Silent Hill 4: The Room

This game recently got updated to be in line with the GOG preservation project, and now it's being touted as the definitive way to play this game due to it having restorted hauntings and some bugfixes, but it still falls short of the PS2 version in key ways. Two worst examples: - Control bindings are still a total mess. You're still asked to map every *function* to a button but can't have overlap. You can't have your Start button be "pause" and also "skip cutscene", it'll force you to dedicate an entire controller button *just* to skip cutscenes. Default controls still seem to be all over the place still as well. - Controls are still completely non-analog. The original PC port of this game had clumsy controller support that simply mapped controller inputs to keyboard keys, which has the effect of the player character only being able to move in 8 directions with the analog stick. It's also impossible to move the camera slowly or at not exact 45 degree angles in the first person portions of the game. This game already had fan patches for the restored hauntings. This new update is not a significant improvement on a PC port that is poor at its core.

i was SO excited when i saw this game on here. immediate buy, even if its not my fave, i LOVE silent hill....and my computer thinks one of the files in this version is a trojan horse. so i can t really play it? and/or theres just a trijan horse virus just in the game files? either way is sketchy. quite dissapointing.

This is definitely the weakest of the Silent Hill games (At least of those released on PC, which were the only ones i played). I really wanted to like it. The premise is really good: locked in the room, strange hole in the bathroom... And the mystery with the Walter Sullivan murders. It really got me. And it has some good creepy imagery. But this game broke me with its controls. Navigating your protagonist is a chore. Not even does he change his direction as soon as the camera perspective changes, he also feels so slow and sluggish, especially in combat. And the automatic lock on system there hurts more than it helps. Sometimes it felt like i was fighting the game more than the enemies. And then i got the AI companion and that was it for me. After 7 hours i just couldn't take it any more and felt a frustration i rarely felt while playing a game. After all your frustration level might be higher, but i am done with this. I give this game two stars because of the burping hospital zombies (which made me laugh pretty hard, especially when they were falling down the stairs, burping constantly), and the amazing music by Akira Yamaoka.

What a janky mess. I just can't understand these reviews unless they're all fake. Not even worth it for the nostalgia. I found it impossible to play. The 3rd person perpective is atrocious. I'm constantly running into the camera with no idea what's in front of me. The controls are abysmal, both KBM and gamepad suck equally. There's absolutely no camera control. It just tries to follow behind the character with spectacular failure. When it manages to get behind the character, it jumps around erratically, many times in birds eye view showing the top of your head and the ground. Just as bad as running into the camera because you can't see what's in front of you. The map just confuses you more than you were. You have to micro manage your position to interact with anything, which is exacerbated by the crappy controls. I gave it an hour and I'm never going back. They should have optimized the controls and camera pov. First person perspective would have improved it immensely.

An awful game from start to finish. Awkward, unresponsive controls, bland visuals, terrible sound design (voice and effects are SNES era quality), and a non-existent story. I was a big fan of SH2 + 3 but this was a big letdown, wish I'd kept my £7 instead...