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Silent Hill 2's remake dares to modernise a classic, and is largely succeeding


An early hands-on with Bloober Team's remake of the legendarr Silent Hill 2 - a major challenge which shows some promise.

To be blunt, the team has had an uphill battle to inspire confidence in long-time Silent Hill fans, not helped by a poorly pitched ' combat trailer' at Sony's State of Play in January that completely missed the brief. Within one early sprawl of apartment rooms, you'll bump into familiar, cryptic clues, nudging you to the whereabouts of coins, the position of clock handles - and also brand new puzzles devised by Bloober Team. Change is a word often met with caution here: in my experience, this puzzle genuinely added a rewarding moment, a new hurdle to jump that fits neatly within its world, and a reasonable way to keep fans old and new engaged.

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