Silent Hill: Ascension

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.

Some of the worst garbage I've ever seen.

You can't convince me this was written and directed by human beings. It drips with the stink of AI-generated trash.

The animations are janky. The performances are universally flat and one-note. The character models are dead-eyed and lifeless. The dialogue is stilted, incoherent, and every scene is bumbling and aimless in search of a purpose that never materialises.

As abused as the Silent Hill franchise has been, it has never reached this utter nadir of ineptitude and creative bankruptcy before.

Everyone associated with this 'product' should be personally ashamed.

No one should ever make anything like this ever again.

God bless the voice actors. And if you want the most impotent, repetitive monsters you've ever seen, and an endless, boring soap opera, then this is for you. Oh, and of course there's the lamest 1990s game-play character editions. I watched the whole thing out of a morbid curiosity, and some kind of misplaced dedication to the genuinely creeping and frightening SH movies. In episode 16, when something actually started to happen, I was so starved for any kind of forward action I actually expressed my gratitude out loud. He fact that I sat through the whole thing says more about me than the show... and what it says is not healthy.

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.

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.