SURE, WHY NOT GERMANY? - Silent Hill: The Short Message (PS5) - Livestream
2If this has a crying flesh baby in a sink and a Norman Reedus jump scare, I'm out.\n\n\n--------------------\n\nHelp us keep Octotiggy going! Support us on Patreon to see our new videos before anyone else! - https://www.patreon.com/octotiggy\n\nIf you just want to help us out and see your name pop up in the livestream, you can always head on over to our direct donation page. We really appreciate your generosity! - https://youtube.streamlabs.com/octotiggy\n\nOctotiggy on Discord - https://discord.gg/gfJSGS8\nOctotiggy on Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/Octotiggy\nOctotiggy on Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/octotiggy/profile\nOctotiggy on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Octotiggy\nOctotiggy on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/octotiggy/\nOctotiggy on Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/Octotiggy/\n\n--------------------\n\n\nSilent Hill: The Short Message is a 2024 survival horror game developed by HexaDrive and published by Konami. The game was announced and released for PlayStation 5 on 31 January 2024.\n\nThe plot follows a teenage girl named Anita after she receives bizarre text messages from her late friend Maya, who died from suicide, and must look for things that serve as clues in an abandoned apartment complex in Germany, while occasionally evading a monster covered in cherry blossom petals that pursues her at certain moments and cannot be attacked. The game is played from a first-person perspective with no combat involved.\n\nBullying, the impacts of social media, and suicide are the primary themes of the game.\n\nSilent Hill: The Short Message was announced at a PlayStation State of Play on 31 January 2024, and released on the same day as a free-to-play game.\n\nSilent Hill: The Short Message received "mixed or average" reviews from critics, according to review aggregator website Metacritic, and a "weak" rating from aggregator site OpenCritic.\n\nWriting for IGN, Koji Fukuyama and Daniel Robson commended the game's "effective use of themes...to create a feeling of genuine dread", describing the game as a modern and impactful iteration of the Silent Hill franchise. In contrast, Mark Delaney of GameSpot described the game as a "bad Silent Hill caricature", critiquing its "trial-and-error" chase sequences and "on-the-nose" plot and dialogue. Willa Rowe of Kotaku found the game to be "unnecessarily graphic" and its themes "shallow and heavy-handed", observing the game's ending twist to be predictable. In a review for Polygon, Carli Velocci compared many aspects of the game to previous Silent Hill titles such as P.T. and Silent Hill: Downpour, and found the references to the series at large "extremely unsubtle", while describing the game's presentation of its suicide themes as "borderline tacky", observing that the writing "doesn’t give Anita much more definition beyond her mental illness." Still, she ultimately concluded that the game has its merits, such as "some unique imagery that makes me feel optimistic about the series’ future".\n\nWikipedia contributors. Silent Hill: The Short Message. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. February 3, 2024, 09:37 UTC. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Silent_Hill:_The_Short_Message&oldid=1202704757.