It’s not silent hill 2 and it doesn’t need to be. This game doesn’t follow up 2 with another deep narrative and instead goes back to the first games story and really builds upon it. Seeing and reading Heather’s thoughts reminisce about the events from 1 and reading the notes left behind from Harry are the best things about this game narratively. It adds a more emotional input that the first game I think was lacking in and I really like that

My only and biggest problem with this game is that it takes a more direct approach with its horror by spamming enemies all over the place making the encounters really stale in comparison to the first two games. Feeling invincible in situations where you really shouldn’t just takes away from not only the horror aspect but also subtleness of these games making this game the weakest in the series when it comes to horror. It’s not to say the subtle environmental horror isn’t there in-fact there were plenty of times where I felt scared or uncomfortable in this game but when the game tries mixing the direct and subtle aspects the outcome is pretty weak compared to the first two games.

Anyways Heather is wholesome at least so it all evens out I guess