Silent Hill: Ascension

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.

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.

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.