| davygee said: Cue the "Silent Hill games are crap anyway" posts! |
They aren't crap, just that 3 and 4 weren't that awesome, they didn't have very good plots and were kind of silly in premise, SH2 was phenomenal because there was inherently no plot other than the mystery of silent hill and how everything shaped itself to fit his mind, his guilt, his sin; it was abstract, it was metophorical, it was art and what a survival horror game should be. SH3 tried too hard to define the Silent Hill phenomena and contain it within a "box", so to speak, limiting from that point on what the series could be. SH4 wasn't even a Silent Hill game originally, it was another game that at the last second was turned into a Silent Hill Sequel renaming the villain Walter Sullivan to tie into an obscure reference in SH2.
The games aren't bad, its just their utter lack of consistency in style and settup leaves one with a disjointed feeling after playing them. I imagine they're very popular in Europe but I could honestly take em or leave em.
