>>87740492For all intents and purposes they're the same story. The gameplay is completely changed from fixed perspective tank controls classic RE style horror game from the late 90s early 2000s, which can remove tension and will obviously make jumpscares impossible to happen as you have complete control and an insane amount of spatial awareness that comes with it being a 3rd person over the shoulder perspective. This focuses on it being more action than Horror in a sense, which doesn't matter much for silent hill because the horror is in what it implies and what it shows.
They took some creative liberties that sometimes detract from the original (changing the hospital, removing the smaller abstract daddy, somewhat important for Angela's closure), and others that expand on the original (the labyrinth has a purpose and connects with the other areas, it's not just jumbled reused assets).
The cons of the remake:
>Padded to hell and back>TOO MANY FUCKING ENEMIES>James is slow as shit running around.>The combat sometimes is too precise, amidst its jank. Still on the fence about fucking iframe dodge roll. Leon is a cop in RE2 and he didn't have it, and he's supposed to be THE action man.>Voice acting delivery is so so. James actor did a good job, Maria/Mary did a terrible job. Angela's tried her best (Mary Elizabeth McGlynn wasn't that great either, but her intonation worked fine because of the japanese direction). Eddie is solid 7.5 out of 10, made to be a fat fuck that you hate.>Runs like garbage thanks to Unreal 5 and poor polish(heh) optimization combined. I can't even imagine how bad it would be if this game had Denuvo>Some new music absolutely ruin old cutscenes. New Promise and New Angel Thanatos are actual audible diarrhea compared to the original.The pros of the remake:
>Easier to get into than the Original SH2, which can only be experienced fully on original hardware. There's a PC mod that tries to emulate it, but it doesn't quite get it. >Most of the new things you see were actual things in the original, just out of frame because of fixed camera work. The devs actually hacked the original game to reproduce entire areas correctly. So it's a bit of fanservice for old SH2 fans. My favorite was the reference to Walter in the Prison, which is just out of frame in the original.>Didn't try to get gritty, or modernized dialogue, unlike RE remakes did with Leon cussing at everything. They actually respected the original in this regard.All in all, it's like a 6/10 game. I don't think it's a game Biboo will like, but her curiosity might keep her playing to see what happens with the characters at least. They're purposefully made to be as mysterious as possible, as a way to hook the player.
Sorry for using the Biboo General for this, but I had to get it off my chest.
