Thread 725355465

it's an interesting spin on the formula but it's a bit rough around the edges. the balancing could be better

It's alright
the dream shrine sections are a little annoying and the game throws too many enemies at you near the end but I liked it

It speaks to a real problem of women being forced to marry shitty men

I watch DSP play it so I qualify as having played it, and the game is shit.

>>725355465 (OP)
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>>725355567
its shit, I refunded it.

>>725355465 (OP)
Buying this game made me realize that I'm a clown.

>>725355465 (OP)
incels who haven't played the game get triggered as fuck about it, which is hilarious. good game besides that. Just found the letter where the mom was bitching about her husband to the neighbor for throwing knifes at hinako, because if he had maimed her face they would not be able to sell her to cover his gambling debts.

1. Boring.
2. No connection to Silent Hill. Just slapped the name on for brand recognition. Should have been a new franchise.
3. The plot is boring and awful, and you have to literally play the game 4 times before it gets good. (It changes with each playthrough.)
4. The cutscenes take forever.
5. Boring.
6. Combat is "better" and thus a huge slog to go through.
7. The music is trash, save for one electric guitar track during the credits.
8. The boss fights are cinematic soulslike shit that take forever because two hysterical women have to scream at each other that daddy loved one more than the other. I'm not making that up.
9. BORING.
10. Not Silent Hill.

>>725355465 (OP)
It's sucks donkey dick. Somehow even worse trash than the SH2 demake.

>>725355707
did not play the game, post invalidated.

>>725355730
>shf torrent
is that supposed to be proof that you played it? lmao

>>725355465 (OP)
Garbage game
Bad history
UE5 graphics (bad)
Terrible combat
Horrendous design

Bad
Bad
Bad
Bad
Bad

>>725355465 (OP)
Bonnie Ross Effect

>>725355759
What's with the overreaction?

>>725355669
>knifes
lmao no wonder you like the game

>>725355850
Yeah unironically. Next time don't be indian, dhalit.

trash, didn't play

>>725355753
How is it not?
And why are Jewnami shiIIs always repeating their "lol didn't play it! :^)" mantra?

>>725355796
>valid criticism is now overreaction
You've never played a single Silent Hill game. A TEAM-Silent game, that is.

>>725355919
Who let SH4 through?

>watching a let's player play every Silent Hill game on twitch
>he goes through all of them, having a good time, even with Homecoming and Downpour and fucking Shattered Memories
>starts playing Silent Hillf
>after the second stream he goes quiet, basically says nothing for the entire stream and the rest of the streams and only reacting occasionally to stupid shit
>i can hear the contempt for the game whenever he speaks
>he reaches the ending, literally "they look like monsters to you" ending where apparently the girl massacres her entire town while hopped up on the red drugs lmao
>streamer basically explains that yeah apparently you're meant to new game plus to get new endings but "that's not for him" and this is it for silent hill f

That's my experience with this game. No desire to ever touch it myself. It looks like a terrible Silent Hill game. Maybe if they'd called it Siren instead it would've been received better.

>>725355528
quite early into game but I feel like their attempt at combat is rough too, and would have been better if it were even closer to Souls games. For examples attacks have a very short range compared to dodging, so it really feels like you have to fish for that slight edge at which attacks will connect with what I feed like a minor but noticeable target magnetism.
This and the abundant dodge spacing and slow non run speed (running is barely faster than going full speed without sprinting in Souls games) makes it feel less deliberate.

>>725355970
SH4 was great, you underaged jeet nigger.

>>725355919
>le nazis
ah i see, you're just butthurt about feminism and that's why you think the entire game is bad

>>725355739
I wrote no lies, cupcake.

>>725356068
>E. Germans
>Nazis
Typical Amerimutt / Jeet education.

>you're just butthurt about feminism
No. I loathe the Soulsborne gameplay AND pathetic, UE5, and the amateurish writing.

>Silent hill but not in Silent Hill?
>No those others ones don't count
Only just started playing and just did the 3 trials. Liking it so far, though some of the respawning enemies and poorly translated puzzles was a bit annoying.
Worth doing the lost in fog difficulty for ng+?

Seeing this game trigger the fuck out of chuds and them endlessly seething has been great fun as well.

>>725356138
>I loathe the Soulsborne gameplay AND pathetic, UE5
pathetic what?

>>725355465 (OP)
Very good altogether, probably my GotY 2025
Story and characters were all great. Combat was fun on the hardest difficulties if a bit easy, especially the dodge/counter timings. It looked beautiful and ran smoothly for being an UE5 demon.

