Silent Hill f Is Combat Heavy Because 'Challenging Action Games Are Gaining Popularity Among Younger Players Nowadays'

We've already heard a batch astir however Silent Hill f hopes to acceptable itself isolated from its predecessors, peculiarly by honing successful connected its Japanese roots. But it's besides hoping to basal retired to debar "clone" comparisons to Silent Hill 2, and entreaty to younger players by racheting up the combat.

Silent Hill bid shaper Motoi Okamoto and Silent Hill f manager Al Yang person been making the rounds conscionable recently, and an interrogation has popped up astatine Game*Spark. Okamoto discussed that whilst his aims for the remake of Silent Hill 2 were to respect the root material, for f, he's funny successful "more entertaining and thrilling action."

"Inserting much entertaining and thrilling enactment into Silent Hill f was an thought I had ever since the aboriginal phases of the development," Okamoto said, arsenic transcribed by Automaton.

"And, since NeoBards is simply a institution that’s tremendously bully astatine making enactment games, this is besides 1 of the reasons wherefore we decided to take them arsenic the developers.

"The Silent Hill bid isn’t considered a crippled that has entertaining enactment per se, but arsenic we’re opening our doors to caller players, we began to wonderment what it would beryllium similar if we added much of those elements into the game.” Okamoto added.

"Challenging enactment games are gaining popularity among younger players nowadays, truthful I believed that if we implemented specified elements into the game, it would resonate good adjacent with radical who are caller to the series."

Yang added: "We didn’t privation to extremity up recreating Silent Hill 2 implicit and implicit again, and we were alert that determination was nary crushed to support making clones of it. So, successful bid to debar repeating what erstwhile large titles did, we decided to marque the enactment basal retired more."

Silent Hill f is not a sequel to immoderate of the existing Silent Hill games. Instead, it volition connection a standalone communicative "independent from the series." That came from steadfast Konami itself, which yet confirmed connected X/Twitter that the latest instalment of the fearfulness bid — which is usually, if not always, based successful a sleepy edifice municipality connected east-coast America — volition beryllium "a wholly caller title" that "people who person ne'er played the Silent Hill bid tin enjoy."

Okamoto said that tougher combat, with the visuals and music's "juxtaposition betwixt quality and terror," on with the "terrible quality of the game’s monster design," makes for a terrifying adventure. Even the puzzles are seemingly "grounded successful intelligence anguish and suffering."

Higurashi and When They Cry creator Ryukishi07 besides precocious opened up astir penning Silent Hill f, likening the game's supernatural and intelligence elements to, uh, "salad dressing." The writer explained that it would initially beryllium hard for players to separate betwixt the game's supernatural and intelligence fearfulness motifs, arsenic they'll often consciousness similar 1 and the same. As the crippled progresses, however, players volition recognize much of what's going connected —and it's present that the crippled "will beryllium similar a crockery dressing", helium said.

Silent Hill f takes america to 1960s Japan, wherever we'll travel Hinako Shimizu, a teen struggling nether the unit of expectations from her friends, family, and society. As displayed astatine the opening of the Japanese-language uncover trailer backmost successful March, it is the archetypal Silent Hill crippled to get an 18+ standing certification successful Japan. It's retired for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series connected September 25.

Vikki Blake is simply a newsman for IGN, arsenic good arsenic a critic, columnist, and advisor with 15+ years acquisition moving with immoderate of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.