Silent Hill: The Short Message is a boring, contrived, borderline offensive experience.
Interview with Fadile Waked, Actress for (Anita) in Silent Hill: The Short Message, a game that she had no idea that she was part of. With Konami providing little context and insight.
Silent Hill: The Short Message is a true Silent Hill game that delves head first into psychological horror.
The writing and characters are so horribly done, especially given the subject matter. It’s fine to tackle suicide in a game, but this ain’t it.
Gary Green writes: Silent Hill is a series that has now become famous for its ups and downs. While I could pick the whole series apart game by game, we’ll skip ahead and say the last few games didn’t exactly set the world on fire. However, Silent Hill was long overdue for a revival, a revival originally helmed by Konami veteran Hideo Kojima of Metal Gear Solid fame, yet this wasn’t to be.
I feel like a game that’s free shouldn’t be reviewed using the same standards as a game you pay 79.99 for. Just seems like the basis of any review is “bang for your buck”, so the reviews for this free throwaway game just seem out of place.
Borderline offensive? Don't be ridiculous!