Not very funny (the guy with the goatee in particular is just terrible) and incredibly dorky, but it was a pretty well done and comprehensive review you must admit. I'm ashamed to say I watched all of it.

Yeah the "humor" is awful but if you're a big fan of Silent Hill 2 it's probably an interesting video. I was almost about to purchase the collection just to have Silent Hill 2 and this video saved me some money.

Silent Hill 2 is a terrible game.

Its actual gameplay is horrible. The voice acting sucks, although those of us who like it appreciate it and find that it works in a similar way to how Blue Velvet's "the robins are going to save the world" or much of Wild at Heart's acting is all weird and fucked up and makes for a kind of beautiful, mesmerizing trainwreck.
What the game does right is tell its story through its environments and monsters, allowing you to build up a whole background intuitively. It's not so much about you figuring out the final reveal, which is pretty easy to figure out from the very beginning, but rather it does a perfect job of setting up the background and emotional framework for it to be effective, and it does so mostly without its cutscenes.
It's not a perfect game by any means, but I like it very much.

It's also not scary, which is a pretty crippling problem for a horror game.

I found the atmosphere and monsters to be scary enough.

Too bad it wasn't really supported by an intense, difficult gameplay as you'd just bonk them over the head in slow-mo with a plank repeatedly and they died.

Hey poorwill do you jizz whenever you see a Silent Hill video on the front page on anticipation of getting to say it sucks?

No, because that would be creepy and nothing about Silent Hill is creepy.

SILENT HILL 2: Excellent story. Creepy environments/enemies. Meh gameplay. Has a plot with gut-wrenching story elements incomparable to other survival horror of the era. It's Capcom's zombies and dinosaurs vs. Konami's manifested mental health issues. Our own minds are way more fucked up than Lickers.

SILENT HILL 3: Decent story. Unbelievably creepy enemies. Slightly improved gameplay, still meh. Continues the tradition of casting the player as an untrained, unprofessional everyperson, in this case a teenage girl whose only real defensive maneuver is her snarikness.

I am agreement that the combat was awkward and badly executed. I disagree that it was ever really easy, especially when it came to the nurses in the Hospital worlds. They chewed through health items like termites. If I tried to whack a Straitjacket monster over and over it would usually just bite me or wear me down with its acid breath.

In defense of the combat though, I like to think of it as the characters being inexperienced. Harry and James are just regular dudes. Heather is just a kid. Henry Townsend is just Henry Townsend. None of them are S.T.A.R.S. members.

BOUNCERS UNITED

I can't disagree with their overall opinion on the topic but the execution is sorely lacking; web-based media seems especially suceptible to wannabes, knock-offs and clones. I'm not a fan of RLM, at best from what I've seen of them I'm indifferent but these guys are a pallid attempt at Xeroxing them.

Internet video reviewing is still a Thing. Everybody who has a camera wants to be the next Spoony or Angry Video Game Nerd or RLM.

Two hours man... two hours...

And I'm ashamed to say I watched all of it.

Wow. This is just "Part 1."

Now I'm just curious about how they managed a two hour rant about this. Sketches, probably. But you can condense what sucks about the Silent Hill HD Collection into 40 minutes, easily.