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Posted By LotusPrince about 5 months, 1 week ago
Lotus Prince Let’s Play: Silent Hill Homecoming (Complete)!, 
Our journey through the Silent Hill games continues as we return to the town in Silent Hill Homecoming! We start the game with one of the most amazing opening sequences EVER, and our first location is…well, you’ll see.
I’ll let you know this much in advance: the graphics, story, and bosses are all amazing in this game. The combat is a nuisance, but otherwise this game really has a lot to offer, with some truly original ideas, and it deserves a fair chance. Have fun!
This is a playlist! When it loads, just click the installment you wish to see, or simply let them play continuously!
This is my 28th Let’s Play! You can find my other LP’s in my archive, here!
Card 1, by MEgamer (kjekz_party):
Card 2, by JackFrost:
Card 3, by FallenBane:
Card 4, by sonicchica:
Felt kind of “cruel” at times with how much you struggled through half the game with combat, lol.
Like you do say at the end, the combat is nowhere near as frustrating or as hard as it is if you understand it.
I do wish we would have seen a:
“Ok everyone…I realized these smogs I’ve been treating as one of the hardest enemies die in two shots from the handgun if you shoot their neon colored “bullseye” (lungs) as they open their ribs and take 6 seconds to attack you..”
part almost, lol.
But anyways, Homecoming does have a good deal of call backs and background stuff to analyze. Also has a lot of explanation through not so blatant things like the pictures and notes that you would need to study to make the connections.
Or watch videos that explain all that stuff like the Shesellssheshells ones for homecoming I suppose, lol.
Still, it does make you appreciate the little details like “Asphyxia” s design being explained through a photograph you might/might not pickup, along with the obvious “hands reason”. Which you would probably never think to deeply about.
Just viewing your vid is so fun.
Especially Part 14 made me shiver (the warning especially), but what I liked was your theory regarding the bosses. I found your take interesting even if it wasnt entirely correct. The part with Spieders however was just right to the point x3
(also uploaded the titlecardcard and sent you the link)
OK how did I not see that right away.
The cross on the right is supposed to be the Cross of the Apostles a symbol of the devoted and the Golden Dawn on the right witch is often related to heretics(Remember that Lucifer is also the light bringer the Golden Dawn is his sign) and they are both inside the circle with the Cristian cross in the middle, This symbiosis the two opposites of the same religion.
The other two are the Norse symbols for Mjölnir witch stands for destruction and Yggdrasil witch is the symbol of creation. The top two are not bound in the circle symbolizing that these two forces are not influenced nor related to the religious sects that are involved.
So it means in short terms that the forces of Silent Hill answers to no one?
That’s all i can get out of that book.
BTW In the Book in the basement of the town hall the symbols in the book that you did not know where Yggdrasil and Mjölnir in the top and I think that’s the symbol of The Golden Dawn on the right
I don’t know the symbol they are in though.
Oh, awesome! Thanks for the info!
You know, homecoming is simply very good, and very much a silent hill game, and in my eyes it’s highly underrated.
I’ve read a lot of critique coming from many of the silent hill fanbase over the past few years, but in all honesty it seems almost as if in the eyes of many of these people, Team Silent is holy, and any other developer attempting to create a silent hill game might as well stop immediately, since it’s “probably going to suck and the developers don’t get the meaning of the series and it’s deeper concepts anyway.”
In other words, many within the silent hill fanbase are unappreciative of new takes and ideas on these games, whenever team Silent is not involved.
To me this is an indicator that the silent hill fanbase in reality is quite a bunch of close minded people, pretending to be open minded and intelligent about this series, while in reality they are nothing more than arrogant and snobbish about the subject matter.
I can say this; I’ve been a player of silent hill games since the very beginning, and I have always loved how all these games were very different from one another.
Every game had very deep themes of psychological horror, that each time was presented differently.
It’s true that some of the themes return in each game, and for a veteran in the series I guess its easier to look out for clues on what each story is going to be about in some way. But having that said, I think it’s just brilliant how all of these games just leave room for interpretation.
About Homecoming:
Alex is probably one of the most messed up people you play with in the entire series.
His story is one of deep psychological trauma, and while playing through it I was just blown away with some of the revelations in the end. I thought this story was going to be about something else entirely, but the plot twists are very well done and make this story a very deep and “mature” gaming experience.
