No no, Jack, you don't understand, this is actually all very clever. The monsters in Silent Hill represent the trauma of the characters. Silent Hill Ascension itself IS the monster, it represents the average Silent Hill fans trauma over the fact that this series is owned by Konami and they just have to helplessly watch as Konami desecrates the mangled corpse of a series that meant so much to so many. It's actually a very clever integration of the brands themes into the very meta of the series, very avant garde.
You know a meta narrative like that could actually be insanely good. You know if a good writer did it. Not like Konami. Honestly I bet Kojima could do it, he loves his 4th wall breaks. Bit of a different story, but Think about the dog ending. What if we took that joke ending to the logical conclusion of ascension. We, the chat, are the dog now, it was us who were controlling the horror the whole time.
Danganronpa V3 actually did this in a pretty nice way. The reveal was pretty good making us realize why everything went back to the previous antagonist, why the cameras were really there, the sudden involvement of the main protagonist from the first game, and the reveal of why it was called V3. The reveal did make people get mixed feelings about the game but I honestly liked it cause it makes you think about what hope and despair really is and if there really is a third option.
@@vivil2533Now i am even sadder that Kojima left PT behind, never realised to its full potential. Maybe that was the REAL STORY behind PT all along. And now we will never know.
Except that Telltale allows you to look around, do things, chat to others, put puzzles together along with making choices. Something that would have been neat to see in the Silent Hill universe (if they had good writers and designers to make it happen). Not the case in this "game" and the monetization angle is just gross.
Fun fact: The CEO of Gevid; Jacob, once begged players on Twitter to spend their money to see this show's sex scene, only to bemoan about how the choice that didn't lead to it won and proceeded to write a long winded post about how this sex scene was revolutionary to television and how they spent all this effort making the nude models for it. The sex scene in question, which he uploaded on his twitter, is five seconds long and off camera save for a single scene of feet rubbing together. This paired with him believing this slop will generate ten million viewers says to me Jacob is completely out of his mind.
Yeah, honestly seems like he's trying build a castle from a thousand glass shards and saying it'll work despite the pieces not fitting together. There's a difference between making a mosaic which can turn out pretty good depending on experience and then there's trying to glue a vase together only to have it come out worse than before. This doesn't even feel like Silent Hill by now, it feels like a No Name Brand series of the games. Especially with the Dark World sections: WTF are even those parts and what do they have to do with Silent Hill? Had it be where the Foundation was trying to find a way into Silent Hill to attempt to meet and summon their God with Toby going after them to save his sister or where Karl goes to the town, having survived it once, after discovering his daughter was passing through that area to visit him to warn them of the danger only to be stuck in the nightmare once more, it could have been interesting. The fact we got this instead is just... it really tells you how much Konami cares about their IP's, alongside the whole battle pass thing. Sorry about the long winded rant by the way, just when I see things like Silent Hill: Ascension and the fact that there's nothing you get from it all in all, it infuriates me as there's some potential for a Silent Hill game that's like a Telltale game or having it be where it messes with your head while you play like having you hear monster noises despite there being no monsters in sight only to be surprised just as you make it to the exit when a whole bunch of them come crashing down from above or up from below.
It reminds me of some of my favorite Scott the Woz lines and I'm starting to think that specific brand of humor is why I like both of those guys so much. It reminds me of Scott saying things like "Well times three," instead of "well well well," and "And thus, it was torn! It being that, because that tears it."
Saddly Konami deleting source codes for older games was a very common practice for game studios at the time For some reason the thought of reselling old games that people love never crossed peoples minds during the ps2 era
That's one frig of a quote to take out of context! Makes it sound like the real life country of Norway is such a hell on earth that it's mere existence ruined everything.
How do y'all fuck this up. Three ain't got nothing to do with the protagonist. They're two very separate people, heather and alessa. Only 2 was about the protagonist and that was a side venture.
Still can't get over the fact that the story of this..../thing/ was so bad people thought it was being written by AI and the creators had to come out and say it wasn't...which is somehow WORSE than if it HAD been written by AI.
@@naplockblubba5369 It's basically either "rock and a hard place" or "out of the frying pan, into the fire" We're not going to get a good deal from this, because: A: The writer's were laid off, leading to an AI replacement done by people who lack the empathetic nuances of storytelling with the topic at hand. Or B: Either It's all ghostwritten with the credited writers just tossing whatever will stick... and not a single dart hit the board. Or their writing never left the 1st draft.
"Dude, they've got Philadelphia and Pittsburgh in the same state! What do you think Pyramid Head's gonna do to 'em?" Get his ass handed to him by the combined forces of ECW, Kurt Angle, and Eagles fans.
"She runs upstairs to go talk to her mom only to find out she's come down with a sudden case of 'being killed by Carl', who could've done this?" Is the funniest shit ever
I genuinely wish someone could get an interview with some of the bigest Silent Hill Ascension whales to learn of why did they spend so much in it. Like not even judge them. I just genuinelly wanna know. Its fascinating
I honestly think a number of whales are just mentally unwell, and developers make their games hoping to catch those people, who will compulsively spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on a game.
@@OfftheRadar9790 genuinely that is true-and especially people with impulse control issues (ie adhd, autism, bipolar, etc-i say this from personal experience as someone who struggles with microtransactions and impulse control) the systems are deliberately designed to target them. Its really gross and makes games worse
Reading any interview with gambling addict and changing "strike it big" with "make plot point happen" would most likely clear things up. Tactics to extract money are the same and so result wouldn't be so much different.
If you're going to put a Silent Hill game in Pennsylvania, it should be a crossover with It's Always Sunny. With that cast, I'm not sure if they or the monsters are in more danger.
