What are your thoughts and feelings about Silent Hill 4?
For me, I thought it was very enjoyable. Unfortunately, I do feel like it had many opportunities to be scarier; especially when peeking through the door or into the neighbor. I definitely plan to play it again in a few years and look forward to a remastered version!
I feel like many people are on the fence about this one. You either like it or don't. I personally didn't like it, and my opinion may be unpopular.
I didn't like Walter as a character, I thought the whole "he believed the room was his mom :0000" plot was dumb and shallow. I also thought the game didn't at all feel like a Silent Hill game, while the first 3 had that distinct feeling despite their differences to one another. It felt like a lower budget completely different (and sadly, uninteresting) horror game from a completely different title, and the name SH was slapped on. I know they were trying to be different and take the series in a bit of a different direction rather than derive from the first 3 too much, but imo, it didn't work. It was long and boring is really all I have to say about it. I'd have preferred something like the first 3 over that if that's what's considered "going a different direction". None of the monster designs except the twin victim stood out to me, they were bland, like someone introduced to the series yesterday tried to make a SH monster but it was just a generic mess that was more paranormal activity than SH, though for monster designs SH3 was similarly lacking sometimes but not near as bad (insane cancer, numb body (literal velociraptor lol), pendulum). All in all, not a fan, and wouldn't play it again.
It’s my absolute favorite game of the main series, by a mile.
I think it’s the most relatable, mature, unfiltered, scariest and downright cruel SH game, with the least Japanese campiness that the others tend to fall to at some point or another.
After recently replaying 1, and 2, I gave 4 another try with the GOG release and I stand by my opinion. It’s a shame the Team Silent were originally rushed to release it, and I hope the SH2 remake does well financially so they end up remaking 1 and 3 and then 4, with the most experience and resources because damn… it deserves it.
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