I have a lot of mixed feelings on this one. It really grew on me over the course of playing and I don't think it's as bad as people say it is. It has a lot of good ideas, such as the phone and the psychological examinations. My problem is with the execution. Not being able to fight back is really frustrating. And I think it would've been better if this wasn't a "reimagining" of the first game, especially when the similarities start and end with character names and the basic setting. It's a good horror game with a great atmosphere, but not necessarily a good Silent Hill game.

Whose idea was it to put 300 fucking side missions in this thing?? I know they're not compulsory but if you want good items then you have to do at least some of them but ugh they just get so repetitive. I completed 40% of them and Maybe one day I'll go back and 100% the missions but that won't be any time soon.

Now that that's off my chest, the actual game. I enjoyed it. I haven't played the original so can't compare them but it's a fun little prequel. I like Zack a lot and playing as him is great. I didn't really care that much about Genesis and was much more interested in the stuff covered in og FF7 like the Nibelheim incident, so wish it was more of that type of thing. But the mid 2000s era cringe is charming, so I wasn't turned off too much by it.

Overall, fun combat (if a little repetitive), fun story which adds more to Zack's story makes for an about average game which didn't blow my socks off but was great to play when unwinding after work.

Oh, and I'm not a graphics person but it did look pretty sexy