I just want to thank Double Helix for making this game. And thank you LotusPrince, for giving this game a chance, and forming your own honest opinion about it !
I agree that it’s underrated. People probably saw the reviews, and stayed as far from this game as possible. I really wonder how many of the naysayers have actually played the game.
What blows my mind is the Origins bashing. That game is as close to Silent Hill 2 as you can get, and they still say it sucks, for reasons they won’t specify.
Alex’s story is one of the most brutal in the series. His whole family and whole TOWN suffered a horrible fate. :-\
Thanks a lot for your support!
Origins was an excellent game as well !
I found it’s story quite moving, and like Alex, Travis is quite a tragic character, who is no stranger with abuse in his early life.
Many of what he has to go through, isn’t actually his fault.
I think it’s also mindblowing how there is a lot of criticism on Silent Hill Downpour, since I think that one like Homecoming is actually quite well done.
Murphy actually is my favorite protagonist to this date !
Now I think of it.
The later Silent Hill protagonists are all in a way victims, while for example James, appears to be a victim at first, but in reality is quite the opposite.
Perhaps that difference is actually something that people react better to ??
(I can’t really imagine this is the case, but it sort of crossed my mind.)
Origins was fun but…
it trying to link itself to be a prequal, when it’s a kinda
misunder standing, or a better exsample silent hill revelation movie recaps it’s first film way differently.
that what Origins is
Homecoming is a “meh” gameplay and story
but wasn’t bad , but felt like a wannabe Silent Hill game,
not a “Silent Hill” game,
but people could just complain, and I kinda agree
on about how the new Silent Hill team ruin the hd collection, as that can get the vibe from fans
the new team trying to make the older games look bad by remastering them badly… to me they’re just milking it,
let it go start your own horror game title series…
heck I liked shattered memories as it was different and it was a “what if” not trying to be canon to the Japanese games
and thinks it understands it.
or to me the newer silent hill games is like 4kidstv
look up “underbelly 4 kids” on youtube, that what the new silent hill games kinda fill like to me.
but I could say it could be on the wrong hands
give to a better writer.
I actually think the post movie game are all good games.
But i also think that other old school fans might have liked them better under any other name.
The longer a franchise keeps running the higher we put the bar.
Yeah, they’ve all certainly been worth playing, at the very least.
you know people or fans didn’t hate Origins and Homecoming not just because it’s different but
it doesn’t know whats it talking about, meaning it doesn’t know how Silent Hill works,
like the monsters thing… they’re base on the person’s nightmares, life struggles, and guilts.
not reuse the same monsters anytime because they’re cool lookin.
It could be that Director thing too as Oirgins and Homcoming wasn’t touch or made
by any of the original creaters, artist and team, who made Silent Hill 1 to 4.
and also fans hate the newer Silent Hill becuase they Americanize to much
and hated as the new creaters didn’t understand original story of how it works,
they made up they’re own rules and just winging it.
(if they did know, they just made they own rules in it
and changes the originals)
so Origins and Homecoming is hated becuase it doesn’t understand the originals.
Yeah, this game’s greatest weakness, by far, was relying on the Silent Hill movie as source material, which was itself based on a completely different game (and also had Pyramid Head for some reason). That, and killing humans on a regular basis. BIG mistake.
What slays me is that you’d think that the people who wanted to make a Silent Hill game would at least understand the basic ideas behind it, which so many fans seem to. That said, this was still a solid game, and I had fun playing it.
Scarlet is one of the best bosses in horror games. Normally horror bosses aren’t that entertaining.
This game IS actually good. No, not as good as the classics, but not something to be looked down upon.
My only true gripe with the game as a whole are the teeth. They just stand out so much.
I agree for the most part, though this game does have it’s problems. Namely a combat system that focuses on combo-ing enemies with melee attacks is a bit antithetical to a Silent Hill game.
Still, the monster designs and environments are good. The boss fights are probably the best the series has seen in terms of gameplay. The story is decent, mostly due to the history of the town rather than Alex’s involvement.
That’s exactly how I feel. The game is overly combat focused, but the bosses, my god. Scarlet, in particular, was absolutely incredible. I also really liked some of the environments in which the Otherworld manifests itself.
I agree. It may not play like the classics, but at least it’s clearly a Silent Hill game.