I love Silent Hill, I've been an enthusiastic fan ever since that first scurrying corpse (SH vets know which one) in the original. I finally got around to buying the HD collection on the 360, and I browsed the webs a little to see what was added and taken away. I found nothing but vile hatred and melancholy from SH fans about petty little changes and insignificant alterations. Guys, remember when we were little and had to have the Silent Hill vs Resident Evil argument everyday? Well, the fight is over, Silent Hill won by a landslide, so let's breathe, relax, and not pitch a fit every time Konami tweaks the original masterpieces.
Here's a list of complaints about the new HD collection which includes remastered versions of the underrated Silent Hill 2 and my favorite, the greatest old school survival horror game ever crafted, Silent Hill 3. Fans actually sat down, and wasted a couple minutes typing up dramatic hate messages about the following:
-characters tend to use new words when starting sentences, most often with Laura
-the distances on the sign at the beginning of Silent Hill 2 have been altered
-the textures on first aid kits and the medical cross posters have been changed
-the subtitles during Eddie's rant say "your" when they should say "you're"
-the video tape of Maria is bordered by a TV screen instead of being full screen
-when saving your game in Silent Hill 3 the screen is fade-to-white instead of the classic fade-to-red
-the mall music has punk music playing instead of the original's mall music (someone actually COMPLAINED about a lack of looping elevator style music!!!!)
-in the intro to Silent Hill 3 the famous cutscene of Valtiel dragging Heather Mason's corpse has been replaced by a cutscene of Heather trying to turn on her flashlight (perhaps the only legitimate complaint I found)
-Claudia says, "They've come to witness the beginning. The rebirth of Paradise, unspoiled by mankind". In the original SH3, she says "Despoiled"
-the sewer fairy says, "I have finally found a truly honest person", but years ago she said "I have finally found a truly honest man". Guys, seriously, they changed that because it was a mistake they made the first time around. The sewer fairy is talking about a girl, so why would they keep the obvious fuck-up of calling Heather a man in the game? Why is this a bad thing!!!???
-during the Leonard Wolf boss, you can sprint through the water with no impediment to your speed, as if it wasn't there
-when Heather pukes God, a larger puddle of blood has been added
These are real complaints posted on Konami's official message boards. This means that some entry level schmuck has to sit down and read through this nonsense. I hate to break it to my fellow Hillies, but Konami doesn't give a fuck about any of these "problems". Stop being so offended when your beloved games of old are altered, especially when the changes are so small and take nothing away from the experience. Do you not still have access to the originals? We need to stop pinpointing every subtle change we can find and then raging about it. Instead, let us focus on what's important, replaying two of the scariest fucking games ever made with new achievements that weren't there the first time around.
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