My mixed feelings on Silent Hill Downpour, it's got some good, some bad, and some that just should have been fixed. phelous.com / phelous Originally Released: March 25, 2012
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@moonkingdomify8 жыл бұрын
The knife I was using got wet, it's completely useless now.
@gRinchY-op5vr7 жыл бұрын
Ditto, Master of Disguise Murphy got wet in the rain, he's completely useless now. And look at those monsters they're all wet too...
@MilesHadley9 жыл бұрын
The one thing with the DJ that spooked me was was how, later after he is fired by the monsters, you can hear his voice garbled on a radio or two in the town late in the game.
@shagohad38 жыл бұрын
+Miles Hadley He basically trapped himself in the town by refusing to face up to whatever personal demons the town was throwing at him.
@gRinchY-op5vr7 жыл бұрын
shagohad3 I liked that we finally got an example of what happens when you can't deal with what you've done and when you won't face up to what you've done in Silent Hill
@SpicePrincess18906 жыл бұрын
Second example. Another example is the mailman.
@UltimateOmegaRed6 жыл бұрын
꧁Spice Princess Art꧂ What about the mailman?
@fanfaretloudest7 жыл бұрын
A fallen tree. Huh. The main character must have seen Anaconda 4 and thought "Yep better not do that either..."
@dr.penguinstein34268 жыл бұрын
My interpretation of the vortex (note I'm by no means a Silent Hill expert), it's a police siren, it's the red light you see looking over your shoulder when you're on the run, reflecting from behind street corners and over alleyways. It's the dread of being caught and something law enforcement can use to instill fear in a running criminal.
@gRinchY-op5vr7 жыл бұрын
Dr. Penguinstein it is meant to be about how Murphy runs from his problems instead of dealing with them appropriately, so it being a siren makes sense :)
@Crowley99 жыл бұрын
It seems like a huge missed opportunity that the game does not make use of themes of imprisonment and punishment. Though I guess that would turn it into The Suffering. This game gives me an idea: Al Pacino's character from Insomnia seems like it would make for a good Silent Hill protagonist. He is a police officer who previously investigated the murder of a child. He believed a pedophile to be guilty, but he could not prove it, so he fabricated the evidence.
@gRinchY-op5vr8 жыл бұрын
there are themes of it (sort of) they're just kinda lazily designed
@professordreadwin79596 жыл бұрын
gRinchY 230490 Have you even seen the otherworld
@KIRA-EL9 жыл бұрын
Oh c'mon , I can totally see Silent Hill's hideous psychological horrors speeding down the road in a squad car all crammed in with some of them hanging out of the car crazily waving their nightsticks and guns barely missing falling out as they hit sharp corners. (yeah it's stupid)
@retrogamelover20123 жыл бұрын
I can imagine it working, like it's some sort of phantom of sorts, sort of similar to the ghost tunnel in the Metro series. At least then, it could lead to a more interesting way of integrating a vehicle into the supposed things to encounter, in Silent Hill.
@ChaoticPesme759 жыл бұрын
To think Downpour is the last official Silent Hill game from Konami ; since they denied PT and Silent Hills... #FucKonami
@MforMovesets3 жыл бұрын
I was worried they will ruin P.T. so I'm fine with what we got.
@redpyramid89093 жыл бұрын
@@MforMovesets What did we get?
@The_Foxymew8 жыл бұрын
One thing I'd love to do sometime if I could would be to make an homage game to silent hill, specifically the fog of it, use it to limit draw distance a ton and then see what kind of insane levels you can put into the graphics and still run on mid range computers.
@christinawilkephillips76849 жыл бұрын
I said the same thing when that part of a tree fell down and he's all like " nope can't go that way!" why Murphy!? why can't you go that way?!
@gRinchY-op5vr7 жыл бұрын
Christina Phillips "because I'm lazeh"
@dcham0415 жыл бұрын
Christina Phillips lol
@ArbiterofTruth4 жыл бұрын
There would be no story? (The typical answer for anything that progresses due to something stupid)
@SamsarasArt3 жыл бұрын
@@ArbiterofTruth a better idea is to have a bottomless chasm instead of a fallen tree. At least then it would be sensible not to go that way.
