Finished my second playthrough of Silent Hill f. The NG+ is actually pretty different and adds a lot to the story. Like, a lot of stuff gets completely recontextualized, through different cutscenes and new notes you can pick up. There are some different areas and new puzzles as well.

I played with some mods this time around to make things a little less tedious (no weapon durability, higher stacking for items, lower upgrade cost, longer respawn timer which turns out wasn't actually even necessary lol), since my main focus is just getting all the endings. Right now I have ending 1, 3, and 5. I can load a save file to get 2, and then I'll have to play through the game again to get 4. So that one won't happen for another little bit. Even then, it won't be too bad since I have this OP weapon now lol.

It's probably because I already had the shaders built up, but the performance of the game had absolutely no issues whatsoever this time around and I never had any visual bugs. It was a much better experience all around.

I still like the game quite a bit, don't know what everyone else is smoking. Maybe I'm the one smoking shit, but either way I still enjoy it.

If you're going to do a playthrough, I absolutely would recommend getting the item stack mod so you don't have to constantly run back to save points all the time to exchange them. Durability mods aren't super necessary, but I think it would be good to increase the durability by like 2x or something. Now that they added Casual action difficulty, I would actually recommend playing on that just because the combat isn't the most engaging thing in the world. The story and atmosphere are where its at here.