Monkut

I felt nostalgic and decided to play it on emulator (with owned PS3 bios, of course *wink*), me and my classmate back in the day were not into Silent Hill but pretty scared at first and now it's basically my first game since 10+ years of dip this series took. I know it's not the best place to start but I decided to play this series backwards, it added an additional layer to my gameplay by discovering the history of those games. It immediately reminded me of Alan Wake and Dead Space, the whole game feels like proto modern horror game like RE or again, Alan Wake 2. And it was born at a time when every game was turning into open-world, although not big but I thought that the exploration of those small and detailed locations was engaging and had some wondeful side-quests. Main character was unique and edgy, it was nice to explore trauma of someone who's a convict while exploring moral uncertainty of revenge. Despite that monsters almost did not represent our character and look extremely bland. I read somewhere that producers purposefully picked the most boring designs and one of the artists left because of how many of his concepts were turned down. The music choices on the radios are hidden gems and what you'll hear during the credits your jaw will drop!