You’ll miss items, miss door knobs (not fun when being chased by monsters), and miss monsters (not fun when being bludgeoned by monsters). And yet, the game is far too dark on the whole. Consider this, for starters: Homecoming boasts positively striking lighting effects, where shadows are cast realistically, rich with depth and mystery. The contrary trend doesn’t end there – the game does everything in its power to quell its own fanfare. the next game to come along, Silent Hill: Downpour. Silent Hill: Homecoming is a study in eliciting ambivalence: it wants so badly to stir emotions and instead taps Silent Hill's last vestige of intrigue in order to give us the canon's hollowest experience until. Rather than sate our thirst with some ingenious new angle to this business of Otherworldliness, new developers Double Helix serve up something that closely resembles the first game only in appearance, and not in spirit, choosing to ramp up the elementary combat and miss the point altogether. Ironically, in coming home we are farthest away from a new path to the original waterfall. I now knew what Silent Hill was, and I met the ‘plights’ of Heather and Henry (of subsequent entries) with indifference. The Question that first game elicited would never again be so pure and resonant:īy the second coming, we knew pretty much what 'this place' was, but the creators asked us to ponder on something else not clearly explained in the original - Question #2: Why us? And James Sunderland’s tragic lot furnished a wholly satisfying if melancholy answer.įollowing James was little more than disappointment. Its world was hell seen through the fragile veneer of normalcy hell which you could touch and through which you could tread when the veneer thinned out completely in places. With each subsequent release in the franchise, the pertinent questions, the questions that matter, lose a little more of their potency.Īnd with this Homecoming, there is precious little remaining.Ī friend of mine remarked that success of the original Silent Hill was an anomaly, and he was on to something. What made it possible to push forward in spite of perfunctory combat and the tedium of door-knob jiggling and dead-ends at the mouths of streets torn asunder. The desire to have them answered was what made wading through the wounded alleys and hateful hallways so compelling. In the beginning, Silent Hill made me ask questions. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Silent Hill: Homecoming (Xbox 360) review Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps.
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