Silent Hill: Shattered Memories

Positives:

• Musical score
• Presentation
• Some of the atmosphere
• Most of the gameplay

Negatives:

• Lack of horror

I see some people didn't get what "reimagining" means, it's not a remake or remaster. It's a different game with same concept of "father looking for daughter" like the first game. Climax come from combat to more exploring, from bloody, rusty like in hell locations to deadly cold ice, and they did it great!

Plot is great as well, game only have some lack of hardinteresting puzzels. But anyway, I liked this game. Graphics for PS2 is fascinating.

Hope to see more reimagining of the series in the future, something like Kojima tried to do with Silent Hills and P.T. teaser. All I have is only "hope"...

After the mediocre Silent Hill: Origins, Climax got the rights to develop a new part of the series again when Konami realized that the developers from the previous game Silent Hill: Homecoming were much more incompetent. And to say that I like this game much more is to say nothing. Honestly, Silent Hill: Shattered Memories broke my heart. But it is also worth noting that if you abstract from all the previous parts, and perceive this game as a self-sufficient interpretation of the first game without any nonsense with occultists, and with the desire to dive into the psychological depth of its characters, as the second part did, then everything you see in it you will really like. And even if to be much more honest, and do not treat this game as "Silent Hill" lacking the intensity of horror, because of which we mainly loved this series, then you will like it as I did. This game is not scary, and running from banal monsters sometimes tires, which is stressful, but I repeat... Silent Hill: Shattered Memories is a cold from the beginning, and warm at the end drama that makes you think about many aspects of our life, when you are literally in a psychotherapist's sessions. And also a huge thank you to the developers, who again made me feel guilty before Lisa.

I have been a Silent Hill fan since the first game. The series was a masterpiece. It took what Alone in the Dark and Resident Evil had started and then capitalized on it with its own brand of survival horror. Everyone seems to love the story of Silent Hill 2 the best ( I to am one of those people) but for the atmosphere and pure terrifying chills, the first Silent Hill is the one to visit.

When I heard that Silent Hill was being remade, I was very skeptical. Then I thought, well it might not be so bad if its a direct remake with amped up graphics. First we find out that most of the characters from the first Silent Hill are in Shattered Memories in name only. They bear no resemblance or anything for that matter to most of the characters. Lisa's character still holds some of that crazy charm she had in the original but keep in mind this one has nothing to do with the original. Instead of having the town turn to what most describe as "hell mode" it turns to this iced over frozen realm where we basically get the same creatures re spawning time and time again. The Silent Hill series has always been noted for its grotesque creatures and you never know when you are going to run into a new one. Not the case here.

I have a few hunches on what happened with this game. First of all I don't think this game was originally written to be a Silent Hill game. Both have sort of similar beginnings in which we have a father wrecking with his daughter and his daughter goes missing. I feel like when writing this story people caught on that it sounded a whole lot like Silent Hill 1 in the sense of the wreck and Harry searching the town for his missing daughter. So they decided to just reboot the franchise with this game. To me this game should not have Silent Hill in the title at all.

I have played every silent hill game made including the one on ps1 that I have never been able to beat. This game was a great buy and one of the best Silent Hill games made yet. Being a remake of the original is what sets this game about from the others, but what does make it good is how it not only references the original but references locations seen in the other games under the same name excluding Silent Hill 4. The full story on who Harry was and how the characters are all related made this game fun to play. The excluding of the guns and other objects used to hurt the guys chasing you was the only down fall I found while playing this game. I hope to see more made, with the story continuing the life of any of the characters already introduced through out all the game made.