beard ひげ @beardalaxy@gameliberty.club

There was a Silent Hill here.
It's gone now.

Welp, I lost all my text because gameliberty died for a few hours. Basically, fought a boss, did some other shit. Most of it is stuff I've already said.

The shader issues have gotten really bad. The game is either stuttering or doing that weird screen glitch like all the time now and it is getting in the way of my immersion. There are some pretty serious story cutscenes that were totally ruined by it. Not sure what's going on there but I can only imagine it is a mix of Unreal 5 shenanigans, developers not implementing their shaders properly, and NVIDIA not releasing game ready drivers for this one for some reason. I turned down the resolution significantly (1620p Quality DLSS to 1080p Balanced DLSS) and it smoothed things out, so maybe it really just gets really heavy later on in the game for some reason. I was having no problems like this before, and they started actually after the game crashed so something appears to be wrong. Where I'm at right now is as high as it'll go before it starts to stutter again.

Also, I'm noticing a bit of an unfortunate pattern with the puzzles. For the most part, it is all about running around and finding something then slotting it in to something else with a ridiculously easy riddle. There were a couple really good puzzles in the school section, but most everything else has been pretty lackluster to be honest. Not once have I had to combine any items, and the game moves at a pretty breakneck pace so the thing you need to solve a puzzle is pretty much always right around the corner.

Oh man I really fucking hate it when there are several enemies on screen in a tight room. I really do not know who thought this shit was such a great idea.

One such puzzle that I'm talking about just occurred. Go to three places, get the three thingies, put the thingies in the holes and bam. That's like the fifth time. Difference is that this time the actual riddle made no sense for the places I was supposed to put them into. I never would have found that out on my own.

Finally had a moment where all my weapons broke and would you look at that... It just spawned two extra weapons for me. In other words... The durability system is completely useless and they had no idea how to balance it but they had to have an analog for ammo somehow. I know plenty of survival horror games will drop ammo for you if you need it but very sparingly. That's the whole point of having a melee weapon that doesn't break... You can always fall back on it. The durability system is dumb.

Ah and right after that fight I get another weapon, so I'm back up to 3 again. Yeah, utterly useless system.

The game just LOVES spawning these fat fuck monsters with one or two more. This is borderline unbearable seriously. The gameplay does not facilitate having this kind of situation. Again, it's not scary, it's just really fucking annoying.

SIX! SIX FUCKING ENEMIES IN ONE SMALL ROOM! WHAT WERE THEY THINKING? Dude are there even any Dark Souls combat encounters with 6 enemies? They're not all one type either, there are 4 different enemy types in here all doing different moves at the same time. I would not be surprised if this is where my first death is. This is fucked up.

Okay I didn't die but seriously, that was like a gangbang. Got stun locked five or six times. Not fun at all, fuck that shit.

So the stutters still aren't gone. Helped, but not gone. I don't give a fuck how good a game looks man, if your game can't run at 1080p balanced dlss on a 2080ti you've done something horribly wrong. I'm only in high graphics settings too. This shit is getting ridiculous. Games aren't held back by hardware anymore, it's other shit. Such a bummer too because the game is pretty good, it's just this shit and the camera that are absolutely abysmal.

Okay so I beat the game but I know there are multiple endings. This one was... Definitely interesting. You apparently have to play the game two more times to fully understand what's going on. I might end up doing that, maybe with a little bit of cheating... But I'm also going to just look up the endings on YouTube.

The story in general is your pretty typical weird psycho Japanese shit. I can tell what it is going for but uh... Where the fuck does silent hill play into this? Lol. It seriously should have been its own title entirely.

Anyway, I'll look up those alternate endings and then write a review.