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!

I really wanted to like this game. It seemed like it was right down my alley, but i came out semi disappointed. I have seen reviews of this game talking about how “there are so many characters and it is all out of order but somehow they make it work” when to me, they definitely did not make it work. I stuck it out to the end because i did enjoy the twists and turns but the story aspect which was my favorite part was still just okay. So much filler. SO much filler. Definitely dragged for a while. There was definitely parts of the story where i just wish it would have shown me an hour and a half cutscene instead of making me press buttons because i would have preferred to put my controller down instead of having to “think” about my next answer (aka pressing a button, finding the answer in a list, then mindlessly choosing that one).

This game is just so choppy. Obviously the main concern about a game structured like this would be pacing, making sure that if you are playing though 13 characters not in chronological order that the pacing still feels good, but they make it even harder with the gameplay aspect being a separate thing in its entirety. The pacing just felt so off, there was many times I didn’t feel compelled to keep going. I would start getting more interested in the story again and then would hit a wall and it would make me go do some combat that i was not in the mood for. Or i would be enjoying the mindless combat and then it would make me go back to the story. Just felt really separated.

The combat was quite boring as well. It felt like it boiled down to having your support set up defense and turrets and fire off long range missiles and then have your offense go up and use demolisher blade. There you go. By the time the 3rd wave rolled around i absolutley did not want to play anymore but was still kind of interested in the story so i just had to plow through. It took me a month or two to actually gain the desire to play.

Overall though, it’s a fun story. I think honestly i would have enjoyed it more as a tv show or something. Cool ideas for sure, but the execution was only fun for about the first 1/3, then it just felt like a slog. It is not a bad game, just didn’t succeed in keeping my interest.

It was really underwhelming for me. Show don’t tell me, especially with something short like this. Why does my control get taken away for the good parts. Also the end boss was just kind of frustrating. Bang your head up against a wall till it’s done. Also “hamfisted” is the term I heard to describe the story and its handling of themes and I agree wholeheartedly. I get that it’s a story about suicides, chain suicides and child abuse but like… it felt very basic. Nothing new to say, just the attempt at emotion when there’s no emotion really there. It’s just for the asthetic

This is hard for me. I didn’t enjoy it as much as everyone else. The game is stunning, the music is beautiful, the performances are fantastic, the story is okay. I had a hard time pushing myself through this. I think that it just comes down to “ prestigious PlayStation videogames” as a genre now, everyone wants to be the last of us. I enjoyed parts of it, im glad i pushed through, but man i did have to push myself. The combat gets quite meh through the (Much too long) 25+ hour run time and while there are great things about this game, i just did not want to play it.