The First Silent Hill F Review Score Is Now Live

God I hope my physical copy isn't delayed too long, I'm so hyped for this!

I still don’t understand how it is a Silent Hill game if it does not take place in Silent Hill.

I shall be pre-ordering this game next week, though when I get to play it, I'm not too certain. I've just finished Hell Is Us, which was superb, probably my favourite game of the year. I'm currently playing Cronos: The New Dawn, and the next game I intend to play is Deadzone Rogue. I have also bought Borderlands 4, though I will await all the DLC before playing that.

So when I buy Silent Hill F, I will have bought 5 games this month, and I have the Ghost of Yotei Collectors Edition pre-ordered too, and I want to jump into the game as soon as it arrives next month, so I'm not entirely certain that I will have time to finish Silent Hill before Ghost of Yotei is released, so it may have to wait until I've finished that game first.

September has been an awesome month for me in terms of gaming, and whilst the whether here in the UK has been awful, I've been sat indoors happily gaming. So many great games. Expensive, but great...!

@Stevemalkpus I suppose at this point they're just using the branding; it could have any other name like silent nightmare or whatever but sells and media attention are much higher as it carries a classic name; also wonder if they will connect this somehow to the "silent hill" as we know, but can hardly see that happening. Let's just hope its a good horror game

Famitsu is incredibly biased towards Japanese games and games set In japan(ghost of Tsushima was a 40/40) so I'd take this score with a few bags of salted caramel squares.

13 hours don't seem long for the price

I actually can't wait to play this game (and to get that sexy steel book) really do hope Konami have cooked with this.

@Stevemalkpus You can blame Silent Hill: the short message for this, they have made it a "phenomena" which means it can happen any where. I'm not a fan of this change, but no one can argue that f still has the vibes of a true SH game.

Unless this is across the board 10/10 stuff, will be leaving it for a while.
Enjoyed the Silent Hill 2 remake mostly, but killing 350 of 3 different enemy types while dying zero times on a first playthrough isnt exactly what I look for in this kind of game, and kills any desire to replay it.

@SeaDaVie Or maybe, just maybe they liked the game, not every thing has to be biased. Also you are aware the two lead developers were made tourism ambassadors, because they were that impressed with Tsushima's depiction.

Mmmmmm shall wait for other reviews.
13 hours maybe good for the game drum beat, but maybe not cost wise.

Already pre-ordered, will be playing it minute one. F has all chances to become the best SH game.

I watched Max streamed it a couple of days ago. He got review code from Konami but only allowed to streamed until the 1st boss.

I personally like the atmosphere despite it feels more like Fatal Frame or Forbidden Siren since it took place in Japan. The enemies looks quite creepy, puzzles are nice, and combat looks okay. Although the Sanity gauge and broken weapons looks quite annoying.

@Stevemalkpus For the most part, SH 3, 4, and Homecoming doesn't take place in Silent Hill either. And i believe the supernatural power can reach outside the town just like shown in SH 3, 4, and Homecoming. We don't know what's this game connection with previous ones but i'm not surprised if the same cult involved.

Little bit disappointed that the game will have no guns at all (I mean I get it, It's set in Japan and you play as a young girl; she's not gonna be going around with a hand cannon).

Still, looking forward to it. Just finished Cronos; us surivial-horror fans are having it good right now it seems!

@SeaDaVie Famitsu gave perfect scores 40/40 for Skyrim and GTA V. Other non-Japanese games that doesn't took place in Japan also got good scores examples like GoW 2018 got 38/40 and Ragnarok got 36/40, Spiderman 2 got 38/40, RDR 2 got 39/40, Stellar Blade 38/40, The Witcher 3 got 37/40, TloU 1 and 2 got 39/40, Star Wars Outlaws got 32/40, and Black Myth Wukong got 33/40.

@Oram77 or maybe they are just 100% biased as they have given 30 perfect scores and 27 of them were Japanese games and one of the others was set in Japan.

Not only that but it's well documented they have a history of giving high scores to games associated with famitsu and it's staff. The main editor has a cameo in 3 games and they all got 40/40. Death Stranding, 428: Shibuya Scramble and another game I forget.

It's literally the most worthless video game source in existence for scores. It's scores are not even included in agregator sites like metacritic and Opencritic.

not every thing has to be biased

Yes, very few video game reviews are actually biased. Probably 99%+ are completely impartial professional reviews. Famitsu isn't one of them though. It's the daily mail of video game sources.

