Short Message is quite awful - a combination of Slender-style "collect X items while running from a monster" and PT's going through the same environment that changes after each reset. And the story is about people being mean on social media.
It manages to have less gameplay than PT which had puzzles. So boring. I was eager when I saw a moving trashbag in a janitor closet only to realize it never talks. Cheap ripoff. No secrets like pt had. Terrible walking sim tech demo, looks worse and plays worse than pt somehow. But if you look at their interviews they initially wanted to work on demakes and ports, but Bloober caught Konamis eye so they stripped away sh2 from them and forced them to work on this bullshit instead. Idk, their rendition of the apartments looked alright but it was too pre-alpha and bright to tell if it would have been good. What makes me curious though is their Jamss model that keeps his classic jacket patches, it'll never be released though.
Haven't played it, but apparently she was also locked in a closet and starved for days and had to watch her brother die? Or something? I don't know, it's just what I've seen some Redditors offer as a counterargument, for whatever the fuck that's worth.
They had an abusive mother who was locking them in a closet when she was inviting candidates for a new dad. Brother died, mom tried to hide his body, main character informed the cops.
You had me going there, until that last sentence. "Here's a dumb opinion, but if you call it dumb you're proving me right." It's a shame because I agreed with you unironically to that point.
I think they should've gone another way with it, Make it an anthology with some common elements. You could have your cult stuff of SH1 and 3, and your purgatory stuff of SH2. Even the dungeon crawls of SH Book of Memories could work.
I don't. The last one was censored, and I don't trust current year localizers to leave them alone.
Neither can anyone else given the player numbers.
I'd go even further and say that a milquetoast Silent Hill game IS a bad Silent Hill game. Something like REmake is worthy of remembrance because it surpasses the original. At its "best", SH2 demake is a cause of division, it isn't "surpassing" anything. It's the ubisoft tower climb of 2024 horror gaming.
It's shocking just how bugman Homecoming is with all the hollyjew references. The stereotypical nigger cop, the crazy town mayor, the scenes ripped straight from hostle and saw, and the absolute milking of that baguette-banger's movie with buff pyramid head etc.
Blooper team, more like coomer team
An improvement, but so minor I wonder why they even bothered. Face still looks like crap.
here is the actors face they used. blooper team is very accurate when they modeled her face in the game.
He's making a movie based on Silent Hill 2 and it's gonna be a doozy.
Just what the brand needs!!
And here is Monica Taylor Horgan, the original actress behind Maria/Mary. Team Silent had a knack for beauty. Something lost upon Polish fag devs. Give me authenticity over professional voice acting any day. Combine it with Takayoshi Sato and you have excellence in a ps2 game.
it legitimately seems like they purposefully picked a woman with the squarest jaw on the planet
total CHUD victory
There isn't even a ranking system anymore or bugspray which diminishes the value of a replay vs the original. Codes aren't randomized anymore I heard, the original has more depth to it that factors into replays. Until they update it to add those in I wouldn't recommend it. Then again I knew a lot of nice mechanics wouldn't come back. God forbid they remake the other games lol. Two of the additional endings were just extensions, they really should have just extended the cult ending and at least see James pick Mary off the boat and place her in the church's altar with the last things you see being the items you collected being placed like how their use is described in Born From A Wish. Predictably RE2 remake has more replay value.