SILENT HILL: SHATTERED MEMORIES (Zero Punctuation) 

Why do I get the subliminal message that Yahtzee is really good in bed? I mean, no one can take a nap like that guy.

the whole "nightmare world isn't scary because it reaffirms the real world is 100% safe" could've been easily remedied by having the world turn back to normal but the monsters remain without ceremony. Also if running away from the monsters was an organic extension of ordinary movement and exploration instead of having a dedicated running away sequence with independent mechanics.

Kind of funny watching this now and seeing him deny the family thing when now he’s got a wife and kid :p

1:17 "Suck all its internal organs out through its urethra" Thanks for that image, Yahtzee.

This game's story is basically a flashback being told to a therapist, right? What happens if the player dies? Does the teller lose track of the story? Did he suffer from a stroke?

It just cracks me up that the guy in the electric chair is getting amused by how pissed off the police officer is.

I really like Shattered Memories, I just wish there was more of it. I don't mean in length but in content. The elements were great, they just weren't plentiful enough, didn't really function as well as they could or didn't venture far enough. It's like a striptease: it's pretty sweet but I wish it would go all the way.

"Oh I don't find that red dress very intimidating, but o fuck a pink dress! SHIT'S GETTING REAL!!!"

"Humans are reasonable." What?

"...And possibly crap in bed. Moving on!"

"SHUTTERED MAMMARIES" made me almost fall out of my computer chair.

3:55 "You don't paint the giant leering face of Oliver Reed on a nursery ceiling!" Mustn't sleep Mustn't sleep Mustn't sleep One of his best jokes.

I laughed to most at the part when he said the characters had different clothes. Not that it was a joke it was just hilarious how that happened.

I saw some footage of Silent Hill 1 recently and holy shit it has snow. Like... legit, snow fall. Totally forgot that happened. Now I'm wondering if that makes Shatter Memories better or worse.

I didn't mind this one. As long as you don't get hung up on what you think it should have been and try to enjoy it for what it is, you find it's actually kinda interesting. Granted, getting hung up on preconceptions going in is relatively fair, because it's reasonable to bitch about it not being much like a Silent Hill game when it's _named_ fucking Silent Hill, but otherwise, its failings aren't things like that. It makes no fucking sense at times, and is stuck up its own ass now and then, but when it clicks, it does so quite soundly. It's also way better at affecting the player on a psychological level than most usual horror games are. Resident Evil may be able to startle and gross the shit out of you, but it doesn't have an ice cube's chance in hell of affecting you beyond that.

"possibly crap in bed" WTF XD

Am I the only one who noticed Yahtzee's hatmoving at 2:43

dammit i caught my sleeve on my doorknob while watching this

Good game, bad silent hill game

You know I think I'm one of the few people who liked the story of Silent Hill on the PS1 better than the others.

The best of the western made Silent Hills.

Did anyone realise 2:50? The sound of the flatulence... Yahtzee and his magic...

NEVER-GETS-STUCK-ON-DOORKNOBS MAN AWAYYYYYY!

Was there a Silent Hill arcade machine?

"That's a poor amount for a f*****g episode of Thudercats!" Something about the way he says that line just cracks me up every time.

i think people don't realize that not being able to attack is not necessarily scary you need a balance where you feel threatened but not restarting a section 50 times

I've never gotten a sleeve caught on a doorknob

I've just realised that watching this guy's videos will probably improve my English ... a lot. Which is a good thing since I'm taking FCE this summer and willing to take C-level exams in the future... I think (language level: over 9,000 thousand, indeed).

I want to play this one of these days. Not necessarily as a horror game, or any real "Silent Hill Experience" sort of thing like you do with SH 1-4 , but as an interesting experience. I think ZombiU is about the same in that respect, as well.

So you know you'll be fine if your surroundings don't look like the night God drunk his slurpee too fast. Couldn't stop laughing xD

gotta love how the top comments complete eachother

You know, I never did get why so many people dislike the cult's involvement in Silent Hill, especially since the cult and things associated with it are what the story essentially revolves around.

shattered memories is my favorite WIi game and one of my favorite silent hill games

It also tripped over the psychological part....RED USE RED, red makes us feel more involved, makes us think about danger. Red is the color of blood, it means VIOLENCE. using blue in a horror game is like playing Mozart at a bar fight, it does not fit and it downplays the entire experience.

Loved this game. Great emotional experience and an interesting take on the SH lore.

