PC version this time. I don’t feel like buying PlayStation3 just for this one game. It might be powerful, but still it’s yet another PlayStation, nothing revolutionary here (in other words: it’s not Nintento Wii ;D).

There’s just one little problem. My PC. SH6 requires a bit too much.

Getting more RAM woudn’t be a problem, but a DuoCore processor – indeed. If I wanted to get it, I’d have to get the whole new motherboard. If I did, I’d have to change the graphics card as well.

Anyway, I can’t really afford it now, so I guess I’ll -try- to play the way it is: on my sister’s PC, Bonifacy ;D. I am able to start the game there, but it gets stuck in the middle of action, but honestly, it is a real pain in the ass.
There is a dodge button (new option in SH), but before Alex dodges it’s already after the attack and since he respondes to, like, one third of MY attacks… well, let’s say there’s not enough Health Drinks all over Shepherd’s Glen. But I have to live with it, I guess. Unless I win in some kind of a lottery or something.

As for the game itself, some people, who are just as obsessed with Silent Hill as I am, rated it highly.
Personally, I don’t want to be too hopeful, I don’t want it to be a total dissapointment. Since I already started the game, after I wrote that part, I must say that it’s pretty decent. And it deffinitely has its strong points, like Pyramid Head. In his movie version. Which is more terrifying than Silent Hill 2 version.
It was really cool when he appeared right after the game started <3.

So if you won’t hear from me within a week I:
a) am still playing *-*,
b) got pissed at Bonifacy and threw it through the window (sounds cool XD),
c) died of a heart-attack and there was no one around to rescue me (which is hardly possible, because my mom is always watching me play [I am the remote keeper XD or keyboard keeper, this time]).

So, see you all next time~! Hopefully, that is :).

Before I start: yes, I am aware of the fact that this is the 7th Silent Hill game, yet the one called Origins is number zero.

Back on subject.

The story follows Harry Mason, who wakes up after a car accident to find that his daughter Cheryl is missing. Harry will wander the snowy streets of Silent Hill searching for answers of her disappearance, but when the world freezes over, he will need to escape the lumbering demons that haunt his steps. Harry will need to navigate both worlds to discover the truth; not just about his missing daughter, but also the type of person he actually is.

Silent Hill’s debut on the Wii makes the fear more real than ever before. Players will be drawn into the mysterious town using the Wii Remote as a flashlight and a cellphone as they search for clues. Choices they make will shape Harry Mason, as well as the people he meets and the places he visits. The enemies evolve as well, taking the form of the player’s deepest fears. Silent Hill promises to be more terrifying than ever, bringing the fear to Wii, PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system, and PSP (PlayStation Portable) system.

As you can see, Shattered Memories is based on the first part, but it’s not an actual remake. We may meet the same characters, but in different order. The game will track our movements and progress and put the plot according to our style.

The “enemies evolve as well, taking the form of the player’s deepest fears. Silent Hill promises to be more terrifying than ever” part sounds promising yet there are few things about this game which make me nervous.

The most important one is the console: Nintendo Wii. I’m not quite sure it’s a disadventage. Playing on Wii gives you more freedom and might be a really good solution for a horror game where you can’t even kill the monsters, because  “Combat has been removed from the game with emphasis placed instead on evading encounters with monsters entirely.” At least we will be able to break through the doors and windows while we run, but it’s not this much fun if you won’t play it on Wii. It will be simply boring. It also means that the whole sight thing might be a real pain in the ass on Play Station 2 or PC. On the other hand, just imagine playing Silent Hill on this!

I’d deffinitely want to try it out!

Secondly: “Harry will wander the snowy streets of Silent Hill searching for answers of her disappearance, but when the world freezes over”. Like what? What about rust, grunge and blood stains? Those are things which I will always associate with this game! They can’t just get rid of them so easily!

