I'll write "I hate myself" on my forehead if I don't.

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I’m doing my part!

I vote toaster in the bathtub. A forgotten, dare I say "hidden gem" life solution.

Hey I said the same thing on another channel 😂 glad I'm not the only one who saw the resemblance.

@@Kurgan0822 Same feeling here. I had to call a friend just to make sure he knew how pathetic this game is and about my comparison. We have the unique ability of recognizing shitty material, maybe Konami could hire us to avoid green-lighting games like this.

😂 exactly

My thoughts exactly! Why is it that nowadays most movies, shows and games that depict the topic of "self deletion" do such a poor job i.e. are even worse copies of 13 Reasons Why?

Yes, 13 reasons why they want a new demographic.

My favorite part was walking down the halls of a school while looming shadow figures at each side berate the main character. It took me hours of intense research to figure out the deeper meaning of scenes like that, but I still feel like I only scratched the surface! Am looking forward to the debates and speculation surrounding this masterpiece for decades to come.

Didn’t something kinda similar happen at the end of silent hill 2 with the fake wife Mary

​@fulltimeslackerii8229 No, the game left it up to the player's assumptions when you first meet Maria, and then the plot gives hints to what Maria represents with subtle hints as the game goes on towards the end.

⁠@@QueenSydon After the first section I was hoping the message of the game as a whole wouldn’t just be “bullying is bad, and social media can take a toll on your mental health” … it felt like somebody said “let’s make an interactive generic PSA with a couple of jump scares”.

you can see it in his eyes, it's all so tiresome to him lmao

The guy is tired of every obsessed SH fan tweeting and asking him questions and inserting their own fan canon onto his work to where he has to keep setting the record straight to those folks. It's a weird game that doesn't need to be fully examined under a microscope. I'd get burned out and frustrated, too.

Just glad she didn't have powers like Alessia. Alessia tried to contain everything horrible that happened inside Silent Hill until everything could be resolved(Heather). Now someone like Anita with that kind of power. . .

You unironically had an idea that would've made the game much, much more interesting, nuanced and subtle. Amilia could've been another "fake" created in the same manner as the doppelganger of James' wife was made. A creation meant to torment Anita by showing her something/someone who represents everything they wanted deep down by twisting their desires.

Amelie and Maya seemed like that from the start, but you later found out what her real lives are like. If Amelie was a ideal personality, then why did she have flaws?

King is still on top

Glad I wasn't the only one noticing the Swery influence on AW2.

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Where were you the last 20 yrs from SH lol

Really? Because I'm pretty sure in the last 10 years we've had Disco elysium, Cyberpunk 2077, Blade Runner 2049, GOW2018, Witcher 3, Arrival, Better Call Saul, Succession, RDR2 and many more projects with great writing. If all you're gonna look at is garbage then that's all you're going to find.

@@Dr.Yakub22 Even some of those are debatable, yet still slim pickings compared to the majority of blockbusters. Believe me I’m not looking for garbage, because I have no interest in supporting it.

@@Playerz714 You mean when the western titles came out? This makes the western Silent Hill games look like a masterpiece.

Yup. I remember that there were a couple of young teenage girls who wanted to do "self deletion" because they took inspiration from 13RW. But SH:TSM takes the triggerwarnings to a whole new level.

That can be it. It's happened before with Doki Doki Litature Club.

But all the warnings give me the twisted desire to do it and mention the annoying warnings directly in my note xD

I've noticed it appears in basically any media involving suicide or otherwise self harming. It may be an industry thing. I wonder if this appears in Asian or European versions of the game.

One of the best Silent Hill games could also be considered "teen drama", this fails because it's bad, not because of its themes.

I'm still curious to try the Remake of 2 and f. Townfall is the big unknown atm. I am hopeful Konami & Bloober are taking (rational) feedback about the projects.

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I think they're worried that, once you play this game for a few hours, you won't want to live anymore.

Even before Alessia went nuclear that place was bad news. Mary and James used Silent Hill for vacations and getaways before Alessia did what she did. Harry's wife also got sick and died sometime after finding Cheryl.

I didn't even see the thing that connected covid to silent hill in the game so I wasn't too against it in my playthrough. But seeing that is.....yikes

Well, let me tell you about the nurse that gave me the first does of the Moderna vaccine....

