Zero Punctuation: Silent Hill: Shattered Memories

[EHKOS]

I was all set to buy this on PSP until he said it wasn't scary.

It's odd, albeit convenient, to get actual consumer advice from Yahtzee. It's like sex with an ATM.

It's not scary, but I found the atmoshpere of the non dark world very entertaining, what with the flashlight and phone and things.
Also the in the dark world you tend to get mixed up alot and end up going the wrong way. If the dark world wasnt in the game I think it would be awesome.

 

[Quiet Stranger]

I always knew this game was shit, but this review has just confirmed it more so, they took the BEST Silent Hill in the series and turned it into shit, they made Harry a fucking pussy and made the town of Silent Hill a joke, if they wanna do a true remake just take the first Silent Hill and up the graphics

 

[CyricZ]

If I were a lesser man, I'd insinuate that there's a bit of waffling between Homecoming's "over the top violence is not as good as 'scary without needing monsters jumping out everywhere' (ie. SH2)" vs. this review's "where's my damn bucket of blood?"

Oh crap, I just did. >_>

I assume what we're seeking in our SH games is a proper balance between "not scary, grotesque, or bloody at all" like this game was and "stabbing a zombie nurse in the tits in the first five minutes" that Homecoming was.

 

[TheEarlOfGrey]

So its better than recent Silent Hills, but not as scary as the old ones? Yeah I agree with that.

 

[Jaranja]

This was a great review. Liked it from start to finish.

Have to agree. Best ZP in a long, long time.

 

[Shamanic Rhythm]

I died at the Robert Pattison analogy. Well played, sir.

 

[Bloodstain]

Finally a very funny review again!

 

[raankh]

Very good material this week. When Yahtzee is at his best, I feel his reviews are real reviews with a stylishly comical twist, instead of streams of quasi-random expletives and funny pictures that bash shitty games.

Not that quasi-random expletives and funny pictures don't entertain me, mind you, especially if they bash shitty games.

 

[Stabby Joe]

Ok so Silent Hill 2 is at the top of the scale, and from what I got here I can assume Shattered Memories is a third of the way down the scale.

 

[uberDoward]

My first thought upon the ending credits is simply that I now know why Yahtzee hates humanity.

He's only hanging with the girls when they are on their period. That would be enough to drive me to full blown cynicism as well!

 

[Aura Guardian]

I think Horror games are no longer horror. Now its more like action. Since this was my first Silent Hill game that I played, I wasn't scared but it was a good game. I think what killed the Horror Genre was Resident Evil 4. Not that it's a bad thing but the horror genre is now action.

 

[BryceN]

genius-
"Fulfilling the Dog Quota this week"
and an excellent review.
never bothered to finish the game.

 

[Woem]

I'm still waiting for this game to be released on the PSP Go in Europe, aaaaarrrrrggghhhh!

 

[potatowave]

I think Horror games are no longer horror. Now its more like action. Since this was my first Silent Hill game that I played, I wasn't scared but it was a good game. I think what killed the Horror Genre was Resident Evil 4. Not that it's a bad thing but the horror genre is now action.

I think Resident Evil 4 was still scary, but in a different kind of way. It was more of a tenseness. The original Resident Evils were "you only have a few bullets and you're trapped in a claustrophobic hallway," while RE4 was more "everyone in the village wants to put an icepick through your brain, and you never know how they'll try to kill you next." I mean, even when I had an arsenal to put a Modern Warfare character to shame, stuff like the Regenerators and the Iron Maidens still made me jump out of my seat.

 

[Hayate_GT]

1st really good video i've seen in a while...

 

[alfredofroylan]

Does the game lack any blood or horror because Nintendo are still stuck in that anti-nastiness mindset that goes back to the bloodless SNES version of Mortal Kombat?

Dude haven't seen Madworld, No More Heroes and even Manhunt 2? Those games are quite bloody, and BTW this's a Konami game, Nintendo has nothing to do with this one.

Anyway according to the devs they wanted to create a different experience from previews games so they decided to step aside from the rust and blood of previews games.
http://wii.ign.com/articles/971/971319p1.html

Nice review, the game is good it has some neat ideas on it, like the use of the cellphone to solve puzzles, take pictures and detect noises. Pretty clever.

 

[Aura Guardian]

What a surprise, more dumping on the wii. Not that I don't agree, but it's just getting old now.

"Oh fuck a pink dress, shit's getting real!" - Brilliant.

Dumping on the Wii will never get old. The Wii deserves to be dumped on at every given opportunity. Until Nintendo wants to release a proper next gen system and not just a gamecube with a bad gimmick they deserve all the scorn and criticism that they get.

Dumping on the Wii get old so fast it's not funny. Actually it was never funny. Nintendo did release a proper next gen system. It's so successful that Sony and Microsoft would said that what Nintendo is doing was silly is now copying them to get the money Nintendo got. Plus, The Wii has a lot of great games. The ahem.."Hardcore" gamers are blind because they see other games that don't hold their attention. And in this generation of games...the games for the "hardcore" audience needs online,guns,blood,gore,guns,QTE, and guns. RPGS need to be in the Bioware status or needs to be well known(Final Fantasy). The Wii has Rpgs,shooters,platformers, and action titles. Games like Muramasa,Little King Story for example don't get noticed because the gamers who would love those types of games moved on to the shooter area.

 

[Aura Guardian]

I think Horror games are no longer horror. Now its more like action. Since this was my first Silent Hill game that I played, I wasn't scared but it was a good game. I think what killed the Horror Genre was Resident Evil 4. Not that it's a bad thing but the horror genre is now action.

I think Resident Evil 4 was still scary, but in a different kind of way. It was more of a tenseness. The original Resident Evils were "you only have a few bullets and you're trapped in a claustrophobic hallway," while RE4 was more "everyone in the village wants to put an icepick through your brain, and you never know how they'll try to kill you next." I mean, even when I had an arsenal to put a Modern Warfare character to shame, stuff like the Regenerators and the Iron Maidens still made me jump out of my seat.

Maybe you're right. But RE4 was still too actiony for a survival horror game.