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A decent effort, but there are several flaws which hamper this game:

Firstly, there's something about a top-down view that detracts from a Silent Hill atmosphere. Areas are blocked out awkwardly and exits are sometimes hard to find. The flashlight's beam looks awkward when the character faces left or right, and darkened areas aren't dark enough to provide the proper feel. The static, Legend-of-Zelda-style one-screen-at-a-time approach can build tension if perhaps sounds can be heard from adjacent screens, or your radio emits static faintly at first. Outside of cutscenes, music/ambiance is far too sparse to provide mood.

An enemy's sudden appearance when you enter its screen doesn't really provoke a threatening feel, which is compounded by the oft-times silly or cartoonish appearance of said enemy. The Christmas-ornament-looking enemy in particular made me chuckle a bit. I did like the weird twitching severed-arm monster though.

Another issue is the poor interface. Switching back and forth between inventory and exploration is a tad clumsy. Adding customizable keys for attacking and examining, and adding a map key and perhaps an inventory key with accompanying separate screen for convenience would help greatly.

Combat is, somewhat understandably, difficult. I know you were going for that since the SH series has tried to take steps to encourage flight over fighting. Shots have to be lined up too perfectly and most enemies don't even flinch when hit, which causes a problem since the faster enemies move up or down when you do, making adjusting aim difficult at best and evasion nigh-impossible. Most times your only course of action is to move off-screen and try again. A point-and-click targeting system, while trivializing combat, might be a better method here.

Yes, I did see the video, like everyone else making these recent comments. I also realize this game was made six years ago so you will have likely moved on from this, but just giving my honest opinion. Have a good one.

Another terrible horror adventure game with unresponsive controls, terrible graphics, annoying audio, Dumb AI and overall unpleasant experience. Especially when you use the "gay plague" remark in your game. This is an absolute insult to ANY silent hill game in the genre, especially since it's a DIRECT rip off of the game.

This is a terrible, homophobic, poorly controller, unplayable, atmospheric failure of a game. The only reason there's a star is for the fact it's got the tiniest bit of humor value in how poor it is.

The "gay plague"? Really? So this is essentially anti-gay, or what?
Goodness.

Well, with that aside, let's begin.

1. The graphics are poor. The art design is hardly stylistic and looks like a bunch of vectors. No depth (even the perspective is incredibly off), no shadows, no dominant colors or themes. It looks bland, essentially.

2. A lot of the things in this are directly from Silent Hill. This isn't inspired by it, this is practically ripping half of it off.

3. The beginning doesn't even make any sense! You almost hit a guy on a road, but you didn't, and he asks if he can drive, and you don't even know him and you accept! And even if they did know each other, wouldn't he have commented on almost running the guy over? There's also practically no character development here. The main character just sorta goes "Yeah yeah yup" to everything and doesn't acknowledge anything around him or give any particular emotion. You can't connect to that.

I could go on, but you get the gist.

wasn't quite what i expected dude but still