Silent Hill f. Photograph: file
Silent Hill f author Ryukishi07 has mentioned the Silent Hill collection ought to be understood as a phenomenon reasonably than a bodily location, reinforcing a concept beforehand launched in Silent Hill: The Quick Message that divided components of the fanbase.
Talking in an interview with Famitsu, translated by GamesRadar+, Ryukishi07 defined that the idea emerged throughout early discussions about setting Silent Hill f in Japan.
He mentioned he questioned how a collection named after an American city may logically exist overseas and raised the problem straight with collection producer Motoi Okamoto.
Highschool scholar Shimizu Hinako[b] lives within the rural Japanese city of “Ebisugaoka” throughout the Nineteen Sixties. She resents her dad and mom as her mom is subservient to her abusive father, whereas her older sister Junko has left residence after getting married. After an argument together with her dad and mom, Hinako meets up together with her mates Shu, Rinko, and Sakuko, the place Shu provides Hinako pink capsules to assist together with her intense stress complications. A monster carrying a shiromuku seems, engulfing Ebisugaoka in fog and pink spider lilies, which kill Sakuko. Hinako escapes however Ebisugaoka has change into overrun by monsters. Whereas avenging Sakuko’s dying, Hinako loses consciousness and awakens within the Darkish Shrine, the place she encounters a person known as Fox Masks. Regardless of Fox Masks guiding and caring for her, she is repeatedly warned by a spirit possessing a doll from her childhood to not belief him.
After awakening in Ebisugaoka, which has change into virtually totally abandoned, Hinako reunites with Shu and Rinko.
Because the bridge main out of city is damaged, the three plan to flee via a mountain path behind Shu’s home. All through their journey, Hinako travels again to the Darkish Shrine at any time when she loses consciousness or sleeps, and continues to observe Fox Masks whereas there. Fox Masks convinces Hinako to kill Shu, Rinko, and Sakuko to let go of her childhood. Moreover, Hinako participates in three rituals: her proper arm is severed and changed with a fox arm, her again is branded with a scorching iron, and the highest half of her face is sliced off and changed with a fox masks. As Hinako prepares to marry Fox Masks, she transforms into the shiromuku.
“I mentioned a variety of issues with collection producer Okamoto in a gathering after I obtained the request [to write Silent Hill f],” Ryukishi07 mentioned.
“Like ‘Why is it set in Japan?’ and ‘What precisely is Silent Hill?’ In the long run, we got here to the conclusion that Silent Hill isn’t just the title of a spot, it’s a phenomenon.”
The concept aligns with a word present in Silent Hill: The Quick Message, which refers back to the “Silent Hill Phenomenon” as a recurring supernatural occasion named after an earlier incident in a US city. That rationalization marked a shift away from the collection being tied solely to a single location.
Whereas the unique Silent Hill video games had been set in and across the fictional American city, later entries have expanded the collection’ scope. The main focus has more and more centred on the otherworld, a supernatural realm formed by the psychological trauma of those that encounter it.
Fan responses to the idea have been combined, however reactions to Silent Hill f have typically targeted on curiosity in seeing the franchise discover new settings past the USA.
