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Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
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An icy re-imagining of the classic Silent Hill, which trades weapons for frantic chase sequences as the player tries desperately to flee pursuing enemies. It takes on more of an adventure game format than traditional survival-horror.
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"A laundry list of risky changes pays off in this great new beginning for the Silent Hill series."
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Not much survival horror, more a pleasently spooky adventure game

Silent Hill: Shattered Memories was released in 2011 and developed by Climax Studios, the game is a reimagening of the game in the series, and combines elements form the survival horror and point&… Read more

Fond Memories of Silent Hill: Shattered Memories

Silent Hill: Shattered Memories succeeds as a reboot of the Silent Hill franchise while still keeping the tone and atmosphere of previous games in the franchise. In this outing, the Wii offers the pla… Read more

A great story told through fair gameplay

Silent Hill: Shattered Memories is a "reimagining" of the original Silent Hill game. The premise is the same: You are Harry Mason, you've crashed your car and your daughter is missing, so you go look… Read more

A return to Silent Hills roots

Volcano be damned, i just finished Silent Hill: Shattered Memories and while it was worth the wait, i'm not sure i fully understand what i just played. Silent Hill: Shattered Memories is a remake of t… Read more

A clever psychological exploration

At its conclusion Silent Hill: shattered memories presented a psychological profile of me, it had been watching and recording my every action, the path I toke and the decisions I made we being analyze… Read more

A Great New Direction

Silent Hill: Shattered Memories is the kind of game I would love to make someday. I love to play the traditional styles of video games, but if I were to actually get involved in making games, I would… Read more

A Chilling New Experience.

When I heard that Climax was gonna make a "remake" of the first Silent Hill, I was stoked. But when I read further that it was not a remake, but a re-imagining, and that some major elements of what ma… Read more

Silent Hill: Shattered Memories Review

Silent Hill: Shattered Memories is the first Silent Hill release for the Wii from developers Climax. Shattered Memories is a re-imagining of the first Silent Hill released long ago on Playstation. Thi… Read more

A New Take on Silent Hill

Silent Hill Shattered Memories is a bold attempt through and through, ditching combat and implementing escape sequences, turning away from cult dealings and focusing on a psychological voyage, letting… Read more

Silent Hill: Shattered Memories oh how you piss me off...

God damn does this game have some crappy mechanics that lead to some of the most frustrating shit I have gone through in gaming in a long time! First off I am a fan of the Silent Hill series, I have n… Read more

A Game in Three Parts

Shattered Memories indeed. The game is broken up into three sections. The first spanning multiple therapy sessions, the second exploring an adventure game format, and the third running away from a gro… Read more

Haunting as an Experience, Lacking as a Game

The Silent Hill franchise has consistently been one difficult to champion. The atmosphere and narrative of the games are second to none within the survival horror genre, and offer some of the most mem… Read more

A little game with big, well executed ideas.

"She's 7, short black hair." Silent Hill has lost a lot of favor with most fans in recent years. Silent Hill 4 divided the fan base up, with people liking it taking a vast minority. Silent Hill 0rigin… Read more

I'm looking for a little girl...

Now, while this game is a "Re-Make" it isn't really a Re-Make as much as a mulligan. The story differs HUGELY from the original Silent Hill, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing... just don't go in… Read more

Silent Hill: Shattered Memories - Putting You In The Game

If you're like me, you bought a Nintendo Wii around the time it came out. You thought it would be awesome after hearing about the new Zelda, new Mario's, and everything else that Nintendo promised. If… Read more

Daddy issues.

Well, I just finished my first run through the game. Final play time, according to the Wii dashboard: - 9h45min - And I immediatly started a new game, which is even more heavily encouraged by the endi… Read more

Shattered Memories: A Spectacle for the Wii

In its own idiosyncratic ways, I see Silent Hill: Shattered Memories as doing something similar for its respective series like what Resident Evil 4 did nearly six years ago as well. I'm doubtful that… Read more

Looking forward to this Wii “re imagining” for so long pains me

Anybody familiar with us knows that I’m a Silent Hill geek of epic proportions. Looking forward to this Wii “re imagining” for so long….pains me…for I just did not love this game. It’s out on Wii now,… Read more

Silent Hill Goes Back to the Drawing Board, but Comes Up Short

The Silent Hill series has gone through a lot since the first installment on the original PlayStation. It has become known for weird creature designs, nightmarish alternate worlds, and plenty of distu… Read more

Shattered Memories is a breath of fresh air.

I have been a great fan of the series ever since I began playing the games about 6 years ago (wow has it been that long already?!) That puts me about mid-life on the franchise as a whole, but firmly b… Read more

Psychoanalysis at home

The Silent Hill series of games has always been filled with subliminal messages about your protagonist. His deepest emotions would come to life in form of disturbing beasts and the city itself would m… Read more

So sad, So sad

Allow me to preface this commentary by mentioning two basic facts; 1. I've never finished a silent hill game. The clunky combat and acward controls always turned me off even as the atmospher and story… Read more

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