It looks like publisher Konami and developer Bloober Team might have redesigned the main character in their Silent Hill 2 remake, and fans are actually pretty happy about it.
Personally I didn’t find Silent Hill all that scary either. It was unsettling, of course, but it wasn’t scary in the sense that anything made me jump. Silent Hill 1 had like two jumpscares in it, but Silent Hill 2 had zero, because SH1 was more of a traditional horror theme in the sense that it focused more on horror from gore and body horror. SH2 was purely psychological, and so it focused more on unsettling atmosphere, and a macabre story to match.
To me, it was clear the second game was inspired by the likes of David Lynch, even a bit of Alfred Hitchcock in there. And honestly, it was much better that way, it was able to deviate further from Resident Evil and not be compared too directly. Though RE2 started REs fall into the action shooter genre after the developers said they wanted it to be like a Hollywood action movie. Which is fine, but it left Silent Hill holding the Survival Horror genre on its back with only a few examples released later like Kuon and Rule of Rose.
Its unfortunate Konami meddled so much with SH3 and forced Team Silent to make it more like SH1. The pieces of information regarding its original storyline would have made a much better game, though perhaps for the time it came out it probably would not have been allowed to release with anything less than an AO rating from the ESRB.
Personally I didn’t find Silent Hill all that scary either. It was unsettling, of course, but it wasn’t scary in the sense that anything made me jump. Silent Hill 1 had like two jumpscares in it, but Silent Hill 2 had zero, because SH1 was more of a traditional horror theme in the sense that it focused more on horror from gore and body horror. SH2 was purely psychological, and so it focused more on unsettling atmosphere, and a macabre story to match.
To me, it was clear the second game was inspired by the likes of David Lynch, even a bit of Alfred Hitchcock in there. And honestly, it was much better that way, it was able to deviate further from Resident Evil and not be compared too directly. Though RE2 started REs fall into the action shooter genre after the developers said they wanted it to be like a Hollywood action movie. Which is fine, but it left Silent Hill holding the Survival Horror genre on its back with only a few examples released later like Kuon and Rule of Rose.
Its unfortunate Konami meddled so much with SH3 and forced Team Silent to make it more like SH1. The pieces of information regarding its original storyline would have made a much better game, though perhaps for the time it came out it probably would not have been allowed to release with anything less than an AO rating from the ESRB.