Release Date: February 1, 2024
A psychological horror and a new installment of Konami's classic franchise. Silent Hill: The Short Message is a game about Anita, a girl trapped in a mysterious abandoned building, who needs to face her fears in order to escape.
Silent Hill: The Short Message is the next installment in Konami's massively popular Japanese survival horror franchise. The game's protagonist is a girl named Anita,who heads to an abandoned building where she arranged to meet her friend, Maya. Due to mysterious circumstances, she loses consciousness and gets trapped in the building. In order to see daylight once again, she must face her fears and the monsters roaming the corridors. Time, however, is of the essence, as the building trauma gradually drains her of the will to live.
Information about the story and early visuals have surfaced as the game was rated by The Taiwan Digital Game Rating Committee. It's the only game that hasn't been officially announced during Silent Hill: Transmission, but thanks to the leaks we know it's heading for the PlayStation 5, contains violence and strong language, like the other installments of the series.
Platforms:
PlayStation 5
Developer: Hexa Drive
Publisher: Konami
Age restrictions: 18+
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Silent Hill is a series of action adventure games of the survival horror genre, which is one of the most popular brands of Konami - a Japanese developer and publisher, also responsible for the creation of such series as Metal Gear, Pro Evolution Soccer (currently eFootball), and Castlevania. The first game in the series was released in 1999 for Sony consoles. On January 31 the game was released in the US, while on March 4 it was released in Japan and on August 1 in Europe.
Silent Hill: The Short Message is a new experimental game from the titular universe. It is expected to be released for free to PS5 players within hours.
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Hubert Sledziewski
January 31, 2024
Once again, we have received proof of the existence of the as yet unannounced officially Silent Hill: The Short Message. The title, which is expected to resort to various narrative tricks to break the fourth wall, will definitely come out for the PS5.
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Hubert Sledziewski
January 2, 2023
The Korean age rating agency has registered a game titled Silent Hill: The Short Message. The company, which regularly releases Konami games on the local market, was cited as its publisher.
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Hubert Sledziewski
September 26, 2022
Game Ratings for Silent Hill: The Short Message Video Game.
WayTooManyGames: 6 / 10 by Kyle Nicol
Let me clarify that, whilst Silent Hill: The Short Message wasn’t exactly the kind of game we were all waiting for, it’s not entirely that bad. It’s a mixed bag of a horror experience, with a story which tried to deal with some heavy personal themes (not exactly new ground for the series, mind you), only to fall short in its execution. Regardless, it’s still worth giving a shot. There is stuff to like in here, and let me reiterate the fact that it’s free, and brief. It’s not particularly a risky investment.
Cinelinx: 3 / 5 by Dustin Spino
Silent Hill: The Short Message potentially shows us the direction the franchise might go, but also seems to not understand what the games are about.
Hardcore Gamer: 2 / 5 by Kyle LeClair
The sad thing is that Silent Hill: The Short Message has a lot of good story ideas, characters and world-building, but then proceeds to waste them on completely unoriginal, shallow gameplay. It paradoxically wanted to move ahead and tackle more mature themes and stories, yet has gameplay that feels blatantly regressive, settling for the most generic aspects of modern horror games. If this is the direction that the franchise wants to take, then it's headed straight for a cliff. Hopefully the likes of No Code will be able to salvage things with their side games later, but for now, you can easily skip over The Short Message.
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![[1:40] Silent Hill: The Short Message - Reveal Trailer](https://cdn.gracza.pl/galeria/filmy/640x360/1658552640.jpg)