If I had any complaints, it'd be that Yamaoka felt underutilized to the point of most of the soundtrack being forgettable, and that the shrine segments were a poor replacement for the other world segments at best and an active disruption that killed the flow of exploring the town at worst.

>>725355707
Retard who didn't play it.
I liked the initial playthrough. I get the complaints about combat, especially if you play on Hard mode from the start which is a mistake on NG, Hard should be kept for NG+. The second one was okay as there is still a lot of new notes and you can skip half the cutscenes and you can skip basically all of them on NG++ and just run through as theres isn't much new lore stuff.

The story and characters is what kept me playing. I love that you can tell if people actually played the game or didn't pay attention to whatwas happening by their opinion on the story. Its honestly one of the better video game plots of recent years and Hinako and Kotoyuki have some of the best characterisation I've seen in a game in a long time.

>>725356138
>No. I loathe the Soulsborne gameplay AND pathetic, UE5, and the amateurish writing.
Typical Amerimutt / Jeet education.

>>725356291
Point out where I didn't play it, retarded chink tranny. I didn't play it more than once. Fuck that shit. Silent Hill faggot is boring trash and you should be facing a firing squad. I'll happily fire the first bullet in your useless tranny body.

>>725356291
I am still not sure if I like the whole NG+ thing.
But then again, personally I have never really liked ng+ in any game, so it feeling forced to get the whole story and a good ending ends up feeling a bit like padding the length.

>>725355582
sybau

>>725356291
NTA, but you are just full of shit.
This sort of combat fest should NOT BE PRESENT AT ALL in a "Silent Hill" game. Period.

We went over this already 18 years ago.
You homos are now even trying to polish up fucking SH Homecoming, for fucks sake.

And as usual, all this nonstop Soulsborne-wannabeing always diminish and downgrade the actual meat and bones of survival horror: the writing, atmosphere, exploration and problem solving.

>>725356417
your chuddy rage amuses me

>>725356184
Not sure what you mean by poorly translated puzzles
You mean lightning, tree, jap spirit thing? It was quite easy to understand the message carved on the rock and find what tablets stood out with a unique design, and even on Hard the games gives the courtesy to actually take notes automatically for you.

The respawning enemy was actually blind but even then I had to avoid it only once.

>>725356486
Bitch, I'll amuse you with a bullet in your head.
Also you have been confirmed for not having played Silent Hill f, or any Silent Hill game for that matter.

>>725356512
Some of the scarecrow ones on hardmode was a pain and didn't make much sense. When a puzzle is way easier on the harder difficulty, you fucked something up.

>>725356550
noo don't shoot me with your imaginary gun haha

>>725356138
>Mentions bad writing
>Can't connect the dots

Brother, the ideological pandering is what makes it bad. They aren't 2 separate things.

>>725356586
You will never feel safe. Ever. Heh. Wouldn't want to be in your shoes right now.

Solid foundation. My only massive gripes are the enemy variety and encounter design. If you double the amount of enemy types in the game its just massively better, even with the shitty encounter design. Later on in the game, the spamming of the same shit gets old but they also block your path forward forcing you to fight

It's a good game, just not a good Silent Hill game.

>>725356574
The only one that made me guess was the last one because I didn't understand that you have to find the smiling puppet that was backstabbed
>When a puzzle is way easier on the harder difficulty, you fucked something up.
What do you mean, I only playing hard, you mean lost in the fog mode?

Every character besides Foxdude and Silent Hill girl looks the same, but it's not because I'm racist, it's just how it is.

Foxdude ritual nonsense has bad droning noise in the background that hurts my ears.

Overall I'd give it 2 pyramid heads out of 5 possible pyramid heads.

>>725356608
Wrong. The writing itself is abysmal, with zero subtlety of TS' delivery anywhere to be found. Everything is spoonfed and outright etched to the wall for you, as if things would not be fucking obvious.

>>725355970
honorary silent hill

>>725356471
The response toShort Message was terrible. People want gameplay in their game

>>725357054
Nonstop combat =/= gameplay.

Both F and ShortM are literally exact same modern shit. Neither understands nor respects Silent Hill, and both are virtue signaling trash.
One just was made for ADHD action-fags that HATE survival horror, and other for lazy normalfags who don't play games, period.

>>725357054
that gameplay is so fucking bad is unreal
>People want gameplay in their game
No they dont, they want horror in their horror game, double shit eating nigger

>>725356898
>Everything is spoonfed and outright etched to the wall for you, as if things would not be fucking obvious.
And yet people atill don't undersrand the story. I've seen people call Hinako running away with Shu the "good" ending.

