One of the first screens you see in Silent Hill f is a smorgasbord of content warnings. And while I largely consider myself to have a pretty high threshold, those warnings should be heeded, as Silent Hill f has one of the most singularly gruesome moments I’ve ever seen in a video game.
But that gruesome moment isn’t even what I ultimately took away with me from my Silent Hill f experience. A lot of the gore and guts are simply built into the narrative, to reinforce a lot of the game’s themes on body image and identity. Nothing in this game is there simply for shock value, it’s there for a reason.
