Silent Hill: Ascension

Yes, it seems like a disjointed series of cutscenes.. but it isn't godawful. I thought that perhaps it could have been better, (of course), but it does not warrant the scathing anger that everyone seems willing to hurl at it.

Sort of like watching the Rings of Power.. if you go into it expecting something, then you will be sorely disappointed. However, watching it with an open mind, and just suspend disbelief, it really isn't awful. The graphics... are meh. But the actually characters aren't bad. You can tell that trolls seemed to try and influence both it's creation and reception.. It's not that bad, and trolls influence aside, it's enjoyable.

Valiant effort.

Although the story develops slowly, there are several things that I would like to highlight about the story.

-The interactions and objectives of "the Order" had never been seen from the inside, which gives a point in favor of the expansion of the Silent Hill universe.

-Here the fact is left aside that only the protagonist and co-stars are able to see the changes in reality, which helps to know what the inhabitants of Silent Hill or surrounding places felt.

-Outside of what has been mentioned, the monsters are original but correctly following the style of the franchise, at least in monsters and setting, the world of blood, fog and monsters is well represented.

-The motivations of the characters are clear and understandable.

-I thought the community interaction was great, despite the negative reviews I have seen on the internet, the broadcasts are full of good expectations and good reception.

-It is difficult for a series in which the public themselves chose the decisions to go wrong, in this case it seems like an interesting approach and so far I am satisfied.

-The action scenes are interactive just like a TTG (tell tale games) style visual novel.

-There are several not very exciting activities that complement the experience but as a concept it seems very good to me, the only bad thing is how short the episodes are.

I just watched the first hour long "episode", and leaving the pricing and monetization aside, this is pretty abysmal.

Writing and delivery are awful across the board, and on the tech side, it looks like an old ps3 game. Characters are stiff and awkward, like wobbly puppets not fully interacting with each other.

And then there's the story... So far this "story" is a choppy disconnected mess that intersperses silent hill looking horror monsters into two main narratives for no discernible reason.

Scenes go by with little connection, no sense of place or overarching plot. Maybe it'll get better, but its so disjointed as it is, that It's hard to imagine it recovering achieving any level of cohesion. As a side note the series doesn't even credit a single writer in its credits. But honestly, if you told me this is written by AI, I wouldn't doubt it.

Finally, so far there is no reason why this is in any way related to the SILENT HILL franchise either. Its all just stylistic window dressing.

So if you want to watch something terribly dull, this is for you.

It's sitting at 2.3 which is way to high. This was a mess, and watching it over is just painful, it's very boring just mindless small parts of one character, then to a different character, with nothing happening for most parts, if you don't know this came out as a daily episode, so you get a minute or two with different characters each day, so not much happens most times where they are trying to build up to something, which could takes weeks or months to happen, and it's a let down, them monsters are terrible, repetitive oh look so scary, the va's sound more like AI. Just the worst thing I've seen. It tries to focus more on the cult part of the first game, but teenage girls with a Ouija board are more threatening then this group, The characters are so one dimensional of evil guy is evil guy likes girl, just a giant nothing burger. The game part of this was somehow even worse, full of the same thing every time, push this swipe that. This thing should sweep the Golden raspberry awards, Innovation doesn't matter if it's awful. It's not watchable, at least the films have a funny it's so bad thing to it, this is just boring. There is no reason for it to exist. Your time would be better spent staring at a white wall. I cannot stress this enough of how bad this is, I've watches many terrible horror movies with pocket change budgets and those still are better then this. You're average Youtube skit from 2006 is better then this. You the person who is reading this could probably make something better then this. You could be tripping on LSD and have someone ask you to write a story about Silent Hill and even then it would be better then this. Ascension has no qualities of being a movie, a game, or a Silent Hill project, or anything that should of been created to begin with, and that doesn't even get into the battle pass and cash grab aspect of this thing. Take a vhs camera get drunk with some friends and go off memory of a Silent hill game, film it, uploaded to Youtube and that will be better. The MA stands for mainly awful with the rest better completely awful.

Man, where to start? The first thing that stood out to me was the writing felt like it was written by very earnest teens in a Spooky Story Club or something. 100% dumb tropes, disjointed (in a BAD way) dialogue, just really awful and a lot of it was extremely uninteresting.

Uninteresting? Yes, it was more interesting to try and figure out why a majority of the voice acting was so over-the-top terrible. The pacing was off, the voicework was either deadpan or emotionally out of place for no real reason. At one point a girl just found out her Grandma died and is trying to ask her Grandad if he killed her Granny, and she put about as much emotion into it as if she were asking someone to pass the salt.

Oh, don't worry, that wasn't a spoiler or anything, because the entire show is such a disjointed toilet mess you really won't CARE what's going on about 15 -30 minutes in when you realize you are only sticking around to see just how bad the show will actually get.

Even if this were a traditional Console or PC game, the voice acting and jank story and writing would have resulted in negative reviews, even in a day and age where Retro is cool again. Just like tank controls, this Show or Game or whatever it's trying to be should have been left as what it was: a really, really bad idea.