{"id":7386,"date":"2026-07-12T13:32:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T11:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/?p=7386"},"modified":"2026-07-12T14:32:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T12:32:57","slug":"%e3%82%b5%e3%82%a4%e3%83%ac%e3%83%b3%e3%83%88%e3%83%92%e3%83%abf-aka-silent-hill-f-by-neobards-entertainment-first-playthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/07\/12\/%e3%82%b5%e3%82%a4%e3%83%ac%e3%83%b3%e3%83%88%e3%83%92%e3%83%abf-aka-silent-hill-f-by-neobards-entertainment-first-playthrough\/","title":{"rendered":"\u30b5\u30a4\u30ec\u30f3\u30c8\u30d2\u30ebf aka Silent Hill f<\/em> by NeoBards Entertainment (First Playthrough)"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the Silent Hill franchise I\u2019ve been in love since forever, and Silent Hill f<\/em> is among the best. We played it through in T\u014dky\u014d, and to make things even eerier, there was a 4.6 earthquake<\/a> during our next to last session, and our final session lasted until sunrise. Together with Clair Obscur: Expedition 33<\/em> (we\u2019re still at it), it had the strongest and most lasting impact on me from all games released in recent years. And I have a collection of paraphernalia<\/a> to show for it!<\/p>\n

To fully enjoy the game, some cultural knowledge is recommended, otherwise many events remain opaque until, as far as I heard, more explicit references are provided in the second playthrough. Also, thanks to my traditional sensitivity for certain motifs, I knew exactly what Hinako-san\u2019s core issue was five minutes into the first Dark Shrine level. Which, indeed, was then matched beautifully\u2014which is to say horrifically\u2014by the first playthrough\u2019s ending.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d love to play it through a second time for the dangling subplots and two more endings, and after that a third time for the \u201ctrue sh\u01d4\u201d ending. (Has the term \u201csh\u01d4 ending\u201d or \u201ctrue sh\u01d4 ending\u201d indeed become generic? I heard it applied here and in general to games other than \u771f\u30fb\u4e09\u570b\u7121\u53cc\u30b7\u30ea\u30fc\u30ba aka Dynasty Warriors<\/em> lately.) Alas, I can\u2019t\u2014I\u2019m again in Germany now, and here we only have a PS4; Windows 11 will never be invited to cross our apartment\u2019s threshold; and the Steam Machine is wildly unattractive at the moment thanks to the market being licked clean of affordable RAM and SSD storage by the most insufferable crypto hustlebros and AI brunchlords.<\/p>\n

Thus, the second and third playthrough will need to wait until I\u2019m back in Japan.<\/p>\n

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Played between June 9 and June 28 on a Japanese PlayStation 5 console in its original Japanese language with English subtitles.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\ud83c\udfae I\u2019m in love with this game.<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-archive","h-entry","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7386"}],"version-history":[{"count":58,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7447,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7386\/revisions\/7447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}