Its also the game that feels the most like a dream, in my opinion.
But quality arguing aside, it is definitely the weirdest Silent Hill game. Now, this one has some required taste attached, as for some reason it controls worse than the other Silent Hill games, and there's a lot of debate with fans if the game is a good Silent Hill game (or great in some eyes), or a bad Silent Hill game. But in my personal opinion, Silent Hill 4 is the scariest in the series. Silent Hill has some fantastic atmosphere, and each game has its moments. And most of this is randomized, supported by some absolutely creepy music, atmosphere, and tough survival situations that you must overcome, along with very effective scares that are also randomized. A monster that has long-flowing hair that can start appearing randomly from something like a vent or a locker until it comes out and starts coming for you, among many other things. A monster who crawls on the ceiling slowly and approaches you with a faint sound. Ghostly visions that stare at you at a distance from a lake. Strange happenings are going on in the school, things that are shifting the school's layout and making it a surreal labyrinth, as well as supernatural forces that are particularly strong in the dark. The best place to hide from the janitor is in the dark, but the dark is not much better. But it's not just him that transverses the school. You''re either going to have to hide before he finds you, or start running. The Janitor freely goes around the school, and you can hear him coming by a jingling of his keys. And the things that attack you are mostly randomized. They released patches to scale the scares to difficulty, so the harder difficulty you play, the more scares there will be. The game was so scary, that many people emailed the developers how they couldn't finish the game. It starts with him witnessing somebody else in the school getting brutally beat to death by a deranged janitor. It tells the story of a boy who goes to school to drop off chocolates for the girl he likes late one night at her desk, but things go terribly wrong.
White Day: A Labyrinth Named School is a Korean PC horror game that released in 2000. The atmosphere, the ghosts that get introduced in that section, the fact this is where you get chased the most by an invincible ghost you can't kill, and the section where you lose your camera Obscura, make this whole section pretty tense for me, and my favorite part of the game.Īlso I think Fatal Frame 3 is a scarier game. And there is one segment of Fatal Frame 2 I did legitimately think was fairly scary, which is when you find yourself trapped in those two houses that are linked by an underground tunnel, and one of them is owned by a doll maker. But then I think Fatal Frame 2 was a lot easier overall than Fatal Frame 1, but preferred Fatal Frame 2 as a game. At the end of Fatal Frame 2, my first time playing it, I, without exaggeration, had over 40 herbal medicines by the end of the game.
I might just have a harder time finding it scary because of the combat system though, as while yet, it does the great job of adding risk for reward, it becomes an addictive gameplay style to try and take shots worth the most points so I can upgrade and become more powerful. I love (looooove) the Fatal Frame series, but if I'll be honest, I don't think they're as scary as a lot of people make them out to be, but they do have their moments, they do have great atmosphere, interesting stories and settings, and a fun combat system.