The director of the next mainline Silent Hill game, Silent Hill f, wants to know what you think that mysterious "f" stands for.
In a tweet posted over the weekend, Al Yang - studio creative director at NeoBards, which is currently busy developing Silent Hill f (opens in new tab) – pondered: "Curious what everyone thinks the F in SILENT HILL F stands for".
"Also, I have a running bet at work at what the fans think it is," he added.
Curious what everyone thinks the F in SILENT HILL F stands for... (also I have a running bet at work at what the fans think it is)February 25, 2023
The responses? As you may well expect, the answers range from the brilliant to the brain-boggling and include guesses such as forte, five, flower, festival, forbidden, fear, faith, frame, fragment, fungus, feudal, and fierce.
Other less serious responses include Florida, Fortnite, fajita, and "finally-a-good-one".
My bet's on forte – the stylized "F" certainly looks like the "play it loud" musical notation, and it would play on the "Silent" part of Silent Hill – but I reckon flower, fungus, and five are all good shouts, too. What do you think?
Silent Hill f is "an entirely new story" set in 1960s Japan. It's been written by acclaimed visual novelist Ryukishi07, a name that's already generating serious buzz within the Silent Hill community.
Talking of which: Silent Hill fans have stumbled on secret messages hidden within the audio (opens in new tab) that accompanies a teaser trailer for one of the other upcoming Silent Hill games, Silent Hill: Townfall (opens in new tab), a new game developed by Stories Untold developer No Code.
As we reported at its announcement, the reveal trailer focuses on a transmission received on a small, portable television,
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