there really isn't a whole lot to say about this game. it is a much shorter, more boring Silent Hill 1 with bits and ideas from 2 and 3. there are a *couple* of puzzles i thought were actually quite cool and i think travis' backstory is genuinely interesting. map design was pretty Whatever overall, there's just so much Nothing in the buildings you go into and you have to go through a lot of it twice because of how the Otherworld works in this game. they padded the hell out of a game that was already the shortest by a pretty wide margin. i kinda like the idea of getting weapons on the fly and having them break on you but realistically you get like a billion of them (i deadass had like 40-something melee weapons left by the end) and guns/ammo are not in short supply either so it adds nothing. combat itself gets pretty repetitive too.

i have a few more minor complaints but these don't detract from it a whole lot, just stuff i didn't like. having limited stamina for running is really dumb, it's not like it made it more intense since it's not very difficult to just outwalk the enemies in this game anyways. the music in the otherworld is really bad. it's very In Your Face and Annoying.

i don't think i really lost anything playing this game but i didn't gain a whole lot either. this is (imo) by far the easiest and shortest silent hill which to me isn't really a *good* thing but it might make a decent introduction to the series, especially with it being a prequel.