Silent Hill

I don’t think I’ve ever experienced anything so simultaneously amazing and terrible. Silent Hill 2 got the combat way better, the enemies in this game are absolutely infuriating, they just don’t work with how the game works. I feel like they obviously wanted to make the combat cumbersome and stilted, but then made enemies as if it were a normal action game, and way too frequent. But everything else here is just astounding. I honestly don’t know if I like this or 2 better. I think 2 is obviously more thematically rich and purposeful, but the story and flow of this game is so cool and I think executed better, the riddles are more rewarding, and the world is a bit more interesting. It’s really pretty hard to believe how tight and seamless they got this on their first go, combat notwithstanding.

I think 2 will stick with me more powerfully, but as an active experience I think this edges it out a little bit

cheryl? [5]

Playing this with the radio off and only using the flashlight to grab items, look at the map and unlock doors makes the game genuinely pretty thrilling and scary. I imagine it would be the intended way to play were bullets not so plentiful.

there was still a long way to go before the second one but this still is one of the greatest ps1 games that there ever was