![]() You can’t kill them, and that makes for a pretty terrifying experience when more than one is on your trail. Your only defense is the powers of push and nudge. (We’ll touch on that later.) And when they catch up with you, they tackle you, grope you, and bring you down. You’re running for your life from creatures that are just as creepy as the ones from the previous Silent Hills, but for a different reason. That’s right: instead of slowly turning and slowly swinging some found implement at some otherworldly monster, you’re running. First off, there’s no combat in Memories. I wouldn’t call Silent Hill: Shattered Memories a survival horror as much as I would call it a psychological thriller. To make matters worse, it’s snowing like crazy, and the town has gone mostly…well, silent. ![]() Unfortunately, he crashed on the outskirts of the worst town ever to crash in, Silent Hill. He sets off to look around the crash site to find her. He crawls out of his car and notices that his daughter, Cheryl, is missing from the passenger’s seat. The game starts out with Harry running off a snowy road and into a fence. In Silent Hill: Shattered Memories you play as Harry Mason, loving father and husband and crap driver in inclement weather. ![]() Silent Hill: Shattered Memories (reviewed on Wii, also on PSP, PS2) Read on for our review of Silent Hill: Shattered Memories. And the no weapons part? Absolutely brilliant, and it works out to be a chillingly beautiful thing when you finally understand what the story is about. The control is a new hallmark for Wii games, let alone Silent Hill titles. Instead of some Silent Hill one-off rehash, we get a lovingly crafted story set in a world so deep and involving that it actually does the series name proud. No weapons? Wii waggle? And a “re-imagining” of the first Silent Hill game is what they’re calling this? The combination sounds like Silent Hill: My Worst Nightmare, and I don’t mean that in a good way.īoy, was I ever wrong. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |