Comments on: Silent Hill f was initially supposed to take on a more classic religious cult narrative, but the devs trusted global players to grasp a fully Japanese mythological worldview

By: goop

goop — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 07:56:24 +0000

I’ve platinumed this game on 2 different ps5 accounts bc it’s that good. Idk what this “mid” stuff is about, the game is great and gets better with each playthrough, each document collected, each puzzle piece put together. The ideals are great, nobody is actually “the bad guy” besides the gods you have to fight and the societal pressures/misogyny/abuse. Even kotoyuki admits he was forced into this, due to the tsuneki clan and their past with the shimizu family sacrifices and the magic spell produced in the shimizu clan blood that causes the inari god to obsessively seek out to marry whoever the “magic blood” carrying girls in the family are, and he states he would also like the chance to choose (this is in the “true ending” of the game). Shu just wanted to keep his bff, Sakuko and Rinko were just hurt and jealous and too young to express that healthily. And hinako just wanted the option to decide for herself and control her life with her own choices.

So basically, if you didn’t read all the documents and play all the ng+++++ for all the endings, then your opinion is incomplete and not based on all facts available and is, therefore, irrelevant. Or, dare I say, just flat out wrong lol

Also Japanese mythology is so much more interesting anyway. Don’t get me started on the fact that you ultimately fight a kurama and susano-o

By: rocketvader

rocketvader — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 06:20:29 +0000

small clarification that i also liked how first game handled the cult and how they re-initiated the old folktale and caused monster uprising. but after that the series needed to let loose and just go with “cult released evil, now evil is roaming in this area and taunting people mentally, and you cant really eradicate them completely”. not more and more cultists who serve no purpose really except some pointless villain dialogue

By: rocketvader

rocketvader — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 06:11:43 +0000

thank god. by 3rd game i was already tired of the cult narrative that was overdone and also a ridiculous concept. it makes sense a cult like that works for a time but over time it becomes a trope how that kind of small group isnt stopped.
the games need the concept that evil spirits are strong in themselves and dont need mere humans to call them up every corner.

2 is the best game because the cult serves no purpose, or doesnt even exist really. its just a bunch of survivors with their mental problems

By: Magicmyskin

Magicmyskin — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 13:46:12 +0000

We already knew that the right wingers calling the game woke were just too ignorant to get it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 09:57:33 +0000

That’s why the game sucks ass. They should of left theat shit out of it.

By: Tonicmole

Tonicmole — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:06:13 +0000

Pretty sure all but one Silent Hill was developed in Japan by Japanese developers. It’s inherently Japanese.

By: Bunny

Bunny — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:16:26 +0000

Suprise, surprise. Most people did not, in fact, “get” or appreciate it. Media literacy is dead and most of the people who were complaining about the game at launch didn’t even play it; they were basing their opinions off of tiktoks.

By: Amber

Amber — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 13:30:29 +0000

I was digging the story and theme. It was the fighting system on my ps5 that had me walk away

By: Abruek

Abruek — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 11:31:35 +0000

Kinda sucks that the theming and messaging went over a lot of people’s heads. The have is fantastic and does well for the franchise

By: BuLLe7 HeaD

BuLLe7 HeaD — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 08:55:26 +0000

No wonder the game was mid