People complaining about price for 12 13 hours but probs spend 20 on a maccies that's gone in 5 mins n not a single f given lol

@Decimateh-xblz yeah it is crazy price for 13 hours dont eat Maccies cook my own food good try tho 40 to 45 seems reasonable for a game this long

I constantly got stuck on terrain in Hell is Us and rage quit last time it happened. My character is probably still there now if I load it.

Not sure how much more patience I will have for a repeat in Silent Hill. Hope a day one patch resolves it.

@SeaDaVie They have given Silent Hill f a 36/40 bro that's not a perfect score last time I checked, funny you said it's the most worthless source, when I think Metacritic is a complete joke, just look how many times 10/10 and 1/10 get thrown around on that site (both reviewers and players). Also has anyone told you that you have the same mannerisms as @ChrisDeku?

I'm looking forward to trying this

Silent hill f look really interesting so yeah that's a good score.word up son

@Oram77 Metacritic is an aggregator, it doesn't publish any of its own opinions or reviews.

I'm also not saying they necessarily overrated it, just that their opinion is useless. It could literally be a 10/10 or a 5/10 at this point.

@Dogbreath I'm finding the same issue, the difficulty goes up ridiculously when the map is more opened up. It's a good game and don't want to lower the difficulty to the easiest setting but might have to. Also the constant find the codes puzzles get a bit annoying too. I might take a break from it and play Cronos instead.

@SeaDaVie No it doesn't you are right, but it allows outliers to exist (the stupid scores with 5 word reviews) and does nothing about them, even though they effect the actual score of the game, that's why they are a joke.

This is out already? O.o

@OldGamer999 13 hours plus new game plus plus multiple endings it justified the cost and games like these are not cheap to make

@Hi569 it triple aaa game u getting bunch of things out it new game plus multiple endings there plenty of games this amount of hours that cost the same and all depends how long u take to beat a game

@OldGamer999 @Hi569 12-13 hours for the 1st playthrough is quite normal for survival horror games.

RE 4 remake for example, my 1st playthrough was 13-14 hours. And the longest survival horror game i ever played was Alien Isolation, i think my 1st playthrough was 15-17 hours? Lots of hiding and staying inside the locker though. Damn xenomorph 😂

But this game already confirmed has 5 endings and a new game plus. The graphics also looks really good. So the price point sounds fair.

I'll wait a while on this one. I'm not sold on the whole "Silent Hill Phenomenon" angle. Silent Hill is a place, but it's also Alessa Gillespie's story. Removing both Alessa (unless she makes some kind of appearance?) and the location means that they probably should have just given it another name, much like they should have done with SH4 (though they at least tried to make a tenuous connection by making the superintendent of the apartment James Sunderland's father). I can't argue with the weight that the name carries though and how it will impact the sales, so I guess we'll just see.

What I don't understand is why there is very little press coverage of Bloober remaking SH1? I mean I liked the remastered SH2 (despite not being fond of remakes in general) but we'd already had remakes of SH2 on PS3 so the fact SH1 is being remade is a result as that was 5 gens back lol.

I think with the above though it really has that Siren vibe. Not that that is a bad thing at all those 3 games were perfect IMHO. Slitterhead wasn't too bad by the same guy being involved but it didn't have the scares. Cracking US limited version though.

What would make me chuckle is if pyramid head turned up on vacation. Not likely of course.

@PuppetMaster Skyrim 40/40 is obscene. I loved the game when it came out but that's nuts.

@Stevemalkpus the game takes place in the past so maybe this is the origin of Silent Hill? Sairento Hiru. Lol

@xshinox I forgot this game take place in 1960's Japan. It could be the prequel of all SH games that tells the origin story of the cult. Maybe some of the cultist survived and moved to Silent Hill where they teach how to revive a "god".

@SeaDaVie Orr...and this might seem wild — maybe Japan just happens to make better AAA games and therefore get reviewed better.

Here's the thing, both Western (Apart from Eastern Europe) AAA games and Western games 'journalism' are a joke. Western AAA games are thematically and mechanically safe, uninteresting and uninspired and the gaming press enable them through a lack of critical reviews (or if reviews are critical tend not to be reflected in the overall score.)

