Silent Hill has been dominating the conversation this year. The conclusion of Silent Hill: Ascension, the free Short Message, and the excellent remake of Silent Hill 2 all were released in 2024, and now Silent Hill is coming into the conversation in a different way. Bokeh Game Studio, lead by the director of the original Silent Hill, Keiichiro Toyama, has released their first game Slitterhead, which actually feels more like a distant relative of one of Toyama’s other games, Siren. In what seems like an evolution of that franchise’s sightjacking gimmick, which actually shows up in this game as well, Slitterhead is an action-horror game where you are possessing people in your hunt for mysterious shapeshifting monsters terrorizing the fictional city of Kowlong.

After watching the trailers for the game, I had a hard time figuring out exactly what the game was going to play like. After playing it,...