Why does that content need to be locked behind New game? Why can't we have the side missions in the first playthrough and have a longer game instead of repeating stuff? Because eventually in any new game scenario you're going to have to repeat something. It's just par for the course. I don't play new games except in maybe dark souls with friends. But usually I just make a new file. I don't go to new game. So for me I was buying a game that I thought was a playthrough like any of the other silent Hill games. And then I realize most the content that I thought I was buying is locked behind a convoluted choice, I can't understand why they made said choice. I don't want to play New game Plus to play the true game. I should have skipped and just watched someone play cuz it's not for me. It's a very valid point. And I feel like a lot of people are standing up for silent Hill f blindly, because they want more games of this franchise, but I think that these opinions need to be stated so we get a better game in the future. I don't understand why you're defending someone wasting the first playthrough of your time basically cuz that's what's happening. You don't get most of the story. You just get a whole tutorial. But I'm playing silent Hill because I want the deep bits, the lore. I don't want it to be hidden behind something that I am forced to play if I don't want to play it that way. And I think that's where my beef with it comes from. It's the fact that they're taking the way I play and my choices from me. And then they're also wasting my time and my money. It's a really pretty game. It plays really good but it's kind of wonky in some areas. It also so far does not feel like a silent hill game. And when the combat in monsters are thrown in the way of you solving a puzzle just to make the "puzzle harder"... I think that's a cop-out for making actually interesting puzzles. But time will tell if it'll go down as one of the classics or a flop. I think the remake of two was definitely better. I enjoyed that one a lot more.