This game is chocked full with easily the best imagery in the series. It takes much of the groundwork that had been established SH1 and fine tunes it. The world is more oppressive, atmospheric, and is vehemently trying to kill you.
I find that most people are quite critical of the series' return to an occult based narrative over a psychological one, but the occultism is one of the things I personally love about Silent Hill in general. Even so, I found Heather's coming of age story to be pretty touching. It has a lot of subtlety that I think people occasionally don't give it credit for.

This game is so baffling and just awe-inspiring in its clunky, cumbersome, QTE-laced, barely functional gameplay and its message, that is delivered in the most CLUMSY way possible, along with simply laughable in your face symbolism evoking slavery and the fucking holocaust to drive home the point.

And to top it all of, this shit-stew is presented with such a genuine earnestness that one really has to wonder if David Cage has any capacity to understand human emotion at all. Or has never talked to a person in his life. Or both.

I have not finished this yet, but it has proven itself to be such an abominable piece of garbage that I struggle to even think about putting the disc back in.

Maybe someday.

But I already know this: This might not be the worst game I ever played, but it is without a question the most incompetent and infuriating one.

Edit: Reduced to 1/10

I overcame my struggles and finally finished this... video game, I guess, and now I feel a myriad of emotions. None of them good, really.
There is sadness, disgust, anger, despair and most of all, overwhelming boredom and a general sense of uncertainity if my love for video games actually survived contact with this apocalyptic piece of unfathomable incompetence.

Second Edit: It did. Thank god. I still like video games quite a bit. And all the negative emotions vanished over time too.
And now there is one positive thing I can say about the game:
It left me with a sick sense of amusement about life, the universe and everything else that makes me feel like I am on the brink of insanity.
It's actually quite... interesting.
.. I like it.

cough Anyways: Do not play this... thing. Ever.

Wow, this is one of the best jazz Mario cover albums ever! From Super Mario Galaxy's Boo Waltz, a 6/4 version of Airship, to Slider of all things? The original songs are all good too!

I really love how the Starman theme is totally reimagined here - it's like how Sonic final boss themes tend to have a Phase 2 representing Sonic's strength, usually in Super Sonic form. I could go on and on about all the songs I really love from this album. I wonder who the remixers were?

...wait, what? this is a soundtrack to a game? what game?