>general red flags:
>>80€ for a AA game from a chink studio (their first own game after only doing RE:Verse)
>>UE5 (asset store animations & unoptimized af)
>>japanese setting (silent hill PHENOMENON)
>>piss easy puzzles, with hinako telling you the solutions
>>constant 'anime' grunting
>>enemies look like straight out of homecoming / downpour (dolls, mine bats)
>>every enemy gets introduced by screeching into the camera like a soulsboss
>>only one ending on first playthrough, you have to play it several times to get the whole story
>>not even a mainline SH, but a spin-off (just a rebranded horror game)
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>gameplay:
>>action-focused SOULSLOP
>>RNG stats faggotry (currency called 'faith' can be traded for gacha buffs like in book of memories)
>>hit-stop on every hit (enemies don't actually react to being hit)
>>teleportation-tier dodging
>>no guns, only melee weapons
>>weapon durability (you have to repair weapons with repair kits; you can only carry 3 weapons)
>>focus mode after 'perfect parry' with slo-mo; sanity meter depleting on every action; at 0 sanity inability to move, meaning you might get softlocked; (konami didn't want to show these in gameplay footage)
>>most enemies cannot be outrun, you have to fight
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>story:
>>female protag (schoolgirl drama with woke gender theory themes)
>>hinako refuses to 'abide by the patriarchy' by rejecting her role as a female while also being the most beautiful in her class (lmao) and being bullied by her envious peers for it
>>hinako's sister was "ruined" by marriage (anti marriage, anti-natalist)
>>hinako's parents are in an abusive relationship (anti-relationship, anti-monogamy)
>>extremely woke with the most outragious content deep into the game, so that you can't refund anymore