“Silent Hill 2’s remake is a faithful tribute to a horror classic that hardly holds anything back.”
Pros
- Detailed characters and world
- Fantastic sound design
- Strong puzzles
- Redesigned boss fights
- Original story is still impactful
Cons
- Padded with backtracking
- Combat gets old
After hours spent hiding from twisted nurses, I’m finally ready to escape Silent Hill 2’s Brookhaven Hospital. I frantically search for a front door key in the lobby, but I find one final doctor’s note first. The journal entry ruminates on an illness that’s taken over the small town, one that’s left its victims lost beyond the borders of reality. The medical world is on the hunt for a cure, but this doctor questions if it’s really a sickness at all. Sure, their patients are lost in a world within their head, but they seem at peace there — happy, even.
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