@TrueDarkAce9 жыл бұрын
How much you want to bet that there's going to be a Silent Hills spiritual successor on Kickstarter in the next year or so?
@AlexOlinkiewicz9 жыл бұрын
The Dark Ace That or ether a good publisher hires Kojima, Toro, & Reedus to make there SH game just under a different name. Ether way I just hope one of those happen.
@Kyle-nw3wk3 жыл бұрын
Well you were wrong
@Aulith9 жыл бұрын
When the case on the right moves at 16:53... That was creepy.
@SamsarasArt4 жыл бұрын
Also that case isn't there at the start of the review
@GinoZump8 жыл бұрын
16:50 Silent Hill 4: The Room in the background does not agree ;D
@CyberLance268 жыл бұрын
+GinoZump Silent Hill 4 is jus as great as the other 3 old games so i hate that man people does not include it among the classics.
@cosnime7 жыл бұрын
holy shit its alive XDDDD
@Alucard-A-La-Carte4 жыл бұрын
This actually looks a LOT like The Suffering...and the idea of playing in someone else's Silent Hill Nightmare is an intriguing idea for sure.
@sensibleGamer3 жыл бұрын
10:08 Looks like this is a video that was a victim of KZfaq removing annotations
@Ash-op2ql8 жыл бұрын
I feel like yours is the only review that mentions the framerate issues and ridiculous load screens. This was one of the biggest problems I had with this game and it took me out of what little mood it was trying to create, or killed me because of the stupid red light thingy.
@TheResistancezero8 жыл бұрын
Wait... Aren't all the monsters in Silent Hill representations of your past sins? Don't the cops make sense in this game? BAD PHELAN!
@BenWhite93118 жыл бұрын
Also those monsters in the mines represent the paranoia of being jumped in prison because they hang on the ceiling and could attack at any time.
@gRinchY-op5vr8 жыл бұрын
If you watch Denas reviews on Film Den she explains the symbolism in every game (except Homecoming just covers the bosses)
@RomrotMechanikos9 жыл бұрын
at 16:50 the silent hill 4 case moves by itself. O.O screepy
@dappercrown468 жыл бұрын
Hold me I'm scared
@corvusalendar54057 жыл бұрын
Origins had destructible objects. BUT, Since you could carry several weapons, you carried around about 20 toasters in your back pocket.
@OnDavidsBrain2 жыл бұрын
10:08 There was a button gag here. It's gone now.
@UJEvans2 жыл бұрын
Were those annotations or something? How did the gag get removed?
@AlexOlinkiewicz9 жыл бұрын
Interesting thing is Murphy Pendleton is honestly my favorite character out of the whole Silent Hill series.
@tbonevideos239 жыл бұрын
My favorite is possibly Henry because he's relatable Stays in his room all the time and doesn't know how to interact with people....
@RippahRooJizah9 жыл бұрын
Alex Olinkiewicz How? Mind you, I don't hate Murphy, but... seeing him and what he's done and how the different ending outright alter his characterizations, I can't see any real allure to him unless someone just hangs on to a specific characterization the game offers. Personally, my favorite main was Heather. She had spunk.
@AlexOlinkiewicz9 жыл бұрын
RippahRooJizah Well I don't blame the character for the different ending outright alter his characterizations, that I blame on the developers and writers for not writing better alternate endings. Anyway I recommend you check out The Game Den: Silent Hill Downpour, Dena mentions that Murphy is her favorite Protagonist and she explains Murphy's character allot better then I could ever do.
@gRinchY-op5vr7 жыл бұрын
Alex Olinkiewicz Murphy and Heather - both dry and sarcastic attitudes towards everything while also being a bit phased by everything they come across, both total badasses.
@2prize6 жыл бұрын
r u hi
@FrankLightheart7 жыл бұрын
You know a game I enjoyed playing back in the original X-Box days? The Suffering. You should think about reviewing that game some time.
