Last year, Konami had organized a Transmission in order to present the future of the future of the franchise silent Hill. We were thus treated to a remake of Silent Hill 2a new film by Christophe Gans, the interactive series Silent Hill: Ascension, Silent Hill in Asia and Silent Hill: Townfall by the developers of Stories Untold.
But, a few months before, it was a certain Silent Hill: The Short Message that made people talk about it, first via a name registered in Korea then a description revealed by the classification body in Taiwan. This week, the unofficial title is being talked about again, and it is the classification body in Australia which reveals the basics of the scenario, very similar to the previous information. As always with these descriptions, it spoils a lot of scenes, be careful!
Silent Hill: The Short Message :
Strong themes of suicide, horrific violence and strong language : an exploration-based psychological horror game in which players control characters in the apartment of a building called The Villa in modern-day Germany. The player assumes the role of a young woman, Anita, who must explore La Villa through first-person gameplay in order to collect clues to discover what happened to her friend.
Anita explores a bathroom environment that features a bathtub filled with bloody water, blood-splattered tiles, and a razor blade on a bloody sink. After examining a razor, Anita has a flashback. In a first-person cutscene, a voice shouts, “It’s all your fault!” Bad things happen because of YOU! » and a hand holding the razor enters the frame. The character’s left arm enters the frame with obvious horizontal scars around the character’s wrist. The scene cuts to a black screen before the razor comes into contact with the character’s wrist. The next shot shows an image of the character’s left arm with scars, old and new.
In a cutscene depicted through a mixture of third and first person shots, the player character stands on the edge of the building’s roof, looking down. It is implied that Maya committed suicide by jumping off the edge of the roof. The player character, in a distressed state of mind, speculates that she will never compare to Maya. Echoing abusive tirades from her mother are heard in the background as Anita prepares to jump and says, “Maybe I can be like her… There you go…”. In a first person shot, her feet are visible on the ledge, then in a third person shot, she moves forward and begins to fall.
Throughout the game, cutscenes depicting self-harm and suicide are followed by black screens that feature white text encouraging players to seek treatment and get help if they are at risk of self-harm and suicide. commit suicide and to offer support if they see people around them struggling. In the Board’s view, the game’s depictions of suicide and self-harm take place within the broader context of discourse exploring issues that revolve around mental health, encouraging players to seek help or offer support to those who need it. Thus, the impact of the representations does not exceed a high impact and can be adapted within the MA 15+ classification.
Silent Hill: The Short Message should therefore tackle heavy subjects, but with a certain prevention which avoids a R18+. The atmosphere is reminiscent of leak from 2022, the game has still not been made official by Konami, but given these very precise descriptions, its existence is no longer in much doubt. It remains to be seen who is developing this game, if members of the Silent Team are involved, and when the title will be released. You can also pre-order the remake of Silent Hill 2 at €69.99 on Amazon And there Fnac.
| Clint008 Editor – Tester |
