



Sure, some of the challenges are different – or at least phrased differently – but they all boil down to "Kill all these enemies." You search for keys, and for items to replenish your ammo, health, and rapidly diminishing weapons. You search each long, randomly arranged level for challenge rooms that give you a required item when all the spawned enemies are defeated. all appearing without the benefit of context, representing not the specific fears and obsessions of any of the characters, but just weird monsters to be killed with a crowbar. Monsters include the omnipresent nurse creatures, disgusting, bloated Insane Cancers, flying Air Screamers and even Pyramid Head. The environments and monsters will be familiar to any Silent Hill fan you'll start in a fiery, industrial otherworld full of rusty grates and mysterious machinery you'll eventually explore wooded Shattered Memories-esque worlds, a creepy church, and other mainstays. He or she immediately tries to rewrite his/her life within the book, which translates (for some reason) into entering a nightmare Silent Hill world and fighting monsters. A character of your own creation mysteriously comes into the possession of a book that contains people's memories. In either case, you'll get killed by a two-headed dog monster at some point.%Gallery-166900%The setup is appropriate enough. In Silent Hill the town that means you're tormented by monsters based on your worst fears in Book of Memories it means that your expectations can color the experience.īasically, if you go in knowing it's a dungeon crawler with Silent Hill visuals, you'll be much happier than if you go in expecting a Silent Hill game. Silent Hill: Book of Memories is a lot like the town of Silent Hill, in that your experience with it depends on what you bring in, emotionally.
