Silent Hill Ascension season go pricing introduced on premiere date

Konami and Genvid Leisure’s interactive horror streaming sequence Silent Hill: Ascension premieres Tuesday — on Halloween evening — and for the following 16 weeks, viewers will resolve the fates of its characters and affect Silent Hill canon by means of their selections. A brand new trailer for Silent Hill: Ascension helps to raised clarify how the interactive sequence works and the way a lot it is going to price.

Tuesday’s premiere of Silent Hill: Ascension will run about 45 minutes, with regular nightly episodes spanning about 5-Quarter-hour. Genvid expects to generate about 45 minutes of content material for its sequence every week.

Silent Hill: Ascension can be free to look at and work together with. The app itself, accessible from the App Retailer and Google Play, can be free to obtain. However viewers can buy a season go that may work equally to many video games’ battle passes. That season go unlocks an extended listing of in-game cosmetics, together with stickers and character customization choices.

Picture: Genvid Leisure/Konami

Viewers who need to be part of the expertise will have the ability to exhibit these cosmetics by means of cameo contests. Ascension viewers’ in-app avatars have the chance to point out up as extras and in talking roles.

Genvid’s sequence will play out nightly, with new episodes premiering at 9 p.m. EDT/6 p.m. PDT. As episodes stream, viewers can vote in actual time, spending what are known as Affect Factors, or IP (styled as ᚾᚹ within the app), to sway selections. The extra factors you’ve, the stronger your affect, says Jacob Navok, CEO of Genvid.

Navok says that Silent Hill: Ascension gained’t be pay-to-win; viewers can’t merely spend a bunch of cash on IP to outvote their fellow Silent Hill followers. And whereas IP will be bought immediately and unlocked by means of the season go, there are free methods to earn the factors. Along with its branching narrative scenes, Ascension has moments known as Endurance Scenes, real-time QTEs that viewers can take part in to resolve characters’ destiny (and earn them IP).

Picture: Genvid Leisure/Konami

Silent Hill: Ascension additionally consists of day by day puzzles that may let gamers earn IP. These puzzles embody issues like a rhythm recreation wherein gamers strum a guitar (to Akira Yamaoka Silent Hill songs, no much less), lockboxes, hash puzzles, and a basic tile puzzle recreation. These puzzles may also be useful in aiding the characters of Ascension, restoring their in-game Hope meter to maintain them in play.

Genvid is promoting the season go for $19.99, which spans six months of content material. That six-month window consists of the unique 16-week playthrough of the interactive sequence, and new recreation plus-style replays, which is able to supply totally different outcomes. The preliminary season go is on the market as a part of a Founder’s Pack till Nov. 14, and that pack consists of unique cosmetics.

Silent Hill: Ascension will be streamed on Android and iOS units, or by means of the sequence’ web site, Ascension.com. Ascension will even stream as “packaged episodes,” factoring in viewers’ selections, on a weekly foundation by means of the Sony Footage Core app, which is on the market on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Sony’s Bravia televisions, and choose Xperia smartphones.