Dealing with your personal psychological demons whereas encountering harmful, grotesque monsters awaiting you within the darkness is core to what the horror franchise is, and Silent Hill f utterly delivers on it. Bringing us to the fictional city of Ebisugaoka in Japan, the newest entry looks like a terrific step ahead for this as soon as iconic collection, and you’ll already seize it at an enormous low cost, supplying you with the prospect to play top-of-the-line horror video games in recent times through the spookiest season with out shelling out for full worth.
From the get-go, Silent Hill f delivers what you’d anticipate from a brand new sport, and proves it’s nonetheless a stable Resident Evil rival, 26 years later. You play as Hinako, an adolescent who comes from a damaged household, who finds {that a} dense and mysterious fog has fallen over her hometown. For anybody with even the slightest information of the collection, that is often a fairly dangerous signal – and I will not spoil why.
It would not assist that, as an adolescent, Hinako is so much weaker than her monstrous adversaries, and as you progress by the sport, these mannequin-like enemies toughen and alter in horrifyingly thrilling methods. There are not any pistols or shotguns to bloodbath those that stand in your approach; as a substitute, you are left with a wide range of melee weapons, from metal pipes to axes, that will help you survive Silent Hill f’s unnerving residents.
I believe Danielle Rose put it finest in her Silent Hill f overview, saying that “Silent Hill f skillfully reinterprets the long-lasting horror collection for a contemporary viewers, appearing as each a stirring homage and a powerful imaginative and prescient for Silent Hill’s future.” Whereas we’ll have to attend and see whether or not or not or delivers on the promise of a shiny future for the franchise, it lays some superb foundations.
Fortuitously, you do not have to attend till the Halloween season is over to get Silent Hill F at a reduction, as you possibly can seize it for simply $52.49 / £52.49 at Fanatical. That is a powerful 25% off a sport that is solely simply launched, and for one which we have reviewed extremely as top-of-the-line PC video games this 12 months – nicely, that is a deal you possibly can’t run away from, even whether it is coated in contaminated creatures.
Now that Silent Hill f has lastly arrived, try our upcoming PC video games checklist for extra causes to get hyped. In the meantime, in case you love intelligent, attractive tales, learn our checklist of the most effective single-player video games for extra suggestions (although most of them aren’t as horrifying).
After getting jumpscared and being on edge, there’s nothing like chatting with a bunch of like-minded explorers of the fog in our PCGamesN Discord. Share your favourite horror video games with us, and we can’t decide you. Effectively, perhaps just a bit – it is all a part of the enjoyable.
