This review contains spoilers
Nonexistent puzzle, hamfisted reference to the original silent hill. "LE KAUFMAN CLINIC?? LISA GARLAND WITH LE BLEED OUT OF NOWHERE?? CYBIL LE COP? we're in kino territory.".
Puzzles are laughable and the awful incorporation of "turn thing because Wiimote" makes me want to punch the whole dev team.
The therapist sessions are okay until the middle of the game when the therapist tries his best to win an Emmy.
Every female model looks worse than the ones we got in the previous games, we're not going to talk about harry because the plot has an excuse.
The plot is insane in a wrong way, none of it makes sense until the reveal but you have to forget your whole playthrough to make it okay. The only positive thing I can say is they managed to put the collectible into the plot.
People will probably defend it but it doesn't make sense, you can't put harry and make him meet everyone in silent hill+ some guy named john and make up their relationship just to end with "Dad not here anymore :(". I was more interested when Cybil said I'm not harry and I can't be harry
There's nothing to say about the music because it isn't memorable.
The psychological horror of silent hill is not present.
edit:
I've changed my mind a bit, some of the endings carry the game higher than the note I've formerly given (1star) and slightly make the game/plot issue less impactful.
The relationship of Harry with the people of Silent hill makes sense, I was wrong, they all met Cheryl so she can imagine him meeting them and leading him to her.
The psychological horror is replaced with emotional trauma instead.
Most endings are sad, like seeing Harry humiliated by his wife, him being a drunk, Cheryl refusing to accept his death and him fucking everything that moves. The therapist is right, its a Frankenstein dad, there's no way to put a real harry.
Silent hill should've been the subtitle, it wouldn't have been judged so hard.
Puzzles are laughable and the awful incorporation of "turn thing because Wiimote" makes me want to punch the whole dev team.
The therapist sessions are okay until the middle of the game when the therapist tries his best to win an Emmy.
Every female model looks worse than the ones we got in the previous games, we're not going to talk about harry because the plot has an excuse.
The plot is insane in a wrong way, none of it makes sense until the reveal but you have to forget your whole playthrough to make it okay. The only positive thing I can say is they managed to put the collectible into the plot.
People will probably defend it but it doesn't make sense, you can't put harry and make him meet everyone in silent hill+ some guy named john and make up their relationship just to end with "Dad not here anymore :(". I was more interested when Cybil said I'm not harry and I can't be harry
There's nothing to say about the music because it isn't memorable.
The psychological horror of silent hill is not present.
edit:
I've changed my mind a bit, some of the endings carry the game higher than the note I've formerly given (1star) and slightly make the game/plot issue less impactful.
The relationship of Harry with the people of Silent hill makes sense, I was wrong, they all met Cheryl so she can imagine him meeting them and leading him to her.
The psychological horror is replaced with emotional trauma instead.
Most endings are sad, like seeing Harry humiliated by his wife, him being a drunk, Cheryl refusing to accept his death and him fucking everything that moves. The therapist is right, its a Frankenstein dad, there's no way to put a real harry.
Silent hill should've been the subtitle, it wouldn't have been judged so hard.