Another thing is that “we will be able to open every single door”. Guys, come on! It was so much fun when you had only a few doors open and everytime you tried to get somewhere you had to spend some time on finding the right path. And if it, for example, were the alternative school from the first part, you never knew if something was about to attack you or if you were safe, because the enemy was stuck behind the fence (and the radio told you it was close…). Oh, I will miss such things so much! I really feel an urge to play it once again…

Next change: cell phone. You will just keep using it for everything: taking photos, calling, finding way (GPS),  saving game or keeping track of the notes. This might be interesting, because some clues will be visible only on the photos and sometimes a ghost or two might also appear on them.

So will it be any good? There’s no rust, no blood, no combat, no closed doors. There’s one thing which remains: Akira Yamaoka and his music. The song from the trailer is called “Always on my mind” and you can listen to it here:

OST has 21 tracks, 4 with vocals. Marvelous as always. I guess I don’t have to encourage any of the game fans to get this OST. Music has always been one of the most important and the most impressive parts of the game.

Overall, this will be a very good game for Wii players (and I wish to become one of them soon ;)). Those who are as obsessed with SH as much as I am will enjoy it as well. Or at least this is what I hope for.

Rest of the world? We must wait and see. It should be released in February 2010. You can be sure I will get it soon after and tell you if my fears were groundless. If I won’t die of heart attack somewhere in the middle, that is.

The second term (or fourth, depending on how you count them…) started and it’s hard. There’s this thing called Econometrics. Mathematics, statistics, economics and probability in one. *dies* My brain simply turns into water every Tuesday.
Fortunately, I’m at school three times a week and once a month Mondays are free~!
Unfortunately, on every “free” day I’m supposed to be at work. Including weekends, sometimes. Well, my boss thinks that I should spent every afternoon working.
I wonder for how long I’ll be working here… Since I got my promotion I’m being lectured 3 times per day just because. But well, that’s a subject for separate entry.

When it comes to entries, I have some things written and saved at home (since I no longer trust in WordPress’ drafts), but I just don’t have time to sit and finish anything or make it sound decent.
Ha ha, I bet everyone would love my MUSE review (which got deleted dammmmmmmmmmit!) if the actual review part consisted of “I love it you must listen to it it’s awesome omg I love muse <3333″, right? XD So yeah, I deffinitely shall rephrase few things there ;D.

Besides I opened RT which has been even more dead than this place, but I’ve been working on something, actually. Vector of my OC Lazuri (done in Illustrator~ and yes, it is spelled with “R”).

Few work in progress pics:

I will write more about it when I get it finished <3.

There are two more things which kept me busy for the last few weeks: books and video games.

As for the books, there’s a Polish writer Jacek Piekara. He wrote quite a few short stories (five books so far, 400+ pages each) about Holy Inquisition, or rather one of the inquisitors: Mordimer Madderdin. The thing is that the world Piekara created is a bit different than ours. It is a world where Jesus Christ didn’t die on the cross, but He descended it and, with the help of apostles, cold-bloodedly murdered half of Jerusalem (in Polish this ‘cold-bloodedly’ part was said more pointedly, but I couldn’t find it in any of my dictionaries).
I didn’t really want to even start reading it since I’m an atheist and this whole religious crap just doesn’t work for me, but I gave it a chance. And now I love it. I don’t know if there’s a point in writing anything else about it here, because most of you won’t read it anyway.
It just kept me busy for quite some time. I really have been reading a lot lately. Piekara is just my latest obsession.

Now video games, or a game I should say. Heroes of Might and Magic III. It’s old, I know. I haven’t played it in quite a while and I’ve already forgot how playable it is. It’s all my sister’s fault! One day she asked me if I wouldn’t play with her as an ally. I agreed. Since that day I must finish at least one map per day x_x”. Still, it’s better than my Dungeon Siege obsession. I have been playing it for… four months? Day by day. Few hours per day.

Anyway, now you see that I had better things to do than blogging ;) (yeah, especially the last paragraph).
Ok, I shall end by now, it’s time to at least pretend I’m actually working ^-^.