That Must Have Been A Hell Of A Car Crash.
Mar. 1st, 2020 02:23 pmRiona, fighting nurses: Why are there so many of you???
Tem: It's a hospital, Riona.
Riona: As if any hospital is this well staffed.
Tem persuaded me to try out the original Silent Hill. I was hesitant - I wasn't sure how much I'd enjoy it without getting to play as MY TERRIBLE BOYFRIEND JAMES SUNDERLAND - but in the end I agreed to give it a go.
At least it means I get to meet![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
zarla's TERRIBLE GIRLFRIEND DAHLIA GILLESPIE.
I am staggeringly bad at the game. I started out on Easy mode, played up to the café and promptly died to the first enemy you can fight, eight minutes in. Silent Hill 2 has a Beginner mode in which most enemies die in one hit; I miss that!
This game's also making me grateful for James Sunderland's sexual issues, because it means the enemies he faces are all adult-sized with plenty of leg, making them reasonably easy to hit. The first enemies Harry encounters, meanwhile, are flying creatures that are too high up to melee, and dog creatures that are too low down. I never really appreciated the practical advantages of perceiving only monsters you could theoretically bang.
I'm never going to forgive the piano puzzle. The G key on a piano is not 'next to' the A key! G# is in the way!
There's a save point in the church, presumably so people can save their souls.
It's strange to see Harry actually asking people 'hey, uh, any chance you've heard anything about some sort of weird nightmare alternate dimension?'; James took it very much in his stride.
This game generally seems more interested in the nature of the town than in Harry himself, whereas Silent Hill 2 was an intensely personal story. In Silent Hill, Harry exists as a means through which you explore the town; in Silent Hill 2, the town exists as a means through which you explore James.
There is, I've discovered, an advantage to playing a Silent Hill game you're not emotionally invested in: you can laugh at it. The dogs attack by bouncing ridiculously on you. Harry does a stupid little hop backwards if you try to back up while holding the run button, and it's absolutely incredible.
The way they took the trouble to animate Harry slamming straight into walls if you run him at them at high speed is also very good. And falling backwards off stairs. I've decided to play Silent Hill as a slapstick comedy.
Tem: It's a hospital, Riona.
Riona: As if any hospital is this well staffed.
Tem persuaded me to try out the original Silent Hill. I was hesitant - I wasn't sure how much I'd enjoy it without getting to play as MY TERRIBLE BOYFRIEND JAMES SUNDERLAND - but in the end I agreed to give it a go.
At least it means I get to meet
zarla's TERRIBLE GIRLFRIEND DAHLIA GILLESPIE.I am staggeringly bad at the game. I started out on Easy mode, played up to the café and promptly died to the first enemy you can fight, eight minutes in. Silent Hill 2 has a Beginner mode in which most enemies die in one hit; I miss that!
This game's also making me grateful for James Sunderland's sexual issues, because it means the enemies he faces are all adult-sized with plenty of leg, making them reasonably easy to hit. The first enemies Harry encounters, meanwhile, are flying creatures that are too high up to melee, and dog creatures that are too low down. I never really appreciated the practical advantages of perceiving only monsters you could theoretically bang.
I'm never going to forgive the piano puzzle. The G key on a piano is not 'next to' the A key! G# is in the way!
There's a save point in the church, presumably so people can save their souls.
It's strange to see Harry actually asking people 'hey, uh, any chance you've heard anything about some sort of weird nightmare alternate dimension?'; James took it very much in his stride.
This game generally seems more interested in the nature of the town than in Harry himself, whereas Silent Hill 2 was an intensely personal story. In Silent Hill, Harry exists as a means through which you explore the town; in Silent Hill 2, the town exists as a means through which you explore James.
There is, I've discovered, an advantage to playing a Silent Hill game you're not emotionally invested in: you can laugh at it. The dogs attack by bouncing ridiculously on you. Harry does a stupid little hop backwards if you try to back up while holding the run button, and it's absolutely incredible.
The way they took the trouble to animate Harry slamming straight into walls if you run him at them at high speed is also very good. And falling backwards off stairs. I've decided to play Silent Hill as a slapstick comedy.