The "ten million viewers" thing reminds me of how Capcom based their sales projections for Street Fighter X Tekken by just adding the sales of both franchises together
Look, I can't claim to know Konami nearly as well as many, but it's telling that the only things I really know them for is "the guys that turn all their IPs into gambling machines" and "the subjects of Fuck Konami News". They've fallen off HARD.
@@fernadogonzalez2940 Dude we're literally going through MULTIPLE TIER 0 FORMATS IN A ROW. The latest set of legacy support has a built in FTK. It's the exact opposite, this game has utterly collapsed onto itself like a supernova.
@@bumblesmcfumbles it didn't have to be like this bumbles. You could've just played an Ancient gears and Trains and turned your brain off for a blissful card game of "I swing with big number and I win sometimes" The gorilla side can still save you
It was also distracting how when the episodes were put together they kept every fade in and out of black. Nothing felt coherent even with the completed episodes
1:45 wait, silent hill is in MAINE!?! Between that and two thirds of the towns Stephen king writes of, exorcist must be a damn good business to be in around those parts.
27:51 Hey, that's York, Pennsylvania! I'm honored to have my city cameo in a Bumbles McFumbles video for two seconds; and I didn't even have to pay exorbitant amounts to do it!
@@wadespencer3623 You know, it's really hard to tell what his prices are because every time I try to ask him he just drags that huge sword along the ground and I can't hear him over all the scraping of cement. He's doing wonders for the city, though: just last week I saw him working in the soup kitchen!
As someone's actual for real sick wife who was abandoned instead of killed --- check the sociology research; hubby having an affair then abandonment is by far the most likely outcome for a sick wife + healthy husband (most wives stay with their sick partners of either sex; I don't have reliable information on other types of pairings) --- I really loved the story in SH2 even tho it was personally painful for me bc of how close to my reality it hits. Being sick is hard on both people in a relationship. We know we are burdens. Our partners need support too, but esp when you're young, friends + family often vanish for both people bc it's scary to everyone. It's hard not to empathize with the person leaving the burden behind --- of course people want their "old lives" back. Leaving the sick person for the next lover is the false promise of a return to "normal", same as James' impulse to end his "situation" in SH2. So, I loved SH2. It's a masterpiece & they captured the dynamics of that kind of crisis realistically even if Real Life James statistically would've just started an affair & gone from there. So imagine my f-cking delight to find out there's another SH story with EVEN MORE disposable sick wives!!!!! Abusive sick wives who are rabid b-tches towards loved ones 24/7 for no reason but bc sick! I guess that's how us sick wives just are, we're just constantly mean to our people at all times no matter what bc we have no insight or empathy anymore bc sickness!!! Wow, 2 extra dying wives waiting to be murdered for someone else's personal growth! Fun! Absolute hackery. Utter nonsense. Disgusting hogwash. It's really offensive for being a bad SH as well as for the disposable sick mean wives being a RUNNING CANON TROPE now instead of a unique story/character element that hadn't yet been flanderized to parodic depths. Heck, maybe the whole series will just turn into sick-mean-wife + monster murder world.
Jesus Christ, I have never heard of this before, this is some of the worst monetization I have ever seen in a "Game". Even Diablo Immortal let you play a game and see numbers go up, This doesn't even do that!
Yeah and Total drama island didn't resort to microtransactions or other shit like this! Sure it was votes but that was done on their website and you couldn't like mass influence it with cash. (I think, I'm not versed with how that side of the show went.)
Once again, Konami proves that they are too out of touch with the rest of the industry, but are too proud and (relatively) successful to just back off or try something new.
Are they really out of touch with the industry or with the fans? Because honestly, exchange Silent Hill with Dead Space and Konami with EA and I wouldn't be any more surprised or disappointed. (Because I'm already at rock bottom with my expectations)
@l0rf Except for once EA is better cause the Dead Space remake is good, and they didn't make a weird ass...whayever the hell ascension is. What genre do you even put that in?
@purukumi4957 true, but EA would do this very thing. They tried everything with the Dead Space universe in the first release like several animated specials and spin offs so if they were still focused on it, this looks like how they'd progress post DS3.
@l0rf Totally fair, at least the base 3 games, at their absolute worst are just alright. Though tbf that's the same woth the base 4 Silent Hills, except they're all baller
Honestly with Konami's track record I'm actually shocked that they haven't turned like their franchises Silent Hill Castlevania and Metal Gear Solid into Web 3 crypto games.
I would 100% not be surprised if those top buyers weren't real, like they were just fake accounts by Konami in order to make people think they had to spend loads of money to make their choices count.
@GribbleGob there were multiple ai streams that featured ai versions of characters like a family guy one that ended because Peter was talking about how to place a bomb in the middle of Washington dc,a Seinfeld onethat ended because the characters were saying racist shit,and a spongebob one.
Credit to you dude for the work on the video in the first 15 minutes. Not rushing yourself towards the talk of the game, but covering well the history of Silent Hill and its downfall (nicely done roller coaster shot) to where we ended up. Great intro for someone like myself who's a bit still new towards the Silent Hill realm. Already can't wait to check out the rest of the video and see where this rabbit hole of Silent Hill Ascension keeps going down to. *insert awkward laughter here* PS - And do keep up the good work on the vids (and fantastic sense of humor, btw). PPS - The utter timing at 52:50 of that child slapping, the father calling out to her in restraint .1 seconds after the hand touches her mother face and Rachel's reaction is the most insane thing I think I've ever seen to come out of something for SILENT HILL.10/10
It's such a cool idea, but it sounds like it would be really hard to do well. As much as I love this idea on paper, I think it was doomed from the start.
