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[LectureMaster]

Silent Hill 2 review – psychological horror remake leaves you lost in the fog

This remake of the 2001 hit is frustratingly slow, long and filled with one-dimensional characters

www.theguardian.com

The sexualised monstrosities roaming the streets, meanwhile, suggest James is a man living life with Incognito Browsing set to default. The not-quite-zombies start out as giggling acid-vomiting sacks of giblets in thongs and platform heels, and then evolve putridly through different archetypes of female sexiness until pairs of thighs in stockings are chasing James across the ceiling and hooting like howler monkeys.

Silent Hill 2 doesn’t feel refreshed. It feels like what it is: a game from the early 2000s, with the monsters and the puzzles to match. Resident Evil still makes sense in glorious remaster-o vision, but I imagine this slow-paced psychological horror would have felt more unsettling in PS2-era blunt polygons. What happens in Silent Hill is, I suspect, supposed to play out with a twisted nightmare dream logic – but with new voice acting and buffed-up visuals, it loses some of the pervasive weirdness.

Well, looks like only not gaming but your everyday journalism wants to prove they are a joke.

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[MrJangles]

The Guardian ffs. On par with Kotaku.

 

[Gaiff]

Silent Hill 2 isn’t a graphically pretty game – to the developers’ credit, it now looks 10 years old, rather than 20 –

 

[Insanemaelstrom]

Same journalists will praise scenes like geralt in bathtub. The hypocrisy is hilarious to witness.

 

[thegame983]

It's the Guardian.

 

[Krathoon]

AH. So, they kept the sexual stuff. I was wondering because they seemed to change the Pyramid Head scene.

 

[AV]

"I don’t have time to care about Angela or her missing mum."

This review is fucking abysmal. That's a pretty core part of the story.

 

[GHG]

If anyone wants any further evidence that this is a really good remake, this is it.

 

[llLeonhart]

 

[Bojji]

they lowered MC score with this shit?

 

[Traxtech]

Pathetic

 

[AV]

Spoilers for a 23 year old game remade, but it's staggering how the author appears to have not understood that the sexualised monsters, and Maria, are manifestations of James' sexual frustrations with his wife being sick and bedbound. Did he actually finish the thing..?

 

[Cert.in.Death]

Whatever it takes to drive clicks. Wouldn’t expect anything different from The Guardian.

 

[gaming_again]

It's the Guardian. Take it as seriously as kuckato.

 

[MrKainobi]

Looks like the author didn’t understand the story and subtext at all. Really embarrassing review.

 

[Hrk69]

 

[winjer]

Now that is some professional gaming journalism...

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

Thick Guardian hack who would rather have "art" involving exploring a lesbian or non binary character than anything remotely interesting or thought provoking.

Moving on.

 

[Nankatsu]

Maybe the jorno is the one with incognito browsing.

This woke culture should just be erased from the earth.

 

[TheDuskwalker]

Spoilers for a 23 year old game remade, but it's staggering how the author appears to have not understood that the sexualised monsters, and Maria, are manifestations of James' sexual frustrations with his wife being sick and bedbound. Did he actually finish the thing..?

Based on the content of the review, sounds like they played up to about a quarter way through apartments then shat out this turd. The fact they didn't mention Eddie, just Angela, makes me think they didn't even play the apartments far enough to even meet him.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

these fuckers missed the point so much that being retarded would be a compliment

 

[Grildon Tundy]

Yeah...I trust the dudes over in the Silent Hill 2 Remake OT more than this reviewer when it comes to understanding the OG SH2; what Bloober achieved with SH2 Remake; how the game delivers a cohesive artistic vision (including sexual subtext that this reviewer apparently needed explicitly spelled out), and what makes this remake one of the best survival horror games of all time.

 

[vaibhavpisal]

This has David Jaffe seal of approval. So will give it a shot. Even though I don’t play walking sims.

