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Its creators are billingAscensionas an interactive streaming series, a move that has caused bewilderment among longtimeSilent Hillfans.
Their chief question feels like this: WTF isSilent Hill: Ascension?
Well find out whenSilent Hill: Ascensionpremieres at 9 p.m.
Think the interactive, nonlinear fiction ofBlack Mirror: Bandersnatch, albeit with one big difference.
Except theres a further key difference.
This is a fully scripted, triple-A-quality, 4K resolution series done completely in Unreal Engine.
Theres never been anything like this.
Navok doesnt just refer toSilent Hill: Ascensionas an interactive streaming series.
Navok and Balls hope is thatAscensionwill live up to the massive part of the MILE moniker.
(The PlayStation 5 still costs $500 three years after its release.)
One of Navoks colleagues described it as Lynchian.
His response: No, its fucking stupid.
This is not good or interesting.
We cant ship it.
The latter component,howyou actually participate, is where things get a little stickier.
At the end of each week, a full episode is broadcast presenting the culmination of these stacked decisions.
Weirder is that not everyones decisions carry the same weight.
you’ve got the option to even rally other participants around a particular decision.
Or not, of course.
If thats to be the case, Genvid will need to have channeled its inner Meier.