The hows and whys for this is are far too much me to go into here but it is a very real issue that many people inside and outside the industry are aware of and are not happy about.

For some reason, Japan and Eastern European publishers are far less affected by any of this and review scores tend to reflect this worldwide even if Western consumer habits do not.

That Famitsu tends to score Japanese games higher than Western games not only says more about the quality of Japanese games but their long-established position in games media makes them far less susceptible to corporate manipulation --especially from Western publishers (because Japan is still incredibly nationalistic, that is true.)

@DreadfulDragon

makes them far less susceptible to corporate manipulation

Do you know they're owned by Kadokawa and review their own games? People who worked their have revealed that reviews needed to be approved by publishers before being printed. Also, famitsu and the main CEO have a lot of cameos and all those games get perfect scores or close to it.

https://www.dcgameblog.com/2019/11/cognition-dissemination-famitsus-corruption-goes-beyond-the-bounds/

This article doesn't even document their connection to games like Shibuya Scramble which miraculously also got a 40/40.

@PuppetMaster Just remember that the devs consider this as a spin off and not a mainline game so it might not even explain it.

@Stevemalkpus I mean the devs have said this before where they don't want Silent Hill to be in one place because it would simply grow stale. Not even Silent Hill 3 is set in Silent Hill for the majority of the game and 4 is set outside of it. As much as I heavily hate Short Message and especially with its "SH Phenomena" which is a corny name that is also the devs way of wanting to not have it only be set in Silent Hill.

@SeaDaVie Okay, I was not aware of that.

However, looking at the bigger picture, it seems it has had a neglible impact on their review scores with their high scores generally falling in line with rest of gaming media.

As for Sibuya Scramble, it seems the game recieved high praise even outside of Japan so there's no reason to assume its perfect score is the result of corruption, given Japan's love of the genre.

Even assuming their scores are artifically bumped up between 1-4 points and the review text itself massaged, at no point does the end result push credulity.

The reality is that if Famitsu review Japanese games higher than Western games, its probably for the same reason 8 out of 10 of the AAA games I've played in the last 5 years have been made in either Japan or Poland: Because they're generally more interesting and fun to play.

@JB_Whiting then go play call of duty plenty of guns or actually play silent hill homecoming since yall think it’s fully action

Really excited for the game and it's perfect for Spooky month.

@Nem not yet next Thursday pal although they might be early access think 2days

@Muscleblackcop you just here to argue?

@HaveTheSauce as long as it's good it can be called any name under the sun I coudnt care less

@Stevemalkpus Half of SH3, all of SH4, and part of Homecoming all do not take place in Silent Hill.

@Hi569 seems perfect for this type of game and thats an average time , so it could prob take more like 14-15 hours , on a first time play with out guides. which is better then it being a 20-25 hr game stuffed with meaningless filler content to make it a longer game. go from point a to point b back to point a.

@PuppetMaster honestly i wasn't sold on the idea myself at first , but the more i see , im pretty excited and even ended up preordering it

I'm wondering if the pink rabbit outfit is worth it.

People who complain about 13 hours, are too used to bloated open world games or JRPG's.

Too me it's perfect.

@Exerion76 They also forget that most Silent Hill games are around this length.

This the same Famitsu that gave Nintendogs a 40/40? Yeah, this reviewer is tabloid trash as far as I'm concerned. I think PushSquare has published an article or two on their questionable reviews, particularly towards Japanese games.

That said, I hope Silent Hill f is as good as they say and I like what I've seen gameplay-wise. I'm gonna be waiting on some trusted reviewers though. I'm sorry but in this climate I hardly trust any publications, let alone Famitsu of all things.

Also 13-14 hours for a survival horror game is on the long side as far as genre contemporaries like RE and Silent Hill go.

@Exerion76 exactly , don't get me wrong i love those games too , but sometimes a strait forward 13-14 hrs of telling a story is the type of game i look for. somtimes hours and hours of game play is just walking around or cut scenes while the actual core of the game is closer to 13-15 hours with 5-6 hours of walking back and forth not progressing the story.

@Muscleblackcop @Muscleblackcop Why would you assume I want it to be like CoD when I said it'd be good to have firearms in it? The original trilogy (which I all played on release) had some guns in. It's just nice to fall back on some shooty shooty when things get heated is all.

@Hi569 argue? Says who?

@JB_Whiting oh I see ok