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Y A Y !

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I will have it be known that I bought my PSP for this very game, along with SILENT HILL EXPERIENCE.

I have been a Silent Hill nerd since it's release in 1999. These games are my life!

Silent Hill 4 was not so grand, with series fans. Many new annoying features, backtracking, character acting, and what not, made for a sad experience overall. Thankfully, ORIGINS has proved that Konami still has the series by the hand. Correcting nearly every flaw 4 possessed, while throwing in a few clever game play features that work delightfully well. :]

It was a total thrill seeing old characters brought to the screen--my heart fluttered with excitement at every scene! ORIGINS answers a multitude of past character questions while taking gamers through the fresh, terrifying, psychological, journey of trucker, Travis Grady.

The music is OUTSTANDING [as always] AKIRA YAMAOKA makes Silent Hill =-Genius!
--Full soundtrack composed - Stands with as much surreal beauty as past work, if not more!
So breathtaking, some tracks, that you may likely pick up and play just so to reach one a beloved track...

Silent Hill: Origins is a wonderful edition to the series. While perhaps not the best, it certainly holds it's own!

I hope to see another made handheld in the future!

Origins, Back to Silent Hill

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Yes I am a fan of the Silent Hill games. I in fact am a fan of all horror rpgs that are not thinly disguied or undisguised shooters. *cough cough resident evil cough cough*

I used some nice bonus points to buy a PSP so I could play this game. Yes there is something wrong someone who would buy such an expensive toy to play one game.

So how does SHO compare to its predecessors?

The graphics are on a par with the other games. No better, no worse.
The music is atrocious, except for the theme song which is actually very good. The background music sounds like a bored kid banging a lead pipe on some garbage pails or a steam boiler about to explode. That's easy to fix though, since you can turn the music down or off in options. *Clonk... creak... screech... clonk.... clunk... creak...*

The controls are more responsive than in the first two and thankfully the wide door problem from The Room has been fixed as well. It actually handles quite well and as an added bonus you can *sometimes* swing the camera angle with the L1 button. Not when you really need it of course.

The story line is excellent, It doesn't answer much about the origins of anything. You do get to meet the Butcher who is obviously the first incarnation of Pyramid Head, but other than that, there is really only vague hints and possibilities that merge nicely with the equally vague hints and possibilities put forth in the other games and I personally think that is a good thing. The monster that is terrifying in the shadows and mist is often silly in the light of day.

The puzzles are somewhat easier than earlier incarnations. The first time through, I found everything but the hunting rifle without any hints or walkthroughs in three days of casual play.

The only flaws I saw were ones that have always been present in the series,

too many random monsters just there to whittle away your hitpoints, not enough healing items to make it cost efficient to take out your real life aggression on the monsters... you will have to conserve and run from time to time.

The Butcher was disappointingly easy just like Pyramid head.

Not enough save spots to make you take risks. This game screams to be played conservatively.

Other than that, it remains an excellent addition to one of the two best horror series in gaming,

its decent

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

i just got this yesterday because Amazon takes forever to ship and i preordered it back in August. Anyway, i am not that far into it but decided to leave a review of it. I agree with people that it is a good psp game, because there are few of them. Its worth buying for that reason...but its not a very good silent hill game. the graphics are pretty good but the big con that takes a lot away from the game is the characters lack that sickly look that all the silent hill games have...you know the dark circles around the eyes, sunken in and pale faces.... it just loses that freaky effect the other games have. yet they made the enemies look really good, agreeing with others that it looks like they just took the ones from the movie and repeat them over and over. I did read a review saying something about the butcher looking like pyramid head...although i haven't finished this and don't know the answer, i was under the impression it was pyramid head, maybe in his early days as this takes place before all the others.
i understand the psp is limited but i would put the power of it somewhere in the middle of the ps1 and ps2 so they should have been able to pull it off. the music is great, probably the best so far, and the sound effects are good but it really does require headphone use while playing. i don't really care for the new way that weapons break after using them. most of them break after one use of hitting an enemy a few times. plus the weapons so far are kind of lame, like finding portable tvs and big medical bottles, which each can only be thrown once, so here i am running around with 2 tvs and 4 huge bottles in my pockets. would have been a little more realistic to just have enviroment interaction and have stuff laying around that you could pick up and throw instead of being like Link from Zelda and being able to carry the world in your magic pouch. Its disappointing that they let a different company besides the original silent hill team and konami develope this game but i am still rating it high, because although it seems more like a game ripping off silent hill rather than an actual silent hill release, its still makes for a decent psp game and the release price is better than most new games.

