Well diddle my dog, Yahtzee didn't rip on this game as much as I expected him to. And frankly, I expected him to tear it to shreds after what was said in the Silent Hill 2 review!
Zero Punctuation: Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
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" Family Oriented.... which is why I live 12,000 miles away from anyone remotely related to me and never write" Amen to that my friend! Family = annoyance beyond that of... most other things. But never as annoying as a f**king child!
"And Possibly Crap in Bed".... all that Branston Pickle getting to ya, eh Yahtzee?
"And Possibly Crap in Bed".... all that Branston Pickle getting to ya, eh Yahtzee?
Thundercats really had blood in it? I really wish then that I could have seen the version you saw, Yahtzee. I just remember it being a badly-written, albeit well animated, He-Man knockoff that never lived-up to the promise it dangled in front of you of being an epic mash-up of Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings, and the legend of King Arthur with a guy that looked like Iron Maiden's Eddie as the villain. With all that, it should have been all sorts of cool, but it ended up being just another dumb kids show. Had it actually been bloodier like you suggest, plus a bit darker and serious, I probably would have liked it a lot more.
For a while I thought you were losing your touch. But having watched the last batch of reviews (starting with God of War 3) I have been really laughing. ESPECIALLY the Just Cause one. Gods, I laughed so hard I was crying..
Ummm he mentioned there was Snow instead of Fog in this one... there was Snow in the first Silent Hill game... and there is Fog during the day time portions of the game (Just not as much as in the past games)
Also he mentioned the Dark World being Blue... well since it's supposed to be a hellish Icy frozen wasteland that's probably why.
And he mentioned there was very little Blood... apparently he never came across the cabin in the woods in the game where there is a huge bear carcass held up by meat hook and chains with it's side completely torn out, and blood and organs splattered every where... that and the fact that the Bear has a pretty menacing snarl look on it's face... (However depending on how you play the game sometimes it's just a big stuffed bear in the corner which I have never come across so maybe Yahtzee did something different)
Also Yahtzee said it wasn't scary, but I disagree, it was quite creepy to me, and the Raw shocks got my heart beat going several times, there are any unnerving and disturbing moments in the game, but I guess it varies for different people (Although I have never really found any of the Silent Hill games to be that scary, they have a great creepy atmosphere that I love but it never really scared me)
Anyways it was nice to see Yahtzee do a (slightly) positive review for once, I quite enjoyed the game, and will for a long time.
Also he mentioned the Dark World being Blue... well since it's supposed to be a hellish Icy frozen wasteland that's probably why.
And he mentioned there was very little Blood... apparently he never came across the cabin in the woods in the game where there is a huge bear carcass held up by meat hook and chains with it's side completely torn out, and blood and organs splattered every where... that and the fact that the Bear has a pretty menacing snarl look on it's face... (However depending on how you play the game sometimes it's just a big stuffed bear in the corner which I have never come across so maybe Yahtzee did something different)
Also Yahtzee said it wasn't scary, but I disagree, it was quite creepy to me, and the Raw shocks got my heart beat going several times, there are any unnerving and disturbing moments in the game, but I guess it varies for different people (Although I have never really found any of the Silent Hill games to be that scary, they have a great creepy atmosphere that I love but it never really scared me)
Anyways it was nice to see Yahtzee do a (slightly) positive review for once, I quite enjoyed the game, and will for a long time.
You can't cite the ONLY place in the entire game where there was blood to disprove him. That was the ONLY place in the game where there was blood. I think there may have also been a nosebleed-sized smear on a fireman's vest somewhere, too. And why should we even be scared by that blood, since it was a hunting lodge and that's where normal people take animals apart? There's no relation to the player, and so there's nothing particularly horrifying about it--unless the game is being marketed exclusively to vegans.pikmintaro said:
It certainly is not a scary game. I would describe the pervasive atmosphere as "eerie"--and the "nightmare" sections as more irritating than anything. It's more like a "ghost hunters" type special on the discovery channel than survival horror. But on the other hand, I'm re-playing silent hill 2 again, so I'm happy.
Horny Ico said:Gaming King said:
Wait, so the M rating is exclusive to survival horror games? I HAD NO FUCKING CLUE, WITH ALL THE MILITARY SHOOTERS OUT THERE. Gather around, kids, we're playing Leisure Suit Larry!
It doesn't matter how "new" you are to the genre; both of your questions are painfully easy to answer by getting off your lazy ass and back on it when you've come back from buying the damned game. If you're not going to bother doing that, why the fuck should you care enough to ask in the first place? The only conceivable answer is because you're a failure at life.
LOL, that was so mean it made me laugh. I think I like you. You seem fun. XD
Did anybody get the image joke with Harry Meson being a face on a meson?
look them up, they're a sub atomic particle
(yes, I know physics... I also failed physics :[)
look them up, they're a sub atomic particle
(yes, I know physics... I also failed physics :[)
Personaly I liked The Order cult from SH1 and 3. What happenes to Dahlia at the end of SH1 shows that they're basicaly tampering with forces beyond their complete control.
[SPOILERS!]
A video I recently saw suggests a theory that this game could be interpreted as a ret-con of the cult. The idea is that Silent Hill 1 was Cherrels mind re-creating the events of her fathers death, imagioning that he instead had to fight tooth and nail against an evil cult trying to stop him from getting to her. Silent Hill 3 would be her mind trying to force her to accept her fathers death, and she tries to justify it by once again blaming the evil cult. Shattered memories takes place after them, and is her minds one last desperate attempt to imagine he is still alive.
http://blip.tv/still-gaming/the-game-den-silent-hill-shattered-memories-5680804
A video I recently saw suggests a theory that this game could be interpreted as a ret-con of the cult. The idea is that Silent Hill 1 was Cherrels mind re-creating the events of her fathers death, imagioning that he instead had to fight tooth and nail against an evil cult trying to stop him from getting to her. Silent Hill 3 would be her mind trying to force her to accept her fathers death, and she tries to justify it by once again blaming the evil cult. Shattered memories takes place after them, and is her minds one last desperate attempt to imagine he is still alive.
http://blip.tv/still-gaming/the-game-den-silent-hill-shattered-memories-5680804