Finally found a copy but I don’t think I’ll ever play Silent Hill in the dark again... except is the door is closed and no one is trying to scare me!
Silent Hill 2 is game released in 2001 on PlayStation by Konami. The story follows James Sunderland. A man that received a letter from Mary, his wife that died of a disease three years ago, the letter says she’ll be waiting for him in their “special place” in Silent Hill. And so he went to Silent Hill knowing that his wife is long dead...
The story sounds stupid isn’t it? Well I believe that people would go through hell just to be with someone! So give James’ stupidity a chance, play the game and later torture him over and over again!
The Game Play:
Like in other Silent Hill games this is has battle scenes and puzzles, and modes of difficulty in which you want to play the game. As always it also features different endings depending on how you play the game. There are at least 6 endings available, alien ending is one of them of course and a weird ending called the dog ending.
There is another ending and another game to go with this series. From what I understand it is only available in the Director’s Cut. There you’ll control Maria, one of the characters in the game you’ll meet. Her role is the whole story is quite different from the rest of the characters.
The Graphics:
Silent Hill has a signature look on all its games. There isn’t much to say about it. One thing I will have to note is how slow the camera angle changes. I haven’t noticed the other games if it’s the same. This just frustrates me a bit cause I can’t see where James is shooting at, or maybe I’m not doing well with the controls, especially our Playstation controller is being rebellious lately (needs replacement I guess). The 3D animation is good nothing to complain there, it wasn’t too dark.
My Verdict:
I’m gonna sound bias so I’ll say PLAY IT!!! I’m a fan of Silent Hill games! I have to say, I have been wondering about Pyramid Head for a while. I mean every time Silent Hill comes up there’s Pyramid Head. I was wondering why he is so famous... and now that I played the game I totally understand why he so “controversial”.
So far I have played only one ending which is the In Water ending, quite unsatisfying ending I must say, reason for me to keep playing but this time with a walkthrough in hand, so I can get whatever ending I want.
Game stats: (remembering from memory)
Playtime: 9hs+
Saves: 30+
Ending: in Water
Battle mode: Easy (I’m a wimp... -_-;)
Puzzle mode: Normal (I’ll play hard mode next time!)
Yeah, that’s all I remember from a whole screen of my game status... off to finish the rest!
originally posted: February 15, 2010
