Puzzles are ok so far, gameplay is basic, story somewhat predictable BUT the visuals, sounds and atmosphere are unparalleled. This game has to be one of the best looking games I have ever seen and it does it through pristine attention to detail in every millimetre of the map. Like we’re talking down to the types of bin used, gas markers, pages on bulletin boards and expert application of Microsoft wordart. We’re talking down to subtle ripples on puddles from the wind and signage over sinks in the doctors practice AAAHHHHHHH.
Never has anything been such an accurate recreation of my memories put into liminal form ever that I cant help but stare in amazement.
Its also a decent silent hill game.
THEY MADE IT FOR MEEEEEEEEE
there’s a release day review video and the reviewer noted this too, details are spot on for the era! there’s a good focus on the things you mentioned around 11m 35s and you can see close-ups of the telephones around 13m 04s.
The first task in the game is topping up a prepayment meter under the stairs and having to go to the shop to grab the card which had me cackling. Years of doing that journey now immortalised in my favourite horror series.
Idk if this counts as a spoiler it’s like the first thing you do
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
90s Britain
the grimmest hellscape ever conceived
Final boss is Margaret Thatcher and you get to axe her in the head
You really feel the cold empty despair of a dying empire being stripped for parts.
guess what it gets worse!!
Saw a guy on the SH subreddit post about how he recognized a tea pot design his dad manufactured in Ireland or something.
Spooky neighborhood simulator
oh man even as a 2001 born Brit this looks uncanny as hell
its really really strange and disconcerting. in a good way i think. it makes me wonder if this is how americans feel about the other games–is it as weird for them to see chimneys and house layouts and street signs they actually recognise in a game? do random “for sale” signs in SH2 or GTA or whatever kind of knock them off balance in the same way?
no americans consider themselves the center of the universe and main characters. we expect everything to reflect our reality and don’t find it odd.
Visiting the USA was a little funny because I’d see things like a sign blocking a road for construction work and I’d be commentating it all like “dude… it’s the signs from the racing games… woah it’s like the exact same… wow…”
I was going to say something along those same lines. There is so much American influence in games and Americans are used to regularly consuming media that more or less accurately depicts the things in real life that we are familiar with, that it doesn’t really stand out at all. The feeling can still come up if a game is recreating a very specific location that is quite familiar; I can remember feeling it for the first time in GTA IV as someone who regularly visited NYC, and more recently with Insomniac’s Spider-Man. But more generalized things like house designs, chimneys, signs… No, not really. As for the 90s aspect of it… I am still waiting for a game, or even any media, that actually accurately depicts the 90s as they were here, and not “how we remember them” where it’s some mish-mash of random 80s and 90s pop culture mixed together and everything is bright colors and neon, blacklight glow in the dark, with everything covered in abstract patterns of funky shapes and squiggly lines and backwards baseball caps and skateboards. I want the feeling OP is having.
I was wondering the same thing like how I can recognise a bunch of places in The Getaway but it looks uncanny.
For me all the American locations in silent hill may as well be fantasy places cos none of them are familiar other than i guess a hospital.
The 4 villages that are the inspiration for the new game, haven’t really changed from the 90’s. That little 10 mile stretch of the coast is frozen in time and bypassed by the world.
Thats crayzeee i gotta go visit
You can find places like them pretty much everywhere. I know a couple of villages in the lake district and Cornwall where the only thing that’s changed since the 70s are the cars.
I can just go to the real silent hill… Southampton
