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{\*\generator Msftedit 5.41.21.2510;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\sa200\sl276\slmult1\lang9\f0\fs28 Why hello there. Comicconreviews here and
today we are going to look at Silent Hill Rebirth a fan made game developed on RPG Maker,
only it actually looks really quite good because of the textures used are very appropiate for
a silent hill game. The story takes ideas from Silent Hill 2 and 3. When we are introduced
to our protagonist at the start the lines of text explaining the story are highly derivitive
of silent hill 2, rather than a dead wife he has a dead daughter. Straight from the
off you notice two things: Firstly the sound effects appear to be ripped straight from
silent hill 2 which turns out to not be a bad thing in fact it's a sutiable choice.
And second your characters walking animation is.. well kind of retarded but after a while
as the tension ramps up you wont really notice this flaw. Gameplay wise it's exactly like
a silent hill game you interact with objects and learn more about them. A newspaper has
a tragic story about a muderer which I'm guessing has something to do with the overaching plot
for the full game, this is just the demo. You also get to look at pictures of your dead
daughter, read a cryptic message in a book and so on. There is a combination of both
an original soundtrack to this game and the soundtrack to silent hill 2. The original
soundtrack is suprisingly good, and perfectly captures the overall feel of silent hill.
After maybe 10 to 15 minutes of gameplay suddenly the lights go out and you have to use a flashlight.
The lighting effect of the flashlight is passable but not great, I don't agree with the choice
to have it illuminate a large area in front of you but have it pitch black in all other
directions. This idea has been way overdone in indie games already. But I digress, this
is made on RPG maker after all. You recieve a telephone call telling you, that your daughter
was murdered and that she did not in fact die naturally. And that of course you must
go to silent hill. Yep not exactly original. However there are enough subtle touches and
influences from silent hill 3 and the series overall to make the way the story unfolds
interesting, as to not spoil this game completely I'll keep the minor details to my self. You
need to pick up a handgun on your way out and to do that you need to unlock your safe,
and to do that you need to find the combination that is hidden on paintings and the like.
Pretty cool really, and unfortunately for me like with any silent hill puzzle I completely
suck at it. So yeah I admit it, I cheated to get the full combination, I had 2 out of
three numbers so I was almost there but well I am not good at puzzles seriously I'll need
a strategy guide if this game ever gets finished.Before the demo ends there will be two awesome twists
that will make you want to play the full game, but alas there is no full game yet, we are
at the mercy of the developers, it did only take Black Mesa 8 years to be finished and
that was only a remake not an original game, so I'm sure we will be enjoying Silent Hill
Rebirth in around 2035 I'll see you then as I play it on my gaming device wired directly
into my eye socket as the earth is taken over by the morlocks. Oh by the way you can also
get the full original soundtrack for the game straight from the developers for free. I'm
listening to it right now, and yeah it's pretty damn good, some tracks are rough around the
edges, but as with the demo itself the good points far outweigh the bad. I'll leave the
links for both the demo and the free soundtrack in the description below. If you're a hardcore
Silent Hill fan like myself I highly recommend you check them both out! And I hope you'll
join me in my next video as we look at an even stranger fan made game.\par
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