@necronlordoflawtan9 жыл бұрын
How to make the DJ more eerie: In the Otherworld, string his lower body out so that the ligaments and sinew are like a harpsichord. Mix the upper body with a speaker setup. Then have the arms attached to something mechanical, and spinning records...then have his normal voice whisper and crackle over the speakers... Then have the above guy...except bound to a wheelchair... Yes, that is cheesy...and more Hellraiser than Silent Hill...but there is at least some concept of suffering there...
@shagohad38 жыл бұрын
+Mythology Squirrel The DJ was an example of someone who flat out refused to face up to whatever demons the town was dredging up. Murphy's arrive made him final confront it. I will say this, it could have been made a lot clearer.
@shagohad38 жыл бұрын
You know Phelous, I'm surprised you didn't get the DJ. He, like everyone else the town dragged in, had personal demons to confront. Thing is, he didn't confront them. He pushed them off and holed up in the radio station, refusing to learn his lesson. Murphy's arrival forced him to finally confront the issue. Basically, he trapped himself in the town or went "Full circle," to go off one of the games endings.
@AydarBMSTU6 жыл бұрын
full circle is not a thing in silent hill
@MintyCoolness Жыл бұрын
NGL, as much as I like Downpour, I can't find much fault in your review. You made your case and I respect that~
@AlexOlinkiewicz9 жыл бұрын
by the way Phelan, what's your thought's on Konami and there cancellation of Silent Hills? I'm so upset about it, but I have hopes that a good publisher will hire Kojima, Toro, & Redus and have them make there SH game just under a different name.
@phelous9 жыл бұрын
Alex Olinkiewicz Oh I wasn't too happy, I trashed Komani over on the twit zones sense it was the best hope in a while for a new Silent Hill game.
@vincentvalenhyde9 жыл бұрын
Phelan Porteous Someone had to stick it up to those stuffy Konami suits. Good to see Kojima took the initiative.
@tiredtape96669 жыл бұрын
Komai will never live canceling silent hills down.
@AlexOlinkiewicz9 жыл бұрын
Neko Harry Mason Wow that is way to much to read, but I say I Extremely Disagree with your comment. P.T. is in fact a Creepy Underlying Narrative, it was not a Jump-Scare game, yes the game had like 2 jump-scares, but again Jump-Scare are fine if they used sparely and properly, and P.T. did it correctly. I could argue more about this, but really it would be a waist of time. Simply put Kojima showed us that he is capable of creating a True Psychological Horror game, and if you don't agree that's fine, but to everyone else P.T. showed us that Silent Hill might finally returning to it's true form.
@tiredtape96669 жыл бұрын
Neko Harry Mason PT was not a jump scare game i don't remember one time it made me jump it scared the piss out of me but it wasnt with jump scares it was with is creepy setting like you didnt want to move forward cause you had this feeling something was there going to get you it was scary and it had puzzles type thing that made it feel more like the first silent hill games and when i found out this was a silent hill teaser i scream in excitement then when i heard it was cancelled i cursed Komai name for almost 3 hours.
@sirwilhelmh.y97496 жыл бұрын
Bit late but I did some research. The release date of this game got changed and the Director quit as a result. Seemingly pushed back because of content change which makes sense why they'd quit according to what I did find. Some of the endings, S.H ability to change time/space outside of itself with the Bad and Reverse Ending. Conflicting notes saying Napier assaulted Charlie then drowned him, another saying he was just drowned. Murphy looking for Charlie and happened across where he was seemingly not knowing something was wrong prior. Murphy's implied killing of Napier and a note but later Sewell is referenced as having killed him. These conflicting things seem to suggest we got a different version of D.P than what was intended or it could be a lack of proper direction. I will say some of the Side quests have far more scary content than the main plot either way.
@TioMegamanX5 жыл бұрын
Trouble in Therapist Town: Downpour.
