"Silent Hill F is Top 3 | Castle Super Beast 343"

[kane_magus]

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Well... thanks to this, I finally added Silent Hill f to my wishlist. I won't ever be paying $70USD for it, mind you, but maybe someday I will actually play this game, whereas before, I wasn't much interested at all. The video is not really spoilery, in a story details kind of sense, but Pat does get into the nitty gritty on how it plays and what he considers to be a "real" playthrough (i.e. at least three or four full playthroughs before you get the "true" ending). As someone who played through seven of the first eight Silent Hill games multiple times to get allmost endings[1], and if doing so for SHf "only" requires 40 hours or so, then that's not all that daunting to me. It's not something I'll be doing any time soon, but maybe someday.

[1] - For reference, I have played Silent Hill, Silent Hill 2 (including rebuying it for the original Xbox for that "Born from a Wish" extra scenario), Silent Hill 3, Silent Hill 4: The Room, Silent Hill: Origins, Silent Hill: Homecoming, Silent Hill: Downpour, and Silent Hill: Shattered Memories. And if Silent Hills had ever become a real thing (and if I'd ever owned the console on which P.T. has been forever locked away), rather than it being canceled when Konami descended into their pure dogshit era (which I'm still not convinced they've left, yet), I most likely would have played the hell out of it, as well. Despite the fact that the quality of games steadily went downhill after SH3 (with Shattered Memories being an outlier, because it was genuinely good), the only one of those games that I ever abandoned without finishing even once was Origins. The main reason for my abandonment of Origins was almost entirely because of the incredibly shitty "breakable weapons" mechanic, and that's the main thing that concerns me about f, as well, because Pat says weapons have durability in this one, too. But then, so did Downpour, and I still played through that one at least two or three times, as I recall. But then, Downpour was also probably my least favorite SH game that I played (aside from Origins, of course).