Epic Fail on SH:SM

No, the title does NOT mean Sado-Maso. It means Silent Hill: Shattered Memories. What that means is a game that promises to be scary. What it delivers... is not quite such.

The game starts off with a psychological profile, something that I can really appreciate. Anyway, some people (Adam fucking Sessler) say that this makes the game worse, but I think that it's a nice little touch. IE: choosing the basic background of a sexually-repressed person (not my original choice, but I decided I wanted to see Freudian imagery) leads to a nice little mindfuck. It's not really going to just jump out at you and slap you in the mouth with it's cock, but it's going to sit there, waiting for you. I like it especially because, well, all the little details conform to you. Yes, yes, I know it would've been scarier to a sexually-repressed man to be chased down a giant birth canal by fanged, screaming cunts, but that would take... editing. Also, there's hardly any blood in this game, and that would also be messy. Probably.

The game is not really that scary, and some have derided the main enemies, which I personally found to be unnerving, but not outright scary, but an even bigger source of derision came from the fact that you can only be attacked when your screen goes blue and you know that you're in what my friend quickly dubbed "The Other Twilight Zone". Now, wait, I thought this was a fucking Silent Hill game?

Combat has been replaced with running away, which is good, considering this is a Wii game, but I always thought that the combat in SH was part of what made it great: desperate flailing away at a vastly-superior force felt SCARY.

They got rid of that hooded cunt, which is good. They took out monsters, which is bad. They took out combat, which is both good and bad. They have a psych profile, but don't utilize it to it's fullest potential, which is bad. The monsters aren't SH2 caliber, which is bad (and impossible, so I'll let that one go).

In short, good, ambitious attempt, but it falls short.

6/10

Stay tuned, I'm gonna do Red Dead Revolver next!