@jasonlee60629 жыл бұрын
While I don't necessarily agree with everything you said, this was a really excellent review. I'd love to see you do more stuff in this style again, where you're more serious and less intentionally dopey. Not that I hate the latter, it's just that your serious stuff tends to be such good quality, it almost feels like a shame when you don't let yourself go in to it. Either way, keep up the good work (and thanks for putting it on KZfaq. I can't always get The Blip App to work for your older videos).
@bossqueeat9 жыл бұрын
imagining the silent hill monsters carpooling killed me
@10GaugeManiac9 жыл бұрын
Damn it! I clicked the end video "button" only to be reprimanded seconds later.. argh.. you got me! Did you ever accidentally fling a fire axe into the abyss?
@deadmaster93608 жыл бұрын
Thank you for referencing TheSw1tcher. I love you.
@SamsarasArt3 жыл бұрын
Yep. Loads of times
@MaximumMadnessStixon9 жыл бұрын
Bought this about a year back and I still haven't finished it because everytime I start a new game (which I've tried about three times now) I just kept... getting... lost and annoyed in the first three or four hours. I'd finally get to Silent Hill, and just like the review said, 90% of the time, I'd just missing something small for silly reasons like the camera angle or the fact that certain things blend into the background too much. Or I just couldn't figure out where to go. ("Oh look, a sewer! Let's explore that... oh, it's just 30 minutes of running in the dark to find a painting. Oh, look, let's explore this area! Oh, there's nothing there. How about this area? Great, 20 minutes of searching and another painting I have no clue what to do with.") As much as I don't like hand-holding in games, there should be at least some subtle indication of what to do. It's a shame. I truly want to play through the game (and I'd rather not have to resort to walkthroughs), but it's hard for me to play through so many stretches of blind exploration with no clear goal, outside of random "Oh crap, a police car, better run!" instances.
@SamuraiMotoko9 жыл бұрын
what happen, i remember that time of thinking "should i continue or end" had the buttons on the air. and now it doesnt. It is because now you count with the technology of interacting with the video but you wouldnt want to be a lier?
@bradleyperez2563 Жыл бұрын
I think the cages slow the enemy down because it has to stop and obsorve it.
@judsongaiden98784 жыл бұрын
Why do so many characters in Japanese games have dumb haircuts? 2:57 Why do right-handed characters in third-person games sling weapons on their back in left-handed configuration? Seriously, that happens WAY too often. It's like game developers actually want their incompetence to become a trope! 4:24 Possibly an homage to 'The Regulators'.
@2prize6 жыл бұрын
Monster Squad ASSEMBLEEEEEEEEEEE
@drstrangelove95258 жыл бұрын
I do love the metaphors and symbolism with the police sometimes, like how the screamer symbolizes a Murder victim.
@drstrangelove95258 жыл бұрын
Pssst.... The Murder Victim symbolizes Murphy's Daughter being murdered.... The Police Car symbolizes the Cop character's need for justice for her dads murder (That's why it goes after Murphy.)
@whitefox411-gamer72 жыл бұрын
Late to the party, but I had that same couch when younger.
@draves89537 жыл бұрын
A scary ghost @16:50, top right corner. Such spook!
@dayaninikhaton5 жыл бұрын
Never change Phelous...
@jiggycalzone85854 жыл бұрын
THE COPCAR IS SYMBOL THAT MARPHY IS SCARE OF POLICE!! This game is both subtle AND deep
@redpyramid89093 жыл бұрын
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
@Miyakolover9 жыл бұрын
I really hate the transition to the Other world in the latest Silent Hill games...in the original games where you couldn't see it when it happens (like how they did it in Silent Hill 1 during the school level for example)...it gives it an unpredictable nature and it screws with your mind in a better manner...seeing the transition to the other world or having it controlled by the player like in Downpour kills the unpredictable and oppressive nature the Other world is supposed to posses
@Avigorus4 жыл бұрын
To be fair, police would likely be a fear of a prison escapee. Doesn't make it less annoying, but still.
@Patoni20122 ай бұрын
Hey phelous, not sure if youll see this comment or not. But curious what are your feelings on the Silent Hill 2 remake, are you going to review it, and overall what are your feelings about silent hills future?
