The best Silent Hill since 2014. Silent Hill: The Short Message is a free, first-person horror game that explores themes of self-harm, suicide, and abuse.
Interview with Fadile Waked, Actress for (Anita) in Silent Hill: The Short Message, a game that she had no idea that she was part of. With Konami providing little context and insight.
Silent Hill: The Short Message is a true Silent Hill game that delves head first into psychological horror.
The writing and characters are so horribly done, especially given the subject matter. It’s fine to tackle suicide in a game, but this ain’t it.
Gary Green writes: Silent Hill is a series that has now become famous for its ups and downs. While I could pick the whole series apart game by game, we’ll skip ahead and say the last few games didn’t exactly set the world on fire. However, Silent Hill was long overdue for a revival, a revival originally helmed by Konami veteran Hideo Kojima of Metal Gear Solid fame, yet this wasn’t to be.
Well, it's free at least!
Imo 8 is a bit high 3 is far to low I'd call it a 6 there's some decent things to explore here and good story elements but overall it's silent hill in name alone and it's really far to teen drama for me to really get into it.
It's really nice visually though which is what primarily kept me playing for the 2 hours.
The last chase sequence though is total BS of you quit there I get it
The reviews are all over the place for this.
I tried it last night. And it's far from 3/10 or even a 5. I believe this reviewer score of 8. But for me, I give it a 7. It's a free game; we should not give it a score.
The disparity in review scores says, to me, it is being evaluated differently—if I had to guess, the higher scores are mindful of its F2P status; the low scores are not. It makes me think of The Order: 1886 a bit; I thought it was pretty decent, but I also got it on sale. If I paid $60 for it, I think I'd be furious.
Anyway, for Short Message, I've yet to try it. Frankly not that interested and I simply haven't trusted Konami in ages. But that said, I will give it go eventually and it's free, so at worst it costs me a few hours of my life. I've wasted worse with bad friends/relationships, so a few hours isn't going to hurt.
An update on Silent Hill f would be nice. Game has the potential to be absolutely horrifying.