Today, I'm going to talk a little about Silent Hill: Shattered Memories. During the break, I finished playing the game (the Wii edition, in case anyone was wondering). For a while, I had pushed the game to the side because I had progressed pretty far into the game, and, somehow, the Wii turned off and I lost my game. Sad. Face. Over break, in the midst of boredom and spending time in my warm living room instead of my cold basement bedroom, I decided I would get to playing SH again. It took me approximately seven hours to finish two thirds of the game. It wasn't that long at all. Overall, it was a decent gaming experience.
***WARNING. THIS POST CONTAINS HELLA SPOILERS. IF YOU ACTUALLY PLAN ON PLAYING THIS SOMEDAY, BE AWARE THAT I REVEAL A WHOLE LOT.***
When I began the game, it flashed a quick "psychology warning," that I still haven't read all the way through. But the one thing I caught from it was "This game plays you as much as you play it." Or something along those lines. That freaked me out. Especially considering I started playing on a rainy day when the windows decided to start fogging up for no reason. [Probably another reason I stopped playing it for so long..] But what makes it so psychological, I guess, is the fact that, depending on how you play the game or answer questions posed by the psychologist that you encounter throughout the game, determines the type of person you supposedly are, which determines the ending of your game. When I figured this out [thanks gamefaqs.com ;D], I thought it was pretty cool. Starting out, I thought the game would be super scary for no apparent reason and I would pee my pants at any given moment. Honestly, the only truly freaky parts were the "nightmare" scenes, in which everything turns to ice and these disfigured figures chase you until you get to your destination. They scream, they jump out of nowhere, and you can't really do anything about it. The only way to survive it is to run the right way and shake them off quickly when they jump on you.
I think what tripped me out the most about this game was the fact that you play as the character Harry, who spends the entire time searching around for his daughter. At random times during his search, the player finds itself in therapy with a psychologist that has a bountiful liquor collection and lots of questions to ask about your personality. It's safe to assume that the person in therapy is Harry, right? Come to find out, the therapy patient is Harry's daughter, Cheryl, and the game was about Harry traveling through the memories in Cheryl's head. Harry died in the car crash in which he couldn't find Cheryl, but you don't realize that until Cheryl is seen 18 years later and is trying to portray Harry as a hero, but you learn that Harry isn't all he's cracked up to be. In terms of how scary the game is, like I said, the worst it got was the nightmare scenes where you're running from monsters you can't get rid of; there are also parts where you have to take pictures with Harry's camera phone when you come across a "ghost" which are basically images burned into Cheryl's memory. The only freaky thing about those is the fact that taking a picture causes a loud noise that sends a text message or voicemail to Harry's phone that tells a story about that ghost. The ghosts aren't that bad; they're just immobile images of people that you can only see clearly through the phone. The scariest one was the kid that hung himself in the storage area of the high school. Or the restaurant.. They're in the same area, I don't remember which one he was in lol.
Basically, if you have a Wii and the chance to play this game, play it. It's not that scary. Sometimes, it's kinda funny. It's a pretty decent play. The most annoying thing would probably be all the static that happens throughout the game. In certain instances, Harry's phone gets loud and full of static, even though he's not even on it. The static gets louder when you approach certain things, and it won't go away unless you approach it the right way.
That's all I have to talk about. I might reveal all the surprises of the game if I keep going. :P
This is the ending I got. Throughout the game, I was supposedly a sexual person, but I got the ending that happens when you are a supposed "family person," I guess. [Scroll down and stop the music before you watch this, unless you already did.] Stop it at the 5 minute mark. Enjoy that.
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