Silent Hill 2's Remake is authentic and compelling - But technical problems need addressing

Bloober Team's Silent Hill 2 remake - the Digital Foundry review.

[Levii_92]

I actually really want to buy and play this, it turned out much better than i thought it would i mean we are talking about Bloober and Konami here lol. The combat and shooting still looks a bit wonky and unpolished but it looks amazing and it’s a perfect time to play a game like this.. however.. i’m not buying it until the disappointing performance gets fixed on ps5! I’m really hoping it will, i’m so sick of stuff like this. No buy.

And no Sony i’m not buying your stupid overpriced console with no disc drive just to enjoy games in what should be normal and stable framerates. 💀🖕🏻

[gold_drake]

not sure what that has to do with sony, but mkay ha

[Cacabunga]

This is one of the few chances that gamers will have nowadays to slow they still care for single player games.

Day one

[pwnmaster3000]

I understand you but if your planning to buy this game anyways, I would just buy it now.
Atleast support the devs who made it.
Has nothing to do with Sony.

I would honestly buy it but I’m a pu$$y lol

[Eonjay]

It might not be as bad as you think. DF states that while it CAN drop, it is locked most of the time. Hopefully they release a patch to address the dr DRS issues. Doesn't look like this require a Pro to get this over the goal lime.

[SimpleDad]

I will eventually buy it, have my Halloween planed out already with RE games... also picked up Tormented Souls for nothing.

[IRetrouk]

Every sony release has had stable framerates though, and more options with vrr included than most, sony can't be blamed for a 3rd party company not hitting their own targets.

[peppeaccardo]

this game is a donkey also on a 4090 WITHOUT DLSS (I have a rizen 9 an 64 GB. of ram), it goes up 40-50 fps. With DLSS around 70-80 depending on the area you are in. Combat is good ... but it has a bit of hickups here and there .... even in rooms or closed environments it does not shine in terms of framerate. Graphics is nice even though I prefer ALAN Wake 2 from an artsy stand point.

[P_Bomb]

A few frame drops won’t hold me back. Just watched 20min of new footage. They nailed the atmosphere!

[RaidenBlack]

Its a really good Remake, no other way to put it.

[CrimsonWing69]

I am shocked by how fantastic this Remake is. I honestly didn’t think any western developer could do Team Silent justice. In my opinion, this surpasses the original in every way. I haven’t felt this level of tension and anxiety playing a game since… sh*t maybe SH1 and 2. Bloober pulled off the impossible.

[ANIALATOR136]

A few things I feel they didn't get right. The first time you see Pyramid Head behind the bars. He's standing way too close. He should be way further back to obscure him to the player more.

[TheKingKratos]

Alex is also saying on twitter that PC suffer from stutter and performance issues as well ... UE5 is still new to most developers trying to figure it till now

Epic literally just updated their engine to 5.5 where it hit 60fps constant on Base Ps5 while using Lumen

Any issues will be ironed out and fixed but bloopers team are not known for well optimized games ... Let's see if they will fix the issues with performance mode

[Smellsforfree]

I'm kinda waiting for their PC review before deciding which version to buy between PS5 and PC. Traversal and shader compilation stuttering sucks but if it is occasional and under 100ms when it happens I would rather have that than a consistently bad frame rate.

[Samonuske]

The fact they got the atmosphere down in the first hour was enough for me. They deserve credit.

[Snookies12]

Wow, fair enough... I honestly didn't have much hope that this would turn out well. I really thought the combat looked stiff during the trailer I saw. But hey, if they nailed the atmosphere like people are saying. That's the most important thing for a horror game. Never played the original, but I will definitely pick this up sometime soon since it is getting pretty universal praise.

I'd pick it up now, if I didn't have a couple games I'm going through at the moment. As well as having Metaphor and DB Sparking Zero coming out in a couple days!

[FPS_D3TH]

Combats satisfying but simple. It works really well though.

[ANIALATOR136]

Bad traversal stutter on PC. Cutscenes are also locked to 30fps which is jarring when it switches down from 60fps.

[Good-Smurf]

Not digging the newer comparatively cleaner photo real look of the remake.
The original was so deliciously foggy grimy grainy and noisy and sense of unsettling in its visual presentation that it still holds up 23 years later.
Still don't have the courage to finish both games though too damn scary for my taste.
In the psychological horror genre, less is more, and I felt that Blooper team still don't get that rule, if you're going to make everything photo real and cleaner you'd ended up with a blander less imaginative horror game.

[gold_drake]

this is definitely a game you play with graphics mode on. imo.

well ill play it at that if its available

[FPS_D3TH]

So long as I have Ray Tracing off this game still runs above 60 fps for me on my 3080 and honestly that’s all I need for a game like this. When I did have RT on though I got a lot of fps drops in somewhat larger areas. The apartments area with a baby carriage in the pool nearly tanked all my frames and was chugging. Turning it off, I can still play 2k max settings and it looks fantastic

[Master of Unlocking]

Great. Now let them remake... Silent Hill 1 :p

[TheNamelessOne]

I'm glad Bloober actually found their mainstream hit.