Silent Hill 2

Incredibly hilarious game. The combat is many times better than the original, now James can dodge attacks from monsters, and not just spam one attack. Well, having understood the motion sets and learned to fight monsters, somewhere in the middle of the game you stop being afraid at all, which greatly spoils the perception of this thick atmosphere of the remake. And, realizing all the delights of combat and “that now these monsters are locked with me,” another problem emerged - the remake will be delayed. Half the game is boring fillers that were added just to stretch out the time. Even Yamaoka’s soundtrack doesn’t help, because it feels like it was driven into a neural network: “play some scary music, something in the spirit of SH,” it’s so bland. By the way, speaking of blandness, the direction of cut scenes and acting have become completely mediocre and inexpressive, as if I had watched some series from the bottom of Netflix. At this very bottom, apparently, they found a new appearance for the characters, because I was ready for Angela, who in the remake is like Eddie’s sister, but the fact that Maria will scare the alcoholic with her appearance more than all the monsters in the game is absolutely not.

In general, the Poles from the Bloober team are great, they made a game at the level of a mediocre silent hill homecoming and were able to not only get good ratings, but also sell it. This is the warming up of the year.

It’s also a pity that the Poles banned the sale of the SH 2 remake in the Russian Federation, but they really wanted to support the developers (no).