Check out the Cry of Mann. It was a online web series where viewers could call the characters on the phone and talk directly to them. Some characters legitimately died because the callers couldn't figure out the right hints to give them in time.
The funny thing is, as dogshit as this idea is, I think I could work with a better moderated chat, better directed media, reworked vote system that doesn't use Influence and a more casual franchise that already has precedent for OCs appearing in the middle of something. In other words...this would work better with Sonic. I'm serious.
I will agree that "Don't stop being a cold-hearted b**** on me now" is a pretty good line. Pretty sure I've heard it in better media before but this thing has to take whatever flowers it can get.
The worst part of all is how all these already horrible characters get *worse*. Eric? Turns out he's the one that caused the mil fire because Toby was drunk. Rachel? She was close to losing the mil so to force people to work for longer hours she would LOCK THEM IN THE MIL, which is why that fire killed so many. Eva? Carl's deceased daughter who was a mass shooter. Astrid? Got pressured by her mother into helping poison Eva, then burning her body. Not to mention their shitty fucking kids becoming Omen ripoffs and killing people left and right while their parents still scream "NOOOO YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND! THEY'RE JUST FRIGHTENED! LEAVE MY FAMILY ALONE!!!!" Literally so sad that any of them survived.
Sir you're forgetting the best part, in how Karl ran off with a ghost and abandons his mentally ill daughters to flee the countries cause his dead mistress murdered hospital patients because she felt like it
4:23 IIRC, Team Silent cycled most of their members with each installment of the original four games, with only a few recurring names like the art guy and Akira Yamaoka. It kind of explains why each entry feels so different to each other and dispels the myth that team silent is the sole reason why the first games were so great. There are great videos on the topic already floating around RUclips, lookup "There was no team silent" by thegamingmuse and I think Max Derrat covered the topic on one of his videos.
"The combat is..." *shows footage of standing in place while firing at the boss you're supposed to run away and not fire back* "fun!" I really hope this was a meta joke, because if it was it's hilarious.
I never undestood why this had to be a broadcast thing, just make silent hill until dawn and people would have bought that, instead konami was konami and screwed EVERYONE over, does not give me hope for the rest of the silent hill stuff coming
its literally Konami doing what people should have expected them to do lmao why are you so upset? it'd be like being shocked a serial stabber got out on parole and immediately stabbed a guy again
All things aside, a Silent Hill where you play as an Order member and the horrors of being trapped in a cult (almost like...being trapped in a certain town...) COULD be interesting, but this is not the way to do it
This is the worst that Konami has ever done to Silent Hill. Monetization on a horror game, and make people buy XP points to get an instant win over this full motion show. It's Trauma sticker is just so wrong.
Okay I laid down with this on because hey migraine and funny essay man help distract brain from agonizing pain. ...then you got into what are basically pay to win pvp narrative experiences and I had to haul my carcass out of bed with my head throbbing to rewind just to make sure I didn't mishear that.
The berry scene's dialogue was some of the worst I've ever seen. The line writing is bad. The flow of the scene is bad. The internal logic of the characters is bad. Nothing happens, no information is communicated, nothing is started, escalated, ended or changed at all. The only possible use I could see for that scene as an outsider is to establish him as a character so he can die later, which if anything will hit less hard than wandering your property and finding a corpse without context. Literally that character would be more impactful if he was just found dead.
shattered memories actually made me cry at the end, not from fear (it never felt scary really) but it was emotionally affecting as hell. The realization of what had happened and who we were actually playing as tugged my heartstrings incredibly effectively. It really did an incredible job of keeping the twist held back until it landed and brought it all home, making me really FEEL for poor Cheryl and realize how desperately she had been wanting to believe anything but the truth. Then I immediately played it again, and the second time around I felt for her poor psychiatrist 😂 she just had such a creative and imaginative mind, and he clearly was just over it. So he decided today, he was gonna chase Harry with everything he had, all over this silly made up world, all the way to his office, and that idea is really exciting on its own. I was cheering for him that time, seeing how he was determined to face his white whale and finally bring Harry home, however he could. Maybe not the most professional way to view a problem patient but goddamnit, he was determined to win this time!! I got goosebumps and was unreasonably hyped the second time around, and those are two very different but equally enjoyable vibes to get from a game, heartbreak and triumph. Shattered Memories really had something cool going, I wish that team had been given more chances with the series.
this video is the first time i've become aware the two plots are in different locations, literally never got that feeling because of how narrow the world is
Why is it so hard to be a Silent Hill fan? The first four games are yet to have a rerelease on modern counsels, PT is cancelled, the ones who are currently making Silent Hill games are those who don't get why the games are great (I even have doubts the Silent Hill 2 remake will be faithful to the original as it is made by a company whose previous horror games are mid). I just want to hear some news about Silent Hill that would get me excited and happy instead of going, "This is going to suck, isn't it?"
This is so frustrating because the premise could've made for a great Silent Hill game! Imagine a game about a cabin in Norway where the family inside has cabin fever and ends up in the Otherworld. There would be so many psychological elements they could play with, including the Order making their presence known in some way. And it's all sacrificed on the altar of this fucking stupid techbro attempt to squeeze money out of Silent Hill.
Silent Hill Ascension is so terrible that nobody on RUclips has been making a whole recap and review on the story since it's finished and now I don`t know how this shit ended.
