Is this a faithful remake?

[🎱PopCulturePizza🎱 TTV/YT]

I'm interesting in buying it but I'm a little unsure. I just want to know if it runs good, if they censored anything in this version, or if it's as close to the original game's atmosphere and story as possible.

That's all I care about. It being faithful to SH2 and it not having poor optimization. Did you notice any major changes? I'm not talking about ♥♥♥♥ like that stupid neon sign argument when the new sign looked better than the original. I love when remakes have tons of improvements to the original experience so I'm crossing my fingers this is one of them.

Not all change is bad. It's the execution that matters.

[ReamedBySteem]

you're new here aren't you. It's rhetorical.

[Bankruptcy]

been a little bit since i played the original but yeah this is quite the faithful remake with a couple of added sections to it.

[🎱PopCulturePizza🎱 TTV/YT]

Originally posted by Bankruptcy:

been a little bit since i played the original but yeah this is quite the faithful remake with a couple of added sections to it.

Thanks bro. I'll do some checking around but I'm always down for new stuff in the game.

[Terminus Est]

It runs like crap and my game soft locked so I can't progress. So no, it's not like the original.

[katharsis]

its completely faithfull to the original but they have added and remade some areas, puzzles, monsters and bossfights that 100% fit the tone of the original and makes the gameplay better and more enjoyable. They have also added a lot new content and cutscenes that also fit perfectly with plot. The atmosphere and the ambience is even better than the og and its also much scarier and much more tense.

[FreshRevenge]

Originally posted by Terminus Est:

It runs like crap and my game soft locked so I can't progress. So no, it's not like the original.

Don't blame your crappy computer or lazy upkeep of your computer on the game. I have played through the game twice without issues.

[Lethal Placebo]

The original story is there and is completely intact. There are some new scenes, they aren't bad but they don't add much. If there's one thing here I would say is definitively better than the original, it's the combat, but that was never central to my enjoyment of Silent Hill.

This remake expands every single area of the game compared to the original. This is great in the opening exploration of the town, that's where it's the most effective. As the game goes on, this gets tiresome because combat, despite being improved, is still very easy and it begins to feel more like they're just throwing in excuses to make you do more of it. It stops being engaging after a few hours and you start to go for much longer stretches between story moments.

The original was an 8 hour game with perfect pacing. This is a 16 hour game that feels like a slog once you get halfway through it, at least that's how it feels to me. I never got stuck and I never died, but I did thoroughly search every area.

Like I said, story is all there, but the delivery is...mixed. Acting is played much more straight down the middle here, ironically missing out on both the subtlety and the raw emotional moments from the original. I don't think it's necessarily bad except for a few moments here and there, but none of it lands quite as hard.

Optimization: I have an i7 13700K, RTX 3080, 32GB DDR4 RAM. Played the game maxed out with DLSS on, RT off. Game never crashed. Performance was okay at best. A decent 60-80 FPS indoors, 50-60 outdoors, but some areas and sections would just drop to the mid 30s.

When I want to play Silent Hill 2, my mind will immediately jump to the original, not this.

[Tremere]

Yes, it is very faihtful to the original.

[Dude Guyman]

First performance: It runs TERRIBLE! Period. With anything less than the latest, greatest hardware, you will have to pull out every trick in the book, to even get 60 FPS consistently. It is a choppy feeling, stutter fest, but is playable, but not what I'd call enjoyable. Even when getting 60-100 FPS, it feels like 20-30 with that choppy, 'not-smooth' feel when you turn the camera. Playing with M+KB, mouse turning is like using a wet noodle as a pointing device.

Actual gameplay: It's "faithful", but had a few affairs. It keeps the feel of the original, but changes enough so you feel like your playing a new game, meaning things are not in the exact same place and the world has been reworked so you feel like...I don't know, like you took a slightly different route this time in the same place.

[🎱PopCulturePizza🎱 TTV/YT]

Originally posted by Dude Guyman:

First performance: It runs TERRIBLE! Period. With anything less than the latest, greatest hardware, you will have to pull out every trick in the book, to even get 60 FPS consistently. It is a choppy feeling, stutter fest, but is playable, but not what I'd call enjoyable. Even when getting 60-100 FPS, it feels like 20-30 with that choppy, 'not-smooth' feel when you turn the camera. Playing with M+KB, mouse turning is like using a wet noodle as a pointing device.

Actual gameplay: It's "faithful", but had a few affairs. It keeps the feel of the original, but changes enough so you feel like your playing a new game, meaning things are not in the exact same place and the world has been reworked so you feel like...I don't know, like you took a slightly different route this time in the same place.

That's more or less what I imagined. Thank you. Did they keep the dog ending?