Silent Hill: Ascension

A completely disjointed storyline, incomprehensible character writing and editing, it's amazing it got made. The voice acting is miserable, but is matched only by how bad the animation is. I have no clue what the story is supposed to be, or what any character motivations are. Every scene is both completely forgettable and reaching new depths of misery. Silent Hill Ascension fails completely on every single level. This isn't even including the absolute mess that is the paid "season pass" that offers almost nothing, the insane background characters designed by the audience, or the fact that decisions are made by the highest bidder, despite them doing apparently nothing to the story. It's so bad it's almost entertaining. I can't wait to watch the documentary in 10 years about how somehow people who have presumably watched a TV show before allowed this to be made.

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.

I watched almost three episodes. At first, I was hyped. Silent Hill was my first favorite video game, and I thought that I would gladly consume any type of Silent Hill content because of how rare something new comes up. And the idea where users have an influence on the story? So cool! It can't go wrong, right? Oh dear, sure it can...

It's terrible.

Story? It's not "Silent Hill". It could be, but it's not. The sequence is chopped, disconnected, incoherent, filled with completely unnecessary scenes, important scenes are not developed enough. It feels more like a YouTube fan made fiction montage using cutscenes from a video games, then a series. This is not a professional product at all.

Characters? The last ounce of creativity was spent on modern characters (bossy women, flimsy men, mustachioed girl, zoo of all races, etc.), so there was no creativity to add at least some complexity to any character. That's exploitation.

Video? That would be cool for a ~2010 game, it's a bit late for a 2023 series. Hell, the series never took any of the advantages of computer graphics (impossible angles and transitions). Lip-sync is hit or miss, faces are mostly stuck in a single emotion.

Music? Ha-ha... ha-HA-HAHA. No.

There's nothing of value here.

Obviously, this "product" has nothing to do with the actual creators of Silent Hill.

I'd rather play Silent Hill Pachinko Machine till my last breath than finish this series.

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.