>>725356471
I don't give a shit about what a Silent Hill game is supposed to be.

>>725356417
You only need to play three times. The cut scenes aren't long and you can skip most of them in NG+ (in fact you can skip the entire fox ritual section and rooms in NG+) and almost all of them in NG++. NG++ is basically just speed running the game.

As others have said, the amount of seething rage this game inspired in incels and the type of guy who uses the word "foid" is amazing. No other game I know exposes people who haven't played it like SHf

>>725355465 (OP)
Jewish propaganda

>>725356898
It's so obvious that most people seem to not understand anything that is going on at all.

>>725355465 (OP)
I liked it a lot. Hinako is a great main character and it has some cool environments/dungeons.

2>1>F>3>4 as far as mainline entries go.

>>725357298
>You only need to play three times.
Oh wow. I got it wrong by 1, that means I didn't play it according to you useless Konamichinkbitchtrannies. Up against the wall and suck my gun bullets with your cocksuckermouth. You fucking retards infuriate me with your nonsense.
>the cutscenes aren't long
I watched a fucking fox man pour water in a cup for the bitch to drink and I swear I had physically aged 10 years when it was finally over because it took so fucking long.
>hurr durr you can skip them in ng+
How the fuck does that help, you dumb bitch?

Alright fuck this shit. None of you are Silent Hill fans, that's why you all like this "hard reboot" that has nothing to do with Silent Hill other than wearing its nametag. That much is clear. Now shut the fuck up.

>>725357492
I agree with that ranking

>>725357492
>I liked it a lot. Hinako is a great main character and it has some cool environments/dungeons.

falselfagging shit eater

>>725356081
>t. Retard who didn’t play the game

>>725357517
What does SH2 have to do with Silent Hill other than using its name? There is no cult and no one even summons a single Satan.

>>725355986
>Watching let's plays
>That's my experience of video games

Could gave just posted that, no need to type out the wall of text

>>725357559
I did. It's a boring game. Too much Japanese mumbo jumbo. I'm not gonna bother with new game plus to get "better endings". I'm okay with the one where the girl has a drug-induced meltdown and kills the entire town because "they look le monsters to le you?" I'm moving on.

>>725357636
>Could gave
Back to Bombay, Dr Calcutta. A tiger ate ur familie.

I didn't like it and I think it boils down to me really liking the urban decay the series is known for visually whereas f does not really capture that style.

>>725357517
It's genuinly been such a long time since I've seen an internet tough guy. It's kind of nostalgic.

>>725357626
It takes place in Silent Hill, retard.

Checkm8.

>>725357728
Correct.

>>725357765
So if they changed the name of the town to Silent Hill. That would fix all the problems and you would now love it. Got it.

>>725357728
This would be a valid point if multiple other Solenf Hill games hadn't taken place outside of Silent Hill. Aside from exposing nogame fags it also exposes SH2R tourists.

>>725357765
Gay take

>>725357492
I loved the look of the Shrine.

>>725357746
I'll make you bleed like Hinako-chan on her wedding night except worse because I won't be gentle like Shu I'll be forceful like a rapist. Nobody will here your screams.

>>725357789
>Ebisugaoka
THIS ISN'T MY SILENT HILL
>Sirentohiru
EXCEPTIONAL GAME A RETURN TO FORM

>>725357863
BLAST STATUS: HAVING

>>725357837
the shrine felt like a nioh level but it did manage to unnerve me a lot of times

>>725355465 (OP)
I got the true ending and barely remember anything about the game

>>725357926
I hope it returns because nothing was as annoying as getting an enemy introduction which is just a forced escape sequence

Needing multiple play-throughs seems like a cumbersome way to tell a story

>>725355986
>>watching a let's player
Reminder that these are the kind of people complaining about video games

>>725355465 (OP)
Story and atmosphere good, puzzles good, combat bad

>>725355465 (OP)
The last 1/3 of the game is really rough as it is clear that they ran out of budget and just randomly threw enemies at you to kill in sealed sections
Also ng+ being 90% the same is not justifiable enough for multiple play throughs
The main message is really on the nose and I expect better from R07

>>725358029
That is unironically what movie games like Silent Hill deserve.

>>725358023
Not really if the ng+ is totally different like it usually is with VNs, but it is clear that they dont have the budget for it to have that much contents

I would've been able to enjoy the story if there wasn't so much tedious combat.
Couldn't even finish the game once before getting tired of it, 80 dollars down the drain.

