Playing the Silent Hill 2 remake. Initial thoughts after about an hour and a half of running around the town: itโs fine. Listen, I like the Silent Hill formula of perilously running around a mostly empty downtown/suburban area trying to find missing pieces to various puzzles while ambient ookie sounds play. If you give me that, Iโm going to have a good time, but already this is not as engrossing and atmospheric as the original Silent Hill 2. Of course itโs not, though, it was never gonna be, but I was hoping to feel pulled in as quickly as SH2 makes you feel.
Dorothyโs going out of town, so Iโll be pretty bored during the week. This will at least give me something to do. If it ends up wowing me, Iโll report back, but so far no wow. Especially not from the combat and the gamesโ James-camera positioning. Itโs far more violent, but that takes me right out of the whole thing.