Im sorry, everyone, youre all living in my version of silent hill. One where many of us are broke and it hardly matters because everything worth buying is being turned into empty cash grabs anyway.
with how bad the ass-sention voting and idea is, we can at least take comfort in knowing that nobody cared about the story the moment we knew it was like this anyway, so canon or not, whatever lol
Man I knew Konami messed up bad with silent hill, but 4 in a row all in the same month flopping. No wonder they gave up on making console games for a decade.
The most confusing part of Book Of Memories was that Wayforward were the ones who made it. How could they go from absolute bangers left and right only to falter that hard despite previously making Contra 4. At least it’s not their worst game ever. That would be Shrek: Ogres & Dronkeys on the DS.
The berry man.........why did he have to die.....................................he's so iconic. James who? Heather huh? CrimsonRain722? Move over Leon. He's the best silent hill character
Sweet kami I remember this game making the rounds and being resoundingly mocked by the pundits I listen to for...well, everything, but I had no idea it was this bad. Thank you for suffering through it for our entertainment.
I really, really don't understand who would give a project like this their money. And why, Konami hasn't been worth spending money on in decades. It's a heartless, soulless money grab made by cynical decisions in a board room by people who couldn't care less about or misunderstand the artistic value of their product if you hit them round the head with a dissertation on it etched into a stone tablet.
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No no, Jack, you don't understand, this is actually all very clever. The monsters in Silent Hill represent the trauma of the characters. Silent Hill Ascension itself IS the monster, it represents the average Silent Hill fans trauma over the fact that this series is owned by Konami and they just have to helplessly watch as Konami desecrates the mangled corpse of a series that meant so much to so many. It's actually a very clever integration of the brands themes into the very meta of the series, very avant garde.
You know a meta narrative like that could actually be insanely good.
You know if a good writer did it. Not like Konami.
Honestly I bet Kojima could do it, he loves his 4th wall breaks.
Bit of a different story, but Think about the dog ending. What if we took that joke ending to the logical conclusion of ascension.
We, the chat, are the dog now, it was us who were controlling the horror the whole time.
Danganronpa V3 actually did this in a pretty nice way. The reveal was pretty good making us realize why everything went back to the previous antagonist, why the cameras were really there, the sudden involvement of the main protagonist from the first game, and the reveal of why it was called V3. The reveal did make people get mixed feelings about the game but I honestly liked it cause it makes you think about what hope and despair really is and if there really is a third option.
@@vivil2533Now i am even sadder that Kojima left PT behind, never realised to its full potential. Maybe that was the REAL STORY behind PT all along. And now we will never know.
That's why the monster is a large guy with a club hand he represents Konami destroying every beloved franchise they made
You know what they: Don’t mess with Silent Hill fans
No really, don’t. They’ve suffered enough.
Imagine paying $500 to get the top spot on a bunch of polls only to end up being cast as "guy who sold drugs to one of the protagonist's dead sister"
i think at that point its on you for dumping 500 real dollars into silent hill ascension
Konami dares to ask the brave question, "what if we create a telltale style game and made it a live service?"
Ew
No. Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
stupidity is often confused with bravery
Except that Telltale allows you to look around, do things, chat to others, put puzzles together along with making choices. Something that would have been neat to see in the Silent Hill universe (if they had good writers and designers to make it happen). Not the case in this "game" and the monetization angle is just gross.
The words "silent hill battle pass" melt my soul
How about the "Silent Hill Orgy" thing?
It genuinely feels like an oxymoron
@@flow185fortnite and it's consequences has been a disaster for the gaming industry
stay put for Silent Hill Homecoming: 4-player Coop Shooting
@@YouSoSpiceSilent Hill: Battle Royale
Fun fact: The CEO of Gevid; Jacob, once begged players on Twitter to spend their money to see this show's sex scene, only to bemoan about how the choice that didn't lead to it won and proceeded to write a long winded post about how this sex scene was revolutionary to television and how they spent all this effort making the nude models for it.
The sex scene in question, which he uploaded on his twitter, is five seconds long and off camera save for a single scene of feet rubbing together.
This paired with him believing this slop will generate ten million viewers says to me Jacob is completely out of his mind.
Oh my god that is just pathetic!
Yeah, honestly seems like he's trying build a castle from a thousand glass shards and saying it'll work despite the pieces not fitting together. There's a difference between making a mosaic which can turn out pretty good depending on experience and then there's trying to glue a vase together only to have it come out worse than before. This doesn't even feel like Silent Hill by now, it feels like a No Name Brand series of the games. Especially with the Dark World sections: WTF are even those parts and what do they have to do with Silent Hill?
Had it be where the Foundation was trying to find a way into Silent Hill to attempt to meet and summon their God with Toby going after them to save his sister or where Karl goes to the town, having survived it once, after discovering his daughter was passing through that area to visit him to warn them of the danger only to be stuck in the nightmare once more, it could have been interesting. The fact we got this instead is just... it really tells you how much Konami cares about their IP's, alongside the whole battle pass thing.
Sorry about the long winded rant by the way, just when I see things like Silent Hill: Ascension and the fact that there's nothing you get from it all in all, it infuriates me as there's some potential for a Silent Hill game that's like a Telltale game or having it be where it messes with your head while you play like having you hear monster noises despite there being no monsters in sight only to be surprised just as you make it to the exit when a whole bunch of them come crashing down from above or up from below.
This is not a fun fact and you should be ashamed to tell others of this eldritch knowledge. What a terrible day to have eyes.
Has bro not seen Titanic?
Can someone please post a link to any of these comments, I really want to read them.
"If there was an up, they'd fuck it" is such a beautiful line.
