I will say that this remake is fairly decent after playing it, and I was one of the people shitting on it before release. It’s still inferior to the original, but it’s a competently made game especially coming from blunder team. As far as improvements go, it’s obviously better in the graphics department. Holy shit, a game in 2024 having good graphics? Wild. Other than that, the gameplay is obviously better, but it’s not like it was a very high bar in the first place. The combat has never been a point of praise for any of the silent hill games. Also I really like the atmosphere. It’s better than a lot of modern games.
Now the negatives. The story lacks the subtleties it had in the original. This was an obvious one for any silent hill 2 fan who examined the trailers. The overall story may not be different, but it’s very annoying how many scenes got fucked up. Especially the “a corpse can’t laugh” scene. My god…
Next is characters. They’re all worse with maybe an exception of Laura, but honestly she’s just about the same as the original. Angela’s delivery got fucked with her shitty VA, much the same with Mary with her letter at the end being… emotionless, to say the least. And then there’s Eddie, who in the original was just the overweight guy eating entire pizzas. There wasn’t an immediate suspicion with him right when you first met. But with the remake, he looks like an obese Crackhead who obviously gives off creepy vibes, especially in the theater. This isn’t subtle at all. He needs to gradually make the player suspicious of him before his breaking point, not the way they presented him in the remake.
On to the music. It’s pretty much all worse compared to the OG. Some songs are tolerable enough, but then there’s songs like theme of Laura which got butchered.
And on to the last point, the wokeness. I will admit that it’s not as woke as I thought it would be, but it’s still there, that can’t be denied. All the women are uglier and it’s obvious why Maria’s outfit was changed. Other than that, I can’t really think of anything, but perhaps it needs a deeper analyzation. If you can get past all the women being westernized, you should mostly be fine.
And that’s it. It’s a decent attempt at remaking the original, but I’d rather replay the original game any day, and anyone who is acting like this replaces the original is a retard. It’s like the resident evil remakes, it’s fine as it’s own thing, but the original should be played as well. If I tried shitting on this game, I’d be lying, because it’s definitely not a bad game. At the same time though, anyone acting like it’s the 2nd coming of Christ is a shill. It’s better than any silent hill in the past 20 years, but the bar wasn’t exactly high.
