Silent Hill 4: The Room

silent hill 4 ultimately does feel like a silent hill title, and i mostly enjoyed it. at times however, it did become overly frustrating (mostly the second half of the game), and there are multiple questionable design choices for it, like you not being able to actually drop items and having to go back to the game hub (the room) to actually manage your inventory items EVERYTIME, which was ultimately annoying. but i simply can't help but love all the things it does right honestly. outstanding atmosphere, amazing and interesting antagonist that remains very abstract through most of the game (which was the right choice), outstanding art direction and decent level design (except levels like the hospital, which felt very low effort and not very interesting). there are a lot of frustrating design choices like i said here though, so be aware that you will most likely get frustrated AT some point at the very least. i do think this game is underrated though and it is definitely better than the western silent hill games, but it definitely is flawed in comparison to the original three games. but i do think the good outweights the bad by a long shot, and this is just an objectively solid entry in the series, featuring some of the most gruesome content silent hill has to offer, and some of the most unsettling moments in the series.

Good game with perfect ost + environment without neither bugs or glitch please bring the rest of the franchise i would gladly payed for the other games.

The game crashes every 20-30 minutes, so as long as you're willing to play it in small chunks where racing to a save point before the game crashes becomes part of the excitement, it's great. Everything will seem to be going well; there's no audio, visual, or gameplay glitches that precede these crashes. You'll just be chugging along and the game will just freeze for a few seconds and then shut itself down without any warning whatsoever, forcing you to repeat whatever difficult combat or puzzle segments you cleared but didn't get to save. Really sucks the fun out of the game. It's a shame because there's clearly an amazing game here, but the experience of playing it is horribly tarnished by these weird crashes. This is apparently a fairly well-known issue according to subreddits and forums, but still has no reliable fix that I've been able to find. Hopefully they'll figure it out and patch it, but I wouldn't hold my breath. Also, the same ole PC glitch where some of the hauntings are unavailable is still present in this version. There is a fan patch that apparently fixes this, but I haven't tried it myself yet. If I could get the game to stay on for more than a few minutes at a time, I might apply the fan patch and see how it goes, but until then, I'll be sticking to my trusty ps2 version.

Loved it on PS2/Xbox but trying to play it on PC is a nightmare. Trying to bind the buttons for the controller is a lost cause, maybe needs a patch so using mouse and keyboards which isnt a great experience and very frustrating.

after getting into the series, it became one of my favorite series of al time and i played sh 1,2,3,origns,homecoming. and i wanted to figure out how to play sh4 but gog got my back.