Silent Hill f was a major departure for the series, moving away from the foggy streets of Maine to the eerie cramped alleyways of the fictional Japanese town Ebisugaoka, showing that the psychological horror of the series isn't bound by physical location. And that's a sentiment which lead producer Motoi Okamoto wants to take even further.
"We believe we could perhaps take similar approaches with other cultures across the globe," Okamoto said in an interview with Inverse, translated from Japanese to English. "For example, in Central or South America, we could perhaps tap into the more local, shamanistic beliefs and see how that ties in. But we could also try to expand our horizons and look into other regions, like possibly Russia, Italy, or South Korea, because all those areas have their own unique types of belief systems. I believe that will be a gateway for us to expand our concepts further."
I can just picture it now, a quintessential British town with five different Greggs all within five feet of each other, coated in a thick layer of fog; monsters lurking in Boots while you scavenge for Ibuprofen, a puzzle that involves lopping the head off a Margaret Thatcher...
