This profile influences the game's environments, puzzles, and creatures, creating a personalized experience for each player. This survival horror game also features a unique psychological system, in which your actions and choices throughout the game are used to determine your personal profile.
As you progress through the game, you are confronted by surreal and terrifying creatures and hallucinations and must use stealth and problem-solving skills to survive. The game is divided into several chapters, each of which takes place in a different part of the town. It might not be a “true” Silent Hill game, but when it’s this good, it hardly matters.In Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, you’ll take on the role of Harry Mason, who is searching for his missing daughter in the town of Silent Hill.
The demo is far too short to get a real feel for the game, and I haven’t tried out the multiplayer, but Book of Memories is clearly the brilliant Vita exclusive that no one asked for, but will be glad to have. Though there’s a shop to buy stuff the currency is nowhere near as plentiful as you’d expect from a Diablo clone. Ammunition is hard to come by and weapons degrade quickly. Obviously there’s a greater action focus in the game this time around, but there’s still a touch of the scarcity of loot that you’d hope for in a survival horror franchise. It’s not scary any more, but there’s a thick, dark atmosphere nonetheless that makes the exploration compelling. The music is dense and the visual style is pure Silent Hill. There’s still puzzles (delightfully obscure as befits Silent Hill), and plenty of ghostly mysteries to solve, it’s just a game that is told within a different context than previously.
You’ll kick things off by creating a character (though the story seems to remain much the same regardless of who you choose), and then explore winding, twisting corridors and rooms filled with disgusting traditional Silent Hill creatures. Book of Memories is indeed a dungeon crawling RPG, with a healthy dose of roguelike thrown in for good measure, but it’s so laden with Silent Hill’s classic atmosphere that it still feels like Silent Hill canon.
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