The story of this game didn't quite hit me at first. I enjoyed it and acknowledged how powerful it was, but it was only when I rewatched the final cutscenes on Youtube that it hit me like a pound of bricks. Especially that letter reading at the end, god. Many cite this game for having bad voice acting, but in a way it feels intentional as the voice acting stops being bad once you get to the serious stuff.

Really my only issues with the game are how not scary it is and how bad the difficulty is balanced. I was scared many times during the course of Silent Hill 1, but at no point during Silent Hill 2 was I ever actually scared by anything. And the Hard difficulty isn't even nearly as well balanced as the first game was. At times I would have a wealth of healing items and ammo, and then have to fight a 7 minute boss that stole 90% of it. The semi-final boss took me 30 minutes to beat because I had to refight it due to not having enough ammo for the final boss. I only ended up beating it due to the Great Knife cheese strat I learned. I like my survival horror games to be tough and hard so that I really feel the fight for survival, but this was just tedious. Silent Hill 1 was a lot more fair as all of the issues I had were due to my poor planning and mistakes.