Honestly, pretty disappointing. The "true ending" was not worth the time it took to get there. Not even a new final boss for that route. It feels very wishy washy for a "true ending". A return to a status quo that didn't even resolve the gods' conflict happening in the background. I did four full play thoughs and one partial playthrough because I wanted all the all the ending markings on my save file.

>>725358193
the gods dont matter, they arent real

>>725355465 (OP)
It isn't survival horror. It was souls slop with some stupid mutant looking teenage romance love triangle bullshit as the plot. Were they meant to be that ugly? Were they suppose to be kappa? They kind of looked like frogs. At least the developers got how emotionally constipated the Japanese are correct. I didn't run into the combat issues that 4chan showed. I didn't see as much feminazi propaganda as 4chan said there was, but I stopped playing at the fake candy shop in the temple complex where you change the light causing the room to change and a monster to appear right beside you.

The only plus side to it was it was the only new AAA game in the past 2 years I have played which wasn't a buggy mess.

Having monsters right behind you and you could barely see in back of your character meaning it was near impossible to dodge got pretty annoying fast. Too many times the camera was too close in close quarters making combat more challenging than it should have been.

>>725358043
I like the narritive theme that the multiple playthroughs are trying to convey with Hinako being in different states of mind about whats happening to her, but I can see the fact that they don't alter significantly until the worst parts of the game is offputting to people. As I said at least Ng+ has a LOT of new notes that explore more about the characters makes it worth it. I also find it weird that Rinko gets a shitload of characterisation and Sakuko basically just gets "I dunmo I guess she has autism lmao".

waste of a life time puzzles, no fun

>>725358250
>they arent real
Then how do you explain the doll?

>>725358165
Holy hell UE5 is such soulless sloppa.

the enemies so far seems to be staggered depending on their animation states, so you can do some looping with the basic buppets and the game seems to incentivize hopping in and out of danger zones.
I didn't really get used to waiting for the enemy counterable attacks except when using focus, rather relying on heavies to stagger.
It's a very reactive combat system and the stamina drain is quite considerable early on

>>725355465 (OP)
Does it have anything to do with the actual town of silent hill?

>>725355465 (OP)
An aggressively 5/10 game. Combat gets tedious, shrine world sections suck ass and the story is too much of a mess to be worth analyzing or committing to memory.

>>725358305
Part of her psyche that represents the desire to ‘wanting to stay in the past’

>>725358382
Directly yes.
Thematically also yes.

>>725358382
Same villain

>>725358382
Nope. But you can trace something of a lineage to Deadly Premonition if you squint and take some red seed drugs.

>>725358489
Didn't play the game.

>>725358382
The grandfather (9 tailed fox) was part of the cult

>>725358538
The entire reason the game is happening is that Hinako's dickhead best friend is feeding her white claudia his famoly cultivated after it was imported from Silent Hill.

she's the monster, if you think she was right, you are retarded, this said, the game does a poorly attempt at telling you this
Walter Sullivan didn't got his own game, and that's another one for the pile of the real tragedy that his life is.

>>725355465 (OP)
I loved the setting and atmosphere. The story was fine as well, but I just couldn't stand the combat, so I quit fairly early on. Maybe about 6 hours or so into it.

>>725358842
>but I just couldn't stand the combat, so I quit fairly early on.
Elaborate
I'm interested in what people who abandoned it for the combat think about it specifically

>>725355465 (OP)
I didn't play it but thought it was great fun

>>725359036
The combat is janky. The game and general gaming conventions imply that Story mode is easy mode so a lot of people start on Hard mode. Hard mode is very clearly intended for when you have a bunch of accessories and stat increases and is for NG+ but a lot of people just push through on Hard because they don't realise that Story isn't baby mode, its normal mode and their silly "gamer pride" won't let them adjust the difficulty.

>>725359174
Hard is perfectly manageable on a first playthrough.

>>725359036
It was janky. But the main problem is that it made the game feel more like an action game. There wasn't really any tension, or "horor" because of it.

>>725355465 (OP)
Very good story
Wonderful atmosphere
Great photorealism

But:
Clumsy fight, more than SH2 remake
Copy paste of environments the whole game

More AA game than AAA.
Also I was afraid the game falls in "men are le bad" but it's only one guy who is bad.

>>725359228
I never said it wasn't, I just said Story is better and less annoying the first time around

>>725359228
Barely. I ran out of weapons at the home. I probably missed some weapons/toolkits and the game did give me a new crowbar for the mom+dad boss, but it was clear that you needed more omamoris for this difficulty

>>725359162
Stay stronk sistahs!

