New particulars about what's in retailer for the horrors ready inside Silent Hill f have emerged, and they make it clear that developer NeoBards Entertainment is maintaining in step with the sequence' tone.
Warning! The following descriptions include some grotesque particulars concerning the content material of Silent Hill f, which is able to entail potential spoilers and mature content material.
Konami aired its latest Silent Hill Transmission broadcast just last week, sharing more particulars concerning the upcoming Silent Hill f. Developed by NeoBards, set in a mountain city in Nineteen Sixties Japan, and written by Higurashi and Umineko writer Ryukishi07, Silent Hill f seems to be to be an attention-grabbing new enterprise for the horror sequence.
The broadcast didn't embody a lot in the best way of gameplay although. In lieu of that, followers have been poring over the content material warnings and ESRB score for Silent Hill f, each of that are stay and present some surprisingly detailed descriptions of what terrors wait in the city of Ebisugaoka.
Over on the ESRB web site, Silent Hill f garnered a Mature 17+ score for "Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Partial Nudity." None of that by itself is very shocking, but it surely's the score abstract that provides some more element:
"This is a survival-horror action game in which players assume the role of a student confronting supernatural entities in a 1960s Japanese mountain town. From a third-person perspective, players explore the town, solve puzzles, interact with characters, and battle enemy creatures (e.g., humanoid monsters, mutants, mythical creatures).
"Players use axes, crowbars, knives, and spears to defend towards and kill enemy creatures in melee-style fight. Blood-splatter results happen regularly as characters are attacked; a number of areas depict massive bloodstains in the atmosphere and close to corpses. Some enemy assaults may end up in gamers' character getting impaled in the neck and/or getting their faces ripped aside.
"Cutscenes sometimes depict gore and more intense acts of violence: a character burned alive inside a cage; a woman branded by a hot iron; entrails and sinew displayed on serving platters in fantastical celebration/ceremony; a character sawing off her own arm; a character slicing off portions of a character's face during a ritual. Concept art depicts a nude mannequin-like character, with exposed buttocks and partially exposed breasts; the character appears in a creature-like form throughout the game."
Faces ripped aside, scorching irons, and a character sawing off their arm definitely paint a grotesque image. Silent Hill f may get fairly gnarly, even by Silent Hill's requirements. It is, after all, the first game in the series to earn a CERO:Z in Japan, an 18+ score; the others have usually garnered CERO:C or CERO:D, that are 15+ and 17+, respectively.
Silent Hill f may be coping with some heavy topics and imagery too. For that, we will take a look at the game's content material warning, displayed on each the official site and the Steam store page:
"This game contains depictions of gender discrimination, child abuse, bullying, drug-induced hallucinations, torture, and graphic violence. This game is set in Japan in the 1960s and contains depictions based on the customs and culture of that time. These depictions do not reflect the opinions or values of the developers or any individuals involved. If you feel uncomfortable at any point while playing, please take a break from playing or speak to someone you trust."
Between the precise bodily horror and tackling these sorts of themes, Silent Hill f definitely looks like it's participating with the type of materials you'd count on in a Silent Hill. For horror followers, that's hopefully a good signal.
Silent Hill f has no release date in the meanwhile, although having an ESRB score this detailed definitely suggests it's not far off. It's at present concentrating on PS5, Xbox Series X and S, and PC when it does launch.
Eric is a freelance author for IGN.