Silent Hill 4: The Room (Zero Punctuation) 

I did not fire Kojima, I did not. Oh, hi fans

For me, the thing about the Japanese Silent-Hill games was that the real-world locations always seemed so life-like. They actually felt like places where someone might live or work. Rooms were furnished in ways that felt believeable. Objects were placed around the world in a way that felt believeable. Everything seemed to be the right scale. Texture-work was amazing. I don't know why, but in SH 1-4 you actually felt like you entered the worlds you visited in. For some reason the western sequels have been unable to recapture this. They all look and feel like video games by comparison.

And with 2020, Yahtzee's claim dies as 4 is now on GOG for $10. What a time to be alive

5:00 Alucard saying "Simmer down love" is actually pretty in character.

Mechanically 4 was a mess but narrative wise it is amazing. Think about how Silent Hill torments Henry. Everyone who gets killed comes back aa ghosts who can go through doors even locked ones... the town is literally telling him let us kill you and you can be free. That is twisted even for Silent Hill

I love Henry. He's shy and introverted. Almost to a "You probably have an anxiety disorder" level. But he has a soft spot for kids and women.

“Splappy Boom Blappy” somehow made me laugh. I think I have a child’s sense of humor.

Literally the only Silent Hill game I ever played and one that had me getting up for sunshine breaks every hour. I barely remember if I won. I think I did but the villain got in and took a nap on the couch while moaning "mommy" so that didn't FEEL like a win for me.

Walter Sullivan is probably the most interesting villain in the whole Silent Hill series imo. I actually started empathizing with this guy learning more about him... Actually the whole game felt less like a typical Silent Hill psychological horror and more of a "detective story through hell" And I loved it for that. It's great in its own way.

"a hole in the wall, leading to a series to bizarre nightmare worlds where he keeps witnessing people get murdered who then turn up dead in real life" That sounds a lot like Persona 4 plot

SH4 was one of my favourites, and the scariest for me. The sense of entrapment and the actual survival horror aspect of unkillable ghosts made it a difficult and scary game. And all I have to say after that is - Eileen's head. Nightmares.

"Somewhat unqualified for action" - maybe, but you gotta admit, Henry has the best stomp out of all the protagonists.

I remember this game. The room was nice. I didn't spend too much time outside of it. Just like IRL.

Yeees, the world always needs more Yahtzee reviews of old Silent hills

"Yes, maybe I will marry Splappy Boom Blappy 2! Shut up!"

The Thunderbirds puppet bit was a deep, deep cut

5:15 “Sadly, it’s practically abandoned ware” I can only imagine the egg on Yahtzee’s face when it was released on GOG before 1, 2, or 3.

EA: Mr. Greedy Investors, I don't feel so good.

Silent hill 4 is just one of those trippy games that i cant ever forget , it may not be as good as the others but it definitely wins on the weird factor

HA never getting a re-release.. but here comes Konami!

Not gonna lie, I do have a soft spot in my heart for this game

"Splappy Boom Blappy" is the new "Spunk Gargle Weewee".

_"Oh, hi game. What's new with you?"_

I'm so glad I'm not the only person on earth who loves this game, and one of the only other people is the hardest critic ever

You have given me the tendency to sing 🎵Lets all laugh at an industry that never learns anything tee he he 🎵 every time I see a bad moment in gaming

4 was my first and by far my favorite Silent Hill game.

Anyone remember the room in the hospital where if you walk forward the camera switches to a creepy massive head of eileen? Man that shit was freaky for my mind

I want to like SH4 since it is probably the scariest game I've ever played but between the limited inventory, invincible enemies, and overly long level design makes the game such a chore to play through. _The Room_ really is the definition of a flawed masterpiece.

Silent Hill 4 has one of the best trailers ever. Even more so if you consider the extended trailer.

I watched both 2,4, and 5 on let's plays. It seems 4 was the start of the end but honestly I feel with a bit more polished it could have been an amazing silent hill game. It still had all the charm and feel of a silent hill game. 5 felt like an actiony version of the movie.

Trapped in my flat Only my memories for company Trapped in my flat Hoping someone will come and rescue me!

I'm so impressed by this review honestly! You get exactly how I feel! So many people bash it but you've just perfectly explained why it deserves a bit more than that.

This game still gives me chills 10 years later

Holy shit. I thought it would never come.

aah, i remember when sh4 came out, most players didn't like it, and then at every new western entry in the series, people started to love it more and more lmao

'thunderbirds puppet' MURDERED ME lol

Don't diss Extermination, the voice acting in that game gives me the chills.

