A departure from old Silent Hill games. Still very creepy.

From all the video games that I've played, Silent Hill 4 is the one that forced me to persuade ONLY to see the story till the very end, I've never been so interested in a game before only because of it's story telling; I don't want to spoil anything but I can say that it's not just the best story in the Silent Hill series, but to me, one of the best ever told in a video game; it's deep, thrilling, philosophical and catchy, it's like watching a good horror movie. What damages this game so much to me is the controls, SH4 has the worst combat system in the series; it's not has scary has it's predecessor and some sound effects are just comedically funny.

SH4 was one of the first games I bought with my own money, so I was really looking forward to play it. Approximately one hour later I put the disc back into the case, horrified as hell and never touched the game again - until now. After revisiting room 302 so many years later I've come to realize that this game didn't lose any of its scariness - like at all.

Konami probably realised that the whole "lonely person in a foggy town"-scenario was getting old hat, so they tried something new and fairly unexpected, the result being a surrealistic story that feels like Oldboy meets Clive Barker meets HP Lovecraft. This works rather well, at least up to the point halfway through where you're suddenly required to revisit all the places you've been to before, making gameplay incredibly repetitive and forced in the process. But all that aside, The Room has some genuinely scary and surreal moments which make it possibly the most underrated game in the series. It is certainly much better than what came after.