Silent Hill f obtained a concrete launch date eventually evening’s State of Play. You can play it on PC on September 25 this 12 months, which can also be when it arrives on consoles.
As for what you are in for, a contemporary trailer made fairly clear that protagonist Hinako Shimizu goes to have a nasty time of issues, with freaky flower monsters and creepy scarecrow-inspired doll issues with the mangled posture of your common veteran workplace employee all looking for to harm her as she runs round cracking skulls with a pipe.
As you’ll be able to watch above, issues are all superb for Hinako and her mates till a fog decsends in town of Ebisugaoka, cue a ten/10 creepy chortle and the beginning of issues going spookily pear-shaped. Konami producer Motoi Okamoto offered a bit extra information in a PlayStation Blog post launched alongside the discharge date reveal trailer.
“As Hinako tries to outlive the now fog-wreathed city,” he wrote, “she can be confronted with choices that can form her final destiny. Will she select to embrace magnificence and wonder? Or will her path lead her to insanity and horror? Is she doomed to succumb to the madness unfolding earlier than her, or can she face her fears and discover a approach to escape?”
Okamoto cites the sport as having “4 pillars”. These most important objectives have been letting people discover an “genuine depiction of Nineteen Sixties Japan”, crafting monster design and the soundtrack to give attention to the “juxtaposition between magnificence and terror”, growing puzzles which might be “grounded in psychological anguish and struggling”, and placing collectively a “distinctive” fight system.
“The encounters are as difficult because the obstacles that Hinako should overcome in life,” the producer wrote of that final half. “The fight could have a heavier give attention to melee and be extra action-oriented in comparison with final 12 months’s Silent Hill 2.”
The spin-off, penned by Ryukishi07, is designed to work as each an entry level to the sequence for newbies, and reward veterans with loads of easter eggs. Final evening’s showcase additionally featured the likes of Pragmata, 007: First Light, and Nioh 3.