It reminds me of some of my favorite Scott the Woz lines and I'm starting to think that specific brand of humor is why I like both of those guys so much. It reminds me of Scott saying things like "Well times three," instead of "well well well," and "And thus, it was torn! It being that, because that tears it."
for hypersexual societal diseases, yea
Saddly Konami deleting source codes for older games was a very common practice for game studios at the time
For some reason the thought of reselling old games that people love never crossed peoples minds during the ps2 era
I've heard this was the case with Kingdom Hearts, apparently.
@@gameman250 Yup and apparently Capcom too
Every time I see the "It's Trauma!" sticker from Ascension, I keep thinking that they missed a golden scumbag opportunity to partner with BetterHelp.
everyday im glad they didnt do this
She ascends on my hill till I’m silent
She pyramid my head till i mannequin
Incorrect buzzer sfx
You will not see past the gates of heaven
@@kettle680She silents my ascensions till I hill
She silent on my ascend till I hill
Fun fact! The place "Stilledalen" in the Norway section translates to "Silent valley" and does not exist. Real creative guys.
They couldn't even get the HILL right. 😂
"The worst parts of Norway have infected the whole show"
I love that sentence
That's one frig of a quote to take out of context! Makes it sound like the real life country of Norway is such a hell on earth that it's mere existence ruined everything.
You don’t understand the SpongeBob porn was REQUIRED for the series to continue, it’s like the coconut JPEG in the TF2 files
Toby deserves the honor of reincarnating as a professional wrestler and joining the Bumbles McRumbles
Silent hill was quite literally the embodiment of psychological horror. It was horror that revolved around the protagonist psychology
In 1 and 3 the horror was real, The entire town was being corrupted by Alessia's influence.
@@gagejohnathan9641Which was informed by her (and by extension Heather’s) psychology.
How do y'all fuck this up. Three ain't got nothing to do with the protagonist. They're two very separate people, heather and alessa. Only 2 was about the protagonist and that was a side venture.
Still can't get over the fact that the story of this..../thing/ was so bad people thought it was being written by AI and the creators had to come out and say it wasn't...which is somehow WORSE than if it HAD been written by AI.
I mean, people accuse literally anything with bad writing of being "written by AI" nowadays
@@naplockblubba5369could be worse, you could be the groups of writers deemed actually worse than the worst regurgitated AI garbage
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It's basically either "rock and a hard place" or "out of the frying pan, into the fire"
We're not going to get a good deal from this, because:
A: The writer's were laid off, leading to an AI replacement done by people who lack the empathetic nuances of storytelling with the topic at hand.
Or B: Either It's all ghostwritten with the credited writers just tossing whatever will stick... and not a single dart hit the board. Or their writing never left the 1st draft.
The fact that I heard nothing about the actual game but I have heard about how the chat would censor kojima’s name says something.
Woah, woah, woah! Come on, friend. At least have the decency to censor such a harmful slur!
"Dude, they've got Philadelphia and Pittsburgh in the same state! What do you think Pyramid Head's gonna do to 'em?"
Get his ass handed to him by the combined forces of ECW, Kurt Angle, and Eagles fans.
turn pyramid head into a robot, send him to philly and history repeats itself
Perc Angle could solo Pyramid Head
Crack heads and hill billies teaming up to kill a eldritch entity
They’re gonna do him like hitchbot.
@@GreenEyedPsycho Not poor Hitchbot 💀💀
22:30
So they've effectively turned a Choose Your Own Adventure format into a goddamn Goodwill Auction. Sasuga, Konami.
"She runs upstairs to go talk to her mom only to find out she's come down with a sudden case of 'being killed by Carl', who could've done this?" Is the funniest shit ever
I genuinely wish someone could get an interview with some of the bigest Silent Hill Ascension whales to learn of why did they spend so much in it.
Like not even judge them. I just genuinelly wanna know. Its fascinating
Sunken cost fallacy.
I honestly think a number of whales are just mentally unwell, and developers make their games hoping to catch those people, who will compulsively spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on a game.
@@OfftheRadar9790 genuinely that is true-and especially people with impulse control issues (ie adhd, autism, bipolar, etc-i say this from personal experience as someone who struggles with microtransactions and impulse control) the systems are deliberately designed to target them. Its really gross and makes games worse
Reading any interview with gambling addict and changing "strike it big" with "make plot point happen" would most likely clear things up.
Tactics to extract money are the same and so result wouldn't be so much different.
People will pay to feel important. Even in a small pond like Ascension
If you're going to put a Silent Hill game in Pennsylvania, it should be a crossover with It's Always Sunny. With that cast, I'm not sure if they or the monsters are in more danger.
yes
The "ten million viewers" thing reminds me of how Capcom based their sales projections for Street Fighter X Tekken by just adding the sales of both franchises together
For me, it's Square Enix threatening to stop localizing mainline Dragon Quest games if DQ Warriors (2?) didn't sell enough copies.
52:55 Gotta love the very natural way that she leans in just close enough for the kid to slap her, very convincing
Look, I can't claim to know Konami nearly as well as many, but it's telling that the only things I really know them for is "the guys that turn all their IPs into gambling machines" and "the subjects of Fuck Konami News". They've fallen off HARD.
Konami is Konami, and Konami is the worst.
@@l0rf at least yu gi oh is the most playable it has been since 2014
Another James Stephanie Sterling enjoyer in the wild? Absolutely based.
@@fernadogonzalez2940now if they'd just balance it properly and not have people wanna brain themselves for playing it!
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Dude we're literally going through MULTIPLE TIER 0 FORMATS IN A ROW. The latest set of legacy support has a built in FTK.
It's the exact opposite, this game has utterly collapsed onto itself like a supernova.
Alright, i gotta stop, from one pendulum lover to another who hurt you to want to learn an endymion combo?