In norway we don't use the twist knob thingy on doors, so getting a sleeve stuck in a door "Knob" would be rather hard :)

i must applaud at your picture my friend.

Even when you did know, you still couldn't predict how it was going to end, as you simply don't know how his nightmarish visions will evolve as there is no clear enemy for you to fight or win against other than his own mind.

I love how this British guy speaks really damn fucking fast. I love it even though I can barely understand every other word he says

I think what he means is that having a face to attribute the evil to makes the horror feel like something that can be reasoned with. The cult may very well be the cause of it, but what Yahtzee's basically saying is that knowing about the cult makes the game a lot less effectively scary.

Wow that was it? I love it.

*Silent Hill: Yahtzee's Memories*

I really don't know what he's talking about though, as the cult was vaguely mentioned in the first game. The ending had anything to do with it, but revealed nothing much on it, and then it was the end climax of the game also. It's in SH2 as well, just about as much, but even more informs us on several details, whereas SH1 leaves us in the dark for the most part, making it vague. SH3's Claudia and Dahlia are what stereotype this aspect of the storyline.

Should note that his reviews are being updated more on the Escapist. ^^

I know! I was surprised too!

A toothless zombie dog gumming on my arm would be pretty horrifying.

About the American vs British accent thing: As far as I understand, it's quite a bit more complicated than just that one or the other is "the original accent". American accents tend to be more conservative than the stereotypical and/or standard English ones, meaning mostly London area accents and the RP accent. On the other hand, other English accents could be even more conservative than American English. I've heard that West Country accents tend to be particularly conservative. Probably depends on your interpretation, though. But hey, I've seen videos of Shakespearean pronunciation on RU-vid which seem legitimate. Check them out. Here's one: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gPlpphT7n9s.html Also languages have phases of conservatism and progressivism/innovation so it can vary a lot. I've gotten the impression that American English has been going more toward the progressive side in the last hundred or so years, which would make sense considering all the new influences brought by the immigrants since the 19th century and the flourishing culture and economy (long term economy). Cultural hubs tend to be more likely to have a faster changing language. Kind of like they have faster changing fashions in general. Language is just another form of fashion can take, after all. That's also why the most rural, least fashionable or fancy sounding accents, the ones people are most likely to mock, are usually the most conservative ones and thus closest to the original. I'm pretty sure modern technology must be having some kind of an effect, though. I'm just not quite sure what. It does speed up some of the changes, vocabulary definitely at least, but it might also slow them down... (There must be studies about this. I just don't know any.) Anyway, theoretically, it would make sense if American English was changing more quickly than England's English now that the center of the Anglophone world has shifted there. Of course in practice it can go differently. (Anyway, it's not like England's become periphery all of the sudden so it might be that it'll keep changing just as rapidly and always be a little further from the old accent. Unless it fuses into the General American accent and disappears which is entirely possible. That's definitely a thing that modern technology does: accents are melting into each other. It starts with the rural accents usually but it might eventually spread. Though class accents would probably stick around longer, I'd imagine. Of course this is just my speculation... but it's educated speculation at least? I'm not an expert on English but I do study linguistics.) Oh and hey, remember that English trends did also spread to America over the years, they just did so slowly enough that the American accent could still go into its own direction. But the prestigious accent in England was also seen as such by the colonials (and thus imitated), they just heard it a lot less often. I imagine that if there was no connection, the accents would be really different nowadays, maybe to the point of being mutually unintelligible. Ireland, Scotland and Wales are probably an even longer story since it's not that long ago (historically speaking) that English was a minority language in those areas. That can lead to very contrary effects from what I've seen in similar situations. On the one hand, the local language tends to have a strong influence on the new language, creating a whole new accent... but on the other hand it can end up preserving a lot of features that would have otherwise disappeared.

Four. Northern Ireland is a part of Britain. And in Ireland the accents between counties are so diverse that they might as well each be their own separate nation.

it's nice how the top comments are aligned :D

British accent with a mix of Australian = This guy

0:51 Tears...

3:18 Which is coincidentally what actually happened in New Vegas.... I was exploring Freeside doing a bunch of quests and out of nowhere 3 old ladies wearing Pre-war skirts attacked me.

He likes it not for the gameplay but for the story. He talks about it in the Origins review.

Your kind is not wanted here! *Holds up cross and steak*

I've never had my sleeve caught in a doorknob..

What is your problem? Different people, different tastes.

Jeese, Yahtzee actually said something nice about a game. When has that happened before?

Giggle at the ghosties my friend.

