Konami's first proper new Silent Hill in an age is a welcome change of scene after the Silent Hill 2 remake

New trailer shows disconnected Silent Hill f's 1960s Japan setting

Konami person fixed america our archetypal due look astatine Silent Hill f, a caller incarnation of the endurance fearfulness bid from Hong Kong-based Neobards Entertainment, which takes spot successful 1960s Japan. You are Shimizu Hinako, a schoolgirl equipped with the trademark Silent Hill combo of a broken-off tube and a cartload of intelligence baggage, whose hometown Ebisugaoka is engulfed by a monstrous fog.

The prime of a non-US mounting has ruffled the plumage of players who cherish Silent Hill's relation with Twin Peaks and New England. Personally, I invited the departure aft the heady retro fidelity of the Silent Hill 2 Remake, and besides, the wide ambience doesn't look that acold removed from the elder Hills. Look, they've adjacent got Akira Yamaoka contributing to the soundtrack.

It looks similar Silent Hill's trademark magnitude shifts are backmost arsenic well, but the caller game's realm shifts look to beryllium much bio-horror-ish, with crimson roots and lambent, trumpet-shaped blossoms consuming the geometry alternatively than Silent Hill's accustomed flavour of blood, rust and toilet vessel detritus. It's astir pretty, arsenic you mightiness expect from a crippled that challenges you to "embrace the quality hidden wrong terror, oregon succumb to the madness that lies ahead". Perhaps the "f" successful the rubric stands for "flower". Or possibly it stands for "face peeling off". Or possibly it stands for "flipping get a determination connected and embed the trailer".

I've ne'er heard of Neobards before, and naturally, I'm wondering whether they person the chops to propulsion a Silent Hill crippled off. Founded successful 2017, they've worked successful a enactment capableness connected games similar Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Marvel's Avengers and respective Resident Evil projects. They look to person 1 first-party merchandise to their name, the mobile crippled Dynasty Warriors M. I don't cognize what to marque of them, but I volition springiness them kudos for having a poem connected their portfolio leafage that (accidentally?) references the Three Musketeers.

Silent Hill f besides features penning from Ryukishi07, writer of the When They Cry ocular caller series. The crippled surely seems to beryllium successful keeping with his sensation for the macabre: according to the Steam page, the crippled "contains depictions of sex discrimination, kid abuse, bullying, drug-induced hallucinations, torture, and graphic violence". The developers accidental that immoderate of this hard worldly reflects "the customs and culture" of the day. They're astir apt not talking astir the dislocated dolls connected stabby instrumentality legs, which onslaught maine arsenic horrifying careless of era.

If you're genuinely floored and flummoxed by this being acceptable successful Japan, you mightiness similar to spot it arsenic a spiritual successor to Forbidden Siren, the PS2 endurance fearfulness crippled Keiichiro Toyama directed and co-wrote aft co-writing and directing the archetypal Silent Hill. I retrieve having a ripe aged clip successful Siren lurking down barrels "sight-jacking" manky Shibito. If it had ever made it to PC, I'd person volunteered it for our database of the champion fearfulness games.