This is an exceptional remake, Bloober absolutely knocked it out of the park with this. There were 2 main things I had gripes with on the original, the combat was boring and the acting was just not good. This remake improves on these two things exponentially.

Combat actually takes thought now instead of 'see enemy, aim gun, spam button to shoot until they drop, stomp'. Well-timed dodges are your saving grace, but it's not to the level of the enemies throwing ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ combos with 30 attacks like it's Dark Souls. Enemies also seem to learn from how you fight, so you're encouraged to mix things up which I like. The boss fights are also significantly better, overall the combat is just a massive step up from the original.

Another thing that's a massive step up from the original, the acting. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ the acting in the original was bad. It's been improved in every single way, the line delivery, the mocap, everything. The story feels so much more impactful when the characters actually feel believable.

I only really have 2 issues with this remake: the performance and the mouse input. The performance is just not good. I have a 5800x3d, a 4070, and 48GB of RAM and dropping to 40-60 FPS was not uncommon. It's definitely more difficult to stay immersed when I go from ~100 FPS to suddenly being at 50 FPS during a boss fight. Hoping this gets improved with updates though. The mouse input also feels.. not great. It feels like it's just emulating a joystick, and can sometimes make hitting shots on up-close enemies a lot harder than it should be. Not a massive issue, but still something i'd like to see fixed.

Overall if you enjoyed the original or want to get into Silent Hill 2 in general, just play this version. I genuinely believe it's an improvement over the original in pretty much every single way, the only reason I would recommend playing the original is so you can see the changes they did in the remake.

This is an exceptional remake, Bloober absolutely knocked it out of the park with this. There were 2 main things I had gripes with on the original, the combat was boring and the acting was just not good. This remake improves on these two things exponentially. Combat actually takes thought now instead of 'see enemy, aim gun, spam button to shoot until they drop, stomp'. Well-timed dodges are your saving grace, but it's not to the level of the enemies throwing bullshit combos with 30 attacks like it's Dark Souls. Enemies also seem to learn from how you fight, so you're encouraged to mix things up which I like. The boss fights are also significantly better, overall the combat is just a massive step up from the original. Another thing that's a massive step up from the original, the acting. Holy shit the acting in the original was bad. It's been improved in every single way, the line delivery, the mocap, everything. The story feels so much more impactful when the characters actually feel believable. I only really have 2 issues with this remake: the performance and the mouse input. The performance is just not good. I have a 5800x3d, a 4070, and 48GB of RAM and dropping to 40-60 FPS was not uncommon. It's definitely more difficult to stay immersed when I go from ~100 FPS to suddenly being at 50 FPS during a boss fight. Hoping this gets improved with updates though. The mouse input also feels.. not great. It feels like it's just emulating a joystick, and can sometimes make hitting shots on up-close enemies a lot harder than it should be. Not a massive issue, but still something i'd like to see fixed. Overall if you enjoyed the original or want to get into Silent Hill 2 in general, just play this version. I genuinely believe it's an improvement over the original in pretty much every single way, the only reason I would recommend playing the original is so you can see the changes they did in the remake.