Thread 717098208

>game is not set in Silent hill
>it has dark souls combat system
>has HP, stamina and special attack bar
>it's more action than "survival horror"
>the music is just variations from multiple silent hill ost

what is going on here? is this real? there's no way they turned silent hill into silent souls, the only thing remotely silent hill about this game is the title. I'm tired of souls games, please, stop.

>cry
>moan
>bitch
>whine
>blub

I could accept japanese silent hill, but yeah, with all the combat shit it's barely even a horror game. It's also what I hated in SH2 remake. Once you got a gun, it just was so much combat. I think I ended up killing hundreds of enemies by the end of the game.

>>717098208 (OP)
It's what marketing research said the modern audience wants.

>>717098208 (OP)
>Zanzibar... forgive me
>but now in Japanese!

>>717098208 (OP)
Seems like a really obvious attempt to sell a product to a wider audience using a recognizable IP name.

You wouldnt even have given this a second look if it didnt have Silent Hill in the title, so I guess it worked huh. Its odd how many games are made like this now, like they have no faith in making something new so they instead just retool it as part of something else.

>>717098758
I was constantly pissed off and not scared because of how much fucking combat there were in SH2R. I once had 3 nurses and 2 crawling fucks surround in some cafe. It's not SH.

I dont understand why they would make a more action focused SH game and then completely exclude guns

>>717100593
Silent Hill 2 isnt scary because the enemy designs are so fucking lame. But that was a problem in the original too. But I dont understand bitching about the amount of combat, without it the game is just running through hallways unlocking doors

>>717098208 (OP)
Good

>>717098208 (OP)
They should go all the way in and let players leave messages or see phantoms of other players

>>717100748
Original was scary and had great atmosphere even with mediocre combat. You don't play SH for combat. Remake has barely any atmosphere of the original so they compensated with lots of enemies and better graphics. They didn't even bother to make an actual LOOP of the ambient music that plays randomly it just fucking stops and begins anew. That shit ruins atmosphere. Also there were segments with total silence in the original that made you feel uneasy like something bad was about to happen. All that subtle stuff was ignored by remake devs. Fucking hate these hacks.

>>717098208 (OP)
I cringe whenever the monster screams and has sound waves emitting. It's like a fucking action fantasy boss instead of horror.

I wonder if the game is journalist friendly

>>717101607
the journalist that called it dark souls complained about how stamina was harsher than a souls game because it doesnt regen immediately

we get it, you can't afford modern hardware or consoles so you need to kvetch and let everyone know how shit a product (that you can't experience) is

>>717098208 (OP)
>literally not one single thing to come out of this "revival" has turned out worth a damn or come anywhere close to the original Team Silent games
Why did they even bother, like genuinely what was the point in greenlighting all this garbage

We got a lot of info from both the gamespot and IGN hands-on. I'll try to list them all as best I can.

Average playtime is around 12-13 hours.
Everyone gets canon event in first playthrough.
There are 5 endings with one being UFO one.
Over the shoulder view and no UI in exploration mode.
You can set difficulty for combat and puzzles. Story mode seems like journos mode.
Puzzles don't seem too hard based on first 5 hours or 1/3rd of game playthrough. Combat does ramp up with difficulty.
Combat entirely melee based. You find weapons lying around the world like resources.
Combat based on timed dodges and counterattacks.
Counterattacks are crucial and enemies show a brief window for this.
Focus mode helps window of counterattack last longer and stagger with power attacks.
Focus mode is tied to mental energy which decreases with certain events or enemy scares you.
Possible weapons you can find: Iron pipes, kitchen knives, baseball bats.
Hinako can only carry up to 3 weapons at a time.
Weapons have durability and change appearance as they degrade with use.
Hinako will mention this in game that they need to be fixed if durability is low enough.
Weapons can be fixed with a repair kit but they are scarce.
Enemies don't drop EXP or resources so most times its better to run away from them.
You can convert resources such as healing times at save points/ shrines to convert to increase your stats or get an amulet with buffs on it.
Ryukishi07 confirmed the story is based on gender roles of men and women and female adolescence.
Weapons in the otherworld don't break like the Naginata. You can't take them back with you.
The priestess boss does have multiple stage fights.
Silent Hill f's combat was inspired by difficult action games which could include soulslike.
Game is less linear than expected.
Map does auto update as you explore.
Puzzles reveal stuff about Hinako and world she inhabits.
Rice field scare crow puzzle is related to a past trauma she had when she was little.

