US Edition‘Silent Hill F’ Fans Worried About ‘Elden Ring’-Inspired Combat
GIFU PREFECTURE, JAPAN, AUG 4 – Silent Hill f features challenging melee combat with weapon durability and a progression system using Shinto shrine offerings to enhance status, aiming to attract new players to the franchise.
- On August 4, 2025, several outlets released five-hour previews of Silent Hill f, focusing on its melee combat ahead of its September 25, 2025 launch on PS5, Xbox Series, and PC.
- As development began, the team decided early on that Silent Hill f would focus on more entertaining combat, motivated by challenging action games' rising popularity among younger players.
- In combat, players manage a Dark Souls-style stamina meter refillable by dodging, monitor weapon durability, and activate Focus mode to slow time for counterattacks.
- Reactions among the Silent Hill fandom are split, as horror fans worry about the game's heavier melee focus and action-oriented combat compared to last year's Silent Hill 2.
- As the first 18+ rated Silent Hill game, Silent Hill f is set to release on September 25, 2025.
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Silent Hill f Is Combat Heavy Because 'Challenging Action Games Are Gaining Popularity Among Younger Players Nowadays'
We've already heard a lot about how Silent Hill f hopes to set itself apart from its predecessors, particularly by honing in on its Japanese roots. But it's also hoping to stand out to avoid "clone" comparisons to Silent Hill 2, and appeal to younger players by racheting up the combat. Silent Hill series producer Motoi Okamoto and Silent Hill f director Al Yang have been making the rounds just recently, and an interview has popped up at Game*Spa…
‘Silent Hill f’ fans worried about ‘Elden Ring’-inspired combat
Horror fans are worried about the upcoming Silent Hill f after developers said the combat was inspired by the popularity of “more difficult action games” such as Elden Ring. READ MORE: ‘Wuchang: Fallen Feathers’ review: more familiar, fantastical adventures for ‘Elden Ring’ fans Silent Hill f launches in September and will take players to 1960s Japan where they will follow teenager Shimizu Hinako. “An average teen, she passes the time with not…
NewsGaming.net Silent Hill will perpetuate the tradition of multiple ends, with a New Game More new features Konami's horrific series has made a most successful return to the video scene thanks to an excellent remake of the second episode. With this momentum, Silent Hill f will take on the task of concretizing in September the renewal of a license ready to offer the unreleased while remaining in a certain standard of quality. The eventual succes…
Guadalajara, Jalisco. After years of mystery and expectation, Silent Hill f begins to reveal itself. Various specialized media have had access to the first four hours of the game, and the impressions could not be clearer: we are facing a courageous, disturbing and deeply Japanese reinvention of the classic psychological horror. Located in a rural Japan of the 1960s, the title abandons the industrial corridors and the urban decadence of past deli…
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