherwise i wouldnt stop thinking it
but if this was my thread id change the f word that the F is for every single time i remembered to
f is for Rinko imo
it’s a blink and you’ll miss it kind of thing but the game offers a few subtle hints that Rinko might be jealous of the main heroine’s relationship with Shu…
