

The story of Shattered Memories is nothing shattering, no pun intended. The perspectives between these two switches back and forth as you complete parts of the story, and showcases the controlling of Harry Mason as a sort of retelling, as if you are telling Kauffman this in your therapy session. The other section of the story is where you are controlling Harry Mason (the Main Character from the original Silent Hill), as he explores the town of Silent Hill, where he supposedly lives, as he searches for his daughter Cheryl, whom went missing after a car crash. You put in some general questions and begin what feels like a therapy session about something that is plaguing your mind. Michael Kauffman, a character that players of Silent Hill 1 and Origins should recognize. As you begin the game, you will be set as a patient in a therapy session with a Dr. The story of Shattered Memories has two perspectives, and those perspectives change as you progress through the game. Having released on the Wii, PS2, and PSP, here is our official review of the psychological horror game, Silent Hill: Shattered Memories! What came out of that was a game that played very much different from all of the Silent Hill games before it. Silent Hill, however, has gone through a lot of changes in the past few years.īack about five years ago, Konami announced that they were making a “re-imagining” of the first Silent Hill that would focus more on the psychological elements of the series than the combat elements. Many of the recent Resident Evil games, for example, have played a lot like Third Person Shooters/Action games with horror elements thrown into the mix. While they both started as very “Tank” type horror games, they’ve been experimenting with different genres. These two franchises offered some very unique horror experiences for gamers, from the jump scares of a zombie bursting in the window in Resident Evil 2 to the creepy atmosphere or wandering through the foggy streets of Silent Hill.Īs the years have gone by, both of these franchises have changed and evolved. From back in the 1990s, there have been two major gaming franchises that people go to for horror: Resident Evil and Silent Hill. The horror genre has been changing, over the years.

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