>>725357492
f is not mainline tho what are you on about

>>725357728
Silent Hill is the concept of the drifting and overlapping worlds of consciousness. Even if the game takes place in Japan, the phenomenon is 100% the same one, Hinako visits the same otherworld(s)

>>725361403
>didn't play any of the other games

>>725355465 (OP)
Its not survival horror

>>725361646
It is

>>725361487
So which of the Silent Hill games counts as Silent Hill? I assume only 1 and 3.

>>725362328
It really is not survival horror.

Fox Arm combat was cool. i actually wish they would develop a full on action game with the same graphics style and improved combat

>>725362564
It really is
In fact hard mode really strains your resources and forces you to give up items to obtain Elden Ring talismans and find toolkits
Fuck it might be the only survival horror ever made

>>725362791
Onomoris can be super legit. Particularly my boy Otter. But you also get the best two in the story (Hawk and Wolf)

>>725362791
Real survival horror is an adventure game with horror elements and an adventure game is heavy on puzzle solving and exploration with little combat. The game is an action heavy slog fest with occasional puzzles and barely there exploration. You even relate it to a souls slop. If this game is survival horror then all souls slops are survival horror.

>>725355465 (OP)
All these retards who """"played""""" the game and saying the story was good/great are absolute morons.
>marriage baaad
thats all you need to know about the pathetic story. Fuck that cocksucker Ryukishit.
This is in the top 3 worst stories in ANY and every silent hill game.
>>725357953
This anon is correct, it's just THAT pathetic.

>>725363763
>>marriage baaad
Guess how I know YOU didn't play the game?

Fantastic game. Way better than the shit Silent Hill 2 remake where you have to kill 400+ enemies to complete the game. There are issues, namely with the combat near the end being really annoying but overall I loved it. Best Silent Hill game since 3.

>>725364024
In the true ending she does self-partner like Emma Watson so.....and the marriage ending which is considered the bad ending her independent human side represented as a mask is crushed under foot screaming in agony. They definitely weren't pro marriage. Even in the childhood friend ending which is the good ending they indicate they are dead from geyser poisoning. In no ending where she ends up with a man is it happy. Only happy ending is you marry yourself and go off with yourself.

>>725364521
I am starting to think that maybe 15 year olds getting married could be a bad thing.

>>725355465 (OP)
Surprisingly good. I was worried about the combat after the trailers, but it's actually fun and challenging. You also don't feel the slowmo at all when playing and focused. The location and enemy design are amazing and I would argue the best in the series or at least on par with SH1/3.
>inb4 muh sh2 symbolism

The story is also very good and far from being a dumbed down marriage bad like people who haven't played it claim. Besides, it's just SH3 with slightly different themes in this regard, so fuck off.

>>725365320
They never state her age and the narrative at times almost seems like an older woman looking back. Only thing for sure is she is past junior high.

>It's all a dream-ahhh trauma
fuck this game

>>725366213
but enough about silent hill 2

>>725357492
1 > 3 > 2 > F > 4
I still like 4 tho.

>>725366497
everything in silent hill 2 actually happened, the hellish monster and otherworld is exclusive to the sinner

>>725355465 (OP)
Not as good as the first 4 games. Not as bad as the later SH games made outside Japan.

the story was super disappointing to me, my first silent hill game btw. Will play the others for sure.

>>725366982
play 1 first, then you can either skip around some or play them in order.

>>725355465 (OP)
Okay puzzles. Boring and tedious other world sections that make subsequent runs a chore to sit through. Combat that is neither clunky and optional enough to feel survival horror nor well-tweaked to be a full-on enjoyable action game. Hiding better endings behind a NG+ and giving you the same ending on your first run disregarding how well you've been exploring the world is shit decision ("le endless cycle" shit started with SH2R is a terrible idea in general).

>>725364521
The true ending is Hinako and Kotoyuki realising they probably DO want to get married but they were both abused and manipulated and want to be sure their feelings for each other are real amd nlt the product of outside forces telling them it is (as they've known each other since childhood and been sending letters to each other for years it's likely real) before commiting. Hinako also resolves her fead of marrige and gets over her fear of men. It's wild that the game is so on the nose but people still misunderstsmd it.

>>725368080
Who knew that a bunch of autistic, emotionally stunted anons would miss the obvious story about emotional growth?

>>725355465 (OP)
I didn't play it.
It looks lame as hell, those are my thoughts OP.