>>717100748
Original wasn't about defeating enemies but managing to run through the hallways and get to unlock the doors.
One thing that's left to do is have people solve puzzles while being threatened by enemies in realtime

>>717103151
>Ryukishi07 confirmed the story is based on gender roles of men and women and female adolescence
Oh boy I can't wait to hear Post Modern Feminist Manifesto #2875

Silent Hill F(lop)
>80 euros for a AA game from a chink studio (their first real game btw)
>action-focused SOULSLOP (with stats faggotry)
>no guns, only melee weapons
>weapon durability (you have to repair weapons)
>you can only carry 3 weapons at a time
>hit-stun on every hit (enemies don't atually react to being hit)
>piss easy puzzles, with hinako telling you the solutions
>japanese setting (silent hill PHENOMENON)
>enemies look like straight out of homecoming / downpour (mine bats)
>female protag (schoolgirl drama with woke gender theory themes)
>hinako is seen as a beautiful tranny (envy) by her peers, as she refuses to be feminine (wants to be a man) & gets mobbed because of it
>hinako's sister was "ruined" by marriage (anti marriage, anti-natalist)
>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)

>>717103151
>Ryukishi07 confirmed the story is based on gender roles of men and women and female adolescence.

Another lame ass philosophy game instead of tapping into the primal fear innate in both men and women. No wonder the monsters look lame as fuck.

>>717103009
>jaknigger
Post discarded

>>717103156
>Original wasn't about defeating enemies
shut the fuck up retard
you get so much ammo in silent hill that the only reason people don't kill everything that moves is because its tedious

>>717103618
To be fair, SH3 touched on a lot of female specific fears, and it was fine.

>>717098208 (OP)
The monsters look like straight out of one of the outsourced Silent Hills, but since they're made in muh based nippon, nobody's shitting on them.

>>717103704
Heather puking a God-Fetus is horror. If this game doesn't have anything to do with pregnancy or sexual cult ritual that would be lame.

>>717103704
SH3 wasn't woke you fucking imbecile. heather didn't fight the patriarchy or wanted to be a man like hinaktrans

>>717098208 (OP)
Wait until the zoomers find out where Silent Hill 4 takes place...

>>717098208 (OP)
Original games had HP and stamina.

its not even made by a japanese team, KEK
weebs are getting bamboozled hard

>>717098640
fpbp

>>717104790
The game is about Heather getting an abortion and starts with a weird man in a trench coat following her to a washroom.

>>717104993
anything is better than Bloober

>>717105152
Have you played Homecoming, Downpour, Book of Memories, etc? I hate the SH2's remake as much as the next fanboy, but there's worse teams out there.

>>717105093
still not woke. she didn't even fuck. it was all about satanic panic, you moron

>>717105152
Bloober doesn't add sound waves when a monster screams.

I actually know a reviewer that was at the event and claims the game is 100% a Soulslike horror hybrid

>>717098208 (OP)
I know. I can't wait.

>>717105250
>it was all about satanic panic
It literally has nothing to do with the satanic panic. I imagine that, to make that stretch, you have to know nothing about the satanic panic beyond the name.

>>717105228
Homecoming and Downpour were masterpieces compared to SH2 demake.

>They weren't deconstructionist moneygrabs, but original -new- stories
>Both games tried implementing interesting mechanics
>They weren't trying to push any agenda

Were they the best SH games? Not by a long shot, but they were in essence Silent Hill games. SH2 demake does not have any right to exist, it misunderstood the original on an elemental level and just became a mockery of what SH2 is.

>>717103151
>Combat does ramp up with difficulty.
>Combat entirely melee based. You find weapons lying around the world like resources.
>Combat based on timed dodges and counterattacks.
>Counterattacks are crucial and enemies show a brief window for this.
>Focus mode helps window of counterattack last longer and stagger with power attacks.
>Focus mode is tied to mental energy which decreases with certain events or enemy scares you.
>Possible weapons you can find: Iron pipes, kitchen knives, baseball bats.
Souls combat and focus bar
>You can convert resources such as healing times at save points/ shrines to convert to increase your stats or get an amulet with buffs on it.
Souls leveling
Lmaooooooo

>>717105256
Good for them, but the wind in the intro blows the main characters hair, the paper posters and the trees in completely different directions in SH2R though...

>>717105093
Not an argument. A male character wouldn't have fears of pregnancy and men following him into bathrooms. Sex-specific fears are in no way comparable to commentary on the post-modern concept of "gender roles".

You know damn fucking well what "story based on gender roles" means. It means "demands placed on women = bad." When has it ever not meant that? It's always a criticism on natural responsibilities written by a dejected, resentful loser who thinks usurping the divine hierarchy is a good thing.

tbqh i always thought a slow and shitty dark souls combat system would fit silent hill pretty well

>>717098208 (OP)
Feels like any game with melee combat gets called Soulslike now

>>717106129
They're called soulslike because they play like a souls game

>>717098208 (OP)
Just wait for the Silent Hill 1 remake

I hope Silent Hill 3 is a boomer shooter.

>>717106201
Ocarina of Time would be called a soulslike if it came out today...

>>717106118
Silent Hill F's problem is not the soulslike combat but how the developers design the monsters and animate the fight. It's just too fantastical instead of horror.

>>717106483
And that would be incorrect because Ocarina of Time doesn't have the same camera and movement

>>717106332
That can make a really great parody game. Instead of confronting any of the trauma and characters, you just shoot them.