Respectfully, as a Silent Hill fan, I have been "cutting Konami some slack" for 20 years. And I have been getting burned for 20 years. So please excuse me for being cynical.

I didnt even mention The Short Message or Ascension because I didn't feel like I even needed to bring either of them up, but just mentioning them now should be enough to illustrate my point in mentioning them at all.

Silent Hill f was the project I was most interested in from Konami when they announced it. I am not disinterested in the game, and I will likely still play it. However, I have a lot of major reservations because of my history with Konami. I didn't appreciate the changes made to SH2 Remake, so while the mainstream audience at it up, I didn't even finish the game. I will see how it goes, but the more I keep seeing about the game, I keep seeing some stuff I don't like.

Everytime a hit lands on an enemy in the trailers, the game stops for a few frames. This better be removed or an effect that is only in the trailers. If that's in the game and I can't turn that off then I probably won't keep playing it. That might seem nitpicky, but I play Silent Hill for a specific experience. I don't play Silent Hill to get an experience I can get from Resident Evil or some other game. I am totally fine with Konami "making the same game repeatedly," so long as story elements, levels, items, etc are different, I would be glad to have games in a series have identical gameplay between each entry. Metroid Prime 1 and 2, for example, or Half-Life and Opposing Force. Although the story, weapons, and visual assets are different, the core gameplay is identical. You are still getting the same gameplay experience in the sequel as your did in the original.