Re: Games Discussion Thread
Mixed feeling about the last Silent Hill Game...
Just got around to playing it a few days ago (And found it was an easy 3 day 1000/1000) after putting it off for months
While I liked the overall story and theme, I didn't like that it didn't add ANYTHING to the lore
Where I liked the pseudo weather changing from heavily overcast and slowly going into a raging thunderstorm I absolutely HATED the change made to Bogeyman... Aka Red Pyramid... Aka Pyramid head... Taking the Iconic villain/ physical manifestation of guilt and making him the slasher from I know what you did last Summer wearing a gas mask and wielding a cinderblock on a pole...
He wasn't even there for the right reasons also, there may have been guilt, but it was already honed up to, Murphy never sought judgement as he priorly PUT himself in jail... Bogeyman only was even in here as an object to entoll revenge on... Which was sooo not the characters role in Silent Hill...
Controls: With the exception of a few bad doorways and the lack of a DODGE button during combat (when you DO actually fight, your reduced to hit and run tactics, cause the high pressure beatdowns you could do from Homecoming are long gone) the controls are pretty good... Although I do wish they would have found something better to map to LB/L1 instead of "Look Behind you"
Sound: If I had anything to complement the game on, it was the OST... And not Murphy's myriad of recycled screams and yelps... But I did get a lol out of a classic Wilhelm scream during a subquest.
Whether your navigating a poorly lit basement of a hoarder, lost in a maze of boxes, and whispered sobs plead you to help them find THEIR WAY OUT or indecipherable mumbles conversing while your trying to read something leading you to read the same paragraph over three times. The music is usually subtle... Until you realise how bothersome "the voices" are becoming
Playability: On my first playthrough I wanted the Hardest time possible... Sadistic like that... Hard Difficulty Hard Puzzle Difficulty and Zero Kills...
18 hours after, I beat the game, with still Zero Kills...
Second "Clean-Up" runthrough Easy Difficulty Easy Puzzles...
12 hours... With many of the puzzles recycling answers...But not the method to reach such (Example: Easy- 3+3 Hard 8+8-10) and most Item Puzzles regrettably were in the room where they were required, limiting actual search and exploration time to maximize running around uselessly time...
Biggest problem the game had was frame rate drop and Loading issues... And usually I'm not one to complain about things like this... I find Skyrim load time just fine... But this was ridiculous even after installing it was upwards of a full minute at times, with a framerate drop to... Well... Shitty levels...
Overall the game had it's moments, but had a lot of drawbacks. Enjoyable while it lasted but not something I'd go back to anytime soon... Kinda like most peoples opinions of Silent Hill I'd assume....
