Silent Hill f is the primary Silent Hill sport to get an 18+ score certification in Japan.
As displayed at the start of the Japanese-language reveal trailer, which debuted final night time, Silent Hill f is rated Mature within the U.S., PEGI 18 in Europe, and CERO:Z in Japan.
As the sport remains to be in energetic improvement, certification is topic to alter, however as noticed by Automaton, Silent Hill, Silent Hill 2, Silent Hill 3, and Silent Hill: The Room all secured CERO:C — that is for individuals aged 15 and older — whereas the opposite video games within the sequence developed exterior of Japan had been sometimes rated CERO:C or CERO:D (ages 17+).
Even Silent Hill 2 Remake — Bloober Team’s rework of the 2001 traditional — was CERO:C in Japan, regardless of getting a mature (17+) score in most Western nations.
Last night time, Konami lastly up to date us with a brand new Silent Hill Transmission, the writer’s Silent Hill-themed on-line presentation. This time, it was centered purely on Silent Hill f, the upcoming mainline entry within the celebrated horror franchise — the primary for 13 years.
First introduced in 2022, Silent Hill f takes us to Nineteen Sixties Japan, the place we’ll observe Shimizu Hinako, an adolescent struggling beneath the strain of expectations from her buddies, household, and society. The story was written by Ryukishi07, creator of the When They Cry visible novel sequence.
The reveal trailer reveals Hinako in various levels of misery, lined in blood, wounds, and together with her Japanese faculty uniform ripped and torn. While many of the motion was contained to cutscenes reasonably than gameplay, we had an prolonged peek at Silent Hill f’s setting and monster designs, in addition to what could also be an Otherworld populated not by rust and followers this time, however by blood-red flowers.
As but, there is no launch date for Silent Hill f, and there was no additional data in any respect about No Code’s Silent Hill sport, Townfall.
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