Silent Hill followers simply received a peek behind the scenes of the subsequent title within the iconic horror franchise, Silent Hill f, by way of Konami’s Press Begin livestream on Thursday, throughout which the sport’s builders supplied an in depth have a look at the most important theme of the sport: magnificence in terror.
“The setting of Silent Hill f has shifted from the city of Silent Hill to Japan,” sequence producer Motoi Okamoto stated. “But it surely stays a psychological horror expertise the place one confronts themselves inside a psychological world. Considering that it’s psychological horror, we sought to boost the essence of Japanese-style horror. The hallmark of Japanese horror just isn’t merely grotesqueness, however the coexistence of magnificence and the disturbing. We’re creating this title with the idea: ‘Discover the sweetness in terror.’”
First introduced throughout the Silent Hill Transmission livestream in October 2022, Silent Hill f is the eighth mainline Silent Hill recreation, and the primary to launch since 2012’s Silent Hill Downpour. It’s also the primary Silent Hill title to happen outdoors of Maine, the place the fictional city of Silent Hill is situated. As a substitute, Silent Hill f is ready in Sixties Japan, throughout the Showa Period, and follows highschool scholar Hinako Shimizu, who should navigate her (fictional) hometown of Ebisugaoka, which has been overtaken by mysterious fog and unusual monsters.
The sport’s builders described Hinako as an “bizarre particular person,” in Silent Hill’s custom, including that they tailor-made the sport’s fight to be easy and plausible — in any case, you’re taking part in as a teenage woman armed with nothing however a metal pipe — whereas nonetheless difficult the participant to face off with highly effective (and sometimes superbly horrifying) enemies.
“A key idea in Silent Hill f is the thought of magnificence in terror,” recreation director Al Yang defined. “We created our visible designs to have a definite uneasiness to them, but in addition [to] have a horrific allure that may make it so that you simply couldn’t cease staring.”
As for the sport’s main change in setting, scriptwriter Ryukishi07 — who goes by his pen title and is well-known in Japan for his When They Cry visible novel sequence — defined that Sixties Japan was chosen for a really particular cause.
“Concerning the setting, we rigorously thought-about which period would offer a stage and atmosphere that might depict the theme of the story with the next distinction, and I selected it accordingly,” scriptwriter Ryukishi07 shared. “The Showa Period, although simply half a century in the past, seems like a distinct world — one that continues to be related to our current, but preserves customs and superstitions long-forgotten in trendy life.”
