Silent Hill: Shattered Memories Is a bold reimagining of the first game, thoroughly retooling several core plot beats, characters, and elements. It also makes motion controls on the Wii work better than some modern VR games. It eschews combat in favor of fleeing in terror, tosses out the series’s cult for more cerebral threats, and is easily the closest to the original games when it comes to its adventure game sensibilities. Yet Silent Hill: Shattered Memories defies so many aspects its peers were criticized for. While the Silent Hill fandom is a bit harsh on the later sequels, I will agree that most of these would-be successors have fallen short.
There’s more divisive sequels to Silent Hill than you can shake Pyramid Head’s cleaver at. I’ve been wanting to get to the Silent Hill series for a while, for obvious reasons.
Doing that in a way that’s genuinely compelling and doesn’t drive away your players is incredibly hard, yet Climax Studios nails this disturbing emotional core with Silent Hill: Shattered Memories. Dragging your feet, begging for any alternative, but the world howls back “NO!” and forces you along. It’s not simply being scared, but being fully aware of the dangers that lie ahead. Dread is a hard emotion to capture, especially in an interactive space.
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