Is it close to the Silent Hills of old? No not particularly.
Does it absolutely stumble on getting across some of its ideas and concepts? Yeah.
Are the chase sequences a bit rough? Yeah.
I still really fucked with this and everything it was doing. It gave me a dose of what I've wanted from Silent Hill for a long time, it had a vision and it sees that vision all the way through while trying to mix things up a bit.
I think it handles its themes of trauma and abuse trapping someone emotionally within cycles of self destructive and self distancing behaviors causing lashing out at anything that harms the ego and whatever normalcy one can cling onto fairly well.
I feel like even if it was a bit heavy handed at times (the beginning really tries to hammer home how depressed Anita is in ways that feel really corny) I cannot ignore the earnestness and the willingness to just fuckin try something here. The art direction, the atmosphere, the music, the tones.
No it's not Silent Hill 3 but it worked for me and captured me in ways that I really didn't expect. That last chunk of the game really fuckin hit me.
Does it absolutely stumble on getting across some of its ideas and concepts? Yeah.
Are the chase sequences a bit rough? Yeah.
I still really fucked with this and everything it was doing. It gave me a dose of what I've wanted from Silent Hill for a long time, it had a vision and it sees that vision all the way through while trying to mix things up a bit.
I think it handles its themes of trauma and abuse trapping someone emotionally within cycles of self destructive and self distancing behaviors causing lashing out at anything that harms the ego and whatever normalcy one can cling onto fairly well.
I feel like even if it was a bit heavy handed at times (the beginning really tries to hammer home how depressed Anita is in ways that feel really corny) I cannot ignore the earnestness and the willingness to just fuckin try something here. The art direction, the atmosphere, the music, the tones.
No it's not Silent Hill 3 but it worked for me and captured me in ways that I really didn't expect. That last chunk of the game really fuckin hit me.
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@SkeletonGrimm67 I have no clue where you heard that it requires PS+ to play but it doesn't.
I haven't had PS+ in years and I played through it not too long after it dropped on PSN.
I haven't had PS+ in years and I played through it not too long after it dropped on PSN.
Seems like it's a Germany only thing, it says it requires a PS+ subscription. But only in Germany...
SkeletonGrimm67
2 months ago
Great marketing move, saying it's free and then hide it behind a subscription PayWall.