While things have been rough for the franchise in past years,Silent Hill Fmight be the turning point the series desperately needed. There has been a lot of turmoil in the franchise,and the series felt like it wasn’t delivering on a lot of promises. However, with the newest entry revealed and the remake performing well, the series might have finally gotten something the fans can be excited about.
Silent Hill Fwas announced three years ago, and it was a long time before we got this transmission to get a trailer and more details on the story and what direction they decided to go for this one. While there have been recent spin-offs in the series,there hasn’t been a main entry in the series since 2012 withDownpour,which was not as well received as some of the older entries. With luck, this one will change things.
The Franchise’s Luck Ran Out
Downpour’srelease was plagued by technical issues, which were later resolved but did not change the ratings of the game at launch. The HD Collection came out around the same time, and it included similar technical issues and was less well-received than the original games.Both of these had unfortunate beginnings, which made it hard for the series to continue at the time.
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We did get a few spin-off games,but neitherThe Short MessagenorAscensionwere well-received. There was a group of adaptations in Japan, known asPachislot,Return,andEscape, which were all adaptations of the mainline games for Japan alone. These were all released as slot machines, and the first one was released shortly after an event in the series' history that many found devastating and thought would be the end of the series as a whole.
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The Event That Fans Thought Ended The Series For Good
The event in question came not long after the playable teaser forSilent Hills, better known asP.T.now, was released in 2014 before being suddenly pulled from the PlayStation stores in 2015.It came with an announcement that the game was officially canceledand that Kojima had separated from Konami. This came as devastating news to fans, as the hype thatP.T.created has been nearly unmatched since.
Afterward, Konami stated that they would be working on newSilent Hilltitles, as opposed to proceeding withSilent Hillswithout Kojima. However,nothing new came out for a very long time, beyond the slot machines that remained exclusively in Japan. It has left fans without much to go on, and it appeared that theSilent Hillfranchise might be officially over.
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A New Beginning For An Old Franchise
That is until theSilent Hill 2 Remakewas released last year. TheRemakefinally gave fans an updated edition ofsomething that felt likeSilent Hillfor the first time in a long time. The game at times evenfelt more terrifying than the first version did, perhaps due to the more realistic graphics. TheRemakefelt like a very thoughtful one, and it successfully recreated the world that James gets lost in.
However, that is not the only good news to come out. Though it’s been a long time since we first heard ofSilent Hill F, we finally got a trailer along with a lot of details from the official transmission from theSilent Hilldevelopers. And it looks really good, even if it is not taking place in the titular Silent Hill town. Instead,we are getting a fully Japanese game that is taking hints from traditional Japanese horror. You should think of things likeFatal Framewith a hefty dose of Silent Hill added in.
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The scriptwriter, Ryukishi07, is best known forHigurashi When They Cry,an anime that centers around a murder mystery in a small fictional town. If that sounds familiar, it should, and it seems like it is a good sign of things to come forSilent Hill F. The games already had a lot of Japanese influence, but they were Western games. Now the series is going back to Japan, and it looks quite promising.
While we haven’t seen a lot of the monsters just yet, the town looks just as eerie. The developers stated that they wanted the game to feel like Silent Hill while remaining Japanese.Silent Hill Fhas a promising premise, one that might bring a lot of new fans to the series, and one that older fans have been waiting for for a long time.
