I’ll allow you to in on just a little secret: I really like Silent Hill 4: The Room. It was truly the primary recreation I performed within the sequence, and after I did I wasn’t conscious that it wasn’t universally beloved and even preferred at its launch. Not that understanding different individuals’s opinions would have modified my thoughts about it, I am the sort of individual that may ardently defend a 6/10, however nonetheless, I feel there’s lots to like about it… until you performed the sport on PC. For a very long time, it was lacking a number of issues that had been featured within the PS2 model of the sport, however GOG’s Preservation Program is including them again in.
For these of you that by no means bought to Silent Hill 4, the factor that kind of units it aside from the opposite video games within the sequence was that you simply had a kind of hub space, your residence, the place you might return to intermittently to save lots of and relaxation for a second. It is meant to be a secure zone of kinds, however after some time hauntings begin occurring, unsettling occasions like home windows getting rattled, discovering a useless cat in your fridge, or your kitchen faucet pouring out blood. It was a good way of protecting you in your toes, even in a supposed secure space, besides a handful of them had been lacking from the PC model, regardless of being current within the code.
GOG primarily simply switched them again on, however I am certain I am being very reductive about one thing that was most likely a very good little bit of laborious work. On prime of bringing these hauntings again, the PC model on GOG will work higher on fashionable {hardware}, and there is even fashionable controller help, which means you possibly can bust out your DualSense (and extra) if that is your weapon of alternative.
I do know everybody’s been buzzing about Silent Hill f just lately, and final 12 months introduced us Bloober’s remake of two, however I actually do suppose it’s best to give 4 a go. The second half is kind of one lengthy escort mission for a personality Eileen, although she’s actually a very likeable companion character – I typically take into consideration a line of hers the place she says “Contemplating the circumstances, I suppose we’re doing fairly good, huh” that simply feels so human in a method you do not see fairly often. Get on it, particularly contemplating it is solely a fiver proper now.
