Silent Hill 4: The Room

Story is cool, but GOD the gameplay is awful and not fun most of the time. I can't finish this.

You can really say this is the last title of Team Silent, seeing how new mechanics added are a bit rough due to probably low times. But even then, this game deserves a spot: it's not the best but it is a decent silent hill entry, with a good story plot and characters but a questionable level design which does not involve too much re-play value in my opinion. The atmosphere is on top, my favorite, and the villain is very cool especially how is introduced to the general plot. I recommend this one for those who at least played the first three games, though it's not required it gives a brief continuity from them.

The game won't launch, no matter what I do (I've tried all tips online). I have no issue with other GOG titles. Not sure how to go about getting a refund or sufficient help, and I feel ripped-off.

I owned this on Xbox but never got around to playing it, so there isn't any nostalgia in it for me or maybe making an exception because it has an amazing story. I really wouldn't know. It's fairly compelling as a narrative and has a somewhat creepy vibe, but it is so, so bad at everything else when viewed through the lens of 2025 standards.. I first played it on hard and turned it down to normal because the initial enemies took so many hits to kill, and the melee combat was so awful. Stilted controls and a very limited camera didn't help either . Beyond the cut-scenes it lacks atmosphere and scares. Previous Silent Hills had (for the time) fairly impressive and ominous shifts from the "normal world" into grim, distorted realities, whereas this just slaps lame stuff right in front of you without any rhyme or reason, or any effect. It's weird for sure, but it's also bland and even for a 2004 title it looks pretty naff. The textures are grainy, the image is washed-out and the lighting is unimpressive. This was an OG Xbox title, but even so it could have looked much better for the time. On the game-play side of it I stopped playing after a few dull enemy encounters, as it's quite poor in that regard. Your character lumbers about and isn't particularly responsive, and your attacks are turgid and shoddy. There's a bit where you have to go up an escalator and these creatures start forming out of the walls and swiping at you. The hit-boxes for their attacks are huge and annoying to evade, but you can't really attack them either. I tried shooting them but my character kept auto-aiming at ones I'd already shot and temporarily stopped, rather than aim at the next one along that then ended up walloping me back down the escalator. After umpteen times of this, and it also happening when I just tried to run past them or time dodging their attacks, I'd had enough. It really is quite poor and only massive nostalgia for it would make it worth buying in this day and age.

Very disturbing with the best soundtrack of the series, story and characters are so special i love that game so much even if some boss fights and sequences are really annoying