Silent Hill 4: The Room

Silent Hill 4: The RoomSome friends and I started a play through of the Silent Hill series and for some reason we started on Silent Hill 4 The Room. . . . Silent Hill 4 the room wasn't supposed to be specifically a Silent Hill game, but Konami thought that changing it to focus more on Silent Hill would actually make it sell better. SH4 focuses on Henry Townshend a silent man that is living in the South Ashfield Heights Apartments. Ashfield is across the lake from Silent hill, so you know all kinds of crazy things are bound to pop up. Henry one day wakes up and finds that his apartment door is locked along with all of the windows. He try's to get people outside of the apartment to hear him, but it seems he is trapped in another dimension. You the player then find a hole in your apartment that leads to different worlds that relate to Silent Hill that are filled with monsters and puzzles. At the begining of the game Henry is just trying to get out of his apartment but the story slowly evolves into something much deeper and sinister. The story is highly based on the murder Walter Sullivan mentioned in the other Silent Hills. He is also the one that locked you in your apartment.
SH4 unlike most of the other Silent Hills focuses more on melee weapons. It gives you the option to have a charge strike and the shear amount of melee weapons is spectacular. If you enjoy bashing monsters with a giant pick axe of despair then pick up this game immediately. The game is quite difficult especially as the player progresses further into the dark worlds. The player will find them self dieing quite a bit until they get the hand of killing monsters. The game has a ginormous amount of secrets and endings, so feel free to replay it as much as possible. We ended up getting all of the endings in the non greatest hits version of the game. The only thing I didn't like about SH4 the room is that it was quite hard to get in tune with the main character Henry. He doesn't really talk much and we don't get much of his back story, however the story that unfolds in the world makes up for the lack of his. Overall I liked this game and would definitely recommend it to anyone that has played the Silent Hill series and enjoys the story.

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