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Why i HATE Silent Hill f

2025-09-25 · 11 min

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  1. Hello, welcome back to a new video.

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  2. So recently I've been playing the brand

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  3. new Silent Hill F, and as an avid fan of

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  4. Silent Hill and horror games in general, I

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  5. knew I just had to play this game.

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  6. Unfortunately, so far it's been bland,

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  7. boring, and rather lacking in certain

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  8. kinds of lustre that we're going to be

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  9. getting into in today's video and review

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  10. of Silent Hill F.

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  11. Silent Hill F is kind of different to the

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  12. other Silent Hill games in the way that

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  13. you're in Japan and you're a Japanese

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  14. girl, and the setting is in Japan compared

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  15. to the previous Silent Hills where usually

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  16. you're a white guy in a Western setting.

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  17. Now first of all, I thought this was kind

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  18. of cool until I realized it was kind of

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  19. boring.

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  20. And the reason for that is, is because

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  21. usually you're used to playing Silent Hill

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  22. as the white guy, but now you're a

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  23. Japanese girl and it doesn't really feel

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  24. the same as the previous Silent Hill

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  25. games.

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  26. So I don't know why this is called Silent

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  27. Hill at all.

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  28. They should have just called it a

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  29. different name since it seems like a

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  30. completely different franchise at this

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  31. point.

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  32. The only similarities is that it's got the

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  33. same boring gameplay where you run around

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  34. in a deserted town that's full of fog,

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  35. chased by stupid monsters, and that are

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  36. really irritating.

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  37. Most of the gameplay revolves around

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  38. running around some kind of maze-like map

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  39. in a town in an area whilst you're being

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  40. slowly chased by these really dumb AI

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  41. robots with dumb AI.

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  42. It kind of feels like playing Pac-Man in

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  43. the way that you're just forced down these

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  44. narrow corridors and alleyways trying to

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  45. avoid danger whilst getting to your

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  46. objective.

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  47. You have to look at the map to find where

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  48. you're going and you constantly get lost

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  49. and stuck on terrain and obstacles and the

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  50. movement of it just doesn't really feel

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  51. very fluid or very well thought out.

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  52. The gameplay and the movement is very

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  53. janky and the animations aren't really

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  54. quite up to my standards.

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  55. And then the second half of the game

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  56. revolves around solving these really

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  57. annoying puzzles in typical classic Silent

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  58. Hill fashion.

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  59. The game is strewn with loads of boring

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  60. puzzles where you just match symbols to

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  61. unlock a door, or match things to unlock

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  62. something else, or place things in a

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  63. certain order to unlock something.

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  64. The puzzles are really boring and really

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  65. easy and simple.

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  66. It's basically matching symbols and just

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  67. feels like a big massive time waster.

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  68. And then there's the combat of the game.

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  69. You get a lead pipe or a metal pipe at

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  70. some point later to fight the monsters,

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  71. and you basically just have a light attack

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  72. and a heavy attack and a dodge.

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  73. There's no block.

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  74. There is a counterattack.

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  75. I don't know if you can upgrade the

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  76. weapon, probably can, but who cares.

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  77. Basically, you just spam light attack,

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  78. maybe do a heavy attack.

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  79. The combat is not quite Elden Ring.

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  80. It tries to be and fails flat on its face.

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  81. The graphics are also not very good

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  82. considering the fact that I'm playing on

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  83. an RTX 4050 Pro Gaming laptop with 12 or

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  84. 16GB of RAM depending on which one I have

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  85. because I forgot, and the game doesn't

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  86. really run very well.

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  87. The performance is not quite adequate for

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  88. my demands in gaming, and I felt like the

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  89. game was very stuttery and couldn't really

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  90. achieve higher than 30 frames per second.

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  91. And for a game that's been released in

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  92. 2025, it's supposed to be a modern game,

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  93. it's not really very good, is it?

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  94. The game is also way too expensive for

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  95. what it is.

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  96. It's £70, which is nearly $100, and the

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  97. game just doesn't really like it's worth

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  98. £70.

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  99. A very basic game, very boring as well.

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  100. So for those reasons, unfortunately, I

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  101. have to give this game a 3.5 out of 10.

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  102. Cannot recommend.

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  103. I paid £70.

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  104. I'm gonna refund it though, not keeping

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  105. it.

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  106. Pick up

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  107. the pipe.

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  108. Come

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  109. on,

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  110. I'm gonna close it.

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  111. It's kind of funny.

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  112. Smash it in the bum.

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  113. Yeah,

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  114. yeah.

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  115. Oh,

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  116. come on, eat the pill.

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  117. お前は、シュウどこにいる?

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  118. Dame une aide.

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  119. Sakuko died.

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  120. やめて。

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  121. Oh look, the category automatically

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  122. changed to Silent Hill F on Kick.

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  123. That's funny.

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  124. How'd it do that?

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  125. Orange juice.

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  126. 堅 苦 しい 神 社 じゃ なく て 駄 菓 子 屋 の 娘 に 生 ま れた

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  127. かった って ここ な らい つ でも 好 き な だけ お

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  128. 菓 子 が 食べ ら れる よ。

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  129. 帰 り な。 今日は もう 平 然 だ よ。

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  130. 咲 く な。

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  131. 私 や っぱ り 咲 く こと の 約 束 守 り たい よ。

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  132. 咲 く。

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  133. Was it all a dream?

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  134. This does kind of make me want to do

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  135. gaming streams, to be honest.

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