Zero Punctuation: Silent Hill: Shattered Memories

[ninjajoeman]

You know I wish more games did the whole pyschological thing.This is like a troll on a forum getting inside your head its scary as shit.

 

[Generic_Dave]

Hhhmmm...its odd enough I really liked this game, despite this I agree with all the criticism. Also the end "analysis" does seem to be random, the first time I played through I pressed the wrong button and didn't save after the credits. Being a pedantic fuck, I went back to my last save and replayed, making all the same decisions. The "analysis" was almost entirely different. So...eh...great fun to play, but not very psychologically deep...fuck it. I loved it.Best Silent Hill game since 2.

 

[Pivo]

Perhaps too much of your disturbing sexuality, Sweetcheeks

 

[Clunks]

Pink dresses = shit getting real. Just type "Aeris" and "cosplay" into google if you don't believe it.

Well...I might pick up Shattered Memories, if only because they've lost the whole "evil cult" angle. I played Silent Hill 2 before the original - imagine my disappointment when the hooded robes were unveiled and the story got really silly.

 

[FallenMessiah88]

Awesome review Yathzee. Was kind of expecting either Splinter Cell: Conviction or Metro 2033,but was rather pleasantly surprised with this. Oh and next week: Hamsters!?

 

[[Gavo]]

Nice. I was wondering what happened to the No More Heroes 2 review.

 

[LaymanX]

In the 2nd area in the woods, depending on your choices it's possible for there to be a bear in one of the cabins laying on a table with it's stomach cut open and a bunch of hook chains stuck into it. The room glows red, you can see all it's guts, and there's a fair bit of blood on the floor. I guess Yahtzee didn't see it.

.......But yeah, the game really does have way too little blood.

 

[coldfrog]

If nothing else, I took away from this review that there exists a Silent Hill arcade game. How? Why? What?

I mean... If they had that Resident Evil Umbrella Chronicles game in there, sure... but how does that even work for Silent Hill?

Never mind, don't tell me, I don't want to know. Ever.

 

[angel85]

ha ha! I never heard such an awesome string of back handed compliments before.

 

[RelexCryo]

I originally complained about how the ice world was blue. It *is* a calming color. I also complained about how it didn't look like a true Silent Hill game, without gore.

But I disagree with the "no weapons" thing. If you were in a horror situation, you would try to find a weapon. Running around without one is actually less realistic. Most people wouldn't be pacifists when demons are trying to kill them. He could at least get a pipe or a baseball bat. Sure, being weaponless might be more scary, but it's less realistic.

 

[St1]

oh no a pink dress SHIT JUST GOT REAL !

 

[feather240]

Oh my goodness I have never laughed so much at a ZP before. This I think is probably his best..........and yes shit does get real with pink dresses

He actually semi-likes a game and its his funniest one in a while. Don't you find that strange?

(If Red is benign and pink is "shits getting real" what's white under a weak red light.

 

[Quicksilver1111]

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.

You must point me to some of these games, because the only ones I've seen for the Wii are multi-console games that look and play significantly worse then their PS3/Xbox counterparts (ie, CoD 5) and the insulting casual gamer plague (Wii Sports, Music, etc.)

By the way, this is not intended to be trolling. I seriously want to know some examples of 'good' Wii games. My sister got a Wii for Christmas a while back, and while she is a casual gamer who is easiy amused by Animal Crossing and Boom Blox, I have been stuck with the watered down port of CoD 5. So, when I'm home for the summer, I want to play some good Wii games - which I do believe exist.

OT: Great video, Yahtzee. I like the snow instead of the fog. Don't know why, though.

Cool, the list can be brought out again:
- A Boy and His Blob
- Another Code R
- Battalion Wars 2
- Blastworks
- Boom Blox
- Boom Blox: Bash Party
- Cursed Mountain
- Deadly Creatures
- De Blob
- Disaster: Day of Crisis
- Elebits/Eledees
- Final Fantasy: Chocobo's Dungeon
- Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn
- Fragile: Farewell Ruins of The Moon
- House of The Dead: Overkill
- Little Kings Story
- Madworld
- Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
- Muramasa: The Demon Blade
- New Super Mario Bros Wii
- NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams
- No More Heroes
- Punch Out
- Red Steel 2
- Super Mario Galaxy
- Super Paper Mario
- Super Smash Bros Brawl
- Tales of Symphonia II: Knights of Ratatosk/Dawn of The New World
- Tatsunoko vs Capcom
- Trauma Center: New Blood
- Wario Land: The Shake Dimension
- Warioware: Smooth Moves
- Wii Play
- Zack and Wiki
I really hope Yahtzee reviews A Boy and His Blob. Assuming he can find the one copy they might still have at JB Hi-Fi.

 

[trent08]

Its a great game, and is one of the best looking Wii titles. It takes a more realistic look at the silent hill experence, but was not that scary, i kind of look at it has a dark adventure game. Great review Yahtzee

 

[geldonyetich]

I've said it before... I'll say it again.
Did he say if he liked it or not?

Yes.

Yahtzee tends not to flat out give games thumbs up or thumbs down on the grounds that this is the easy answer befitting to tools, but he will tell you the parts of the game he liked and the parts of the game he didn't like under the understanding you'll judge for yourself if that means you will like it.

He played it twice. That's a definite like.

Actually, he played it twice because he was trying to see what differences his choices made on the advertised psychological adjustment mechanics, but I'm not saying he hated</i. teh game.

 

[Cucipher]

His best in a good while! Loved it!

 

[dex-dex]

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.

aw hell yeah

 

[NeuroticMarshmallow]

Thank god! I must have been waiting for this review for forever and you did hit the nail on the head. But I did thoroughly enjoy the game.