Silent Hill f confirmed to have no firearms; melee-focused combat instead

This comes from the official ESRB Rating for the game. It mentions Silent Hill f has melee-combat as the way to fight off enemies, gives a list of four different weapons the protagonist uses, and makes zero mention of any firearms in the game. If the game had firearms, the ESRB description would've mentioned them like they do any time a game has guns in it.

WARNING: THE ESRB RATING CONTAINS STORY SPOILERS. Wanted to make this a separate discussion in part to avoid spoilers for those avoiding them, so please don't talk about other story spoiler points of the ERSB rating here.

The official language used in the rating (just related to the combat & gameplay, not related to any spoilers in the description related to story or violence):

"This is a survival-horror action game in which players assume the role of a student confronting supernatural entities in a 1960s Japanese mountain town. From a third-person perspective, players explore the town, solve puzzles, interact with characters, and battle enemy creatures (e.g., humanoid monsters, mutants, mythical creatures). Players use (weapon spoilers, no story spoilers) axes, crowbars, knives, and spears to defend against and kill enemy creatures in melee-style combat. Blood-splatter effects occur frequently as characters are attacked-"

Cutting off the description there as that's where the story spoilers begin in the rating. Thought this deserved its own separate discussion as it is a new piece of officially provided info, but wanted to separate it from the ERSB Rating discussions since the ESRB Rating contains story spoilers.