I was born like this
She was a Gunshot Bride
@@bumblesmcfumbles it didn't have to be like this bumbles. You could've just played an Ancient gears and Trains and turned your brain off for a blissful card game of "I swing with big number and I win sometimes"
The gorilla side can still save you
at least it isn't vaylantz
Endymion was better when it was pure spell counters. Spell Power Grasp.
Right next to "suspiciously wealthy furries" is "suspiciously wealthy mobile gamers"
At least the furries support artists and give the world art of varying quality.
The mobile gamers only spread cancer.
FIVE MINUTES???? How the hell is ANYONE supposed to get attached to any character when they only get to see them in five minute bursts?
It was also distracting how when the episodes were put together they kept every fade in and out of black. Nothing felt coherent even with the completed episodes
This feels a lot like a video game soap opera
1:45 wait, silent hill is in MAINE!?! Between that and two thirds of the towns Stephen king writes of, exorcist must be a damn good business to be in around those parts.
Silent Hills cancelation sent a goddamn shockwave across the gaming community.
Coulda been worse. Coulda been Silent Hill Rogue Corps.
So a third person shooter?
I smell a sequel video~
Maybe we'll get lucky and get a Yu-Gi-Oh video too.
Please don't give them any more ideas
Would be more interesting than Ascension is
Another video, so soon after Games You Can't Buy Anymore 3?! You're spoiling us, Jack!
27:51 Hey, that's York, Pennsylvania! I'm honored to have my city cameo in a Bumbles McFumbles video for two seconds; and I didn't even have to pay exorbitant amounts to do it!
Do you guys have pyramid head there?
How much do we normally have to pay him for a city cameo?
@@wadespencer3623 You know, it's really hard to tell what his prices are because every time I try to ask him he just drags that huge sword along the ground and I can't hear him over all the scraping of cement. He's doing wonders for the city, though: just last week I saw him working in the soup kitchen!
As someone's actual for real sick wife who was abandoned instead of killed --- check the sociology research; hubby having an affair then abandonment is by far the most likely outcome for a sick wife + healthy husband (most wives stay with their sick partners of either sex; I don't have reliable information on other types of pairings) --- I really loved the story in SH2 even tho it was personally painful for me bc of how close to my reality it hits. Being sick is hard on both people in a relationship. We know we are burdens. Our partners need support too, but esp when you're young, friends + family often vanish for both people bc it's scary to everyone. It's hard not to empathize with the person leaving the burden behind --- of course people want their "old lives" back. Leaving the sick person for the next lover is the false promise of a return to "normal", same as James' impulse to end his "situation" in SH2. So, I loved SH2. It's a masterpiece & they captured the dynamics of that kind of crisis realistically even if Real Life James statistically would've just started an affair & gone from there.
So imagine my f-cking delight to find out there's another SH story with EVEN MORE disposable sick wives!!!!! Abusive sick wives who are rabid b-tches towards loved ones 24/7 for no reason but bc sick! I guess that's how us sick wives just are, we're just constantly mean to our people at all times no matter what bc we have no insight or empathy anymore bc sickness!!! Wow, 2 extra dying wives waiting to be murdered for someone else's personal growth! Fun!
Absolute hackery. Utter nonsense. Disgusting hogwash. It's really offensive for being a bad SH as well as for the disposable sick mean wives being a RUNNING CANON TROPE now instead of a unique story/character element that hadn't yet been flanderized to parodic depths. Heck, maybe the whole series will just turn into sick-mean-wife + monster murder world.
Jesus Christ, I have never heard of this before, this is some of the worst monetization I have ever seen in a "Game". Even Diablo Immortal let you play a game and see numbers go up, This doesn't even do that!
So we all agree this is just a worse version of what Total Drama Island did, right?
Yeah and Total drama island didn't resort to microtransactions or other shit like this! Sure it was votes but that was done on their website and you couldn't like mass influence it with cash. (I think, I'm not versed with how that side of the show went.)
Once again, Konami proves that they are too out of touch with the rest of the industry, but are too proud and (relatively) successful to just back off or try something new.
Are they really out of touch with the industry or with the fans? Because honestly, exchange Silent Hill with Dead Space and Konami with EA and I wouldn't be any more surprised or disappointed. (Because I'm already at rock bottom with my expectations)
@l0rf Except for once EA is better cause the Dead Space remake is good, and they didn't make a weird ass...whayever the hell ascension is. What genre do you even put that in?
@purukumi4957 true, but EA would do this very thing. They tried everything with the Dead Space universe in the first release like several animated specials and spin offs so if they were still focused on it, this looks like how they'd progress post DS3.
@l0rf Totally fair, at least the base 3 games, at their absolute worst are just alright. Though tbf that's the same woth the base 4 Silent Hills, except they're all baller
I wasn’t expecting this.
Jack, I’m so sorry you had to go through this.
Imagine if everyone united to fail at the quick time events just to kill off every important character and end the show sooner.
Honestly with Konami's track record I'm actually shocked that they haven't turned like their franchises Silent Hill Castlevania and Metal Gear Solid into Web 3 crypto games.
Oh Bumbles, you silly filly, I know the entire Spongebob Movie Script by heart
If Konami was told to walk down the street in a straight line. They'd be running into the nearest wall.
I would 100% not be surprised if those top buyers weren't real, like they were just fake accounts by Konami in order to make people think they had to spend loads of money to make their choices count.
Yeah since for even a show like this, even the usual whales know when something is so shit that it ain't worth any money to put in.
People think AI made this, but AI would probably do better.
The fact that silent Hill ascension is worse than that ai spongebob stream will forever be the funniest shit ever.
