Silent Hill: Ascension looks part Until Dawn, part Twitch Plays Pokémon
Konami and developer Genvid on Tuesday offered a new look at their upcoming interactive streaming series based on the Silent Hill franchise. Silent Hill: Ascension.”
Silent Hill: Ascension will feature branching storylines and player-based choices in an ambitious mix of Telltale Games-esque narration, massively multiplayer interactivity from Twitch Plays Pokémon, and classic Silent Hill scares. Ascension Day is said to be a canon entry in the Silent Hill franchise, meaning players will have a degree of ownership over the series’ fiction.
A new trailer for Silent Hill: Ascension teases the multiple characters and intertwining storylines players and viewers can expect when the series launches in 2023. Genvid promises that the actions of millions will determine the fate of the characters of the series from day to day, and the creators of the project do not know how Ascension Day will end.
“We are excited to tell a new interactive story, set in never-before-explored locations, along with new characters that will be introduced to fans of the Silent Hill universe,” said Motoi Okamoto, a producer of the Silent Hill series at Konami, in a press release. “It is you who determine the fate of several main characters, which will unfold all over the world at the same time.”
Silent Hill: Ascension will flow the series’ official website and on multiple, unspecified devices – though it sounds like Genvid and Konami are looking to bring a native player app to consoles, PCs, mobiles and TVs.
In addition to Genvid and Konami, Bad Robot Games, the gaming division of JJ Abrams’ production company, and Behavior Interactive, the developer of Dead in daylight And Meet your maker.
Silent Hill: Ascension is one of many projects in development in Konami’s long-dormant psychological horror franchise. It was revealed last year during the Silent Hill Transmission live stream alongside a remake of silent hill 2called a brand new item Silent Hill fAnd Silent Hill: City trapa game created in collaboration with boutique publisher Annapurna Interactive and developed by No Code (Stories untold, Observation). A new Silent Hill movie, Return to Silent Hillis also in the works with director Christophe Gans at the helm.