Review Silent Hill The Short Message PS5 Theres a Reason Its Free
Ghost this one.
Silent Hill: The Short Message is the first product in 12 years to release with the Silent Hill name on it, and picking up where the Silent Hill HD Collection and PS Vita title Book of Memories left off, it doesn't exactly put the series' best foot forward. Instead of a horror experience filled with inventive puzzles and consistently scary sequences, Konami — alongside developer HexaDrive — has put together a walking simulator that harkens back to when the genre was actually just about putting one foot in front of the other. It's free and roughly 90 minutes long, so the only thing The Short Message asks of you is your free time. The issue is you could just spend it playing a significantly better game.
Unrelated to past entries in the series, a new protagonist Anita and her cast of teenage friends deal with a few very heavy themes: suicide, abuse, depression, and bullying. It's discomforting enough that Konami felt the need to display a splash screen at the end of each chapter offering guidance and links to suicide hotlines in real life, so it's not a narrative to be taken at all lightly. The plot sees Anita battle her demons in an abandoned apartment building with a reputation for suicides; a sad fate that has befallen her friend Maya.
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