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Other than the broken co-op adventure,some bullcrap hit boxes and some quest/secrets designs,I really LOVED this game and it made me to go back replay Dark Souls 1 too.
The community is the core heart of the Souls games and here it's no exception,I gotta thanks my great friend for this gift and for the epic fights we had in duo.

I got this game under suggestion of my amazingus hunter friend,I always heard good stuff about this saga but was never really interested to try it out myself until I put my hands on World...


...now I am addicted.

Huge props Capcom,this game slaps hard.Here's my quick 8.5 / 10,now I have to go play it again
(f*ck Behemoth's Charybdis tho)

Played it entirely with my sister and we loved every single second of it,hated how it had to end but that made us appreciate the game even more for how brutal it became.
Definitely one of my favorite games ever and I wish it was more popular than it is,amazing work by the team which I thanks for what they created.I just wish they could have made us more emphatic with Vincent because Leo is definitely the better written character but other than that,I have no complain about this game.

Totally suggested,a strongly deserved 9.2 / 10

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I start by saying that the original Silent Hill 2 is part of my life and my favorite game ever,there has been no other game since this one that gave me huge shivers and made me drop a tear at the time and 'till to this day it still hits pretty hard and shine despite being a game from 2001 made on PS2.This Remake tries,succeeding almost all of the times,to stay true to the original game (despite changes in how you explore and progress) and improving what has definitely aged or what wasn't as satisfying/interesting before (combat,for example) but I've found some of the atmosphere,music,voice acting and cutscenes to not hit as much as the 2001 game did.
Angela VA definitely does not deliver,Maria VA is a hit and miss and Mary's VA doesn't give the emotions that the original one gave (not even in THAT hallway,cries aside,or ending, in my opinion) which is a shame because,despite how underrated,the old voice actors gave much more personality,emotions and mistery to their characters which I've not felt it as much in this Remake.James VA has done a pretty great job,Laura is okay and Eddie does a good job at trying to sound like the original one.
Voice acting aside,I've found lack of emotions and impact in some of the cutscenes,there have been also moments of silence or cut lines that didn't feel right for the situation they have been in.That last cutscene with Angela,for example,has no impact at all and removing the freedom to the player from "trying" to follow her was an odd decision.
Music remains really great,with some of the re-arranged music being VERY close if not the same as the original Silent Hill 2 but some others falling short (for me) like the Heaven's Night theme or the final boss fight.Sound effects are well done,but I am still much more attached to the overall original ones even if atmospheric sounds have been improved A LOT thanks to newer technologies.
Exploration is improved,even if there are WAY too many holes in the wall you have to pass,and Puzzles are multiplied.
Combat has seen a huge improvement and I had fun with it,we also got ACTUAL bosses.The only complain is that,most of the times,you are forced to fight or the game literally wants you to fight,where in the original you was almost never forced to fight and you could explore and run more freely which makes the gameplay smoother but it's just a complain of (perhaps) a "way too old" fan.

PROS:
- Incredible visuals;
- Great optimization for an UE5 game (stutters aside,some patches could fix it);
- More interesting and entertaining combat system;
- Lot of exploration;
- Story,events and dialogs are almost all of them very close to the original;
- The strong themes have been all kept and even intensified;
- Glimpses of the Past + most of the original content is still present;
- Some new cutscenes,dialogs and lot of new documents;
- Enemies and bosses are an actual threat now;
- Most of the music + sound design;
- Most of its atmosphere and creepiness;
- Bloober Team for listening their community.

CONS:
- Some of the voice acting lacks personality and emotions in general;
- Map can be confusing at times,with accessible passages not marked because of them not being doors/holes or because a door was already physically opened;
- Some of the ways to progress can be confusing/frustrating;
- Enemies aggressivity,despite making them funnier to fight,can slow down progression and exploration and make it more annoying;
- Too many holes you have to pass through to access rooms;
- Some moments of camera going crazy or models trespassing each other in combat animations;
- The Labyrint is the worst remade level,the Prison the most annoying one (for me);
- Some cutscenes and moments have lost the charm and emotions of the original game;
- Random stutter and frame drops;
- "Born as a Wish" scenario and some of the original content is missing (example: Great Knife as a weapon);
- The Deluxe Edition OST only includes 10 tracks (for now);
- No option to switch back to original BGM or SE.

VOTE: 8.6 / 10 - The original remains the king and deserves to be played and finished even once still,but this Remake does a great job at getting new Silent Hill/Silent Hill 2 fans,respecting the original game and giving us og fans a really great SH game after 19 years (since the controversial SH4,the last Team Silent one).


