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Silent Hill

I've always loved the Silent Hill series of games (It's a survival horror, adventure series) and I only recently went back to playing the second game in the series.
It's very atmospheric - Silent Hill is a small resort town surrounding a lake somewhere in the US although we are never told exactly where. The main problem is that the town's very haunted, with lots of nightmarish creatures roaming the streets. On top of that you are required to explore different areas of the town, following the plot of the game and also solving puzzles and riddles along the way. These are interesting, and they further build on the whole occult theme. If you toggle with the difficulty settings, they rapidly become the hardest gameplay element, in my opinion. They all vary - for example, one involves reading a cryptic poem and then deciphering from that, the order in which different coins should fit into slots. I sometimes find these infuriating, although they're all do-able if you think 'outside the box'.
Puzzles of this fashion are very good for you and your problem solving ability and certainly prove that computer games are not solely for children and more importantly, comprise more than just shooting anything that moves...

posted by qmchaz64 @ 3:11 pm