
SILENT HILL 2
Bloober Team SA · Oct 6, 2024
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- Game Informer8.8Bloober’s take on Silent Hill 2 is engrossing, even if words I would usually use to compliment other games like “fun” simply don’t apply here. I experienced the original game shortly after its first release, but I was still eager to see where the story was going and what new ways I would dive into the psyche of James and the others he met in Silent Hill. Despite the difficult revelations Silent Hill 2 unveils along the way and how uncomfortable the experience made me (by design) I was eager to immediately start the journey again after seeing the credits.
- Way Too Many Games9.0The Silent Hill 2 remake surprised me in the best of ways. It managed to overcome the development team’s shortcomings, as well as a ton of unnecessary pre-launch skepticism, whilst delivering a faithful yet bold new remake. It allowes for a much wider audience to be able to experience such a timeless narrative. Whilst the gameplay does have its issues, just like the original, this is still one of the most compelling video game stories of all time, in a brand new and astonishing horror experience.
- Cubed38.0Bloober Team's Silent Hill 2 Remake is an interesting game. It successfully freshens up the presentation of the original story while tastefully expanding the gameplay through a modern gaming frame. Their handling of boss fights, monster behaviours and puzzles makes this title a fun time through and through, despite the depressing nature of the atmosphere and story. The new takes on characters offer increased depth through new facial capture and the voice actors successfully revise some of the more complex, awkward dialogue exchanges in a manner befitting of the original title. Akira Yamoaka slays with a fantastic remix of the soundtrack and Ito does some masterful redesigning of the horrific creatures. If there was a way to remake Silent Hill 2 this was it.
- PlaySense8.0Silent Hill 2 is terug van weggeweest en brengt met deze remake het verhaal waar fans in 2001 en daarna voor vielen, gehuld in een 2024-jasje en aangevuld met enkele subtiele vernieuwingen. De game maakt nu gebruik van een over-de-schouder-perspectief, wat zorgt voor een iets andere ervaring ten opzichte van het origineel. De nadruk ligt iets meer op gevechten, vooral zichtbaar in de vernieuwde baasgevechten. De reguliere vijanden gaan daarentegen naarmate je verder speelt vrij repetitief aanvoelen; dit wordt mede veroorzaakt doordat de remake van Silent Hill 2 meer dan dubbel zo lang is als het origineel. De game ziet er visueel indrukwekkend uit, hoewel we vooral in de Performance modus meer stabiliteit in framerate en resolutie hadden verwacht. De sfeer blijft mysterieus en zenuwslopend dankzij het sfeervolle audiodesign en de vernieuwde soundtrack van Akira Yamaoka, die de unieke horrorervaring van Silent Hill kracht bijzet. Al met al is Silent Hill 2 een waardige remake naast het origineel en geen vervanging daarvan.
- Gameliner9.0Bloober Team gooit met Silent Hill 2 (2024) een remake op de mat die hondstrouw is aan het origineel en op cruciale momenten betekenisvolle uitbreidingen toevoegt. Het narratief is nog steeds een ware tranentrekker en grijpt je bij de strot - terwijl je ook vaak zat twijfelt aan wat je ziet. Audiovisueel is de Silent Hill 2 remake fenomenaal. Unreal Engine 5 tovert visuele pracht en praal op je beeldscherm, terwijl het audiodesign met bijbehorende soundtrack simpelweg het beste is wat deze industrie te bieden heeft. Bloober Team weet met de remake een aantal personages meer schermtijd te geven en een aantal zwaktepunten van het origineel op te poetsen. De combat heeft meer impact en de eindbazen voelen ditmaal ook daadwerkelijk als climaxconfrontaties. Ja, wanneer je iets te klagen hebt over Bloober Teams remake, dan is het vooral mierenneukerij. De performance kan nog wat patches gebruiken en het weet niet elke keer het origineel te overstijgen, maar één ding is zeker: Silent Hill 2 (2024) voelt als thuiskomen naar 'our special place'.
- GameSpace.com9.5The developers have managed to preserve the atmosphere and mood of the iconic Silent Hill 2 while bringing it up to modern technical standards. Silent Hill 2 Remake is definitely one of the best games of the year.
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got bored
not enough action didnt know it was a puzzle game but boring
SILENT HILL 2
This year my October was made extra spooky with the release of the Silent Hill 2 remake. The game had big shoes to fill and the lead up to the release was a bit rocky with people not really convinced about the game, but as soon as it went into its early access period, general opinion on the game quickly 180°'d. Honestly, regardless of how good it turned out I just really wanted to get into the Silent Hill series following my recently found love for Last of Us and Resident Evil. The latter being Silent Hill's main competitor and genre brother. Basically if you played an RE game, you'll know the core gameplay loop of SH2 immediately. Labyrinthian areas you need to explore and figure out the way forward by completing the various puzzles placed in front of you, while the corridors crawl with all sorts of creepy monsters. Core difference between Resident Evil and Silent Hill however lies in how the games handle the action-to-horror ratio. If RE games do 70% action and 30% horror, SH flips the formula on its head. Reducing the action hero elements to a more bare-boned approach and instead build on the atmosphere, making you feel small in the spooky world, building the suspense of every encounter (with warning white noise from your controller) and delving its themes away from mutated monsters and zombies and into the abstract and psychological. While I can't vouch that SH2 remake will be the game of the year from a technical perspective, I honestly consider this to be perhaps my favorite game of the year. Yeah, the graphics are triple A enough without exceeding any benchmarks and the gameplay mechanics are kinda RE stripped down in terms of action options, but the atmosphere and creative energy of the world and creatures won me over in ways that TLOU and RE haven't quite managed to do. And most importantly: F**k Eddy
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