Silent Hill 2

*Like many, when I saw the original trailer by Bloober Team I was like "this looks rough." Boy was I wrong. I mean I already pre-ordered the game already but still I went in with low expectations.

*This game is one of the greatest horror games I have ever played. It put Silent Hill back on the map (no pun intended). Survival Horror was in a rough place 10 years ago, with the release of RE5-6 being fun action games but there was no horror at all. Silent Hill hasn't had a decently good game since Silent Hill Origins. The whole survival horror genre had gone stale and old.

*This game is simply amazing, the graphics on PC MAX is absolutely stunning. The environments are some of the best I have ever seen, and Jame's face looks pretty photorealistic too. Unfortunately the female faces look kinda bad and scary.

*Anyways, this game has a great intro, and the final half of this game is nonstop edge of your seat thrills. I mean, I was completely glued to my screen from the mid way point when the story really started to take off.

*Pyramid Head is great, the characters have more cutscenes to flesh out the plot, and all of the boss fights are way way better than the original. The highlight is the Eddie boss fight, which is now this psychological "cat and mouse" battle.

-The only few negatives I have is that the female faces look pretty fugly, some of the classic scenes worked better with the original voice acting, and the last two stages were ridiculously dark, to the point where I was getting tired eyes from looking at all that darkness.

9.5/10.

With the resident evil remakes being the new gold standard in survival horror and honestly gaming as a whole the developers of silent hill 2 (2024) were faced with a mammoth task. Remaking the greatest game of all time. And yeah all the fundamentals are there great gameplay, gorgeous graphics and level design, but the reason this is truly a masterpiece and a success is what they kept from the original and fairly and faithfully re-adapted is the joyless and broken soul of the original. The key here is the flawless true horror mixed with the tear inducing undertones of absolutely every element of the game. It's not just horrifying with stellar atmosphere and sound design but it's devastating. What makes this special and what I was really worried about is the thematic genius of the original and if they could keep it so perfectly subtlety woven into the game so you could feel it not see it. And they do all the themes of sexual violence, guilt, suffering, love, abuse, punishment and grief are all here and more. But what makes this special is how brutally under the radar it is all they sudden your welling up and you don't even know why until you really examine what is really going on. Allegories and themes in art are nothing new but they are rarely done this well in videogames and that's what makes this a perfect remake. Keeping the soul. It's a joyless broken soul but that's what makes it just a touch above the rest isn't it.

I played so many games in my life, specially survival horror games. There is no game that affected me like silent hill 2 did. Remaking this game was like impossible job to do. I still cant believe how Bloober Team recreated it that professionally.

Positives:

• One of the best stories in gaming history
• THE BEST MUSIC in gaming history
• very good acting/voice-acting
• the graphics are amazing
• the puzzles are solid
• the combat is designed accurately to make you helpless
• Boss fights are awesome

Negatives:

• I dont know, may be personally i wished it a little bit shorter. I like games around 10 hours and it was about 16 hours. But ist not really a negative.

Never in my life have I played the silent hill saga for a reason that at the time that silent hill 2 came out on PS1 I was a child and at that age it was not common to play horror games, now when analyzing this work of art I have to admit that it is the best horror game I have ever played in my life, I have never played any SH before, I am amazed, from the exquisite story, its graphic quality, but most importantly the psychological terror and stress that this game generates is not for everyone It's brilliant, its music hits the mark in every moment of tension, the game doesn't give you a chance to relax. Masterpiece 10/10.

I absolutely love the cinematography in this game, the dialogue & voice acting is so good, and the OG silent hill music during scenes hits you emotionally so hard

big props to the voice actress of Angela who I think absolutely carries any scene she's in, the perfect tone of voice innocent/lost, broken, confused.

I will say tho and I'm sorry for any OG fans that I may offend, but I do find that the exploration can kinda drag in some spots, so I was losing interest in some spots but it really doesnt stay like that for long.

The game is unbelievably eery, and silent hill is just the definition of a perfect environment for horror.