Silent Hill 4: The Room

Just finished the game. I actually quite enjoyed it once I got past the first 2 "worlds". But one thing to note that I didn't realize until literally the ending cutscene/credits, is that some of the cutscenes are broken. Some of them display completely red/green, almost looking as if you were viewing them through a thermal visor. It almost only happened during the boss ghost cutscenes, or something enemy related, and without dialogue, so I thought it was just an odd, jarring aesthetic choice on the developers end. But when I beat the game, it happened during the final cutscene and credits, red/green with extremely distorted audio, and also sped up. Really strange! Overall tho I liked the game alot,the puzzle in world 3 was fun.

While Silent Hill 4 is Definately not the best in the series, it absolutley has one of the most interesting and engaging concepts and approaches to story telling. while SH2 and SH3 have a lot of optional story telling in notes and photos, 4 Dials it up to 11, with optional interactions through the peephole and hole in the wall, allong with many strewn about notes. A supprisingly overlooked aspect of Silent Hill 4 is how it is a pseudo sequel to SH2, touching on similar themes, as well as elaborating on background details, such as the island on Tolluca Lake, or the crimes and history of Walter Sullivan. While many consider the combat system unneccisarily complicated and overly clunky, i feel the odd and confusing systems to add to the stress of combat situations, as well as detering the player from attempting fights they dont have the skill or resources to take on. The most infamous and unique trait of the game, which many talk about and compliment, is the haunting system, where many ghosts and spirits start messing with Henry in his appartment. Neddless to say, i love this approach to horror, as for a large chunk of the game the appartment is a safe haven where the player can take a break, heal up, deposite items and save their game. The hauntings rob you of such security, while only temporarily, the only way to remove them is by exorciseing them with a candle. However, these candles can be rather hard to find at times, forcing you to pick and choose which ghosts are most important to be rid of. Finally, GOG have recently enhanced this version of the game, as the original PC port of the PS2 original game was incomplete, due to the original finnished build being lost, Classic Konami move. these enhancement namely return the missing hauntings from the PS2 version, return the wide screen features, although unfortunately most of the HUD elements and title screen text seemingly havent been given the same treatment. 4/5 stars good port, minor complaints.

Twisted, demented, gross and spooky. Once I hit around the halfway point and realized that the game was making me backtrack while escorting someone, I got mad. BUT! even with the backtracking and escorting, the game kept me invested. Lotta fun! Go buy so we can potentially get more of these!

(Iam halfway through the game while writing this) This game has a great story, works flawless, has a amazing soundtrack and interesting gameplay mechanics. The puzzles are well implemented in the game world, Avoiding combat and facing enemies seems to be both a viable strategy the apartment is well designed and has a great atmosphere monster design is most of the time splendid best antagonist I have seen for a long time However this game has issues: the sound design on some enemies is just terrible, this hurts the atmosphere alot the game get's a bit annoying by constantly returning to the apartment to save etc the game seems a bit too easy (playing on normal) most weapons feel redundant the game seems rushed it's definitely worth it if you want a classic horror game but expect flaws

This game is different. I warn nostalgic players of trilogy you hit something different and maybe you will dont like it. Maybe you dont even find out this game can run in 1920x1080 and 144Hz. Maybe you cant even remember how to save this game and you will start to be frustrated. Forget everything and gradually find out what to set where, how to save the game, how to use weapons and heals and where to store them. The graphics are not the best, but the rest is still of good quality. If you get through this, you will have a good experience. If not... well. Try it next time.