@phelous2 ай бұрын
I'm hopeful about the remake but we'll see. I'd love for proper Silent Hill games to be a thing again.
@Nekucloud7 жыл бұрын
What a annoying game, I'm seriously a monster police car how ridiculous!😡
@cappedminer3694 жыл бұрын
Will you review origins
@tbonevideos239 жыл бұрын
One of the things I enjoy from Downpour is the postman Just how long has he been there and what's his problems? Everyone in silent hill has something wrong with them So why hasn't he dealt with them yet?
@tbonevideos239 жыл бұрын
Also it seems like silent hill is a sort of purgatory Cause everytime Murphy died he just reappeared in a different location perfectly fine Making it seem like you're stuck there forever until you fix your problems Which you probably won't So does that mean Eddy and Angela could still possibly be there?
@ValentineVanDrarcla6 жыл бұрын
I think SIlent Hill in regards to people who come it's call are shown their problems, and it helps them reach whatever peace they need to, Eddy was externalizing his pain and blaming everyone else basically denying agency so he's possibly still there, Angela however....she's a character that always felt like they were in the right doing what they did, she's opposite end, where eddy denied all guilt Angela accepted it all, even the part that wasn't hers to take, I want to hope Silent Hill had some damn mercy and Just let her have her peace, even if that peace is just death.
@amrbadr38285 жыл бұрын
The way I think of it....Howard IS silent hill.... the manifestation of the town itself taking the form of a human being ... I thought it was pretty obvious he is way different than every single person u run through in the town throughout the whole series.
@DiegoDiaz-vm9xx4 жыл бұрын
16:51 the game on the top right moves on its own. I think he is angering the Silent Hill evil spirits
@codyburgett79626 жыл бұрын
Ummm u said the silent hill monsters had no relation to the main character but then Misrepresent the squad car as an actual monster car instead of a manifestation of his fear of being caught by the police which is why if you get caught more monsters spawn
@robolizzzrd55246 жыл бұрын
Holy shit, I never knew you did game vids man. That's awesome, I just started making those less than a week ago :D
@yorkljorgan987 Жыл бұрын
So it's one of those games where it's worth it for the story, but the actual game part is a pain in the ass.
@ArbiterofTruth4 жыл бұрын
I yell at my games too.... 😓
@requiescantenpace4 жыл бұрын
Here's my theory. It's not silent hill for Murphy. It's for Ann. Murphy just got dragged in.
@DarthMorius6 жыл бұрын
I kinda thought the shitty controls with regards to the weapons was considered to be a "feature", in that it was almost attempting to simulate panic for the character when sometimes forget that the most commonly used button for attacking in video games is utilized to throw your weapon away. So in those moments when you are startled and your video game instincts kick in, you ultimately disarm yourself and make the moment that much more frantic. Sort of like the opposite of what they did in Homecoming.
@caporegime602 жыл бұрын
oh boy, i still remember the fuckin issue i had with this game where it broke sequence entirely *all because my save storage wasnt on my internal hard drive* i had many times where i started over after already having a save file, just to have the ONE interaction button stopped working AT THE BEGINNING. i made jokes about how my punishment was to just stand and do spins infront of sewell, because i couldnt open the fucking door to the shower. i called xbox support several times, and finally they stated, "move the save file onto the internal hard drive" suddenly it fucking worked
@muzicrox9 жыл бұрын
For the most part I did enjoy the game, I won't deny that. But it's like you said... Wtf is up with the enemies in this game? Uninspired, boring lame ass monsters. Only one part of the game stood out to me. The murder scene with the ghosts. That felt more like silent hill to me than anything else. The weapons dropping really annoyed the hell out of me haha. I also wanted to explore the other world more. That stupid light... Thing was extremely annoying.