I wouldn't be surprised if they went that route. Covid happened because of Silent Hill and the first victim was Mary.

I hope for civilization's sake that teenage girls aren't THAT dumb.

That's exactly how silent hill fans behave, so yes 😂

you just needed to take a look back to silent hill 3 with Heather to do way better than this but at least they had balls to talk about this though topic i give them that.

​@@Danysh01 gross. what kind of sick freak would do something like that?

@@TemmiePlays as I say they didn't doing well because wasn't the right way to aboard this topic they had good intentions I guess that's why I'd say silent hill 3 does it better than this game I'm not glorifying anything at all About this sensitive issues you might be get me wrong man.

Silent Hill: Safe and Effective

You mean Soul Hackers? I imagine something like The Silver Case instead rather than town it shapes society

Always felt that while Heather stopped the cult she didn't stop Silent Hill as evident in The Room. A great conclusion to the series would be a now adult Heather realizing this. It becomes a final battle between Heather and Silent Hill. Heather either shuts down the place for good or Silent Hill absorbs Heather which means nothing can stop it from going global.

lost it at the covid references. Its 2024. everyones been over it for 2 years now

Also comes off as these companies making assumptions of victims instead of digging in, researching or asking.

Lol doesn't seem like those types could be help anyway.... Offering help caused them to do it, is such cope😂

Not to mention they consistently show it after the triggering imagery lmao. Like "yeah I hope that suicide scene didn't bother you haha"

Its just virtue signaling to twitter crowd. They dont care does it work or doesnt

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It's coming to PC though? It's only on ps 5 for now

@@watchmehope6560that would just make everything worse

I would have preferred if the ghost of TuPac showed up to stop the bullies

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Ngl this one cracked me up

The TLJ of Silent Hill. What a time to be alive, eh?

When you're too dumb to realize anything is ever about anything, you're gonna think it's the first thing to ever be about something when it just tells you what it's about.

Im sorry to say friend, but you're doomed

Watch some Rocko's Modern Life and return balance to your life

@@HikikomoriMedia being a 90's kid, I have absorbed all of Rocko's modern life ( even the two banned episodes ) and I never watched the reboot movie lol.

I've never seen any of these things in modern media and I consume plenty of it.

@@Peasham Then you are either very lucky or exactly the target audience, and if I was you I'd feel insulted over that.

@@Peasham I mean, you'd have to be pretty ignorant not to notice all the god-damn virtue-signalling and messaging in modern media.

I mean, you'd have to be pretty ignorant NOT to notice the virtue-signalling and insultingly in your face messaging in modern media.

@@dieyng "These things don't exist" "Then you're exactly the target audience for these things" ??

I’m not too familiar with silent hill but isn’t silent hill a psychological state and not a real place? In silent hill 2, the little girl didn’t see anything while James did because he was trying to cope with snuffing his wife

@@fulltimeslackerii8229 No, Silent Hill is absolutely a real place, with a vague supernatural power to it. The little girl simply isn't affected by this power while James is, why that's the case is subject to debate. In 1, 3, and 4, the characters are pretty mentally sound yet experience it as well, it's only really in SH2(and later games copying 2 because it's the most popular one) that the psychological state matters.

My pleasure!

Ofc pepl would thinking it's comical until they feel one

@@ScaryMyGodYoureDevine The amount of hate she gets for no reason is very funny because it makes no sense storywise

because she had a witch grandmother, she was pregnant to a boy that maybe let go of her because she is "Asian".

I think teenage girls of this generation and their problems are somehow less relatable and more self centered than that of heather’s in 3 though like… you also understood the struggle of being just a woman and a girl in life w heather and being a teenager but Anita in SM was just… like we’ve been there heard that, it’s constantly portrayed to us in media but somehow no one seems to get proper help to grow from their issues like Anita and it gets old, and heather somehow overcame herself in 3 if I remember correctly like there was a good ending? I haven’t finished the video ^ but if I do remember Anita like killed her friend? Or killed herself? Idk like what is that? I genuinely don’t remember the endings tho so I am butchering everything probably but I just didn’t like the idea of digital envy being a plot point personally and it seemed selfish and narcissistic and I disliked the portrayal of young women in this game. They got heather spot on and the idea of being a female in society but Anita? Boo

honestly, i was sickened by the inclusion of the lockdowns and covid in the story bc like. IMMEDIATELY dating your game... and its ALREADY feeling outdated at that LOL.

