A breakdown of the best Silent Hill Characters that inspired and frightened gamers.
The sirens are sounding again, beckoning you back to the foggy ghost town as we rank all the Silent Hill games, from the chilling classics to the misguided missteps.
I mostly disagree with Downpour's position. Yeah, the game is not amazing by any stretch of the imagination but is much better than the HD Collection and Homecoming. The main issue is the performance, but that was mitigated by the patches, especially on the PS3. Personally, I put it a little behind Origins and The Room.
Having Restless Dreams as a different entry from Silent Hill 2 is also a choice.
Normally, we would not consider it a different game (Restless Dreams), but since it had a very different critical reception and had new content, it was allowed. As for Downpour, I would agree, but since that one is subjective, we let him make his case for the placement.
silent hill 2 is definitely the best one out of those.
for me personally, the whole ritual/cult stuff was always so weird to me in all the other games.
No disrespect but I put SH2 over 1. 1 is fantastic, but 2 took it all up a level.
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Again, seen this coming from the start, glad I already bought everything I wanted over the years 👌
This happens to every retro console, there's a tipping point, this is ps3's tipping point
Stil remember selling ps3 titles to buy a PS4. but i keept the ones i liked more. Did the same with the titles of the PS4 to get a PS5.
The series died after Silent Hill 3.
It's very easy to start a judgement about a game without playing a second.
Anyone whose immediate response is to wave their hand and dismiss Downpour as another substandard effort in a dying franchise clearly hasn't read up on the interviews given by the development team, composer Daniel Licht or the excellent GameInformer exclusive article from last month. The writers clearly have a fluent understanding of the Silent Hill mythology; they understand how it works and have been saying all the right things thus far (no Pyramid Head, no nurses, monsters that only tie into Murphy's psychosis). Licht's few released excerpts, however brief, are exceedingly promising and provide a new lease of life in the wake of Yamaoka's departure from Konami (he worked on seven games - he had a good run of it, but now is time for new blood and fresh interpretation). And all the screenshots released, including these new ones, are stunning to behold, and truly highlight the graphical prowess and overwhelming attention to detail that Vatra are capable of. Don't be so quick to write this one off.
Oh, and the series hasn't been dwindling anyway: Shattered Memories was a hugely compelling, bold re-imagining of the Silent Hill mythos, and kicked the shit out of The Room, Homecoming and 0rigins.
Looks good, hope they develop a great SH Game.