< disclaimer: I discontinued the game after 10 hours, in the chapter "Forest World (2nd)" > SCORE: 3.5 / 5 Story: 4/5 The story and concept of the game is very interesting. The idea to have your save haven be corrupted is absolutely terrifying. The 'corruption' of Silent Hill spreading over other towns is also exciting yet terrifying. Visuals: 3.5/5 For its time okay! The first person mode was hard to look at in my opinion, you need to get really close into the textures to interact with them and it hurt my eyes. Soundtrack: 4/5 Nice, eerie tunes that add to the atmosphere. Gameplay: 1.5/5 While the concept and the idea for this game might be great, the execution is in my opinion, lacking. I struggled with the controls throughout the game, which made things harder. But once I reached the second half of the game, I had no fun whatsoever anymore. Without spoiling too much but give you an idea: In the first half, you can heal in your apartment, so you just have to make it from save point to save point. In the second half, they remove that. On it's own not that bad, there are still a few scarce health items scattered about, you can just run past enemies, right? .. wrong. They also give you an injured companion that needs to be close to you, otherwise you can't go through doors and progress. So I had to fight OR wait for that companion infront of doors while being under attack by multiple enemies and no chance of healing. Since ammo is also scarce you can't just shoot your way through from a save distance either. I quit the game in "2nd Forest World", because to be honest, my life is too short to waste it with games I don't like. Sorry, I know it's harsh, but that's how I felt. Difficulty: The biggest difficulty is to endure the pain of the gameplay. I wasn't strong enough haha 😂 Enjoyment: The controls are already annoying, I missed the tank controls. But removing the healing in the apartment together with the companion just made this pure frustration for me from the 2nd half onwards. I just wanted it to be over. Audience: Definitely adults! Grind: If you run past enemies or use melee weapons as much as possible, grinding is not really necessary, at least as far as I got. Bugs: I played the GOG version and didn't have any bugs! Replayability: I can't really judge, as I haven't even managed to endure the first playthrough 😂

SCORE: 4/5 Story: 3.5/5 Without going into detail, this game is a continuation of the plot from the first Silent Hill. While the story of the original game was quite hard for me to grasp, this one was pretty easily laid out and straight forward, but also not mind-blowing. Visuals: 5/5 I played with mods that added HD textures, 60fps and widescreen. For its time, the game looked amazing that way! Soundtrack: 4/5 Some nice tunes that really added to the eerie atmosphere. Sadly some of them were copyrighted, which, for me as a content creator, caused some troubles. Gameplay: 3/5 For the most part I enjoyed my time with the game a LOT. There were two fights in the last quarter of the game that I struggled with due to the controls and camera perspectives. I shot all the ammo I had into the endboss (which was >20 Shotgun shells, >40 Pistol bullets, >60 Submachinegun bullets), using up all my healing items and having to hit it with melee weapons in the end. All that while tediously switching between weapons in the inventory and moving to specific positions to dodge the attacks. I tried that for 30 minutes, died a few times and eventually just had enough. I switched to Beginner mode and the boss went down after 11 shots with the pistol and 2 with the shotgun... what. the. heck. Difficulty: 4/5 I played the game on Normal difficulty for both gameplay and puzzles and had a relatively easy time apart from the aforementioned two boss fights. Most of the puzzles were quite easy, two of them were medium. Enjoyment: This was a great classic survival horror game! Great jumpscares, awesome atmosphere and some funny lines! Audience: Another game that I'd only recommend for adults. Grind: None, really. Bugs: I had only minor graphic glitches, like textures not loading on the edges of the screen. In one section an enemy wasn't visible, which confused me. But those were due to the mods I used. Replayability: After beating the game you unlock new weapons (one of them having unlimited ammo!) to make the next run a bit more fun. The story doesn't change really, but there are three different endings, one of them being a "joke" one according to my research.