Imagine if you wasn't reaching SO hard.... Like, really just imagine 🤔

You should have kept this one chief. Lame comment.

@@terrencepoinsett4169you really thought you slayed with that one 💅

The younger generation of gamers deserve better. Try out some challenging themes. Take a risk. It's patronizing to spoon-feed Zoomers the plot, assuming they aren't capable of relating.

@@HikikomoriMedia We don't even like it either, at least speaking to my experiences. Older generations perceive us as just some slop consuming audience that can't think for themselves and yes there are people like that but me and most my friends tend to love challenging media, even just looking at how big film is with this gen is proof we like more depth. Silent Hill is one of my favorite series for the depth and ambition of the original games (and arguably Shattered Memories) and that's just entirely gone now, as is the relation to the themes. I find it infinitely easier to relate to say Heather, Angela, James, or even ShatMemz Cheryl than I do whatever this 13 Reasons Why garbage is.

The whole target audience excuse is utter bollocks most of the times anyway. I never smothered a deathly ill loved one and still managed to empathise with James just fine.

@@JustFun-ho6qy It's just a poor attempt to shut down criticism.

Dude 98% think it's dumb there's just a lot of corporate shilld on the "official channels" like the subreddit. I think they're bots.

Those aren't Silent Hill fans. They're Zoomers who never played a single Silent Hill game, but pretend to be fans because its trendy. Its the equivalent of the "Earthbound Fan Excited to Play The Game for the Very First Time" meme .

@@NihilisticIdealist 100% true. It’s just that’s what the majority of the scene revolving SH is totally saturated in. It’s nice to see there’s legit fans out there who grew up with the shit. I wish they would have just left it all alone at this point lol. And this game basically retcons all of SH lore and deduces it to a phenomenon created people by people who were so sad from the pandemic. Lamest thing imaginable.

​@@Mr.HollywoodIt was never really implied as such. They said the phenomenon originated from the town itself.

Who is saying that I swear SH die hards are some weird

Agreed. Even Afraid Of Monsters (which is about addiction) does SH more justice. And the Doom 2 mod Total Chaos feels like like bringing back gameplay mechanics from Silent Hill Cold Heart (a unreleased SH entry) such as scavenging for items

I'm sorry but Cry of Fear is about as subtle as this lmfao

@@Peasham no, not really

@@Peasham cry of fear is much more subtle than this, the dialogue while corny is much less in your face

I wish it was fine

That's an excellent point. I think even a simple menu item "sensitive content disclosure" that you could click if you need further clarification about the games' content, instead of treating the player with a one size fits all approach would do wonders. 4 warnings is a tad excessive IMO

Did he say it was rough?

​@@RKICfinally played it. Now I understand why my dog just kept giving me the suicide hotline number.

Shonenslop aren't even this hamfisted.

You clearly don't watch anime or you'd know how wrong this statement is.

@@ElectricBarrier Shut up, weeb.

I wish it was. At least it would’ve engaged my brain.

Why is the lip syncing so fucked up then?

I just checked, and the actor does not know how to speak English. She is literally dubbed over.

@@ExpertContrarian Game was made on the cheap in all likelihood. Proper lip sync is one of the more difficult part of animating a 3D model, and everyone involved aside from some of the voice actors were Japanese. As for the live action scenes, the bad lip sync is definitely more egregious I suppose. But, my point is just that there is no Japanese VO option. The Japanese version of the game just uses Japanese subtitles, which is a staple for many horror games in Japan, such as Resident Evil / Biohazard (before 2012) and Devil May Cry.

@@kuropiko no, you’re missing the point. The lip-synching is bad because she’s speaking Japanese. She cannot speak English. It does not make any sense why they would have her speak Japanese and then dub over her.

@@ExpertContrarian Well, it makes sense in that they were likely limited on staff they had that could act for the camera on location in Japan. It's odd, sure, but this isn't really that exceptional.

To me, Silent Hill was structured as a gradual series of confusing moments and eventual understanding. Silent Hill was dense with symbolism and hidden subtext, which often couldn't be recognized until the subsequent play though. Short Message has failed in that regard.