Fandom split on Silent Hill f's "soulslike" combat

The Silent Hill fandom is seemingly break up as soon as once more, this time over Silent Hill f’s “soulslike” fight.

As increasingly more teasers and pictures pop up on-line within the run-up to twenty fifth September’s launch day, followers are getting caught into all the brand new gameplay. However whereas we already knew the fight would have a “heavier deal with melee and be extra action-oriented in comparison with final yr’s Silent Hill 2”, followers are involved about how enemies react, degradable weapons, and “soulslike” boss encounters.

“The sport is wanting unimaginable total when it comes to element and high quality. The quantity of labor the devs have put in is absolutely spectacular. That stated, I’m a bit anxious about how the fight is shaping up, particularly, how enemies react (or don’t react) when taking hits,” stated one participant.

“Why, I can not man[s] please do not inform me it is true,” lamented one fan. “I like this collection and I am actually hyped for the sport, however please sport devs, do not take this route, do not sacrifice what this collection is know [sic] for to development chase. Do not alienate your viewers. I am truthfully scared if that is the course there [sic] taking this collection.”

“The fight definitely considerations me. Even when it finally ends up being wonderful, I really feel apprehensive a few Silent Hill sport having fight that evokes the counter timings of Sekiro,” added another person. “Hopefully they pull a Bloober and show me flawed. On the very least, I hope it’s a very good horror sport even when it finally ends up failing as a Silent Hill sport.”

To be truthful, this is not the primary time the collection has dabbled with degradable weapons – Silent Hill 4: The Room and Silent Hill Origins did, too, though how profitable that was lies within the eye of the participant, I assume. The issue for some, nonetheless, is how these degradable weapons may inhibit exploration.

“I might prefer to scour the in-game world and choose up all the main points/memos, but when I am burning by way of my respectable weapons at each cease to take action, I am ultimately gonna cease exploring to preserve assets,” urged one fan.

As for the opposite complaints? Nicely, there have been loads of these for Silent Hill 2 Remake within the run-up to launch, and that turned out to be certainly one of my favorite video games in years (and what I feel is the one 5/5 I’ve awarded in all of the years I’ve reviewed right here). So the excellent news is, no matter how the previews are making followers really feel, September will likely be right here earlier than we all know it.

Silent Hill f was unveiled as a part of Konami’s four-game collection revival again in 2022, however it took till the center of March 2025 to get an replace. Now that Bloober Workforce’s excellent Silent Hill 2 Remake is behind us, the writer is popping its consideration to its mysterious follow-up, a brand new mainline instalment set in Nineteen Sixties Japan.

It 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.

As Matt not too long ago summarised for us, Silent Hill f’s occasions are unfolding within the rural city of Ebisugaoka – based mostly on Kanayama, Gero, within the Gifu Prefecture – the place our protagonist Shimizu Hinako, an “odd teenager”, finds her house shrouded in fog and adjusted in “horrific” methods. As Silent Hill f play out, she’ll discover a city she now not recognises, fixing puzzles, preventing unusual enemies, and ultimately having to make a “stunning but terrifying” choice that lies on the coronary heart of the sport.