Evil Genie Jafar wrote:
I won't bore everybody again, but I'll just say "Silent Hill", and I'll leave it at that
Sorry, but there's no better survival horror game than RESIDENT EVIL 4.
Well, what I like about the Silent Hill games (apart from SH3) is the stories. I don't care about the graphics, the gore or the monsters (though some of the monsters are cool). What I like are the stories and the storytelling.
Silent Hill 2 has perhaps the best story in a computer game of all time. And it's "adult" too. Not because of blood or sex, but because of the issues it tackles - love, pain, loneliness, betrayal, denial and finally acceptance. Even better, it makes the player work, and fill in the details themselves. It still has one of the best endings of all time (The "bad" ending, when James leaves with the coughing Maria, showing that James is fated to repeat his mistakes)
Silent Hill 1 was good, and had some novel ideas including the hyper-confusing true-nature of Silent Hill (If you think about it, we never saw the real Nurse Lisa, only Alessa's memories of her in the alternate Silent Hill given form, which makes her aid to the player all the more poignant) At the time, it was leaps above the Resident Evil series when it came to characters and plot.
Silent Hill 3 was - well, it was pointless really. It just reaffirmed everything from Silent Hill 1. It didn't even have any plot twists, over the obvious and signposted ones.
Silent Hill 4 surprised me. I wasn't 100% impressed with some of the new play mechanics, but the story was just as good as the first Silent Hill, but noticably different. I liked how little aspects from the first 3 games were tied into Walter Sullivan's history, even though it wasn't really a Silent Hill game. Although SH4 had a more conventional story, it was still very well told.
I just hope the next Silent Hill game (for the XBOX2 and PS3 only) lets us return to the town.
