man..... thank god this is free.
im giving points here to both environmental design and monster design (for the singular monster featured) since they're both really cool. the soundtrack is good as well, for what few songs are here. it also seems like there was a lot of nods to silent hill 4? but ive yet to play that one so i wont really talk about it.
the rest of the game though... this is a pretty bad representation of suicide and suicidal ideologies. there were occasional point where it felt like the message came across okay, but the execution here is so messy and bad it just feels off. none of it felt really authentic and i honestly felt like the bits of child abuse that was brought up had better representation than this. and while im glad they have a suicide hotline message popup when launching the game, they show it like 5 more times in the game when anything remotely bad happens. its almost comical. this is a very "im 14 and this is deep" representation of mental health and dealing with suicidal thoughts. it feels like a Life is Strange game set in the Silent Hill universe.
also! how the fuck are you going to try to explain Silent Hill?!?! i know that it probably raises questions, since this is the first time its been outside of the US (and probably will again with the other new gaming coming out), but you don't explain the mystery! thats just lame!!
gameplay wise i can kinda give this a pass; i see lots of comparisons to PT but this honestly feels like it took more inspiration from Outlast if anything. there's almost no puzzles and the chase segments are VERY linear (and also very awkwardly inserted at random spots). i dont think i found myself bored or frustrated except for the very last chase segment, which puts you in a non-linear area and has you collecting images. the lack of player direction here is laughable and makes that segment way longer than it should be. or im just bad idk
if you're a diehard silent hill fan, id still maybe pick this up if you wanna kill some time, but dont expect it to make you hopeful for the rest of the stuff konami is working on. it definitely didnt do that for me.
im giving points here to both environmental design and monster design (for the singular monster featured) since they're both really cool. the soundtrack is good as well, for what few songs are here. it also seems like there was a lot of nods to silent hill 4? but ive yet to play that one so i wont really talk about it.
the rest of the game though... this is a pretty bad representation of suicide and suicidal ideologies. there were occasional point where it felt like the message came across okay, but the execution here is so messy and bad it just feels off. none of it felt really authentic and i honestly felt like the bits of child abuse that was brought up had better representation than this. and while im glad they have a suicide hotline message popup when launching the game, they show it like 5 more times in the game when anything remotely bad happens. its almost comical. this is a very "im 14 and this is deep" representation of mental health and dealing with suicidal thoughts. it feels like a Life is Strange game set in the Silent Hill universe.
also! how the fuck are you going to try to explain Silent Hill?!?! i know that it probably raises questions, since this is the first time its been outside of the US (and probably will again with the other new gaming coming out), but you don't explain the mystery! thats just lame!!
gameplay wise i can kinda give this a pass; i see lots of comparisons to PT but this honestly feels like it took more inspiration from Outlast if anything. there's almost no puzzles and the chase segments are VERY linear (and also very awkwardly inserted at random spots). i dont think i found myself bored or frustrated except for the very last chase segment, which puts you in a non-linear area and has you collecting images. the lack of player direction here is laughable and makes that segment way longer than it should be. or im just bad idk
if you're a diehard silent hill fan, id still maybe pick this up if you wanna kill some time, but dont expect it to make you hopeful for the rest of the stuff konami is working on. it definitely didnt do that for me.