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Yup, dunno why they put the SH name on this. It's a pretty ham-fisted take on school bullying and suicide IMO. I got 20 mins into it and then deleted it.
I got through it, to give it a chance, but the main character was a bore, and the whole thing really is a suicide hotline PSA.
You'd think with all that concentration on the "essence" of the series that they'd have any clue what that meant. "Modernizing" things for "modern" people and "modern" problems is why things keep failing. People's problems haven't changed, and the essence of that series isn't being "psychologically hemmed in a corner." The essence of that game is it scared the otherworldly piss out of me. That's it. A Silent Hill game that isn't scary ... at all ... is beyond stupid.
You can see all the tourists in that thread parroting how the games were always about that. I'm sure they have only watched video essays about SH2. SH2 was the only game you could argue where the main character was dealing with trauma if you're only analyzing it on the surface level. You have to ignore all the other lore presented in the game to come to that conclusion, though.
Don't you just love when apologists defend trash? The game is essentially ruined if this is the new direction they're expanding upon. I've been playing these games since I was a kid and this feels like betrayal. I wouldn't even care if that they were focusing on "suicide" and other topics if there was an actual Silent Hill game in there, but there isn't. The comments I see defending this crap are obnoxious. I'm tired of being hit over the head with an agenda in games. I play games to escape. This game just makes my eyes roll so hard I can see my brain.
Now, now ... don't be a stinky meanie.