@gRinchY-op5vr8 жыл бұрын
there is symbolism there with the monsters - the screamers are his ex wife, boogey man is the man who killed his son, the mannequins are his habit of not dealing with his problems, the vortex is him running from authority, the prison inmates are how he saw other prisoners, the bat like creatures where solitary confinement/his fear of being jumped by other prisoners. If anything the symbolism was just lazily designed (not as lazy homecoming but still, saying that homecomings bosses were kinda cool)
@muzicrox8 жыл бұрын
+gRinchY 230490 I know they would have been designed in relation to the plot definitely, it's like you said, I just hate the lazy designs. The designs in Homecoming to me were a little better haha. Us Silent Hill fans just aren't getting a break are we? I think it's going to be a long time before we get a descent SH title that's anything like the originals :/
@gRinchY-op5vr8 жыл бұрын
The boss designs in homecoming were good, the other ones I found held little (if not anything clear) symbolism or were ripped off from other games. We must accept sadly they are getting lazy with their designs and won't compete, let alone must wait for another company to attempt a new game....
@gRinchY-op5vr8 жыл бұрын
after reading Anne's Story graphic novel I can confirm Sewell doesn't get away with it 😉
@aleksanderevangelista92729 жыл бұрын
Wait... Konami did games!? I though that they only fired well know Video Game designers for not switching to mobile...
@Thrakus6 жыл бұрын
The wrost thing about this game is the save icon means shit all , It only saves when it feels like it so a lot of the time you end up having to redo stuff even when it said saving. Also if you do get close killing a full mob are stay for to long in one spot a one hit kill monster you can not kill comes! Also even if your weapon does not brake it does make you leave it .
@tiredtape96669 жыл бұрын
Berry visits silent hill.
@MisheardMetal9 жыл бұрын
Murphy looks like a hipster Ted Danson.
@hansoloimac6 жыл бұрын
Yea the game had some issues but I reached a part where a monster was supposed to appear . After I got a gate up due to a glitch a prevented the monster from appearing . The game saved there so I couldn't restart that part. If I wanted to get passed that part I would have to restart game . It was my first time I had a game breaking moment . Yea I really like Silent Hill like Resident Evil games I really enjoyed survival horror games. Great review , I like your shot gun , I couldn't have a real gun I wouldn't know how to reload it if it wasn't square to reload :D but seriously great review made my day!
@SamsarasArt3 жыл бұрын
The evil police car is the dumbest thing I've ever seen in any game
@PlasmaStickMan8 жыл бұрын
You bothered to put the annotations but you didn't make the quit video button take you to KZfaq's main page. 10/10
@scissormon8 жыл бұрын
I feel like they could make a comeback with a first person style game with otherworld transitions akin to 1 & 3. Make it like clock tower where you can't fight back and must run/hide. Put it on PlayStation VR and I feel like there's some potential in there.
@DMAN997 жыл бұрын
scissormon that basically sounds like resident evil 7
@natknutson14825 жыл бұрын
I like to think the mailman IS silent hill. Atleast it gives him a point.
@MforMovesets9 жыл бұрын
Thankfully, Silent Hills will retcon this mistake OH WAIT!
@MrXemrox5 жыл бұрын
Maybe it was good that Silent Hill stopped coming out, because ones that out after the first few are far distance from the originals. I doubt we'll get a come back, like Resident Evil 7, *that at least came down in the middle,* because it was far closer to the first three games than 5-6. 4 is in the middle, though. PT almost did a come back like that, but Konami happened.
@WinterSteele9 жыл бұрын
I'm really enjoying watching these game reviews. I skipped over them when they were originally released, but I decided to give them a try now and I'm glad I did. Have you considered doing a Let's Play of any of the "Silent Hill" games? Or have you already and I just missed it?
@phelous9 жыл бұрын
Winter Steele Thanks! I did do a LP of the 1st Silent Hill a while back: phelous.com/2010/10/04/phelous/others-phelous/silent-hill-lp-part-12/
@trillination7 жыл бұрын
how bout the fact that murphy is actually paul from that soap opera As The World Turns. no joke
@RippahRooJizah9 жыл бұрын
I actually think this is one of the worst stories of the series, in that the multiple endings imply different things Murphy may or may not have done. Maybe Murphy killed Napier. Maybe he didn't. Maybe he killed his son, maybe he didn't. Maybe maybe maybe. I dislike it when a game's ending changes what a character does, and not what a character does changing the ending. Especially if certain scenes in the game don't change. Like when Murphy talked about how what he did to Napier wouldn't get his son back, despite the chance that Murphy may have not actually did anything to him.
