Silent Hill 4: The Room

I've played SH2remake and SHF and loved them both. I saw on twitter this game was on sale and decided to pick it up after some convincing, excited to experience a much earlier game in the series. Only to find out all the FMV cutscens are broken, terrible soundings messes that make it nigh impossible to have a first play through of the game with. With no information on an upcoming fix from either the GOG team or Microsoft I'm left with 10$ less in my bank account and no game to play without this horrible bug. Do not buy, I'll delete my review once/if an update comes out that fixes this.

I've played a lot of Silent Hill games. The Room shines. But the controls, especially movements, in this version are just meh because they occasionally get glitchy. My main critique is the item holding and management; the player can only hold ten of one thing and must store everything elsein a box in Henry's apartment. Finding the correct possessed item to progress can be frustrating and time consuming. Otherwise almost everything is executed awesomely (graphics and sounds during gameplay) and there are nods to previous games in the series (to those that notice). As mentioned in other reviews this version has cutscenes where the audio and visuals are unsynced. At least that was my experience and that's not good. At first I had a hard time thinking how the designers would make an entire game based around being in a small apartment, but the gameplay just works! The player will see how intense things can get when trying to protect EIleen throughout the adventure, it's fun...

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.