The Silent Hill franchise surprised with several news during its special broadcast. Among the announcements, a new video game stood out for its premise: "Silent Hill: Ascension" is a live interactive video game.
Konami announced multiple updates for the Silent Hill saga, such as the remake of Silent Hill 2, a movie, and some spin-off games. One of the announced titles was "Silent Hill: Ascension", which plans to tell a completely new horror story. Ascension will have an interactive series format in which users make decisions that affect the story.
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The live interactive game broadcast will be in 2023. In the trailer, you can see a chat where users discuss "saving her," and then a monstrous creature is shown, which is probably the villain.
The project comes from the hand of the company Genvid, Bad Robot Games (J.J. Abrams' studio), Behaviour Interactive (Dead by Daylight), and the production company dj2 Entertainment (known for game-based series).
As explained in the Silent Hill event, the decisions viewers make in Ascension will affect the development of the story, and there will be no going back; they say, "there will be no reset button.".
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The producers stated that SH: Ascension was inspired by how video game streamers played Silent Hill live and all the viewers had that "feeling of being scared together" at the same time, like when we watch a horror movie in the cinema.
For this reason, we can expect that Ascension is a kind of experience in which the video game is livestreamed, and the entire community interacts with it.
Although it is in an early stage of development, they have shared a preview of the building tool, which will allow customization of objects not only by changing the pattern or color but also the shape, texture, and adding other elements.