This is a bit of a rant... Aka I rambled a lot. Sorry in advance. Keep scrolling if ya don't wanna read it :] it's about Silent Hill f
So a couple of days ago I tried to finish Silent Hill f. Long story short I got pissed off by the gameplay (which I already said before I don't like) and when I saw my like 6th Birthing Monster (idk that's what google calls them) I closed the game and googled the ending.
I normally don't do this.. actually I didn't really like playing Resident Evil 2 Remake either (completely different game I know) but I still finished it along with Claire's section sense I played as Leon for the larger portion. Silent Hill f, unlike Resident Evil 2 Remake, didn't have the same kind of amazingly interesting story to me. It honestly just felt dumbed down compared to the other games in the Silent Hill series that I've played! I liked Homecoming more! fucking HOMECOMING!! (granted I thought Homecoming was funny bad and it had a lot of potential but still) Of course I know logically that some games just aren't for me.. but it really doesn't feel like a Silent Hill game it feels like it just got that title slapped on because they thought it would sell more. NOT TO MENTION I DIDN'T EVEN LIKE THE ENDING!
Spoilers + I get really mad:
I found out from my friend after the fact that most of the endings are locked behind 1 qualification for you to not be able to get them which would be fine to me if it was a you can only get these after beating the game once thing or a there's something that you could miss on your first playthrough but you can get it later thing or even just the normal multiple things that add up points or smth so you can get specific endings thing. But no. I am not shitting you ACCORDING TO MY FRIEND you have to NOT USE THE FIRST HEALING ITEM TYPE YOU ARE DIRECTLY GIVEN AT ALL. Are you fucking kidding me?! The game basically TELLS YOU to USE IT! It's the pill! The fucking pill! Ofc I'm gonna use the pill it's a HEALING ITEM used to REGENERATE MY HEALTH! If it was something for your sanity meter I'd be more ok with that because you don't inherently need to use those things and you can say it has a drug property or smth idfk but a HEALING ITEM that I used a LOT because it healed a SMALL AMOUNT was the reason I got a BAD ENDING?! REALLY?!
I never expected to get a good ending btw I've never gotten a good ending in any first playthroughs of any Silent Hill game (except Origins but there's only 3 endings in that game and you're locked onto the good one your first playthrough) but this just feels really REALLY cheap. Unavoidable in a way were I don't think I would've ever known I could've gotten any other ending if I played the game again because how the fuck would I have EVER known that?! Because Hinako is a drug addict? That should've just been a reason why she's been given the drugs not a fucking ENDING RELATED REQUIRNMENT!
Now.. the ending itself... The video I watched was just a walkthrough and I skipped to the end. Apparently I still had about an hour left (probably more those people are so good at games and they're so much faster than me) which I think is way too long the game just drags out at that point why are there multiple sections of running through town that seem to feel the exact same??? I never got to the second one but honestly it looked so annoying...
The ending of the game though was so cheap. Hinako, who was high on pills after she was sent off to get married so her father could pay off his debt, murdered 2 people at her wedding. It didn't even have the balls to really show anything.
This pisses me off so much.. WHAT DO YOU MEAN NOTHING I DID WAS REAL OR MATTERED?! This feels like the literary equivalent of just saying "it was all a dream" without any real REASON for it to be "all a dream"! Which I bet you can do that right but this makes NO SENSE especially with a SILENT HILL GAME where everything is shown to you as REAL because that's more interesting than a drug induced manic episode where the main character just had a bought of psychosis because she didn't wanna get fucking married or something! WHAT THE FUCK?! I also KNOW that Homecoming does the same thing with a couple of its endings but I never went into that game expecting much AND I KNEW BEFOREHAND THAT THOSE AREN'T FUCKING CANON! The good ending presumably is! And those even a little are foreshadowed! Alex getting drowned in a bathtub (the first ending I ever got in that game) was a very shitty ending but you can see where it came from with someone being sacrificed (it's still a really bad ending) and the ending where he's insane and in the mental hospital getting electro convulsion therapy comes from the beginning of the game where you see him IN A HOSPITAL! Neither of these are good and I know that but it's better than how I felt after playing f. I hope to god there's better endings in f because holy shit I'm so mad at that.
That's it. Sorry for the ramble I just had to get it out of my system.. Have a nice day, play video games, drink water, idk...