Silent Hill followers simply received a peek behind the scenes of the following title within the iconic horror franchise, Silent Hill f, through Konami’s Press Begin livestream on Thursday, throughout which the sport’s builders offered an in depth have a look at the key 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. “Nevertheless it stays a psychological horror expertise the place one confronts themselves inside a psychological world. Bearing in mind that it’s psychological horror, we sought to reinforce 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 through the Silent Hill Transmission livestream in October 2022, Silent Hill f is the eighth mainline Silent Hill sport, and the primary to launch since 2012’s Silent Hill Downpour. It is usually the primary Silent Hill title to happen outdoors of Maine, the place the fictional city of Silent Hill is situated. As an alternative, Silent Hill f is about in Nineteen Sixties Japan, through the Showa Period, and follows highschool pupil 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 “atypical individual,” 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 fantastically horrifying) enemies.
“A key idea in Silent Hill f is the thought of magnificence in terror,” sport director Al Yang defined. “We created our visible designs to have a definite uneasiness to them, but additionally [to] have a horrific appeal that might 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 identify and is well-known in Japan for his When They Cry visible novel sequence — defined that Nineteen Sixties Japan was chosen for a really particular cause.
“Concerning the setting, we rigorously thought of which period would offer a stage and setting that might depict the theme of the story with a better distinction, and I selected it accordingly,” scriptwriter Ryukishi07 shared. “The Showa Period, although simply half a century in the past, appears like a distinct world — one that is still linked to our current, but preserves customs and superstitions long-forgotten in trendy life.”
