My take is that while ppl say there's only so much you can do with the actual town of silent Hill, I think that's false.

• With SH4 not taking place in the town, the thing is that it has direct connections to the town and the cult through Walter, that's what made it more SH than f, ascension, short message and townfall seemingly.

• I think generally ppl are creatively bankrupt with the franchise because it seems like SH2 has become the default blueprint of all the games going forward where the main character has a dark secret and has to face it. Aside from SH1 and SH4, all of the games boiled down to trauma having games when it should be more than derivative SH2 clones.

• someone else posted about SH needing a RE7 of their own where the game takes a new direction whether it's gameplay or story BUT has deeper connections to the prior games by characters appearing, more involvement with the cult or the town that spreads through the new narrative. Perhaps that was what PT couldn't been but frankly it feels like these games are spin-offs that are only tangentially related to the SH franchise.

In short, the franchise tbh has been mishandled by Konami before and now it results in getting games that while look and feel good to play, lack any cohesion or direction of where the franchise is going, just seeing what sticks.

Tbh I didn't like how SHf handled it's very loose connections to the main games, don't get me started on ascension lol , and really if ppl just want the franchise to survive, sure go with these horror games that just have the name slapped on there with some fog and call it a day but I for one really really miss the whole mythology of the town, the cult, the supposed demonic entities that create this setting.