Okay, now, I do know you have most likely learn that headline and thought to your self “why on earth would outdated UI in Silent Hill f be a very good factor?” Enable me to elucidate! To be a contrarian for a second, I feel that a considerable amount of triple-A video games have extremely boring UI. It’s totally a lot due to that late 2010s pattern of easy, emboss-free graphic design you see in emblem design all over the place as of late, and I hate it.
Silent Hill f, nevertheless, as proven off throughout as we speak’s Konami Press Begin showcase, appears to have UI that may match proper at dwelling in a PS3 recreation. It is outdated, technically, nevertheless it appears prefer it’s been constructed with much more thought. It isn’t even notably sophisticated – there is a well being bar, a stamina bar, some sort of… floral and crescent moon bars. There is a mild ugliness about it that I feel lots of video games on the PS3 additionally had, even video games like Dark Souls, that I discover much more interesting than the fashionable, clear aesthetic you may see lots of. Simply examine the unique Demon Souls and its remake, for instance.
The showcase did additionally do a little bit of a deep dive into the horror recreation’s gameplay, which, as is typical of the collection, appears such as you’ll be swinging round a metallic pipe lots. Sport director Al Yang did say the staff is hoping to verify the fight system is “recent, however acquainted, but even be thematically acceptable and never overly complicated.”
I could not inform you in the event that they’ve finished that or not, although it would not matter to me all that a lot. It isn’t like I come to the Silent Hill collection for thrilling mechanics, I am in it for the vibes. And the vibes do look good! There have been some temporary appears at some idea artwork, and the staff spoke of how they set the sport within the Showar period to faucet into customs and superstitions “lengthy forgotten in trendy life.”
I am definitely much more enthusiastic about Silent Hill f than I’m the remake of the first game that was also announced. It is the primary new entry in years (no I am not counting Ascension), so if something I am morbidly curious as as to if or not the world can truly be expanded in such a means or not. Plus, once more, I like how unclean the UI is! I am a easy individual, with easy wants.
Silent Hill f is due out September twenty fifth, later this yr.
