At the time of me writing this Silent Hill 1 is the only pure horror game I’ve beaten (I really don’t think RE4 would fit with this lol), so I sat down a bit and read/played this intending to finish it until I realized just how quickly the first hour of the original game passed and I’m here now.

I’m a big defender of compromises in design being used to work around a platform’s limitation but this novel’s existence completely strips Silent Hill of the one thing it had that WAS good in my opinion, legitimate atmosphere. The images in this game are stitches of extremely compressed cutscene images from the PS1 game or custom sprites added, if this wasn’t a commercial product and idk a fan project I’d think this was pretty neat but I keep imagining that someone had to buy this in a package and already you lose so much of the game it’s adapting within the first 20 minutes.

If they made all the assets for this game as a new adaptation I think I really wouldn’t be shelving this but it just is a factually lazy product, it isn’t hard to make a basic menu and text in front of images you dragged over to use it’s interesting if you actively work around the limitations.

Summary: Konami