GamerNode's Eddie Inzauto writes:
"Silent Hill games are built on mystery, confusion, and disorientation. Emotional discomfort sets in as Silent Hill targets the protagonist as its victim, and physical ineptitude heightens the felt oppression and malice in an ever-changing nightmare world. Silent Hill is the unknown and resulting fear. It’s feeling lost and weak, at the mercy of horror, as a character who denies truth, questions reality, and must alter perceptions to open up to new understanding. Silent Hill is a veil of secrets, a history of torment, the occult. It’s suspense, puzzles, words, numbers. It’s revelation. It’s psychosis.
Vatra Games understands Silent Hill. Downpour, for the first time since Team Silent left the franchise in 2004, gets it right."
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I mostly disagree with Downpour's position. Yeah, the game is not amazing by any stretch of the imagination but is much better than the HD Collection and Homecoming. The main issue is the performance, but that was mitigated by the patches, especially on the PS3. Personally, I put it a little behind Origins and The Room.
Having Restless Dreams as a different entry from Silent Hill 2 is also a choice.
Normally, we would not consider it a different game (Restless Dreams), but since it had a very different critical reception and had new content, it was allowed. As for Downpour, I would agree, but since that one is subjective, we let him make his case for the placement.
silent hill 2 is definitely the best one out of those.
for me personally, the whole ritual/cult stuff was always so weird to me in all the other games.
No disrespect but I put SH2 over 1. 1 is fantastic, but 2 took it all up a level.
