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Oct. 1st, 2008 12:03 amGAME: Silent Hill 4: The Room
PLATFORM / YEAR: Playstation 2 / 2004
SAMPLE MUSIC: Wounded Warsong - Akira Yamaoka (ONE OF MY FAVORITE SONGS EVER)
GAME TRAILER: HIT IT! (CREEPY EFFING TWO-BABY HEAD THINGS~)
FAVORITE CHARACTER: Oh, it has to be Henry. And Walter. OMG WALTER. SO WRONG.
WHY THIS GAME IS BADASS: I think out of all the Silent Hill games, this is the one that creeped me out the most. The absolutely claustrophobic way you mill around Henry's apartment and come face to face with odd and extremely disturbing manifestations IN FIRST PERSON really gets under my skin. Especially right when you wake up in Henry's bed and there's SOMETHING CHILDLIKE AND FREAKY IN HIS CLOSET STEALING YOUR HEALTH CAUSE YOU STAND UP RIGHT BESIDE IT.
People hate on this game cause it's not like the others, but I think it fits in quite nicely. I also like how they called back to the article James finds in Silent Hill 2 about Walter Sullivan and the SOUP SPOON IN HIS NECK and all that jazz. The one thing that I can find to dislike about this game is revisiting places a second time and having to go through them again, but the fun part about it to find all the stuff that's changed -- and of course, to deal with whatever ghost is chasing after your skinny, buttoned-up, metrosexual ass (i love you henry townshend <33333).
Another creep/kickass factor = being chased. In the other games, there was something and you stop and fight it and it's gone. Here you have ghosts chasing after you that can only be stopped by something you have to leave in them to keep them down -- and you get less of them in the game then there are ghosts. Also, Walter chasing you. EFFING SCARY. YOU CAN'T STOP HIM COMPLETELY. YOU CAN ONLY RUN. AND HE HAS A CHAINSAW OR A GUN OR A STICK. AND YOU'RE LIKE WTF STICK WHATEVER LOSER. AND THEN HE SLAPS THE SHIT OUT OF YOU WITH THE STICK, DUDE.
Also, this. Walking up to Henry's front door and there's blood coming out the peephole and you look in it and and and... it's so hot and gross and gave me nightmares. SEXY NIGHTMARES.
...no, actually just nightmares. (AND DUDE IS IT ME OR IS THERE A 21 ON HIS CHEST -- WAS I RIGHT? and damn that was four years ago. i feel old.)
MOST UNSETTLING MOMENT: Henry breaking that wall in his apartment... and... what he finds back there. D: And the peephole, for reasons stated above.
MOST PRETTY DAMN GORGEOUS MOMENT: Love when Henry brings flowers to Eileen in the hospital (ADORE ADORE ADORE <333), but I will never get over how crazy YES they made the "Eileen's Death" ending (OH SPOILER LOL? -- it's okay, she doesn't go in all of them). The first-person view of Henry meandering around his haunting-free apartment like "damn i'm kind of good" and then hearing on the radio that Eileen died in the hospital -- the way his knees give out and voice just mumbles, "EILEEN~" -- I LOVE IT. It's so simple and SO HEARTBREAKING. HENRY, YOU SHOULD'VE STARTED SPYING ON HER SOONER, YOU PERV.
PLATFORM / YEAR: Playstation 2 / 2004
SAMPLE MUSIC: Wounded Warsong - Akira Yamaoka (ONE OF MY FAVORITE SONGS EVER)
GAME TRAILER: HIT IT! (CREEPY EFFING TWO-BABY HEAD THINGS~)
FAVORITE CHARACTER: Oh, it has to be Henry. And Walter. OMG WALTER. SO WRONG.
WHY THIS GAME IS BADASS: I think out of all the Silent Hill games, this is the one that creeped me out the most. The absolutely claustrophobic way you mill around Henry's apartment and come face to face with odd and extremely disturbing manifestations IN FIRST PERSON really gets under my skin. Especially right when you wake up in Henry's bed and there's SOMETHING CHILDLIKE AND FREAKY IN HIS CLOSET STEALING YOUR HEALTH CAUSE YOU STAND UP RIGHT BESIDE IT.
People hate on this game cause it's not like the others, but I think it fits in quite nicely. I also like how they called back to the article James finds in Silent Hill 2 about Walter Sullivan and the SOUP SPOON IN HIS NECK and all that jazz. The one thing that I can find to dislike about this game is revisiting places a second time and having to go through them again, but the fun part about it to find all the stuff that's changed -- and of course, to deal with whatever ghost is chasing after your skinny, buttoned-up, metrosexual ass (i love you henry townshend <33333).
Another creep/kickass factor = being chased. In the other games, there was something and you stop and fight it and it's gone. Here you have ghosts chasing after you that can only be stopped by something you have to leave in them to keep them down -- and you get less of them in the game then there are ghosts. Also, Walter chasing you. EFFING SCARY. YOU CAN'T STOP HIM COMPLETELY. YOU CAN ONLY RUN. AND HE HAS A CHAINSAW OR A GUN OR A STICK. AND YOU'RE LIKE WTF STICK WHATEVER LOSER. AND THEN HE SLAPS THE SHIT OUT OF YOU WITH THE STICK, DUDE.
Also, this. Walking up to Henry's front door and there's blood coming out the peephole and you look in it and and and... it's so hot and gross and gave me nightmares. SEXY NIGHTMARES.
...no, actually just nightmares. (AND DUDE IS IT ME OR IS THERE A 21 ON HIS CHEST -- WAS I RIGHT? and damn that was four years ago. i feel old.)
MOST UNSETTLING MOMENT: Henry breaking that wall in his apartment... and... what he finds back there. D: And the peephole, for reasons stated above.
MOST PRETTY DAMN GORGEOUS MOMENT: Love when Henry brings flowers to Eileen in the hospital (ADORE ADORE ADORE <333), but I will never get over how crazy YES they made the "Eileen's Death" ending (OH SPOILER LOL? -- it's okay, she doesn't go in all of them). The first-person view of Henry meandering around his haunting-free apartment like "damn i'm kind of good" and then hearing on the radio that Eileen died in the hospital -- the way his knees give out and voice just mumbles, "EILEEN~" -- I LOVE IT. It's so simple and SO HEARTBREAKING. HENRY, YOU SHOULD'VE STARTED SPYING ON HER SOONER, YOU PERV.
