still can't really get past the voices. the game itself seems way too action oriented. I don't like how spacious everything is, it takes away from the more claustrophobic feel of the original.
not a fan of how the radio doesn't go off for every enemy. the whole point of the radio is to let you know when enemies are near. making it go off only here and there feels really silly.
despite bloober's best efforts to make stuff disgusting and dirty, it still feels way too clean. there's a certain grittiness that is not present and was such a big part of the SH aesthetic and it not being there really throws things off.
the lighting is not right and it can make certain things look artificial and plastic-y which again not a fan of. also in some areas, such as first PH encounter, have way too warm of a lighting. in the og it was more cool and neutral. also the overall scene is so mehh and it doesn't feel as impactful as the original.
the original just throws you this horrific image of PH doing violent and sexually suggestive things to this mannequin creature (which I feel symbolic of james' sexual repression and issues and idc what ito worshippers say), and the remake just..gives you this lacklustre kinda anti-climatic scene and it just does not hit the same. I did not like hearing james' heavy breathing, I feel it took away from the scene and was too b horror movie. it just didn't fit.
everyone stands out way too much from the fog. the fog feels like a background prop and not like something that eclipses everything in the original. the characters blend in with it and are surrounded by it, but in the remake they stand out and it's all behind them, thus making them feel green screened in.
also not a fan of the constant talking. I know that's a thing in modern games for characters to talk out loud and have little conversations but I don't want that in a silent hill game. I play silent hill for the story as well as the ambience and a big part of the ambience is hearing creepy noises, hearing the music and other auditory details in the background. I do not want to hear people talking all the damn time.
so yeah, the whole game feels very mid to me and I'm frustrated because there is a part of me that wants to be as excited as everyone else but I am just not. the game feels way too action focused and it's been modernized in a way where it feels not like silent hill anymore, and there's some stuff I struggle to articulate because it's this vague feeling of being off.