EDIT 27/11/24: The game,especially in DX11,still suffer of the same stuttering issues and we still have a very disappointing and barebones soundtrack for the Deluxe owners...

It is as beautiful as the day I lost it.

The perfect game to relax and rip to,still to these days after 4 years (waiting for you,"DOOM: The Dark Ages).

I loved the adventure throughtout,really good music,fun and interesting story,really fun combat and epic boss fights as it should be but I have my complaints:
- Level design and levels in general (FOR ME) haven't been that interesting or exciting at all,you more or less see and do the same things;
- The continuous timeline shift didn't really appeal me;
- I would have liked some classic puzzles;
- V could have been made more interesting and fun to play with.His OST slaps,Nightmare is epic,his executions are cool but the combat never interested me at all;
- Would have liked a more expanded co-op,a way to fight your friends or a boss rush.Most of this is possible only with mods on PC (God bless the modders);
- Why privating PC from having Turbo Mode and the Legendary Dark Knight mode to favor consoles? Only to boost sales for those consoles? Even on this,thank God modders exist;
- Being unable to cancel some attack animations with Dante making you taking damage,but this is more me having a bad habit.

Other than that,despite still prefering and favoring DMC3,this is an AWESOME Devil May Cry game after the critics to the direction of DmC.I would love to see a DMC6 with Vergil FINALLY actually having his own storyline or finally seeing Sparda story by playing with him.
Totally suggested,give a look to mods too because they can change your experience in different good ways (gameplay and aestetics wise).

I give it a S rank by far,SS without V and with some mods.
(And Please Capcom,stop with the lame microtransactions especially for unlockables that you have to put hours in to get.Thanks)

Got as a gift from one of my best friends,enjoyed it on Steam as I enjoyed the game on another platform.
Music is great,pacing is very fun,characters are fun,difficulty is well done and with other people it's full on chaos with emphasis on co-operation but I wish gunplay was done a bit better since some guns feels underpowered.

My true complain is that it could have been faster to load but maybe it depends from my PC,it takes quite a lot especially the first boot which takes almost over 2m to finish.

I just finished this game,which was one of the few Silent Hill games I never played (Book of Memories and Arcade are the others),and I can really say that I didn't miss anything by playing it this late.A terrible port and such a bad Silent Hill game.

PROS:
- Good soundtrack;
- Scary atmosphere;
- Good sound design;
- Okay voice acting;
- Monster design (which is probably the best part of it);
- Various narrative choices;
- Really well done Otherworld and dimension switch;
- Alex;
- Makes you truly love Silent Hill Downpour.

CONS:
- Almost no true exploration,not even in the town;
- Hitboxes and enemy stunlock attacks;
- QTEs (f*ck those ferals especially in the streets);
- Terrible performances and visuals that are partially fixed by some patches (good bless these modders).Resident Evil 2 Remake runs 10x better;
- Puzzles design (they even decided to repeat the same puzzles more than one time...);
- Animations and models that,absurdly,can't even keep up with Silent Hill 3 (a game from 2003) AT ALL;
- Stupid,not interesting and not tense fights against other humans;
- Aiming mechanics (just use the knife the entire game and you will never regret it);
- Predictable and rushed story (didn't keep me interested at all) with such an empty,full of questions and unsatisfiying ending (atleast the one I got);
- It's so bad that they didn't even translate the menus in other languages so I could not use my language or I would have missed some options;
- Too short (my total time is mostly about me trying to make it work and run decently) and don't really give you more reasons to play it;
- Many boring and kind of annoying levels;
- It still cost 19.99 with no sale.


I could probably say more cons but I stop here,this should be enough for you to have an idea about this game (and why you should stay away from it unless you are truly ready for the pain).I know some people that can appreciate it (these people exist for everything,even for Resident Evil Umbrella Corps) but as a huge fan of this hystorical franchise I truly HATED IT,who put this game over Downpour deserve a floor in hell.
I give it a really generous 5.9/10 - Watch a Youtube playthrough of who play this game well,it's better time spent.Even the old Java mobile games made me more intrigued.

Playing the game: BLUE MOON

Having to mod it to solve crashes and fps drops: AIN'T THAT A KICK IN THE HEAD?



I loved this game on PS3 and I love it even more on PC,it's just a chore sometimes to play because of how bad ported it was but I still suggest it as long as you are aware that you might need to do some modding to solve some problems or even to make it work properly.
Soundtrack,story,dialogs,quests and RPG mechanics are damn good.