Silent Hill Heaven

I mean it's not like fans will get to write the choices. It's going to be a story that's livestreamed that the chat can make decisions in. But I'm sure those decisions are pre-determined. They're going to make everything for every choice anyway, it's been said we can see the outcomes not chosen afte...

Granted, besides the bathroom scene there are very good reasons for James to look as upset as that in those moments. His facial expression is more understated during the apartment encounter with PH. Sure but I think it's turned up to a 11 a little too much in every scene. Like part of the whole sto...

I think it would be interesting is James looked sad/shaky in the bathroom and then normal when he walks out or something but from what we've seen he looks ready to have a break down in every scene... it's a bit much, to be honest.

Regardless of what you think about the timeline and Ito's comments vs later games, nothing the remake does is really going to replace the original in terms of canon to the series as it's been. Original is always going to be the main source.

The more times goes on the more I feel like Origins is my least favorite in the series almost because it tried and failed to capture the gameplay of the original games. It was just the same thing but worse. The exploration was worse, the monsters were annoying, the Otherworld mechanic missed the poi...

Honestly I'm not a big fan of the over the top emotions James is displaying. It's not enough to ruin the game for me if everything else is great but James looking like he's on the verge of tears in every scene isn't as interesting as the disconnected and slightly confused portrayal he originally had...

I don't think it's Ascension. No Code are very much doing their own thing and that's a full game. We know Sakura was meant to be a short PT-style teaser for the announcement of the series returning. It's possible it's been repurposed/evolved into whatever "The Short Message" was but it's a...

So while all my initial focus was on my shock of who was writing this game, it's worth also taking a lot at who the actual development team working on it are. There isn't much to say here though because they are shockingly new. They formed in 2017, are based out of Taiwan, and as far as I can tell t...

Yeah I definitely hear what people are hearing but it's also possible that it's something else. I didn't hear it until I was looking for it so my brain could just be doing the work here.

Japanese Developed Silent Hill - this was a huge part of the rumors prior to yesterday's reveals. Every time the Bloober Team SH2 and Annapurna SH project were mentioned, the leakers also said "and there's a major Silent Hill game being developed in Japan with a Japanese studio". However,...

All the actors they got for the HD Collection were great actors, super famous and well known to anyone familiar with video game or anime actors. They just approached it from a very different direction than the original and it doesn't sound "right" to most fans super familiar with how it wa...

Remakes generally just have the same name as the original, yeah. Fans tend to come up with the nicknames like REmake and whatnot. The standard fall back if no nickname can be found is to just call the new one Silent Hill 2 (with it's release year in parenthesis)

What's the best platform the get the VNs? All three When They Cry series are available via PC on Steam. You might need to look into how to patch in the improved artwork from other releases if the original indie art isn't for you but there's plenty of guides out there on how to do so. Higurashi has ...

I'll likely check out the Higurashi anime on Crunchyroll, understanding that as others have said the anime/manga adaptations don't capture the original as well, so I'll keep that in mind. I'd honestly recommend against that. The anime adaptations are bad and completely miss the mark on what works a...

Yeah it seems like such a weird concept but there's a lot of big names attached.

It could be fun. I intend to try and catch it live to contribute to the choices made.

I doubt JJ Abrams is ever going to touch this himself though, to be honest.

So just to keep track of stuff that was rumored that we haven't seen yet. Sakura - this was supposedly a somewhat stand-alone PT-style teaser to announce new Silent Hill projects. Or used in some way to tie into future Silent Hill projects. It had Masahiro Ito designing a monster based on a cherry b...

I'm not familiar with their work but those are definitely some very striking designs. Looking forward to the unique flavor they are going to bring to Silent Hill.

The dialogue was interesting. The direct talk about wanting to be punished was a little on the nose but it get more complicated as it went on. The person talking is grouping himself in with the person he's talking to, saying "we", and then there's the line about "being judged by these...

Combat has always been a delicate balance with this series. I feel like with 3 to 4 to Origins the monsters got more annoying and frustrating than scary with each game. But then you have something like Homecoming where people complain that you were too capable and that made it less scary. Then Shatt...

The twist still hits hard. Like two years ago I watched some friends play through the game for the first time and they had the same reactions we all had back then. I think even 20 years later there aren't a lot of video games out there telling a story like this. Video games have gotten more cinemati...