Silent Hill: Homecoming (X360)

“I liked this game much better than I expected based on other reviews I've read. I felt it fit in with the Silent Hill series fairly well (as a side story). All of the issues I had with the game were at the design level. Only being able to pick...”

“I liked this game much better than I expected based on other reviews I've read. I felt it fit in with the Silent Hill series fairly well (as a side story). All of the issues I had with the game were at the design level. Only being able to pick up two ammo clips. The dodge system. Enemies that can nearly stun lock with cheap spammed attacks. Still, certainly worth the $15 I paid.”

“My 2nd favourite game in the Silent Hill series. This game made me jump almost every corner. Very great”

“My 2nd favourite game in the Silent Hill series. This game made me jump almost every corner. Very great”

“Very creepy, very dark, very cool. The first of the silent hill games I have ever played. Complete with a handful of choices that lead to alternate endings. I really enjoyed this game.”

“Very creepy, very dark, very cool. The first of the silent hill games I have ever played. Complete with a handful of choices that lead to alternate endings. I really enjoyed this game.”

“great game but the puzzles are not as hard as the others ”

“great game but the puzzles are not as hard as the others ”

“I was sorely disappointed when we bought this game. I watched Rob play through the first time, as I often do, and I was so sad to find that I really wanted the game to end so we could play something else. The story had so much potential, could have...”

“I was sorely disappointed when we bought this game. I watched Rob play through the first time, as I often do, and I was so sad to find that I really wanted the game to end so we could play something else. The story had so much potential, could have been something great, but it wasn't.
Alex could have been an interesting guy, Josh could have been the next Laura, but they weren't. Instead, Alex was some weird mix of James Sunderland and Henry Townshend and Josh was just an annoying little snot. By removing the internal monologue I felt completely disconnected from Alex, where as I loved James and Heather and Henry because of the insight into their personalities the internal monologue gave us. But instead Alex seemed completely bland; with no opinions of his own he simply states facts such as "This guy's dead." What happened to lines like "Who could have done something like this?" or "This...this is blood."? The rest of the characters seem to be thrown in simply to advance the story and there was never really any reason to care about them beyond how they could help me advance to the next area. You want your damn rabbit? Here it is, just let me get out of here.
The combat system was god-awful and just generally made life difficult, especially when the monsters with obscure weaknesses were thrown into the mix. I'm not the greatest gamer by any means, but the dodging and whatnot seemed completely unnecessary. Doors and holes in the wall blend into the background so well I had to rely on GameFAQs fairly often to find my way through. I spent half an hour wandering the same segment of Alchemillia Hospital before I finally realized that I was looking at a door, not part of the wall.
Finally, I had a problem with the over use of 'scary' elements. Flesh doors? Pyramid Head? They didn't need to be there. I understand that Pyramid Head was meant to be Alex's father's executioner, but if that was the case the honestly Alex should not have been able to see him. To me, it seemed they were just trying far too hard to scare the player. The things that creeped me out the most in the old Silent Hill games was not the unknown, but the familiar. Seeing a place like the neighborhood I live in deserted, dark and foggy, left me with chills. Finding out that Henry had, unknowingly, been living with a corpse in his wall freaked me out, especially when I realized the apartment I had almost bought looked uncomfortably like the ones in South Ashfield. Sure, flesh doors and cultist-infested factories are pretty freaky, but they just didn't leave an impression in my mind.
Homecoming had so much potential, but it was all wasted because Foundation 9 and Double Helix did not seem to grasp the true essence of Silent Hill. The only saving grace was Akira Yamaoka's soundtrack, but that's neither here nor there.”

“I won't argue the fine points of all the criticism made against this game, but I will say that the atmosphere was the most intense and oppressive that I've seen in a game. Well done!”

“I won't argue the fine points of all the criticism made against this game, but I will say that the atmosphere was the most intense and oppressive that I've seen in a game. Well done!”

“Silent Hill: Homecoming is one of the most creepiest games I've ever played though it can't surpass the original Silent hill. SH has excellent graphics, the creepiest music ever and the vibe you get from playing it is perfect. Scared as hell!!”

“Silent Hill: Homecoming is one of the most creepiest games I've ever played though it can't surpass the original Silent hill. SH has excellent graphics, the creepiest music ever and the vibe you get from playing it is perfect. Scared as hell!!”

“A couple of really scary situations don't make up for the pace, but the new battle mechanic definitely helps give it some needed points.”

“A couple of really scary situations don't make up for the pace, but the new battle mechanic definitely helps give it some needed points.”

“Family prejudice, cult loyalty, and repressed memories have transformed the once peaceful town of Shepherd's Glen into a mutilated ghost town, leaving Alex Shepherd with only the ghost of his younger brother to lead him through the circles of Hell. ”

“Family prejudice, cult loyalty, and repressed memories have transformed the once peaceful town of Shepherd's Glen into a mutilated ghost town, leaving Alex Shepherd with only the ghost of his younger brother to lead him through the circles of Hell. ”