Despite me being a certified freak who enjoyed the old visuals more, I'm happy the new visuals have opened up interest to one of the most rich gaming experiences created by a human being.

If I had to play one game for the rest of my life, it might be Dwarf Fortress due to it being dizzying in it's mechanical richness. Every run will be so wildly different from one another due it's randomly generated values that you might feel as though you are playing a different game. One run you might be waging war with the goblins and mining resources and going through the motions. Another you and the goblins have formed a treaty and are now punching birds together and taking the dead birds to a wizard who will turn it undead and then you use said undead birds to go fuck with the elves because fuck the elves.

I can see myself playing Dwarf Fortress on-and-off for the rest of my life. That's the highest praise I could possibly give a game.

sem exagero nenhum esse é o melhor jogo de terror já feito, ele mudou bastante minha perspectiva sobre terror em videogame e prova um ponto pra mim que é muito dificil de fazer jogos de terror porque jogos de terror NECESSITAM ser criativos

qualquer outro genero de jogos consegue escapar sendo bem cliche, terror não consegue, e esse jogo consegue te transmitir o mais puro medo através de coisas que eu geralmente nem prestaria atenção em outros jogos de terror

é uma verdadeira masterpiece do terror FEITO POR 3 MALUCOS POLONESES

Silent Hill 2 is still a killer game. While not pushing the limitations of what the PS2 can do, the game absolutely takes what was learned in SH1 in terms of sound design, atmosphere building, and the small town setting and builds a much more personal story about it.

SH2 revolves around James' search for his wife in Silent Hill and the horror that he meets when he moves deeper into town. The people James meets all reinforce several of the themes of the game that inevitably tie back into James' journey and what is a story of horror and pain is just as much one of compassion and forgiveness.

Yamaoka's soundtrack still hits hard and there's just as much of a "WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?" factor to the sound design. Combat is about good as it is in 1, which is to say not very and that's the idea. About the only real issue I had upon replaying is that going for certain endings require certain actions in gameplay and while I don't mind most of them, needing to risk getting a game over for one of them is very obnoxious, though that is a minor complaint.

I still love Silent Hill 2 all of these years later. 1 was already such a great survival horror, but 2 is the peak of psychological horror. James' journey can end in a number of ways and all are just as valid as each other. I hope Bloober Team's remake can catch even a small amount of the beauty of this game as otherwise it's gonna be a very depressing show out for them. At least the original will always be there even if Konami refuses to fucking rerelease it on anything with a decent port.