Silent Hill Origins - PSP
No major surprises here - once again one must wander about the famously fog-shrouded town, dividing the time between twating monster style creatures with sticks and solving puzzles in order to unravel the (not-at-all) mysterious story line. As always with Silent Hill, the audiovisual action delivers the goods, some wonderful lighting and ’stylish’ grain filters add to the effect and in parts, it’s really skid mark scary.
I enjoyed this game a lot, but sadly it fails to deal with the series’ most notorious negative - the rubbish combat. It’s as unwieldy and haphazard as ever (especially when the camera fucks up) and too often just feels like arbetrary button mashing. The other sort-of problem is that this kind of game is ill-suited for brief pick-up-and-play sessions. If you don’t play for a few days, you soon forget just what it is you need to do and end up back tracking, quite a lot.
Having said all that, this is a proper grown-up console-quality type experience for the little PSP. So, if you have a solid block of time or you’re a fan of the series - Origins shouldn’t be ignored.
Please note - I am aware of my excessive use of hyphens.
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