Despite the years passing, the first “Silent Hill” is still the best in the franchise and arguably my favorite psychological horror game out there. Most probably the first horror videogame to actually focus on atmosphere rather than taking a showy B-movie approach like "Resident Evil". There is something about that town that no one could recreate in later reiterations, not even the original team members succeded. The fog obstructing your view, the industrial sound effects, the haunting music, the memorable characters, the convoluted yet coherent plot full of occult references. The jump scares and horrific bits are timed perfectly, rarely resulting in cheap tricks. The art direction just had a depth that its competitors could have only dreamt of. The gameplay itself is not so different from the first couple of “Resident Evil” games, but the narrative approach and unique atmosphere manage to make the difference. The focus is more on exploration and puzzles rather than combat, with weird item combinations and detailed locations to explore with your map in hand. There are multiple endings to either reward or punish the player for the amount of effort they put into the game, even if most of the conditions required to get the good ending were far from obvious.
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The one track for one of the bad endings is so unfitting lol Also that blooper high reel. Gotta love the presentation of Japanese games of the late 90s and early noughties
Personally, I would say that this is just a tad better than the original Resident Evil. I think the puzzle-solving and setting interconnectivity is better in RE, maybe the story as well by a small margin, but this has the better atmosphere, soundtrack, and artstyle. It's also a LOT easier, which is nice since I suck at survival horror lol