Game Review: Silent Hill: The Escape

Welcome to another game review! This one is yet ANOTHER horror game! This is Silent Hill: The Escape!

Silent Hill is considered to be one of the best survival-horror game series ever made. The Silent Hill games, made by Konami, have been praised for their great story, characters, music, gameplay, and, of course, scares. The games were so great that they inspired a Silent Hill comic book series and 2 Silent Hill movies! Silent Hill: The Escape is the only iOS Silent Hill game to be released in North America. Japan and Europe got a lot more. The game is very simple. You are a man who doesn't remember who he is or where he came from, just like in Amnesia: The Dark Descent, alone in an abandoned mental institution. The game is a first person shooter where you tilt your device to aim, tap to fire, and swipe to move. The mental institution is a maze and you need to find the exit. However, there are monsters hunting you in the dark, the creatures and environments getting scarier and more twisted as the game progresses and your sanity slips away. You must shoot the monsters, but you have limited ammo and must reload frequently, so if you run out of bullets, you're screwed! If you get caught by the monsters, the game is over.

This game is really freaking scary! It isn't as terrifying as it's console counterparts, but you should still be in for a scare with this game! The graphics are not very good, more of a callback to the earlier Silent Hill games on the original Playstation. The game uses the darkness to hide the unknown. You truly don't know what you will meet in the hallways of the mental institution. The creatures are terrifying in this game, and the music is the stuff of nightmares. The sound design in this game is excellent. The sound comes on even if your device's ringer is off, giving you an unexpected scare! The controls in this game are brilliant, and again are a bit of a callback to the controls of original Silent Hill games. The tilt to aim and reload feature is cool because sometimes you are shaking with fear and can't aim properly, giving the game a realistic feel. I like that you need to reload frequently, just like in real life, and I like that you have limited bullets, just like real life. This puts the fear level up a huge notch! Also, your flashlight battery eventually runs out, just like in Slender! This game does a good job at making you feel alone and claustrophobic, almost to the point that you are scared to look around. This game is a scary experience all the way! Now, the game is pretty difficult and frustrating, almost to the point where it isn't even fun anymore. The scares get less scary as the game goes on, as is with all horror games. Scary the first time, but you get used to it. You do accidentally shoot at nothing often because you are trying to move, but fire your gun instead. This wastes a lot of ammo. But those are the only major complaints I have about this game. This is probably one of the scariest games on iOS. It isn't perfect, and it isn't nearly as good as the console Silent Hill games, but as a simple cell phone game, it definitely delivers! I would recommend this game for ages 12 and up because this game is SCARY!!! If you want to try it, it is a buck on the App Store. I give this game 4 stars out of 5! A simple, SCARY, experience!

Have you played Silent Hill: The Escape? What did you think of it? Tell me in the comments!