Silent Hill 4: The Room

I picked up an original xbox copy when I was a kid, returning to the game now, I get to appreciate all over again

I remember buying in days back when it was released and after playing for a few hours I was absolutely stunned by how good this game nails down surreal atmosphere and introduces you into "horror dream" vibe. Storywise it's kinda 50/50, from one site it's a good story about shy, intrevorted guy overcoming his fears and deals with chaotic monster in his worlds (he also gets a girl at the and in best ending), but on a second site story is not inspiriting or unique, it's mostly world building and occult aspects of whats happening what makes me love what happening in story. Talking about puzzles and gameplay, again, it's different from previous three games, but still fun. This time, game more melee focused in terms of combat. It's clunky, yes, but dealable. Especially once you find out how good Axe for killing everything (even final boss). Also, I find this game most fun of all four first titles for getting maximum (10.2 stars in SH4) rank. Rewards for max. rank are not great in this one, but being able to speedrun it and memorize every step you must take is more fun than any rewards for me. Hardest part is to find 2,5 hours to spare for playing videogames when you adult and have way more responsibilities comparing to teenage years...damn, time flies.

I brought this game a few months ago as I've been wanting to play Silent Hill series. I'd got SH4 on PS2 but I wanted to be able to play at a better resolution than the original hardware could. I tested this game like every game on PC when I first get them, to see if it works until the first save and it did. Now I want to play this game the FMV's play with a red and green filter and the sound keeps clipping and popping. Looking through the GOG forums this is an issue on the newer Windows 11 updates with no fix apart from going back on the system updates. I didn't pay much for this, but I'm disappointed as I was really looking forward to getting my teeth into this game. I'm posting this review to warn other customers and i want to make it very clear, I do not blame GOG for this. This is the second game where the Windows 11 updated and it effected the FMV playback, the other was RE2 but there is a way of getting that game to work.

Game keeps crashing about 45-50 min in.....dissapointing.

As far as the GOG port, I am very happy with this purchase. No issues with framerate or graphics or anything like that. It has built-in PS5 controller support so all you have to do is download and play. This is a great way to experience the game. As far as the game itself, if you enjoyed the first three SH games, you will probably enjoy this one. It's made by Team Silent and apparently is a Silent Hill game but was not intended as a mainline game, but a spinoff. The gameplay is super familiar and similar to the original three games. The story is confusing, but good like the first three games. The gameplay can get annoying, particularly in the second half, and you can tell they had to rush the game to completion, but compared to games released nowadays, this is a much more complete experience.