JoeTheDestroyer's Silent Hill: Book of Memories review

I couldn't stomach this game. I got it more or less on release, and it sat, for about a year, in its shrink wrap while I gathered the urge to play it. I didn't last an hour. God, I hated what it had all become; the awful (great phrase: MTV-gen class) character creation is such a bizarre way for the series to go, but I made my uber-nerd, dropped into the dungeon and clumsily wailed at a few nurses before realising that, screw this noise, I was potentially only seconds away from playing more Wipeout.

I'm standing by my post SH: Downpour pledge of being done with the series. Screw you, P.T; you'll not drag me back.

*ahem*

So, I liked the review. The MTV line, as mentioned, was killer and managed to put my thoughts into words so much better than I've been able to. You also voiced my theory on the developers. It's easy to hate on stuff post Team Silent, but they've almost all been rookie dev teams who have rarely had more than a couple of pops at the series before being shuffled on. And now they've roped in Hideo. Urgh.

I guess we'll see. Fine work on this, though

Thank you! You're not missing anything. It's a repetitive slog that only becomes more difficult and never more interesting. I'm glad you liked the MTV comparison. It was the first thing that came to mind when I saw the characters.

As for the rest of the series, I'm going to stick around, only so I have more games to review for the coming Octobers. I'm not looking forward to Shattered Memory or Downpour, if I ever get to them. PT at least seems kind of promising, despite the fact that I'm wary of Hideo Kojima.

I always thought I'd give it the chance to surprise me in the vague hopes that it was purposefully pedestrian at the start. Like, you get this magic book and you use it for fairly mundane crap at first before being slowly dragged down into The Monkey Paw/Deathnote-esque shenanigans. Then I remembered Downpour and decided I was giving them far too much credit.

Most people tend to like Shattered Memories more than I. People who claim to like Downpour are now all dead to me.

There are people who claim to like Downpour? Aside from a few young whippersnappers who consider the original game crappy, I've only heard that Downpour is a huge pile of suck.

I have heard mixed things about Shattered Memories, but based on what I've read about the game, I'm sure I won't like it much. I'm still willing to give it a fair shot, though.