SILENT Hill is a horror series fondly remembered by fans as one of the best out there. What people fail to remember is that the Silent Hill series was full of stinkers, but the series has been memorialised thanks to the strength of the sequel. Silent Hill 2 remains one of the best games of all time, thanks to its dense fog masking the psychological horror elements.
However, these days remakes seem to throw out everything that made the original games moody and mysterious. Remake means better graphics, and teams want to show off those graphics by putting bright lighting all over the scenery. You only need to look at the Until Dawn and Horizon Zero Dawn remakes to see how art direction has been thrown out the window.
More in Gaming Releases Silent Hill 2 was groundbreaking in 2001, telling an adult story about trauma and guilt and not trying to hide it. It puts a mirror up to James Sunderland, and sometimes even the player, and shows the evil inside everyone. I was not assured that the remake would keep the drama of the original when I saw that I could put Sunderland in a Pyramid Head mask made of pizza boxes.
Fortnite changed the gaming industry with its goofy approach to game design, and it’s not the better for it. Most read in Gaming Pizza Head aside, as soon as you actually get into the game, it’s clear that Bloober Team really do understand what made Silent Hill 2 great. The town of Silent Hill isn’t lit up like a casino, you can’t see the glistening drips rippling .