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Silent Hill: Ascension fails to impress with greedy monetisation and cluttered UI
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this post was submitted on 01 Nov 2023
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The second I heard the tagline "Face Your Trauma Together" during the original teaser, I thought it was going to flop.
Clearly Genvid doesn't exactly have respect for SH fans or for gamers in general.
I (genuinely) don't understand. What exactly was disrespectful?
Aside from microtransactions, releasing an unfinished product that broke on day one, and being overall low quality compared to the Team Silent games, they are essentially making fun of trauma and PTSD as a concept. Compare that to Silent Hill 2, which was very respectful in how it handled the concept of trauma and PTSD, and it becomes quite obvious.
The fact that this sticker exists:
Should tell you enough.