I really enjoyed Silent Hill 4. I am playing the series for the first time, one game every year starting a few years ago. I had a very negative idea of this game going into the series, but I was really excited about the differences in this entry. I enjoyed the idea of the room being your hub and venturing out into different, unique areas, and the different mechanics they throw at you with the room itself. The creature design is still fantastic, the atmosphere is still unbeaten from any game made in the past 10 years and the creative differences between this entry and the first three were really enjoyable. I will say the game does feel a bit shallow, a bit frustrating the entire second half of the game is just a backtrack of the first half, and honestly the story is even more unclear than the rest. I did enjoy many things this game did and it is a great entry but not my favorite.

This was quite fun. Huge metal gear fan and have never touched the original two before. I got through metal gear and while it was fine and interesting to see the series roots, not particularly fun. I had a good time with metal gear 2 though, what a beautiful, fun, exciting time with a very metal gear story. So much of the series can be traced back to here. I was surprised to get such a “first draft” of metal gear solid and it was quite fun. I will say though, the random obtuseness just makes this game insane to play without a guide at some points. The chocolate in the yellow puddles? All of the elevators going to different floors? It made everything more complicated then it should be but I think that’s just the game design of the time. I really could have left that behind. Fun time though!