"That's when you know your buttocks have been splashed with the cold, toilet water of omen." I need to find a way to make this my catch phrase.

Ah, Silent Hill 4... Brings back verdant memories of sophomore year in high school going over to watch my friend Joe play. He was the only one with an undying love for Sony and Konami. This was my 1st exposure to the franchise...not a Terrible start to be sure.

Just found your videos and I've grown addicted and now whenever I even think your voice comes out as the narrator which means your doing your job right

The game is called "The Room" and not one Tommy Wiseau joke?

I stopped cuddling with my Yahtzee Love pillow for this

It is pretty funny how Silent Hill and Resident Evil both experimented with their respective fourth entries, as you can kind of see the two ends of the spectrum both games landed on. RE4 redefined the series (and by extension, the genre) for the next several years until only recently returning to a semblance of its horror-heavy roots, whereas SH4's attempt at restructuring itself saw Konami wrest control from the original team and get a bunch of western teams to just catch the same bolt of lightning SH2 had masterfully snatched between its grasp back in the early days of the PS2.

Love to relive the classic Silent Hill games through yahtzee and his reminiscing.

This was refreshing! I seriously love the Silent Hill series, and four was one of those I really enjoyed (and I personally enjoyed the fact that Henry's a giant doofus). Also, I loved how most of the endings REALLY DO NOT FEEL LIKE A WIN.

It's a small Comfort to know that it doesn't matter how much Eileen gets damaged because you can completely undo all the harm done to her right before the end of the game.

Pachinko!

The best silent hill story and soundtrack. My personal favorite

Oh boy, how I love my 5 minutes of Yahtzee's articulate, entertaining and funny rants

SH4 is officially on PC on GOG now. I’ve been playing it these last couple of days and its a great port. You can even use any game controller you have with a bit of tweaking.

I like how all you have you have to do is punch in "Splappy Boom Blappy" and this is the first result.

your subtitles are really well timed and its appreciated greatly.

This is such a good review since he is clear and direct with what made the game so good and what it did right and wrong.

I’m convinced this game is about social anxiety. Wanting to leave your head, seeing people around you, wanting desperately to interact with them, but not being able to do so.

Fucking loved that game. I normally don't really like horror, but I loved the balance between home and scary world in this, and the way home was taken away. I loved the feeling of the game, and the way I remember it, the graphics were brillant and scary as hell

So, PT was a first person experience about exploring strange rooms that in the beggining they doen't seem anything unusual, but still makes you feel uneasy (since, you alredy know in a horror game) and as you progress, the things starts to getting bizarre and unnerving, and the Room stops being a safe place as you begin to been haunted by a supernatural pressence, and the more you dig into the backstory you realize it has something to do with a murder that has a relation with a counjuring that uses a sequence of numbers. And Silent Hill 4 was excactly that but also with third-person sections, a great villain and intresting new concepts to add in the Silent Hill lore. How comes that PT is praised but SH 4 is the "black sheep" from the series for so many people?

Splappy boom blappy? Well, let’s see if Yahtzee commits to this monstrosity of a joke for the whole video... no way, he’d never do th... my god, he’s doing it... ugh

For a while I was thinking this was about Resident Evil 4, and I was entirely lost, as I tried to work out how Yahtzee and I got such different experiences from one of my favourite games of all time.

Weird synchronicity! I went on a nostalgia trip through the Silent Hill games 2 weeks ago and 4 was the first one I fired up!

This is one of the few ZPs where Yahts uses the actual model of the game character instead of a ZP style counterpart

A review of Silent Hill 4: The Room? ಠ_ಠ YOU’RE TEARING ME APART, YAHTZEE!!!!!!!!!!!!

"The Point of buying games is to support the creators. Buying it second hand is only supporting the previous owner meth habits" - Yahtzee 2018. And i'm totally going to use it when debating piracy with my coleagues.

"bizarre nightmare worlds" WELCOME TO LEICESTER...

I... I think I've been waiting for you to review this for the past 10 years. I can finally die, fulfilled.

I still have my Silent Hill Collection on ps2. Came with 2,3 and 4. Better than the ps4 version

Was that a positive review to a game a lot of people seem to dislike? Yahtzeey my love! Praise be to you! I've always loved the SH series and I look forward to when Konami loses the rights to it in some back alley bar. The series would be so much better in literally anyone else's hands.

