[Multiplatform] Silent Hill: Homecoming. Now with HD fog effects

I'm looking forward to this soon, I'm excited to play to another Silent Hill game. I played a bit of Origins but... that's just like trying to put spandex on a cat. The controls were lame while you got faster enemies that somehow just know where you are from the distance. So I'm holding my reservations for this game. I just have mixed reactions at another team to make it.

Spyro series were awesome when they were made by Insomniacs but after that? They were shit. Man, maybe its just the opening of opportunities on playstation that made these titles all gold.

Still though, I'm hoping that this game will surprise me. Or rather, SCARE me.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Oh... uhm... Just don't get your hopes up or anything. At least just rent it for a Silent Hill experience once more or something.

I haven't really gave out an indepth review of this game because I honestly do not know what to make of it. I'm not sure if they're TRYING to be a Silent Hill or a new Silent Hill. I don't know if THAT makes any sense, but it seems to be fodder to me. Just a filler til you get to the next Silent Hill to satisfy your taste for fucked up gore/environment I suppose.

The endings were brief and you're still left with "what the hell did I just waste my time for?" The plot seems interesting but it's just broken all over. For a good example, you'll notice that in loading screens, the character has gray hair and according to the manual, your main is only 22 years old and just got back from the war and yet is experienced in combat? LOL. And yet there's plenty of cutscenes of him and Josh (his younger brother) together as if the years haven't really passed. I really like the bit how you just somehow magically have the knife with you after you woke up from the terrible nightmare. And let me tell you, the combat is just broken.

You'll have a triple A combo to finish with X, and these enemies can utilize that too. So most of the weapons are pretty much useless in terms of speed in combos except for your initial weapon, the combat knife. You'll find the later weapons are too slow to help with the combos. And you'll get stuck in THEIR combos, which can be outright nasty.

And the final group of enemies at the end actually wield a pipe. Seriously. You'd be like what the fuck? How come we cannot get any better/stronger/fearsome enemies than this especially now AFTER all that? But nuuuu.... like I said, its almost like fodder really. :\ I don't know... it does feel like a rush job. But it does have some nice creepy moments. IE in the beginning, you'll read this paper on the wall that says monsters are attracted to the light and sound. So I had my flashlight and radio turned off (despite of turning them off, there's a glitch that makes them turn on when you enter/leave an area) and approached this room with a tv that is in static and you can see this nurse standing in front of it. NICE effect once you turned those on and you can see it twitching from the distance. But when I got there and start hacking away at it, all the sudden there was another bitch behind me. I'm like what the fuck? I couldn't BARELY see this damn nurse. I decided to fuck with my brightness on game/tv to see if I could ever see the outline of that nurse. But no.

It does have glitches in both versions mind you, where and how is what varies. I had a glitch in where I tried to skip a cutscene at the near end (to attempt at another ending) and it just froze completely. Reset the system. :\

Anyway, I recommend it for a rental at least if you're into survival horror and plot... even if it is shitty. :\

There's nowhere I can't reach.