@mastermarkus53079 жыл бұрын
+RippahRooJizah I agree. When it came to the story, I thought it started to fall apart by the end _because_ of this, especially since I first ending I saw was the good one where Murphy didn't even kill Napier. I had the same thoughts as Phelous - it made Murphy too "clean" and made Silent Hill torturing him too obligatory rather than actually relating to his moral code or inner struggles.
@BenWhite93118 жыл бұрын
I honestly didn't have a problem with this game I mean sure it's not a masterpiece like the original three but I never thought it would be it actually an alright game.
@Psychobunny-ue9iz7 жыл бұрын
There is no reason that a game that came out 13 years after the original should have such terrible loading times. I'm currently playing through the original silent hill and the loading times only last a little bit. I remember playing this game and waiting like 2 minutes for 1 screen to load.
@TaylorOnyx1237 жыл бұрын
I'd have given you major props if clicking the End Video button took people to the end of the video. XD
@KaoticReach19993 жыл бұрын
Love these reviews!
@heavengamerx85758 жыл бұрын
Hey phelous what is your favorite silent hill game and your least favorite silent hill game?
@angbandsbane8 жыл бұрын
Um...I clicked the annotations out of curiosity. I thought they might have been links to other videos, like "Option 1: link to the same video with a three second later timestamp" or "Option 2: link to the home page."
@defrozendonut87153 жыл бұрын
I hate weapon durability with a passion it’s a stupid system to begin with it only makes sense in survival games like stranded deep or Minecraft cause you made them from scratch or cobbled it together from what ever was around
@Uncle-Jay3 жыл бұрын
Weapon durability be hella lame. Most of the games I've played that included that as a game mechanic suffered because of it.
@jblask23 жыл бұрын
"Lacks the same sense of dread just form opening a door." I agree but to be fair how would you accomplish that in a game these days when we're pretty used to Silent Hill by now?
@ProjectSilentSound7 жыл бұрын
The first time I played this game I got a massive headache because I got stuck for over an hour. I coudn't find the clothes you were supposed to put on to replace the prison outfit. I completely agree that the monsters in this one were really uncreative. I mean, you were basically fighting normal people with rust and mud on them the majority of the game! Speaking of fighting it is just bad. I hated the "one melee weapon at a time" aspect. Actually, that reminds me of a game breaking glitch that occured to me. There's a point fairly early in the part where you get in to Silent Hill and you have to get a ladder down to get past a giant gap on the ground. The way to do this is by using a harpoon located near the ladder but it didn't spawn. Thankfully after rebooting the save it appered. But yeah, it's kinda weird that you have weapons that function like items that you need in order to proceed in the game yet you can only carry one of them at a time.
@hypnojon325 жыл бұрын
What's Homecoming?
@rutgerhauerfan8 жыл бұрын
Yeah, something I also found disappointing in this game was the apparent lack of symbolism to the monsters, though I found a video here on YT where someone theorizes that the Screamers might symbolize Murphy's ex-wife and her pretty much blaming Murphy for Charlie's death. I think this theory might actually have some ground to it, not just because the Screamers are aggressive and shit, but because sometimes, if you see one of them in the distance before they notice you, they just sorta stand there, moving their arms in a rocking motion, as if to soothe a baby... I dunno, but I like to believe that theory is actually true.
@sirwilhelmh.y97498 жыл бұрын
The vortex and running might symbolize him running from the law/past unable to combat or confront it?