Conversion has begun!!

Video's like this make me feel bad that I enjoyed homecoming.

There is an extreme difference my friend, for one thing our accents are completely different, and for the other we live on the other side of the world from eachother...

mustn't sleep mustn't sleep mustn't sleep

Loved reading the ending credits LOL

Can't wait to see his review of Downpour.

1:21 the irony is that he made two games where the antagonist is a mysterious cult.

I feel like if you make a game on being a celeb while shaking off fans and escaping paparrazi would prolly be more thrilling.

BLUE is a calming color ZZZZ lol

Well you kinda can when their main job is...to...y'know...scare you.

because believe it or not the PS2 is still getting games to this day, even though that it has stopped being made.

he also likes Yakuza 4, Shadow of the collosus, and Painkiller.

On the other hand, making it way too grotesque can also backfires.

"And Crap in Bed" O_o "Moving on"

1:21 This REALLY makes me want to know what Yahtzee thinks of the Cthulhu mythos then. The game and the pen and paper RPG specifically, as those cosmic horrors don't care/know about humanity and only screw with us if evil cults DO try to summon them/their lesser aspects/just conjure up dome shoggoths. And since Yahtzee mentioned shoggoths in a description of a throat infection he had lets me know he is aware of it and probably has an opinion, even if it's a lack of one/apathy.

He likes Portal and the PS2 Prince of Persia; and Silent Hill 2.

Whoop it up with the weepy.

@Letsplaymoron Yahtzee googled "expressionless face". this is him.

I can't wait for Yahtzee to review Silent Hill: Downpour!

Where a jacket and it will happen if you have one of those door nobs that stick out to the side horizontally.

OH FUCK! RUN FOR IT!

I'm sure we can look forward to a review of Silent Hill: Downpour soon enough

is it just me or does the average guy picture he always uses remind of Arthur Dent from Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy?

I love how you refer to it as if we changed it and not our ancestors. Also I'm american and I have no problem understanding people with accents, mostly. There are a few that I find difficult, however English as it were, is a combination of many languages such as Roman, Greek, French, Spanish, and many more. So I'd say it needed a good simplifying if all it was, was a combination of mix-matched languages. So yeah, that is a thing.

The Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland are different places and when you say Ireland you mean ALL of us.

0:58 proves that Yahtzee is, indeed, a nerd. Good on ya for actually havin' a brain under that fedora, mate! EDIT: Replaced semicolon with an actual colon*, cuz I was stupid enough to not hold shift. *: I mean the punctuation mark, not an ACTUAL actual colon.

Horror Antagonist Role HERE I COME!!!

Still giving a recognizable face to an entity that had none though. Even if its behind the scenes or disturbingly evil, it still doesn't rival a faceless mystery that you cannot understand. Not understanding the situation and being left on the verge without comprehension is much more intimidating, which is why SH2 succeeded. An endless nightmare without explanation or understanding, there are no clear indicators of just WHY this is happening or where you are going until towards the very end.

You copied an exact quote from the video we all just watched. You really deserve thumbs up for that!

But in the very beginning of the game >>; Harry even mentions the snow as he's chasing after Cheryl....

That doesn't necessarily mean that he thinks they came out after Amnesia. He might just be saying he's played Amnesia, and doesn't want to experience something like it.

I liked the part where Harry Meson was covered in mesons.

Astonishing review!

SH1 was brilliant in the same way SH2 was. Team Silent had said that all the otherworld in 1 was Alessa's mind and was her torment going amuck personally, but no, Escapist Magazine seems to think its all the "demons" coming from the god... SH2 did NOT invent this and ditch the prior storyline. And it's a wonder people think its the best in the franchise! Twin Perfect are very well right here. Too many people think SH2 is far different from the rest, when its not.

Which would make an even better antagonist ;)

Haven't I seen you before? I distinctly remember talking to a Neonugget a couple of weeks ago?

there are two games that really capture no weapon combat that are REALLY scary (that I know of anyway) and they are Penumbra and Amnesia.

Holy shit im in school trying not to laugh at this one and I'm DYING!!!

But the person above you said British guy, which completely makes sense.

2:12 indeed XD

2:09 Im not sure about a red dress BUT A PINK DRESS!!!!! SHITS GETTING REAL!!!!!

I honestly did see the Psychological or horror bits when i played Shattered Memories, they were so subtle that i went to the walkthrough/wiki to see the SPOILERS Different costumes you wear depending on what you answer during the psychological parts