Silent Hill Origins
by Konami
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Product Summary
Brand: KonamiRelease Date: 2007-11-06
Platform: Sony PSP
Model: 26023
Publisher: Konami
Product features:
- Brand new Silent Hill adventure for a portable platform
- Spooky new effects and visuals never before seen in a Silent Hill game
- New camera system that improves the action and controls
- Brand new puzzles and mysteries to uncover
- Silent Hill Origins Official Strategy Guide (Bradygames Strategy Guides) (Bradygames Strategy Guides)
- PlayStation: The Official Magazine (1-year)
- Play
- Tips & Tricks Magazine
Video Game Reviews of Silent Hill Origins
Customer Review: A bit forced
Summary: 3 Stars
I think this game is, most likely due to the new developers, merely trying to "be" a Silent Hill game, in every way except for the music. Mr. Yamaoka is an excellent musician when it comes to the Silent Hill series, but this forced game isn't worth being a platform to deliver said music.
The way that Silent Hill symbols, such as the Seal of Metatron are thrown about with seemingly no regard to their symbolism (i.e., Alessa making a floating Seal, to dispel fire, somehow, for some reason, which is just stupid. It would be like Jesus making a cross symbol to scare away a dragon, just nonsense, really.) was most likely due to the new developers going "Oh, goody, we can place Silent Hill items anywhere we want, a-one here, a-one here, and a-one here...", because they have never worked on Silent Hill before, and thus can't know it so thoroughly as the original developing team/s. The game is abound with "creepy little girls", but "creepy little girls" have never really been creepy, just silly, and since when did Silent Hill use such canned "scare tactic" type spooks? Right here, that's when.
The levels are full of locked doors, as usual, but now it is pretty much just every door between the door you came in through, and the farthest door from you in the new hallway, because instead of the maps being deceptively confusing, springing locked doors on you when you least expected it, they are actually extremely linear. They just hope you will try every door you come across between those first and farthest doors, so you can see how many locked ones they threw in.
Sure, the new developers were "real" developers, but it was pretty much a bunch of Silent Hill fans who had (hopefully) played the original games being allowed to make their own game and put the title of Silent Hill on it, which ultimately gives it a stilted, "fan-made" feel.
I could do that, and you could do that, and they would both be terrible, because we don't make the Silent Hill games, Japan's Team Silent does!
In regards to the items, having TVs, Toasters, and Typewriters in your inventory is pretty silly. Even though characters in other games could have hundreds of pounds of items, if you sort of discounted weapons, the inventory items you carried around weren't overly large. Maybe James had big pockets, I don't know, but he never needed to carry around televisions in case he felt like throwing one.
Edit: I also wonder if even the music is not as it *could* be, if Mr. Yamaoka was given some real, quality Silent Hill material to work with, instead of "Hey, can you make us another song for another dark evil hospital? And after that, a dark foggy night, if you would be so kind."
Almost everything I said above can also apply to Silent Hill: Homecoming, but that game had some really amazing graphics in it's defense.
Description of Silent Hill Origins
The renowned Silent Hill series comes to a portable gaming system for the first time with a brand new adventure. Taking full advantage of the PSP system's graphics and portability, Silent Hill Original Sin will be the most terrifying game to arrive on the PSP System.Action Games
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