Despite having a weaker story, I still believe 3 is the scariest and the most disturbing. Silent Hill 2 was more depressing and hopelessly bleak whereas 3 was scary as hell. This is from memory though, since I haven't played them in a while. What do you think?
The Foggy Files # 4: Silent Hill 3 Complete!
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 On 03/02/2014 at 12:00 AM by asrealasitgets See More From This User » |
The Foggy Files # 4: Silent Hill 3 Complete!
I think I’ve had enough of my little marathon into the Silent Hill series for now. I just finished Silent Hill 3 HD (PS3) and I’m working my way through Shattered Memories, but I think I might stop there. It’s interesting to see how Silent Hill 2 was able to take some thematic elements from the series and create a better game than the original without having too much of a connection to the original characters or explaining too much about the mysteries surrounding the town. The details were left somewhat “foggy” which in my opinion serves to make these games better. This is one of my major issues with Silent Hill 3, where once I went into these games with an aura of mystery about the lore and history, the third game decided it needed to answer a lot of those questions and break it down to religion and god as the cause behind everything which kind of ruined it for me. I think it would have been served best if the questions were left unanswered and the series just focused on new characters and stories with Silent Hill as a mysterious backdrop. However, Silent Hill 3 sort of broke this rule by setting the game outside of the original town, or at least it did for the first half of the game.
Silent Hill: Origins goes even further and tries to uncover the truth about the main “event” in Silent Hill that created all the later events in the series. I actually enjoyed Origins, and there is nothing wrong with a bit of fan service, but Shattered Memories is also looking backwards to revisit events of the original game again in much the same way, albeit with a different game mechanic that removes combat altogether.
It seems that the genreal rule about these games is that keeping the actual Silent Hill town as a setting make better games, including the reboots and retellings. I haven’t tested this theory out because I haven’t played Silent Hill 4, Homecoming or Downpour which I believe are set away from Silent Hill.
All-in-all I do still enjoy the games: their environments, sounds, stories and puzzles and they are still worth revisiting now and again, and not just for nostalgia.
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