Streaming web series Silent Hill: Ascension premieres tonight

The long-suffering Silent Hill fandom will be getting a slight reprise, as the much-maligned “interactive series” Silent Hill: Ascension is making some changes based on community feedback. 

has released its first episode, but it hasn't kicked off the series' attempt at a revival positively. Since the cancelation of, the series has been in an uncertain state, but the announcement of several new games and a remake of sparked hope for a revitalization. Unfortunately, had multiple flaws preventing it from living up to its potential.

Update 7/11/2023: Konami has said Best Buy "had the incorrect information" regarding Silent Hill 2 Remake's Pyramid Head origin story.

Bloober Team and Konami's forthcoming Silent Hill 2 remake will feature a playable origin story for Pyramid Head, according to a Best Buy listing. Specifically it says "fan favourite character, Pyramid Head, makes a return along with a special origin story for fans to play through." That's pretty much all she wrote, where the much vaunted "news-reporting" aspect of this news article is concerned. Now to spend several hundred words whining about why this is probably a terrible idea.

Mobile-based interactive drama Silent Hill: Ascension is quite the thing, and is getting quite the reception. The cleanest summary I can manage is that developer Genvid and publisher Konami have launched a very bad streaming service dedicated to dunking on Silent Hill, with microtransaction-fuelled voting mechanics and a chatbox awash with 10 years of pent-up fan resentment and confusing references to James Sunderland's genitals.

Silent Hill: Ascension is many things. It's an episodic drama. It lets you vote on outcomes, but only if you have a season pass. It is, technically, a new Silent Hill entry. In summary, it's Twitch plays Bandersnatch, but make it videogames. It's already not doing great.

The CEO of Silent Hill: Ascension developer Genvid has defended the game's transactions, and said they were there to allow people to «skip time» in gaining in-game currency rather than being a way to «game the system».

Silent Hill: Ascension — the new interactive Silent Hill story which allows players to vote on different outcomes and influence its plot — has been received very poorly by fans, largely due to its inclusions of microtransactions and a paid season pass.

The first episode of Silent Hill: Ascension, Genvid’s interactive streaming series based on Silent Hill, premiered last night. While the jury is out on the story, it’s worth discussing the Season Pass and Founder’s Pack. Briefly covered in the Essentials trailer, the Season Pass features over 100 tiers of rewards and Influence Points, which means more weight to your decisions.

Silent Hill: Ascension's debut could have gone a lot better, and that's putting it mildly. Not only has the game irritated fans by having a voting system that favors the players with more cash, but its built-in chat feed, which was one of the highlights and key features of the intended experience, has already become an absolute cesspit, mostly down to the game allowing fans to input seemingly whatever they like.

Silent Hill: Ascension, an interactive streaming series that premiered on Halloween, has Silent Hill fans up in arms after being hit with unexpected microtransactions.

Silent Hill: Ascension premiered last night, and I don't think I've ever seen the long-suffering Silent Hill fandom look quite this miserable before.