It has been a great lengthy whereas since Silent Hill f was unveiled as a part of Konami’s four-game sequence revival again in 2022. However now that Bloober Staff’s very good Silent Hill 2 Remake is behind us, the writer is popping its consideration to its curious Japan-set follow-up. And due to its newest Silent Hill Transmissions stream, we have got an eerie new trailer and some extra hints at what’s in retailer.
Again throughout its preliminary 2022 announcement, Konami revealed Silent Hill f is being developed by Neobards Leisure (which has beforehand served as a assist studio for Capcom’s Resident Evil video games), with creature and character design by Kera, and a script by When They Cry author Ryukishi07. And courtesy of its newest replace, now know just a little extra.
Silent Hill f is, for example, set within the Nineteen Sixties and the agricultural city of Ebisugaoka – primarily based on Kanayama, Gero within the Gifu Prefecture. Right here, we meet our protagonist Shimizu Hinako, an “peculiar teenager” who instantly finds her dwelling shrouded in fog and adjusted in “horrific” methods. Because the occasions of Silent Hill f play out, she’ll discover a city she not recognises, fixing puzzles, preventing unusual enemies, and ultimately having to make a “lovely but terrifying” choice that lies on the coronary heart of the sport.
That concept of “magnificence in terror” is a theme Konami and the event group repeatedly highlighted throughout its newest Transmissions episode, explaining that whereas Silent Hill f retains the weather of psychological horror long-time followers will related to the sequence, it additionally offers with some extra classically Japanese concepts, such because the notion that “when one thing turns into too lovely and ideal, it as a substitute turns into deeply unsettling”.
Addressing Silent Hill f’s doubtlessly controversial shift away from the titular city that is been the main target of the sequence since its first outing in 1999, Ryukishi07 defined that whereas Silent Hill might be thought-about a bodily place with a darkish historical past, it is equally a sequence “about portraying characters’ struggles with the evil inside themselves – sin, discontent, and battle – in a visually hanging approach”. And this, he famous, is an idea Silent Hill f retains, including, “It is a gateway into the psychological battles of the human thoughts.”
Konami additionally confirmed the return of long-time Silent Hill composer Akira Yamaoka, though this time he’ll solely be creating music for Ebisugaoka’s Fog World. Music for its Otherworld (often known as the Darkish Shrine in Silent Hill f) will probably be composed by Kensuke Inage, whose musical credit embrace Tekken 8, Samurai Showdown, and Star Fox Guard. In a message shared throughout the stream, Inage defined his music will use “imagery from shrines, mixing historic Japanese court docket music with ambient echoes”, all interwoven with strategies meant to attach the participant to the protagonist’s “agonist, inner battle, worry, and different feelings.”
Elsewhere, Konami teased “creatures that basically infiltrate gamers’ psyches”, alongside some easter eggs for long-time followers to uncover, regardless of Silent Hill f’s new setting. And that is just about all we’re getting for now. Silent Hill f would not have a launch date but, nevertheless it’s set to return to PlayStation 5, Xbox Collection X/S, and PC, with Konami saying it’s going to have “lots extra to share sooner or later”. And till then, there’s new trailer, which you’ll be able to watch above.
Silent Hill f was one in every of 4 new Silent Hill video games to be revealed again in 2022. PS5 freebie Silent Hill: The Quick Message and Bloober Staff’s Silent Hill 2 Remake launched final yr, and its fourth venture, Silent Hill: Townfall, is being developed by Tales Untold and Remark developer No Code. Annapurna Interactive remains to be set to function writer, regardless of a “mass exodus” of workers on the finish of final yr.