@@thegentelmen8984What?
I don't know this Al person, but he sounds a-okay to me!
@GribbleGob there were multiple ai streams that featured ai versions of characters like a family guy one that ended because Peter was talking about how to place a bomb in the middle of Washington dc,a Seinfeld onethat ended because the characters were saying racist shit,and a spongebob one.
I'm surprised you didn't mention Matt's famous axe throw
Credit to you dude for the work on the video in the first 15 minutes. Not rushing yourself towards the talk of the game, but covering well the history of Silent Hill and its downfall (nicely done roller coaster shot) to where we ended up. Great intro for someone like myself who's a bit still new towards the Silent Hill realm. Already can't wait to check out the rest of the video and see where this rabbit hole of Silent Hill Ascension keeps going down to. *insert awkward laughter here*
PS - And do keep up the good work on the vids (and fantastic sense of humor, btw).
PPS - The utter timing at 52:50 of that child slapping, the father calling out to her in restraint .1 seconds after the hand touches her mother face and Rachel's reaction is the most insane thing I think I've ever seen to come out of something for SILENT HILL.10/10
She Silent on my Hill till I Ascend?
She ascend on my hill till I’m silent?
**Incorrect Buzzer**
I love the idea of an interactive tv show where the series is affected by viewers so I'm sad this game had to mess it all up
It's such a cool idea, but it sounds like it would be really hard to do well. As much as I love this idea on paper, I think it was doomed from the start.
Check out the Cry of Mann. It was a online web series where viewers could call the characters on the phone and talk directly to them. Some characters legitimately died because the callers couldn't figure out the right hints to give them in time.
Thank you for the feast, Bumbles McFumbles.
There’s always a spot open for you on my crew.
When the hills are silent idk I never played the series
Punch Out appearance and Metal Gear Rising appearance hell yeah
There is a It's Trauma T-shirt, we could have had Silent Hills but instead we have this
Oh, new card transition? It looks nice!
The funny thing is, as dogshit as this idea is, I think I could work with a better moderated chat, better directed media, reworked vote system that doesn't use Influence and a more casual franchise that already has precedent for OCs appearing in the middle of something. In other words...this would work better with Sonic. I'm serious.
I really appreciate the little cassette tapes you put in showing the music its so nice
I will agree that "Don't stop being a cold-hearted b**** on me now" is a pretty good line. Pretty sure I've heard it in better media before but this thing has to take whatever flowers it can get.
The worst part of all is how all these already horrible characters get *worse*. Eric? Turns out he's the one that caused the mil fire because Toby was drunk. Rachel? She was close to losing the mil so to force people to work for longer hours she would LOCK THEM IN THE MIL, which is why that fire killed so many. Eva? Carl's deceased daughter who was a mass shooter. Astrid? Got pressured by her mother into helping poison Eva, then burning her body. Not to mention their shitty fucking kids becoming Omen ripoffs and killing people left and right while their parents still scream "NOOOO YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND! THEY'RE JUST FRIGHTENED! LEAVE MY FAMILY ALONE!!!!"
Literally so sad that any of them survived.
Sir you're forgetting the best part, in how Karl ran off with a ghost and abandons his mentally ill daughters to flee the countries cause his dead mistress murdered hospital patients because she felt like it
sad how everyone but the little two children and Toby isn't terrible people,
It sucked because a silent Hill choose your own adventure story could be awesome with competent hands.
Downpour reviewed poorly?
I thought it reviewed pour-ly.
Sorry.
A new video already? What a welcome surprise!
Can’t believe they killed off the only two good characters that helped make a show about nothing feel like something.
(That’s Toby and Jam guy)
4:23 IIRC, Team Silent cycled most of their members with each installment of the original four games, with only a few recurring names like the art guy and Akira Yamaoka.
It kind of explains why each entry feels so different to each other and dispels the myth that team silent is the sole reason why the first games were so great.
There are great videos on the topic already floating around RUclips, lookup "There was no team silent" by thegamingmuse and I think Max Derrat covered the topic on one of his videos.
"The combat is..." *shows footage of standing in place while firing at the boss you're supposed to run away and not fire back* "fun!" I really hope this was a meta joke, because if it was it's hilarious.
Silent Hill? More like Loud Valley.
Gotta love when the roots of something's problems can be tied to the monetization.
Considered you mentioned David Cage, are we ever going to get you to play Omikron?
HELL NO
I guess you can say they Bumbles McFumbled it (I am then shot by police for crimes against my country)
If I made videos in 2011 you can damn sure bet I would have said that about bad games. Jaws Unleashed would have gotten the McFumbled rating
There's still time.... it's never too late@@bumblesmcfumbles
22:54 I can't believe that Yubel was wasting Jaden's money on this shit
I never undestood why this had to be a broadcast thing, just make silent hill until dawn and people would have bought that, instead konami was konami and screwed EVERYONE over, does not give me hope for the rest of the silent hill stuff coming
its literally Konami doing what people should have expected them to do lmao why are you so upset? it'd be like being shocked a serial stabber got out on parole and immediately stabbed a guy again
Silent Hill 4 actually had the best atmosphere of the first Silent Hill games despite it's gameplay suffering, and I will die on this hill.
All things aside, a Silent Hill where you play as an Order member and the horrors of being trapped in a cult (almost like...being trapped in a certain town...) COULD be interesting, but this is not the way to do it
Then again thats just Devotion, we should all just play Devotion
Bumbles saying Silent Hill Ascension is just a shittier version of Twitch Plays Pokemon opened my third eye.
