Silent Hill: Shattered Memories is the seventh installment in the Silent Hill survival horror series, and a stand-alone reimagining of the original Silent Hill video game. Once again, you will cast Harry Mason searching across the haunted town for his missing daughter Cheryl. Through his exploration, Harry will come across objects and recordings that tell some of the history of Silent Hill. New to the series are a depiction of Silent Hill's demonic alter-dimension as a world of ice, and the removal of weapons from the game: when the monsters come out, Harry must literally run for his life. Between scenes, the game will cut to a psychiatrist's office, who asks personal questions about Harry and his past experiences. The game will then alter itself based on the player's responses, changing characters and lines of dialog to something intended to be more personally uncomfortable.
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Horror games around this time, and even to this day, have mostly given up on doing combat and I personally think it has really harmed the genre. What makes combat in a horror game "good" is different from what makes combat in any other game "good". But everyone is scared of having their game docked for having "bad" combat.
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i think the game is maybe a little too blunt and disrespectful with some of its sexual content, and the characters are notably weaker than some other entries, but the story here is solid. music and sound design are great as usual, visually this is an absolutely drop dead gorgeous game, all the voice actors do a solid job, and the therapy sessions were a neat idea.
i really love how this is a game that seems to take a warped approach of retelling the first game. rather than the story taking place in a world born from alessa's mind, the story itself is a fictitious retelling from cheryl's mind. its a cool little swap.
another fun detail i noticed is that "Acceptance", which is the track that plays during the Good ending (in which Cheryl accepts Harry was a normal guy and dead the whole time) had a similar melody to "She", which plays in the Bad- ending from Silent Hill 1, in which Harry was dead the whole time. little musical parallel there hmmm?
yeah! good video game! wish climax got to make more of these!