It's genuinely incredible seeing the amount of influence this clearly had on horror games for years to come, but it's not hard to see why. This is absolutely packed full of raw atmosphere and dread, memorable imagery, and classic survival horror gameplay. It's also legitimately frightening at times, despite the hilariously awkward dialogue (another beloved hallmark of survival horror for me). It's impressively ambitious, with these huge wide-open sections that set it apart from the tightly controlled smaller environments in older resident evil games, for example. However that ambition did naturally lead to a few issues for me. While the player direction was generally surprisingly good, it's very difficult to tell which buildings you can and can't enter in the overworld, and what items you can and can't interact with in the environments, making it easy to miss important optional areas or just run straight into an unusable door while trying to run from enemies. The map system was extremely cool, with realistic maps that get annotated as you explore areas, but a little inconsistent; sometimes important items/interactables were highlighted on the map, and sometimes they weren't, especially in the later game, which made navigation a lot more difficult. The dynamic camera was another mixed bag; while it was often well used and allowed for larger and more complex areas, it was often frustrating during combat, leaving enemies offscreen or awkwardly pivoting at the wrong times. The final boss especially came down to just firing at what little of it was onscreen and hoping you got a hit in. Still, this is a remarkable achievement for early horror videogames, and more than good enough to get me to play the next few games in the series.

Amazing music, amazing artistic vision, insanely scary without relying on jumpscares, fun puzzles and still relatively fun gameplay. Going through this game is an insanely harrowing experience in the best way possible. I wanted to write something interesting but it's difficult to put into words how great it is. Because it becomes great through the sum of it's parts.

The only reason I don't give it 5 stars is because some puzzles (piano) are very difficult to figure out without a guide, New game + automatically forcing the difficulty up and hard not being fun for me and how the tank controls are outdated by now.

A breathtaking entry into the early survival horror canon that took inspiration from David Lynch movies and the individual eccentricities of the misfit developers who had been cobbled together from various teams and tasked with creating something that only they would be able to.

What we got was easily the scariest of them all: a masterful aesthetic curation that brought into gaming something unique that simply did not exist before, in gaming or any other medium, really, and spawned a franchise that, unfortunately, never seemed to really understand again just what made this initial title so brilliant. Given the expansive nature of the horror canon, to have created something that actually stands uniquely within it must be such a honor for everyone involved. Team Silent was really, really onto something here.

This title is a real testament to the majesty of gathering creative people and giving them the freedom to take a leap of faith. It is a shame that, in the era of focus groups and even more intricately honed metrics for development success, we don't really get to see titles like this very often. I'm begging all the publishers out there to try something similar. Instead of firing that creatively difficult employee who wants to make things that don't seem to promote reactions from anyone but the weirdos, perhaps giving them the opportunity to work in a way where they can fully embrace their more unique nature is how you're going to create something that actually leaves a lasting impact. Though it may not be what it used to be... long live SILENT HILL.

Gosto muito de Silent Hill 2 então esse é um jogo que eu tava pra jogar faz bastante tempo.
A combinação de um emulador muito mal configurado por minha parte e a decisão de encher o jogo de filtros pra tentar deixar ele o mais parecido possível com o original me fizeram ter uma experiência um pouco menos agradável do que eu esperava, visto que o jogo rodou muito mal em certas partes, mas isso é culpa minha mesmo.

Não tenho muito o que dizer sobre o jogo que já não tenha sido dito, um ótimo jogo de fato, mas honestamente a última parte dele me deixou tão frustrado a ponto de eu quase desistir, assistir uma gameplay do resto e considerar ele zerado. Felizmente (ou infelizmente) não fiz isso e sofri muito pra finalizar ele de verdade.

Joguei evitando ao máximo pesquisar ou ver qualquer coisa sobre ele, então eu não descobri que precisava fazer coisas específicas pra ter o final bom até ser tarde demais, o que não é algo que eu reclamaria normalmente, mas o fato de eu ter jogado uma versão mais difícil do jogo por me recusar a tomar spoilers foi bastante frustrante.

No geral um bom jogo, fico feliz de ter finalmente jogado mas tenho quase certeza de que não vou rejogar ou tentar pegar os outros finais. Minhas 5 horas de jogo foram o suficiente.

Top jogos do Ps1.
Apesar dos controles de tanque e os poligonos do Ps1 terem envelhecido como leite eu ainda recomendo demais esse jogo.
Mesmo sendo o primeiro ele não perde muito pras suas sequencias em nada que não seja culpa do tempo. A atmosfera, ambientação e conceitos que fizeram todos amarem a franquia já estavam todos ali (Btw a ideia da nevoa é genial pra resolver as limitações da epoca)

É pog podem jogar.

(Alessa My Beloved)

(Eu odeio a ultima area.)

What an experience, in more ways than one...

The story was honestly great. First off, Harry Mason? Definitely a contender for best video game dad. No amount of man-made horrors beyond his comprehension will deter this man from finding his daughter. You can call it bad, but I think his voice acting just sells how much he doesn't care about anything other than his objective, despite how absolutely fucked up Silent Hill is. The rest of the cast felt kinda secondary. Apart from Dahlia, there's no else you can really care about, they're just there. Cybil? Didn't care. Lisa? Sad, but ultimately indifferent. Kaufmann? Lol

The other experience comes from the gameplay. This was my first "tank controls" type game, and it took some getting used to, but it wasn't so bad. Walking around the foggy town was just as interesting and unnerving as everyone else makes it out to be.
My god, the puzzles though. I applaud anyone who legitimately solved the school piano puzzle. And a special fuck you to the blood bag in the otherworld hospital blending in with the environment so well that it took me quite some time to find it.

The environment is great, the game's age and design give it such a vibe, there wasn't a single place where I didn't feel unsettled and alone.
Wandering around in the city, whether it was nighttime or foggy, hearing the radio static grow and shrink as I progressed to the next destination, it all made me uneasy all the time despite how easy it is to cheese some of the wandering enemies. I commend it for taking a technical difficulty and making it work so well

Honestly. don't let this game's age get to you. It's a beautiful experience beginning to end, with some weird voice acting in between (at least to me, the only other Konami game I played was MGS1 and that had some solid voice acting. They couldn't care to give this one some too?)