OH GOD THIS GAME.
Honestly, while Homecoming feels like better value than 0rigins, I'm glad I didn't pay the money for it either. Added to which, it's the darkest game so far - by which I mean it is hideously lit. I would ruin my eyesight playing this on my TV. Oh, and it's so full of bugs. There's at least two that can actually corrupt your save :s
Negativity aside, I do like the Hell Descent level - that's pretty cool.
Still not looking forward to the latter half of the Penitentiary, because that's where the gore/extreme violence starts picking back up, I think. Whatever, end part of the game, do not want. (Another reason I'm glad I didn't pay cash for this). I kind of want to scream at Double Helix that violence doesn't equal scary, except I know it does (the beginning of the game - Alex's hospital nightmare - is STILL keeping me awake at night, and I saw that three days and some change ago. Irrational, I know, but there's not a lot I can do about it. A similar thing stopped me sleeping a few weeks back). But it's not the sort of thing I like, as I've noted in previous entries. And I know I'm whining about this, but that's not the sort of thing I associate with Silent Hill. I see the series as having a more lingering, creepy, fridge-type horror, and I'm sure I'm not alone. And I'm not fond of having things shoved down my throat, which is what I feel a lot of more visceral horror does.
(E.G. "Here's all these bloody, butchered corpses! Those are scary! YOU! Be scared of that!" I know that's very simplistic, but that's what it feels like most of the time for me, when it's not the writer/creator/whoever trying to be "edgy").
Alex feels a bit flat - he has no personality whatsoever, but it feels like there's more to him than there was to Travis, if only because Alex exchanges more than three sentences with a variety of people (Lisa tends to talk AT Travis, rather than to/with him).
But, you know, I'm sure there's people to whom Harry comes off as flat to, so perhaps I shouldn't judge too harshly (although I am! I TOTALLY AM! Because Alex you are not what I expected! This game is not what I expected! None of this is what I expected! I don't know what I expected!)
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All the above said, I've managed to get three/fifths of my sweater done while watching SH LPs. Working on the second sleeve now. Should be finished soon, anyway :)
(I had a break earlier in the evening in an attempt to finish The Gunslinger. Seriously. I have had that book for three weeks and I haven't finished it yet. Not because I don't like it - I do - but just because I don't know I'm having such a battle with books right now, and it's really annoying me. I don't know if I should blame the internet, or being self-employed (and so feeling I have to work all the time), but I feel guilty for reading and I find trying to concentrate on reading so fucking difficult sometimes. AND I REALLY FUCKING HATE THAT).
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P.S. I apologise for the increase in swearing of late. I don't know why that is.
Honestly, while Homecoming feels like better value than 0rigins, I'm glad I didn't pay the money for it either. Added to which, it's the darkest game so far - by which I mean it is hideously lit. I would ruin my eyesight playing this on my TV. Oh, and it's so full of bugs. There's at least two that can actually corrupt your save :s
Negativity aside, I do like the Hell Descent level - that's pretty cool.
Still not looking forward to the latter half of the Penitentiary, because that's where the gore/extreme violence starts picking back up, I think. Whatever, end part of the game, do not want. (Another reason I'm glad I didn't pay cash for this). I kind of want to scream at Double Helix that violence doesn't equal scary, except I know it does (the beginning of the game - Alex's hospital nightmare - is STILL keeping me awake at night, and I saw that three days and some change ago. Irrational, I know, but there's not a lot I can do about it. A similar thing stopped me sleeping a few weeks back). But it's not the sort of thing I like, as I've noted in previous entries. And I know I'm whining about this, but that's not the sort of thing I associate with Silent Hill. I see the series as having a more lingering, creepy, fridge-type horror, and I'm sure I'm not alone. And I'm not fond of having things shoved down my throat, which is what I feel a lot of more visceral horror does.
(E.G. "Here's all these bloody, butchered corpses! Those are scary! YOU! Be scared of that!" I know that's very simplistic, but that's what it feels like most of the time for me, when it's not the writer/creator/whoever trying to be "edgy").
Alex feels a bit flat - he has no personality whatsoever, but it feels like there's more to him than there was to Travis, if only because Alex exchanges more than three sentences with a variety of people (Lisa tends to talk AT Travis, rather than to/with him).
But, you know, I'm sure there's people to whom Harry comes off as flat to, so perhaps I shouldn't judge too harshly (although I am! I TOTALLY AM! Because Alex you are not what I expected! This game is not what I expected! None of this is what I expected! I don't know what I expected!)
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All the above said, I've managed to get three/fifths of my sweater done while watching SH LPs. Working on the second sleeve now. Should be finished soon, anyway :)
(I had a break earlier in the evening in an attempt to finish The Gunslinger. Seriously. I have had that book for three weeks and I haven't finished it yet. Not because I don't like it - I do - but just because I don't know I'm having such a battle with books right now, and it's really annoying me. I don't know if I should blame the internet, or being self-employed (and so feeling I have to work all the time), but I feel guilty for reading and I find trying to concentrate on reading so fucking difficult sometimes. AND I REALLY FUCKING HATE THAT).
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P.S. I apologise for the increase in swearing of late. I don't know why that is.
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