For fans only

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 43
Date: November 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I played (and sort of enjoyed, mostly laughed at) the first Silent Hill but haven't seen any of the others. I thought I'd give this one a try, decent PSP content is becoming very hard to find.

Frankly, this is one of the most ridiculous, boring "horror games" I've ever played. Let's see... far too short, I finished it in about five hours; horrible way-over-the-top voice acting; absolutely implausible plot; and just where the heck did this guy dig up all these overpowered weapons? It also doesn't help that the PSP's controls are abysmally poor for this sort of game.

If you're a fan of the series you might enjoy this, but I think this one has totally lost the feeling of the original--which was enjoyable mostly because I had no real idea what was going on (and the omnipresent fog was a clever way to take advantage of the PlayStation's hardware limitations). I could tolerate the original SH's bad voice acting and ridiculous plot just for the novelty value; Silent Hill Origins doesn't have that excuse.

Buggy piece of gameware

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 40
Date: November 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I picked up this game the day it was released. I have played it about 3 hours and everything was ok until the buttons stopped working. First the sounds for the buttons being pushed stopped (you couldn't tell if you had unlocked something or not); and then the "X" button stopped working so you are unable to defend yourself against attacks, even though you are carrying a huge sledge hammer. I tried rebooting the system to see if that would work, that's when other problems showed up. I would recommend that anyone who is interested in this game wait until they get the bugs out and re-release it. This game seems more of a Beta copy. Do not waste your money, get the PS2 versions and enjoy yourself.

New Scary experience of silent Hill

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: November 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

In the new silent Hill game the experience that can be used with the psp is fantastic. if you have the lights off and headphones on like they tell you to do when you start the game, the silent hill experience is much better than with a bigger screen. the smaller screen makes a good effect due to less light. It is a must for Silent Hill Fans. so if you are a fan of psycological Horror than this is the game for you. This game is mostly intended for a silent hill fan, so if you havent played a silent hill game you might be confused so i suggest you try one of the others before doing this one.

Silent Hill game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: January 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This was purchased as a gift, so I can't rate the game, but I was satisfied with the product in general. It was just as ordered, shipped quickly with no problems, I would order from this seller again.

Survival Horror Done Well

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game reminds me of Silent Hill 2 in its graphic presentation and gameplay, and that's a good thing. The sound and other assorted atmospherics are eerie and unnerving. Movement is smooth and fluid. The combat system is pretty easy to pick up. The thing that's really different about this game is the ability to move back and forth between dimensions (the creepy Silent Hill and the regular Silent Hill) by touching mirrors. If you've seen the movie (or played the other games)then this certainly adds to the back story. If you're a survival horror fan, you can't go wrong with this title. It's one of the better PSP games out there.

SH: O

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game offers an interesting view on events taking place before the first game on PSone. The graphics are very nice, comparable to PS2 graphics. The sound effects are a little on the cheesey side, but real enough to creep you out. The music is beautifully written, again, by the same composer who did the other games. My biggest issues were the camera angles and controls. They're too shifty and it's hard to see around you. I've had to fight several bosses without ever seeing the boss through the entire fight, just letting Travis auto-aim and fire.

It's decent enough if you can stomach it.

try playing it in the dark

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

without a doubt the creepiest most atmospheric game I've played since the old Amiga top down shooter Alien.
The way the soundtrack enhances the experience has to be heard to be truly appreciated.
I defy anyone to complete the game without several changes of underwear.

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