I always loved Silent Hill 4. While certainly not on par with the first three, it's still a good game. The various Otherworlds you find yourself feel ominous, dark, menacing; music and ambiance are good enough, definitely not the best, but they do their job well enough. Gameplay is interesting, I like the limited inventory, as it forces the player to think what to take and what to leave behind, either in the Otherworld or in the trunk at home. Combat is okay-ish like in the first three games, but now you can dodge and do a power strike after charging your attack. Characters sound still a bit numb to everything that is happening, talking like they are still half-asleep. But I always loved that about the Silent Hill series, makes me feel even more confused about whatever the hell is happening, so it unsettles me, like a good horror game should do. Never understood how people got annoyed at escorting the support character in the second half of the game, she is a death machine when you give the chain as a weapon. Besides, she is best girl of the series, Heather is boring and annoying despite her being the main character of the third game, which nonetheless is a much better game than Silent Hill 4. I will reiterate: I always loved Silent Hill 4, despite it being the black sheep of the original four. So why only one star? The reason is Konami and their pathetically lazy attitude: you release an old game, supposedly so that people who never played on the PS2 may experience it for the first time. Yet you fail to modernize it properly: graphics look blurrier than the ones on PS2, proper controller support is nothing but a mere legend, the game looks even brighter than the original PC port which I mean, come on, this is Silent Hill, not the Wumpa Islands. Cutscenes are no longer at 15 fps, so I guess that's that. In short, if you want to play this game, there are other ways. If you can, play the original PS2 release. It pains me to say it, this port is not worth the money.
