Silent Hill 4: The Room

so far I like what I have played, sure it was not more than 30 minutes however can anyone possibly tell me how to enable controller support? I tried to play with M/K but that didnt help much.

Silent Hill 4: The Room is the black sheep of the Japanese developed games. Leaving behind the cults and psychological horror of the previous games, SH4 focuses on a dream world with condensed linear levels and bizarre scenarios even by Silent Hill standards. Unfortunately the game fails to execute any of its core concepts. The first half of the game is a self contained series of linear key hunts completely bereft of puzzles and items. You can return to your apartment to fully heal and this almost Souls-like form of progression dominates the first few hours. This changes entirely midway through the game when it becomes an escort mission with an injured character through the exact same maps. You can't progress without this character, you're frequently chased by a gun/chainsaw toting super villain, and immortal ghosts briefly encountered in the first half can travel map to map to harass you. This section of the game is completely dependent on puzzles and while you can briefly leave your escort behind the games ending is directly tied to their wellbeing. The biggest positive is the atmosphere. The titular apartment feels like a lived in space and the game frequently surprises you in the second half by taking away the safety of this space. This is the unfortunate downfall of SH4: the second half is a real good Silent Hill experience dragged down by an escort mission but the second half wouldn't be engaging without the drawn out dull safety of the first half. SH4 is a frustrating experience but filled with enough creepy concepts to be worth a watch. I can't recommend anyone spend the 8 hours it takes to play blind.

konami please i'm begging you release it on steam i don't want to use this crusty dusty vidya client anymore...

You've got to fix the game controller suport yourself with third party program like "xinput plus", and the game is not the complete one according to an external source (pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Silent_Hill_4:_The_Room#Controller_support). Please see forums for this game before buying. I think it's better to play the emulated version than this or to use your old console as i can (but i'm too lazy for..)

The game refuses to install through windows 7. The GOG Galaxy app is constantly running into failures in the install, despite the fact it installs other games just fine. I run into E2, E4, and E8 errors while installing. In addition, when I downloaded the backup install files directly from the desktop website, the install from that doesn't even install the .exe file needed to run the game.