By Kevin "Berserker" Hall
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Do you have fond memories of playing your old Playstation 1 games on your
Playstation 2? Remember how you would turn on the graphics filter and faster
loading to make the polygons of some games would look smoother and the overall
game load faster? Remember how some games would indeed look smoother and load
faster, but they would have sound bugs or some other type of bug throughout them
because of the extra stuff that you tried to force on them? Well, that is the
sort of problem that we have here with Silent Hill Origins on the PS2.
I'm not going to go into detail about the story of the game, gameplay or any
other features such as that. Please view my review of Silent Hill Origins on the PSP for that info. The PS2 version is the exact same from a gameplay perspective
and the story remains the same with no added features.
If the PSP version has been played prior to starting up Silent Hill Origins for
the PS2 then one can immediately notice the redone character models and slightly
better backgrounds (and enemies). The game can be played in 4:3 or 16:9 aspect
ratio and has multiple languages that can be chosen as the game begins. All
files now have pictures that can be viewed prior to reading the text which
provides a slightly more immersive experience when picking up any of them.
So what's so bad about the game? Well, the game is not absolutely terrible by
any means. For the most part it still plays just as well as the PSP version, but
the PS2 version suffers from some sounds bugs among other bugs and an overall
darker look. Music will cut off while in some rooms, door opening sounds will
not play when interacting with a door, the radio sound effect while touching a
mirror cuts on and off in a choppy manner when compared to its PSP counterpart
and sometimes the sound effect of picking up an item will sound distorted and
nearly scare you more than a random sound that was actually meant to scare the
player. All of these sound bugs happen randomly but some of them happen quite
often - especially the door opening bug.
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