Silent Hill f Gets Gruesome New Details in ESRB Rating and Content Warnings

New details astir what's successful store for the horrors waiting wrong Silent Hill f person emerged, and they marque it wide that developer NeoBards Entertainment is keeping successful measurement with the series' tone.

Warning! The pursuing descriptions incorporate immoderate gruesome details astir the contented of Silent Hill f, which volition entail imaginable spoilers and mature content.

Konami aired its latest Silent Hill Transmission broadcast conscionable past week, sharing much details astir the upcoming Silent Hill f. Developed by NeoBards, acceptable successful a upland municipality successful 1960s Japan, and written by Higurashi and Umineko writer Ryukishi07, Silent Hill f looks to beryllium an absorbing caller task for the fearfulness series.

The broadcast didn't see overmuch successful the mode of gameplay though. In lieu of that, fans person been poring implicit the contented warnings and ESRB standing for Silent Hill f, some of which are unrecorded and supply immoderate amazingly elaborate descriptions of what terrors hold successful the municipality of Ebisugaoka.

Over connected the ESRB site, Silent Hill f garnered a Mature 17+ standing for "Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Partial Nudity." None of that by itself is terribly surprising, but it's the standing summary that offers immoderate much detail:

"This is simply a survival-horror enactment crippled successful which players presume the relation of a pupil confronting supernatural entities successful a 1960s Japanese upland town. From a third-person perspective, players research the town, lick puzzles, interact with characters, and conflict force creatures (e.g., humanoid monsters, mutants, mythical creatures). "Players usage axes, crowbars, knives, and spears to support against and termination force creatures successful melee-style combat. Blood-splatter effects hap often arsenic characters are attacked; respective areas picture ample bloodstains successful the situation and adjacent corpses. Some force attacks tin effect successful players' quality getting impaled successful the cervix and/or getting their faces ripped apart. "Cutscenes sometimes picture gore and much aggravated acts of violence: a quality burned live wrong a cage; a pistillate branded by a blistery iron; entrails and sinew displayed connected serving platters successful fantastical celebration/ceremony; a quality sawing disconnected her ain arm; a quality slicing disconnected portions of a character's look during a ritual. Concept creation depicts a nude mannequin-like character, with exposed buttocks and partially exposed breasts; the quality appears successful a creature-like signifier passim the game."

Faces ripped apart, blistery irons, and a quality sawing disconnected their limb surely overgarment a gruesome picture. Silent Hill f could get beauteous gnarly, adjacent by Silent Hill's standards. It is, aft all, the archetypal crippled successful the bid to gain a CERO:Z successful Japan, an 18+ rating; the others person typically garnered CERO:C oregon CERO:D, which are 15+ and 17+, respectively.

Silent Hill f whitethorn besides beryllium dealing with immoderate dense topics and imagery too. For that, we tin look astatine the game's contented warning, displayed connected some the authoritative tract and the Steam store page:

"This crippled contains depictions of sex discrimination, kid abuse, bullying, drug-induced hallucinations, torture, and graphic violence. This crippled is acceptable successful Japan successful the 1960s and contains depictions based connected the customs and civilization of that time. These depictions bash not bespeak the opinions oregon values of the developers oregon immoderate individuals involved. If you consciousness uncomfortable astatine immoderate constituent portion playing, delight instrumentality a interruption from playing oregon talk to idiosyncratic you trust."

Between the existent carnal fearfulness and tackling these kinds of themes, Silent Hill f surely seems similar it's engaging with the benignant of worldly you'd expect successful a Silent Hill. For fearfulness fans, that's hopefully a bully sign.

Silent Hill f has nary merchandise day astatine the moment, though having an ESRB standing this elaborate surely suggests it's not acold off. It's presently targeting PS5, Xbox Series X and S, and PC erstwhile it does launch.

Eric is simply a freelance writer for IGN.