Silent Hill 4: The Room

This is the creepiest game of the entire Silent Hill series.

This game features a lot of unnecessary running around and backtrack, it's way too stretched out and at some point you'll have to wait for a tedious and slow companion to follow you exactly to the doors of every segment (and there's plenty of those) otherwise they will not show up in the next room, apartment section is great and overall premise is interesting but it's very poorily executed. It really makes you wonder if they made it annoying on purpose.

Finally ! Hope they add more Silent Hill games on GOG, even tho i don' think SH 2&3 will be here since Konami lost the source cod :( Nevertheless, amazing game !

I've recently beaten this game from start to end, and I have to say that the game was mostly bad. The game has a good start, the beginning was mysterious and very interesting, but after 30 minutes or less it started to get boring. The combat and the controls were bad, especially with the camera angles. The areas were mostly uninteresting. There was one interesting enemy, but many of the enemies were uninteresting especially the ghosts which gets annoying and used way too often. There was no buildup between the main characters and the main villain. Without spoiling anything, the story was boring, and most of the characters felt bland. You have to read the memos if you want to get any idea of what is going on and on how to defeat the ghosts, if you didn't you will become more confused. The inventory system was annoying. You can carry up to 10 items, each 10 bullets of the handgun are considered 1 item. You have to go back to the apartment to dump the items before picking up the key items.

This game recently got updated to be in line with the GOG preservation project, and now it's being touted as the definitive way to play this game due to it having restorted hauntings and some bugfixes, but it still falls short of the PS2 version in key ways. Two worst examples: - Control bindings are still a total mess. You're still asked to map every *function* to a button but can't have overlap. You can't have your Start button be "pause" and also "skip cutscene", it'll force you to dedicate an entire controller button *just* to skip cutscenes. Default controls still seem to be all over the place still as well. - Controls are still completely non-analog. The original PC port of this game had clumsy controller support that simply mapped controller inputs to keyboard keys, which has the effect of the player character only being able to move in 8 directions with the analog stick. It's also impossible to move the camera slowly or at not exact 45 degree angles in the first person portions of the game. This game already had fan patches for the restored hauntings. This new update is not a significant improvement on a PC port that is poor at its core.