ESRB has given Silent Hill a 17+ rating: players can expect many scenes of cruelty and violence
The upcoming Silent Hill f game has been rated "Mature 17+" by the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) due to scenes of violence and horror.
Here's What We Know
According to the ESRB, players will take on the role of a student who encounters supernatural creatures in a Japanese mountain town in the 1960s. The game includes exploration, puzzle solving, and monster battles using weapons such as axes, crowbars, knives, and spears. Scenes are described where a character can be stabbed in the neck or suffer a facial tear.
In addition to combat scenes, the game also contains torture scenes, which also include acts of violence: a character is burned alive in a cage; a woman is interrogated with a hot iron; entrails and tendons are displayed on trays during a fantastic ceremony; a character cuts off his arm; another character cuts off parts of another's face during a ritual.
It should be reminded that the authors of Silent Hill f wanted to make the game 100% Japanese, because the series was starting to become too "Western".
Source: ESRB