 

[Grildon Tundy]

This has David Jaffe seal of approval. So will give it a shot. Even though I don’t play walking sims.

I thought it was going to be a walking sim based on Bloober's output up to this point. It's not at all.

 

[Ogbert]

The first paragraph is nonsense.

The second is valid criticism.

 

[clarky]

Your first mistake was reading The Guardian. Vomit inducing.

 

[TGO]

 

[RagnarokIV]

what a bender

 

[cormack12]

Yeah, sounds like they played long enough to see if the sexual nature of the enemies stayed the same and noped out in glee to shat this article out.

Seriously just goggling 'why are the nurses sexy in sh2' would have given them the answer in seconds. He's right the game is 20 years old, and the thing has been dissected over and over.

What a massive balloon

 

[Esppiral]

A good way to demonstrate how ignorant you are, just write an article.

 

[Ojeteespacial]

Story involving something remotely sexual is only good if It is not a cis hetero man.

 

[Robb]

The Guardian

Spoilers for a 23 year old game remade, but it's staggering how the author appears to have not understood that the sexualised monsters, and Maria, are manifestations of James' sexual frustrations with his wife being sick and bedbound. Did he actually finish the thing..?

First thing that came to my mind as well. Reads like someone who hasn’t even played the game.

 

[mdkirby]

I think this is what musk is referring to when he talks about the “mind virus”

same sort of journos who will have written puff pieces about how amazing the cock physics are in baldurs gate, and praised the bear sex scene.

The Puritanism alone annoys me, but when it’s so often paired with such hypocrisy it definitely angers me…and I’m generally a pretty chill center left guy.

 

[semiconscious]

https://muckrack.com/rich-wordsworth

he was too young for the original? i'm thinking maybe he's too young for the remake, too...

 

[DirtyBast8rd]

AH. So, they kept the sexual stuff. I was wondering because they seemed to change the Pyramid Head scene.

The one where he is between the legs of one of those things? Just played past that point and funny enough I was surprised to see that. In ThESe MoDeRn TiMes and all. I applaud the devs for it. Don't know if it's downplayed or not. Never played that far in the original.

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

Top 5 woke trash media.

Despicable cunts.

 

[Luipadre]

What an absolute fucking moron

 

[diffusionx]

Did this person review dustborn?

 

[Krathoon]

The one where he is between the legs of one of those things? Just played past that point and funny enough I was surprised to see that. In ThESe MoDeRn TiMes and all. I applaud the devs for it. Don't know if it's downplayed or not. Never played that far in the original.

Yeah. Is that still in the new game? I saw a YouTube clip and it seemed like it was taken out.

 

[deriks]

I didn't love the game, but holy shit, this reviewer don't know shit

 

[Little Chicken]

Great review

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

Did this person review dustborn?

 

[PaintTinJr]

https://muckrack.com/rich-wordsworth

he was too young for the original? i'm thinking maybe he's too young for the remake, too...

I'll raise you

Home | Rich Wordsworth

www.richwordsworth.com

 

[Ammogeddon]

Well it’s the Guardian so I’m not surprised.

 

[playXray]

I actually really like The Guardian but I have to admit their games coverage is quite poor.

 

[Soodanim]

Rich Wordsworth, who appears to have done work for (among others) Kotaku. I don't think he's GAF's sort of person.

 

[GHG]

This has David Jaffe seal of approval. So will give it a shot. Even though I don’t play walking sims.

vaibhavpisal trying to go an hour without posting stupid shit:

 

[Dirk Benedict]

You can't be serious with that review... Ya know.. that's just it... you can't take them serious, as in, at all.
The game can't be stopped. They cry with the hate-reviews because shit like Concord fell harder than lizzo after a hotdog eating championship.

 

[Gonzito]

Why do these kind of people get the privilege to review games? I will never understand this

 

[Jsisto]

lol incognito browsing is for losers. I’m proud of my search history. All of it.