this past year I've finished the first three silent hill games, while 1-3 are good games the original silent hill 2 is on another level. the story and its conveyance is so remarkable, the game still haunts me to this day. everyone (who played) knows exactly why it is deemed as a horror masterpiece.

getting something new for the SH franchise was a big happy surprise for me; however from the start my expectations were really low for the remake. not that I didn't want to be an optimist and sulked, rather I knew that at no level of quality a remake can replicate the same atmosphere and feel of the original, it simply can not have the same fabric.

the original had fixed camera angles, which were VERY important for the story telling. and of course they'd omit that (not blaming, modern games don't do that anymore) in the remake so from the get go, you have a very different game at hand. low poly graphics and limited amount of probs within the environment (and also how the wasn't a physical light rendering on ps2, all had to be texture work) in the original were due to the limitations of the time and all these forced the creative design behind these clever fixed camera angles and the vast atmosphere building made through textures, music, game sounds and "light".

conveying a message with limited resources is very hard. but less is more, and the original accomplished it despite the hardships thanks to the each articulate design element it had. and that's exactly why the original will always remain a classic, and this will be just a modern take on it, not a "remake".

so having these in mind, I went through the game as taking it for what it is for me- a modern take, a different game based on a classic. and I did enjoy it as a horror game. also akira yamaoka did wonders again so even for that this game is definitely worth playing. but do play the original first, or afterwards. but definitely play it.

i'm so glad to see piglet's big game get the remake it deserves

Oh James of mine, how you lost performance of the year to some rat with a raspy voice I'll never know...

Overall it's a great remake, but feels bloated at times--lots of instances where you just want the level to be over. But I won't recommend this game to anyone just yet because it has piss poor optimizations and you're forced to use DLSS/FSR and fake frames even on higher tier cards to get the game running over 60 fps. I'll update my review once Bloober Team fixes these issues.

When the Hills are little 2 Silent

why do they call it oven?

when you of in the cold food of out hot eat the food?????



YES

Game of the year. Amazing ambience, music, characters...everything. Enjoy!

Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.

You play as James Sunderland who receives a letter from his dead wife Mary who died three years ago. In the letter, Mary asks James to come to Silent Hill, which is the last place they were happy on vacation together. Strange things start happening when James arrives in Silent Hill, and there are nasty monsters hiding in the fog. The story is quite interesting and I don’t want to spoil it.

The game is played in third person, similar to the Resident Evil 2 remake. You start with just a plank as a melee weapon before finding a pistol, a shotgun, a rifle and a steel pipe. These are the only weapons in the game. I didn’t like how melee works in this game at all. It felt pretty wonky. The weapons can’t be upgraded in any way, which would have been fun to do. The weapons feel quite okay, no special feeling when you fire them. The game also consists of a lot of puzzles. For the most part, I think the puzzles were very good, which vary a bit depending on what difficulty you play on.

The game takes place in a creepy town called Silent Hill. The whole town is covered in a thick unpleasant fog with monsters roaming the streets. You get to explore the streets and houses of Silent Hill in two different worlds; the regular world and the Otherworld/Nightmare world. The Otherworld is a more worn out, decayed, filthy and slimy version of the town. Here you meet the iconic Pyramid Head, which is a symbol of the repressed anger and guilt of the protagonist.

They have succeeded well in creating a scary atmosphere. The game does not consist of cheap jump scares. Many scares consist of enemies that stand still and blend in with the surroundings and starts to move when you approach. These are the scares that scared med the most. You will find a radio at the beginning of the game that emits static when monsters are nearby. I turned the radio off as soon as I found it, because I didn't want to know when enemies were nearby. It becomes scarier that way and I recommend you turn it off too.

There isn't a huge variety of enemies in Silent Hill 2, and they aren't particularly dangerous either, which makes the game pretty easy. They are pretty slow and passive. This becomes a bit boring after a while.

The bosses aren't particularly difficult either and are pretty simple. The last boss was pretty disturbing and scary.

Visually the game looks good, nothing special though. The enemies and bosses look unpleasant and disturbing.

The sound design and music of the game is a bit better though, and adds a lot to creating an unpleasant atmosphere.

I don't have much to complain about in this game. The game is well made, but the enemy encounters and combat gets a little bit repetitive after a while. The melee system could have been better. I find it really awkward to melee in this game, especially crawling enemies.

The biggest problem with the game is that it suffers from performance issues, pretty badly. The game crashes often, there are FPS drops, stuttering, etc. Graphic settings do not seem to matter. I tried everything to make the lag go away, but nothing helped. It seems like many people have the same problem, but still the game has Overwhelmingly Positive reviews on Steam. I don’t get it. Usually when a game comes out with performance issues like these, people tend to review bomb the game with negativity. I think the nostalgia trip many people get from this remake probably trumps these performance issues, but I don’t know. The game has been out for a couple of months now and it is still not fixed! Unacceptable really, but the game itself is good.

Many people say that Silent Hill 2 is one of the scariest horror games, or even THE scariest horror game of all time. I disagree. It is a good game, but I was disappointed with the horror. It really wasn’t as scary as I thought it would be. First of all, I always think that horror games are scarier when played in first person. I also think that horror games are always scarier if you have no weapons to defend yourself with, or you can have weapons but they are used only on rare occasions with very limited ammo, like in Amnesia: The Bunker. That is probably the scariest game I have played even when you have weapons.

I never played the Silent Hill games back in the days when they came out. This remake is the only game in the series that I have played, and the P.T. demo. Silent Hill 2 is a good game, but not as good as I thought it would be. I like the Resident Evil series much more. I probably would have liked Silent Hill 2 more if I had played it when I was a kid and now get to play it again for the nostalgia that many do. I recommend the game, but I don't recommend buying it right now. Wait for a proper sale and wait until they fix all the performance issues.

I really wanted to like this game and, fortunately, it exceeded all my expectations. Nothing short of a masterpiece, unironically one of the best games I ever played. Atmospheric, tragic, beautiful, challenging, with amazing visuals and music. The best survival horror ever and a must play for all horror game fans.

my fav game ♡