Thanks so much for reminding us of this amazing franchise that has now devolved into slot machines..

"This industry never learns anything tee hee hee" Dat was a fine good 'ol self ref'rence, matey !

This was the one that got me into the series. Awkward gameplay.... a resounding yes. But everything else makes up for it in near spades!

Did Yahtzee basically imply that we should pirate/emulate the game at the end there?

I love so so so so so much the fact that he called the health potions Yakult and complaining about the stock sounds of the creatures, both of which he did in the livestreams, it's like we got to see a bit of his creative process and I love it so much

Just finished reading jam and now i want to read everything by this guy!

My favorite Silent Hill is Silent Hill 3. Everything is fine.

Funny as always Yahtzee!!

At least the escort portion doesnt actually require you to protect her. She wont die, she just becomes more and more unstable the more damage she takes, which doesnt affect you until the final boss, potentially making her impossible to save.

I loved SH2 for the game it was, but boi did I love SH4 concept. Even though I didn't beat the game, the first few hours when you enter and re-enter the room felt really unique and scary. Being trapped in the room while people around are just going on with their lives. I remember how you can look into the window and its normal life around, but you are trapped in hell. Great memories.

I honestly thought this game was fantastic when I played it, in fact (heresy alert) I personally enjoyed it more than Silent Hill 2. Sure it had rough edges but it has the best premise and creeping horror design in the whole series. Ironically this is the one game that really would benefit from a really well thought out remaster. Someone find the genius who did REmake and beg him to give SH4 the same treatment...

The concept of your hub world becoming dangerous over the course of the game is freaking genius! Unfortunate that it only happened in a pretty bad game

It definitely will always have a special place in my heart as my first "new" Silent Hill game. I remember being completely surprised seeing it in the case at WalMart and saying "Oh, you're coming home with me, little guy."

I’ve been waiting for this one!!

More Judging by the cover!

Please buy my games. Meth is expensive!

Christ Yatzee it feels like I've been waiting for you to cover this one for a decade at this point

Liking just cos of the accuracy with the gauntlet reference

I feel like silent hill 4 would've been a much better game if Eileen was the main protagonist.

Silent hill 4 is now for sale on GOG

lol and GOG just re-released it in 4k.

I definitely have nostalgia goggles for this one. It's not the best gameplay but the concept, story and atmosphere really intrigued me.

Silent hill 4: the room Staring Tommy Wiseau😄👌

No Spappy-Boom-Blappy game will be better than Spappy-Boom-Blappy 2.

Loving the thunderbirds reference!!!

Ahhh I'm happy to know you like Silent Hill 4! it's so flawed but I love it so much. I managed to grab a ps2 copy back in the day, and I'll never give it up.

While I do feel guilty for buying second-hand, a lot of the time it's out of necessity. In a world where new console games cost upwards of sixty US dollars to buy, I often find myself torn between paying rent, buying food, or buying a game. Normally, I can usually do two of those just fine, but the third has to go on the shelf. Every now and again, I save up enough to indulge myself in a new game, but then it seems like forever before I can pick up another one. Secondhand games cut that time in half. It's like buying cars - I still believe that people who buy brand new cars are either rich or idiots; probably both. There's always a recall on airbags in like two years, and the second you buy the fucking thing its value goes into the drain. Same with games. The second you buy the disc, it's worth a quarter of what it was before you bought it. As for supporting the developers - fuck them. Especially in today's market. Hell, they'll make ten times of what I'd have given them just by selling the average consumer things that should've already been in that sixty dollar game.

Just finished mog world really enjoyed it

Splappy Bloom Blappy 4 is now my favorite

It's about time you made this video. I couldn't stop laughing. Great job!

Finally! Someone fairly reviewing this game instead of just broadly calling it shit! As one of my favorite installments in the series, I get so tired of people acting like it's garbage. Especially when those same people talk about 3 as if it's a masterpiece, when I was personally luke warm on it.

I love 1-3 but never was able to get into 4 :( the 2d controls paired with the frequent camera angle changes were driving me crazy and the annoying new gameplay features killed all the horror for me.

I miss good Silent Hill. ..... and Silent Hill at all for that matter. Agreed on all counts here. 4 has a special place in my heart (and PS2 collection). ...... and I just bumped into another comment I made 2 years ago. It's like I've been here before... a Silent Hill loop!

Silent Hill 4 was fucking incredible