Showing the Thrillville shooter minigame inflicted psychic damage
This is the worst that Konami has ever done to Silent Hill. Monetization on a horror game, and make people buy XP points to get an instant win over this full motion show. It's Trauma sticker is just so wrong.
Okay I laid down with this on because hey migraine and funny essay man help distract brain from agonizing pain.
...then you got into what are basically pay to win pvp narrative experiences and I had to haul my carcass out of bed with my head throbbing to rewind just to make sure I didn't mishear that.
I think that with every game that came after it, we can all agree that we were much too hard on Silent Hill 4.
The berry scene's dialogue was some of the worst I've ever seen. The line writing is bad. The flow of the scene is bad. The internal logic of the characters is bad. Nothing happens, no information is communicated, nothing is started, escalated, ended or changed at all. The only possible use I could see for that scene as an outsider is to establish him as a character so he can die later, which if anything will hit less hard than wandering your property and finding a corpse without context. Literally that character would be more impactful if he was just found dead.
Each episode was only five minutes, eh?
Looks like Silent Hill Ascension is the Chargeman Ken of gaming.
it would've been more cultural impacting if they just made a netflix silent hill tv show bruh
I wasn't the biggest fan of Perc Angle's "YEAH!", but I loved how it was used here.
shattered memories actually made me cry at the end, not from fear (it never felt scary really) but it was emotionally affecting as hell. The realization of what had happened and who we were actually playing as tugged my heartstrings incredibly effectively. It really did an incredible job of keeping the twist held back until it landed and brought it all home, making me really FEEL for poor Cheryl and realize how desperately she had been wanting to believe anything but the truth.
Then I immediately played it again, and the second time around I felt for her poor psychiatrist 😂 she just had such a creative and imaginative mind, and he clearly was just over it. So he decided today, he was gonna chase Harry with everything he had, all over this silly made up world, all the way to his office, and that idea is really exciting on its own. I was cheering for him that time, seeing how he was determined to face his white whale and finally bring Harry home, however he could. Maybe not the most professional way to view a problem patient but goddamnit, he was determined to win this time!! I got goosebumps and was unreasonably hyped the second time around, and those are two very different but equally enjoyable vibes to get from a game, heartbreak and triumph.
Shattered Memories really had something cool going, I wish that team had been given more chances with the series.
Silent Hill 4 is a game about being stuck in your apartment.
It was before its time.
I wonder how the eventually Hades video is going
It's a long game lmao even just to see "most" of the content
this video is the first time i've become aware the two plots are in different locations, literally never got that feeling because of how narrow the world is
Pyramid head is a manifestation of james' guilt over killing his wife, not a symbolisation of his sexual frustration.
Dude got Pyramid Head confused with the Nurses.
Why is it so hard to be a Silent Hill fan? The first four games are yet to have a rerelease on modern counsels, PT is cancelled, the ones who are currently making Silent Hill games are those who don't get why the games are great (I even have doubts the Silent Hill 2 remake will be faithful to the original as it is made by a company whose previous horror games are mid).
I just want to hear some news about Silent Hill that would get me excited and happy instead of going, "This is going to suck, isn't it?"
This is so frustrating because the premise could've made for a great Silent Hill game! Imagine a game about a cabin in Norway where the family inside has cabin fever and ends up in the Otherworld. There would be so many psychological elements they could play with, including the Order making their presence known in some way.
And it's all sacrificed on the altar of this fucking stupid techbro attempt to squeeze money out of Silent Hill.
i swear you're making these projects on your own because i've never heard or seen Ascension before in my life.
Silent Hill Ascension is so terrible that nobody on RUclips has been making a whole recap and review on the story since it's finished and now I don`t know how this shit ended.
@@catherinepospelova6744 i will
@@bumblesmcfumbles thank God, we will remember your sacrifice.
I watched a sleeping homeless person roll over on the metro train floor and was less bored watching that than I was watching the show.
Im sorry, everyone, youre all living in my version of silent hill. One where many of us are broke and it hardly matters because everything worth buying is being turned into empty cash grabs anyway.
I am convinced a large part of this project relies heavily on AI and the devs are lying about it
Xavier asking bro to have a train run on him is honestly hilarious
with how bad the ass-sention voting and idea is, we can at least take comfort in knowing that nobody cared about the story the moment we knew it was like this anyway, so canon or not, whatever lol
What i wanna know is HOW DO YOU MESS UP A SILENT HILL ARG. THAT FEELS LIKE IT SHOULD BE SUCH AN EASY WIN.
Man I knew Konami messed up bad with silent hill, but 4 in a row all in the same month flopping. No wonder they gave up on making console games for a decade.
the yu gi oh transition cards aren't just scrambled haphazardly anymore
he's evolving
The most confusing part of Book Of Memories was that Wayforward were the ones who made it. How could they go from absolute bangers left and right only to falter that hard despite previously making Contra 4. At least it’s not their worst game ever. That would be Shrek: Ogres & Dronkeys on the DS.
The berry man.........why did he have to die.....................................he's so iconic. James who? Heather huh? CrimsonRain722? Move over Leon. He's the best silent hill character
3:11
"Sure the combat is These artefacts"
I got an Indiana Jones game commercial😂
Sweet kami I remember this game making the rounds and being resoundingly mocked by the pundits I listen to for...well, everything, but I had no idea it was this bad. Thank you for suffering through it for our entertainment.
I really, really don't understand who would give a project like this their money. And why, Konami hasn't been worth spending money on in decades. It's a heartless, soulless money grab made by cynical decisions in a board room by people who couldn't care less about or misunderstand the artistic value of their product if you hit them round the head with a dissertation on it etched into a stone tablet.