Topic: Silent Hill 2 Remake

I just finished the game and it took me about 23 hours in total. I got the In Water ending, which I'm fine with. I didn't know there were multiple endings to this game and that there were so many specific things you had to do in order to get them.

It definitely is a special horror game, despite how lengthy it is. The areas and the boss designs are so cool, the story is very engrossing, and there were a lot of trippy moments towards the end, which I adore in horror games.

But as I mentioned, the game shouldn't be this long considering the type of content it has. Having to go through the same level over again is just plain tedious, but luckily there wasn't more like that after the nighttime Silent Hill part. However, the prison and labyrinth didn't add anything to the overall plot. I mean, throughout the game, there were reasons for why you visited every area. I don't really understand what the point of these two areas was, especially the prison. Don't get me wrong, these areas were cool but again, it just felt like padding. Not to mention that you're basically throwing away too many ideas for areas that could've been used in future games.

Moreover, the gameplay just gets way too repetitive and there isn't a lot of enemy variety to hold you over. Like others have mentioned, the game is too generous with ammo and health items that you don't get scared anymore by fighting enemies.

If they had cut out the second version of the hospital, the nighttime Silent Hill, the prison level and maybe even the labyrinth, then I would've been happy with the length of the game. I mean, after I was done with the labyrinth, I thought I was close to the end of the game but nope there's another area after that. This game just wouldn't end lol.

Long games are fine as long as they continuously give you goals, introduce new things and/or have progressions systems that make you wanna keep playing. In this case it was just more of the same with very little new stuff.

Despite all these things, I still loved this game. I kept coming back to it and it was very fun to play. But just like everything else, it's not perfect. Having finished it now, I can definitely say that this has become my new favourite horror game. It's just so good.