I think for Silent Hill fans, however, the big question is where the Ascension sits in the larger lore. “We are before a lot of the events that happen on purpose,” Ganvid's Jacob Navok tells me. “At the start of Ascension, the Foundation cult here in Pennsylvania is very active. Typically, in a Silent Hill game, you're there after the cult has already gone to s***. You go into those rooms and there's blood on the walls and notes there and you're deducing what happens. But you saw that the cult is very active, that room is clean… right up until the monster comes.”
The real-world timeline of the Silent Hill games has always been vague with suspicions that the first two games take place in the 70s and 80s and Navok is similarly vague about Ascension saying, “We’re not specifying. We're keeping that mysterious.” But he did confirm that Ascension’s story takes place over many months and that it isn’t false to call it a subtle prequel. It’s an original story in the Silent Hill universe that won’t necessarily tie into what comes next, especially since viewers will be deciding the forward progress of the narrative.
There are thousands of potential endings for the game, and much of its introductory story moments have already been pre-produced, the team is not creating every possible scenario. “We're running about four weeks ahead, which means like we've got through week four right now,” Navok says. “And then, as we don't have to animate certain things, we will just not do them. So, it is being built as the series is taking place to reduce some of that burden on purpose.”
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