@rutgerhauerfan8 жыл бұрын
William Young True. Coming to think of it, those random squad cars throughout town might also be a symbol for that
@sirwilhelmh.y97498 жыл бұрын
+rutgerhauerfan Agreed, gives the cop car a meaning besides silliness and I think if Phealous had went to the station to discover it empty and the police reports it wouldve restored the creepy supernnatural silenthill feeling for him
@gRinchY-op5vr8 жыл бұрын
the screamers do indeed represent his ex wife, the monsters who look like prison inmates represent how he felt about his inmates during his sentence, the mannequins are his habit of attacking the side affects of a problem and not the source, the bat like things represent his feeling isolated and confined while in prison, the vortex represents his habit of running away from his problems, and of course the boogey man is how he sees the man who killed his son - in the graphic novel Anne's Story it's also how Anne sees Murphy.
@christinawilkephillips76849 жыл бұрын
but I loved the graphics, like the houses and scenery and stuff, they did a good job, although I agree I wish he commented more on the weird shit that he saw. like " a wheelchair in a school, what's that doing here?! " lol love that :-P
@Duothimir7 жыл бұрын
Not gonna lie, I moused over the Continue button, assuming that it was an annotated link to a Part 2 video.
@renamon56583 жыл бұрын
So silent hill downpour is like dead rising? Is that cool?
@ElectricBarrier3 жыл бұрын
No, trust me, Dead Rising is way cooler.
@JohnSmith-ns8si8 жыл бұрын
ahahaha! that tree! he could STEP OVER IT!!! They could've had fog or something!
@MmaSmarty876 жыл бұрын
10:18 HE GOT ME!!!
@smb-c3po9 жыл бұрын
Another great video, Phelan. Review Silent Hill 2.
@_SomeGuyOnline8 жыл бұрын
I'm one of the few people that enjoyed Homecoming more so than Downpour.
@CountessChuchoteur6 жыл бұрын
I welcome you to our exclusive club!
@GrandCorsair9 жыл бұрын
What happened to the homecoming review? :confused:
@phelous9 жыл бұрын
***** It'll go back up. I have to re-render it sense one of the clips (the ddr one) decided to not show up for absolutely no reason. I still don't know what it's doing to make it not show up, I had to put the clip on another timeline just to make it appear again.
@GrandCorsair9 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the reply. Looking forward to it.
@DarksideEXE9 жыл бұрын
10:08 the joke would have probly worked better if the yes/no things were still there.
@phelous9 жыл бұрын
DarksideEXE Bah! I don't know how that possibly happened. I'll add annotations there to sorta fix it. :P
@jekblom1236 жыл бұрын
3:20 ah I see you use the same caliber of bullets in your guns as Dante uses...
@SamsarasArt5 жыл бұрын
Downpour was pretty terrible and made loads of strange and questionable decisions.
@Obiwan1994Kenobi-iv4jf7 жыл бұрын
10:20 Well I did, so there.
@Obiwan1994Kenobi-iv4jf5 жыл бұрын
Farewell annotations. We always miss you.
@RetroHalfBit8 жыл бұрын
I put you on my Top 5 KZfaq Video Game Reviewers: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y7OHo7GAs8_Wqps.html I love your movie reviews, but how I found you was through your video game reviews on the Silent Hill series on Channel Awesome way back when. Really just wanted to say thank you for the content you provide man!
@phelous8 жыл бұрын
Haha great video, man! Thanks! I have a lot of fun doing the video game stuff when I can.
@RetroHalfBit8 жыл бұрын
+Phelan “Phelous” Porteous My pleasure! Thank YOU for the awesome episodes!
@bmangrem7 жыл бұрын
are you wearing your micheal myers outfit in this review?
@fizalex66126 жыл бұрын
Huh I didn't know you reviewed video games.
@highwayw89717 жыл бұрын
isn't downpour the one where pyramid head cuts a cake?
@attackofthecopyrightbots7 жыл бұрын
man you do game reviews too? sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet
@rebekahsmith3267 жыл бұрын
Downpour was such a disappointment. You know you've done something wrong when the damn sidequests was more interesting then the main plot!
@christinawilkephillips76849 жыл бұрын
and I fucking HATED that stupid fucking vortex!!! fuck that thing to hell!! I agree that's not the kind of fear you want in the other world, it's just panic the whole time!! it sucks :-/