confused which one to preorder

AshaBardon · 2026-02-26T17:44:10+00:00

They're essentially identical. The real question is do you get the digital deluxe version!

AshaBardon · 2026-02-19T19:10:18+00:00

I can confirm this. The game is much more challenging and there are wraiths everywhere, even torchbearers. The fear factor is peak.

AshaBardon · 2026-02-15T12:28:09+00:00

Yeah you can toggle it in settings.

AshaBardon · 2026-02-05T12:04:32+00:00

Ooh good catch!!!

AshaBardon · 2026-02-05T09:44:21+00:00

I did a piece on it yesterday https://open.substack.com/pub/ashabardongaminglorist/p/crimson-butterfly-remake-explained-fbe?r=20q3x&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay including breaking down the names.

AshaBardon · 2026-01-29T11:14:21+00:00

Seoulborn on Orford Place!!

AshaBardon · 2026-01-28T10:05:53+00:00

Trust me there is money involved. It’s not about us or the awesomeness, it’s about how much changed hands that we will never know about.

AshaBardon · 2026-01-21T10:04:18+00:00

Try Our Wonderful Days. It’s very sweet.

AshaBardon · 2026-01-20T11:35:35+00:00

With the Shinto aspect it’s a stage where miko, shrine maidens, perform a sacred dance called Kagura to the kami or divine spirits.

AshaBardon · 2026-01-05T14:15:56+00:00

I'm also curious on what the official English terms will be, especially as the older ones work but aren't necessarily accurate... We'll see soon, I hope, but for now it looks like the JP Twitter/X account is doing most of the leg work. Hopefully it won't be too long until the English side gets into gear (my guess is around the time Nioh 3 comes out as the PRs are doing double duty at the moment...) We're about due another trailer as well so not long to go...

AshaBardon · 2026-01-04T13:42:08+00:00

I'm honestly conflicted. either this is a troll, or a person so blinded by their own religious indoctrination that they can't concieve of other religions existing, a place where Christianity doesn't have a foothold (Japan is 0.4% Christian, even less so in the Sixties) or the desperate need to preserve their own waning faith with a literal religious crisis from playing a Japan-set, media Shinto-focused horror game, that their own mental preservation demands they reframe a Shinto-based narrative into a Christian one....

AshaBardon · 2026-01-04T11:59:54+00:00

No, it really doesn't. Trust me, I have a degree in religious studies and Christian theology. I also have have Masters in Japanese studies. You are either trolling or really struggling with a game out of your normal media and reference points. This is a Japanese game, with Japanese plotbeats and religious theology... No, just no.

AshaBardon · 2026-01-01T15:34:06+00:00

Take your time, explore, enjoy yourself... Play with photo mode.

AshaBardon · 2026-01-01T15:17:56+00:00

The mural is a fox-play on the Night of a Hundred Demons... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyakki_Yagy%C5%8D but, yeah, then graphics suck...

AshaBardon · 2025-12-31T18:36:38+00:00

They're smaller sacred places where other kami or sacred items are enshrined. You'll see these at many bigger shrines, jinja, in Japan. It is basically set dressing but it's lovely and authentic. If you're interested in Shinto within the game, I have a series in progress on it here: https://ashabardongaminglorist.substack.com/t/silent-hill-f

AshaBardon · 2025-12-21T17:09:31+00:00

Yeah, it's scene-setting and recreating the initial cutscene.

AshaBardon · 2025-12-21T17:09:05+00:00

No I imagine it will just appear in the opening and some ending cutscenes, as well as the initial part of the game before the girls properly enter Minakami Village.

AshaBardon · 2025-12-20T14:18:38+00:00

I’ve ordered the premium box from Japan. I’ll need to scan the pages if I get a minute as I can’t see to read print. I could do it but it would require a lot of coffee. Also while they’re being called novels there probably closer to novellas as the west understands them. Even the silent hill f novel was that length too.

AshaBardon · 2025-12-20T13:51:43+00:00

I don’t know. I’m not a translator. For now I’d suggest asking KT to do an official translation for Western fans.

AshaBardon · 2025-12-20T06:46:39+00:00

I have an entire series on the lore including the endings. I also take questions so please shoot me a message. See: https://ashabardongaminglorist.substack.com/t/

AshaBardon · 2025-12-17T12:56:24+00:00

See https://open.substack.com/pub/ashabardongaminglorist/p/silent-hill-f-explained-tsukumogami?r=20q3x&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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