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It's time to return to foggy, terrifying surroundings as you take on demonic creatures in survival horror Silent Hill: Homecoming. With this Steam key, you'll control.
Posted: 7 AprilSilent Hill Homecoming is the only Silent Hill game available on steam and the only one I played, though I did watch all the movies.In my understanding, Silent Hill not just refers to a ghost town and also refers to a supernatural phenomenon that summoned by humans cult. Place where Silent Hill happens is covered with heavy fog and inhabitants there gradually disappear. There is an outer world and an inner world where Silent Hill happens. The outer world is the same as the normal world, with monsters crawling around. The inner world, besides the lurking monsters, the world mutates into a mixture of red blood, scarlet flesh and rusty iron.It is a very cool concept. It set a wonderful tone for a mysterious theme horror game.
However, Silent Hill Homecoming does not execute the idea well. While it did create a horrifying atmosphere with scene-setting, lights and spooky sounds, the story is very plain and the gameplay is boring, failing to be an immersive game. You basically just walk from points to points, kill some monsters and experience some stuff that you don’t feel anything. There is no surprise twist, indulging plot or truly horrifying scene to match the creepy atmosphere.
It is not even a good storyteller, with lots of inconsistent cutscenes and unnecessary and ambiguous choices to make. Besides, although it is a good idea to use melee attack as a conventional attack to replace gun shooting commonly seen is a good idea (but you do have three guns with very limited ammo), the combat is poorly designed. It adopts a very strange camera angle for melee attack that different from the one in walking and an even stranger gun shooting angle that provides a very limited field of view. Control in combat is very unhandy as well.
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You have to press shift which I often forgot to do, to enter the fighting mode that has a very limit dodge range compared to normal walking mode, causing even more difficulty in combat. Overall, combat is hard, not fun and even frustrating and the game is very hard to keep playing.Even worse, this game is extremely poorly transplanted from console to PC. I watched videos on YouTube showing this game run far better on console than PC.
In PC version, the control is bad, requiring longer response time for the character to react; some scenes are so dark that I basically could not see anything even in maximum brightness; optimization really sucks as frame rate is super unstable and averagely low; glitches happen pretty often in the form of game crashing for multiple times (and my game was not saved); and generally poor transplant (the game does not show left/right mouse button icons). It makes this game a disastrous playing experience.To fix most of the issues (except brightness and optimization), I recommend checking the following link. But using this patch will lead to the disappearance of dodge warning signs during combat, slightly upgrading the combat difficulty.This game has multiple endings. Read this guide if you don’t want to have bad ending like me.I don’t recommend playing this game because the plain story doesn’t live up its name, and also because of the extremely terrible transplant. If you are really interested in this game, I suggest you watch a video instead.
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