I'm a massive Silent Hill fan, even if it isn't quite as good as Resident Evil. Although none of the former games really feel like they are connected, I still really love the graphics and the mature, creepy plot, and the shopping mall in 3 still looks amazing in 2018. You can almost taste the icing on the cakes in Helen's Bakery. Both franchises have key moments that set them apart from similar games.
3 was a proper sequel to the original, but 2 and the others were basically 'their own thing' you could say, and eventually, I think them adding in the nurses and Pyramid Head for no reason, and making them too action heavy, was bringing forth a bout of desperation and cheapness. It kind of took away from what Pyramid Head was, and the character became kind of devalued. He wasn't supposed to be a stock character that appeared in multiple new iterations, but that's basically what happened once the series went "Hollywood" on us.
Also, Resident Evil has its high and low points, because of how Capcom treats it. Some games are just laughable. While I wouldn't say 4 and 5 are the worst games ever made, they certainly put RE in the 'WTF?' category. The same with 6 and 7. But the remake of 2 does look fantastic, and I like The Walking Dead style zombies they are putting in. Zombies, to me at least, had kind of lost a lot of their scariness. Although it remains to be seen if Capcom can do non remakes and actually make them great again. We'll just have to wait and see...
Hang fire, guys!
