Silent Hill 2 Remake
Japanese streamer 2BRO conducted a live gameplay session on YouTube, spanning 90 minutes from the start of the Silent Hill 2 remake. The highly anticipated game is developed by Bloober Team and will be released on PlayStation 5 and PC via Steam on October 8.
Discussion Prompt: What are your expectations for the Silent Hill 2 Remake? Do you think modern adaptations of classic horror games can capture the original atmosphere effectively?
Play Silent Hill 2 Enhanced Edition on PC. Pretty much any PC these days can run it no problem, and it is undisputably the best way to play Silent Hill 2. Its not nostalgia blinding, the game is legitimately still good.
Silent Hill 2 wasn’t ever really scary. It made you nervous and anxious, but it never tried to outright scare the player. There were no jumpscare cutscenes, everything was slow and very telegraphed.
One of the things I noticed from the last gameplay they showed was the scene when James gets the flashlight in room 205 of the Apartments. In the original game, the scene plays and the Mannequin which was visible the entire time stands up. But in the remake Bloober made a change, a really stupid one. They added a jump scare sound cue, which is highly typical of Bloober. I am unhappy with this change because the original game never ever did this, and it was an intentional change from how Silent Hill 1 worked. Silent Hill 1 did have jumpscares in it.