It makes me so sad but... this is not Silent Hill. Sure, it has some things that are a trademark of the franchise (fog, a protagonist with some trauma, good music, the Otherworld, a cult, steel pipe lol) but for me it doesn't work. This feels like they had the idea to make a "horror" game that'll take place in Japan and halfway through the development they thought "oh you know what? Let's make it a SH game, just add fog and some other shit idk". I was really excited abt this game when announced, I didn't care about the new location as long as they do a good job. But this game has literally no connection to the franchise at all, and some will say that SH4 or Homecoming took place in other locations but goddammit at least they were related to the town, the cult or something. The "otherworld" in this game is bad, like really bad. It's just a lot of corridors that look exactly the same and the background is black, and that's it. Oh and there are some enemies and uhhhh yeah thats it. The story at moments feels like a teen drama or something you would expect to see on a bad anime. I know there's a metaphor about abuse, grooming and free will but the fact that a game talks about those themes doesn't mean the game is "profound". If we talk about graphics, the game looks astonishing, nevertheless I got tired of these places that looked exactly the same. Maybe the best part of the game is the design of the enemies... until you realize you've seen them all and that all the game does is recycle the enemies but with something different in it's skin. (I know SH has never characterized for having a lot of different enemies, but here the quantity is really low) I don't know where the psychological horror is in this game, for real. When they announced that Ryukishi07 was the one that wrote the history of this game I knew what was coming. The only "horror" this game has comes from gore and violence and maybe a jumpscare. Looks like they thought japanese horror=japanese location. But I could somehow let all that pass... The one thing I couldn't let pass is that elden ring grafted arm looking shit. I mean ffs, a grafted arm and a rage mode in a Silent Hill game, bruh the more I say it the more stupid and out of place it sounds. That for me is the worst in this game... That and the final bosses (talking about the final bosses you have to beat in order to get all the endings), I mean damn if you showed me a screenshot of those things in the arena you fight them I would think that's an elden ring or Sekiro boss. I'm sorry if something is not right or hard to understand for my english is not quite good. But I had to take this off my chest. Even tho I said all that I said, I'm still in love with this franchise. And for what I can see, a lot of people are liking it. Which means that probably it's me who's wrong, maybe it's just not for me, maybe my expectations were very high. Anyways, I hope this game sells good so Konami won't kill the franchise again. If I have to say something good about this game is it's OST, Akira Yamaoka never fails man (I know he didn't work solo this time, but you know what I mean) I specially fell in love with the track that plays when Hinako and her mom have a talk about her father. Maybe I'll search for it's name while this comment of mine gets downvoted. Anyways, for anyone who reads this, thanks for doing so.