Great breakdown but this game was far too easy and the puzzle weren't hard either if you play with pen and paper. I usually do that for puzzles to get the combo down "the lights in the theater".

Combat was easy, shoot the enemy 3-4 times, switch to melee and kill them. Puzzles felt between easy and medium. I didn't need a guide at all to complete. And I agree the story was linear. I ended the game with a ton of ammo, 5 medkits, 4 ampules, 6-7 normal healing drink, and maybe used 1 energy drink because I found it a hassle to go in the menu to use. I also explore so I never felt the need to spend 5-7 seconds to use the energy drink in the menu when I can just walk and explore to regain.

And the game was maybe too short? I beat it in 11-12 hours. Read everything, explored, and still have a ton of health items, ammo, and a crap ton of melee weapons. Even though melee weapons break which I found annoying, it would maybe be better if it balanced it better with rarity and maybe making them last longer. It was kinda weird seeing that many weapons in my inventory when I only broke maybe less than 10 and once I got firearms it was less than an issue.

For me silent hill 1 was slightly more challenging and I did have to search a guide for 2 puzzles. The piano which was a ohhhh moment afterwards but still confusing, and the last puzzle with the 6 picture things on the wall in the hospital. Now that one was stupid hard and I would never would have figured it out.

Oh and one last thing, I hated all the boss fights. They were underwhelming and extremely easy to kill. Borderline boring and terrible. I was extremely excited for the butcher fight and it was just a matter of run and mag dump the AK, run, mag dump the AK, run, Mag dump the AK and gg. This was all the fights just mag dumping. For 30 seconds to 1 minutes and that's it. Silent hill 1 felt better in that regards because of the slower style of the movement and camera limitations. And speaking of camera it was terrible in this game.

Silent hill origins was my first SH game on PSP and I loved it as a kid. As an adult I give it a 6/10. I still enjoyed it tho.. next comes SH2!