…is apparently boredom and a vague feeling of being ripped off somehow, even though you didn’t actually buy it.
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\nFirst, I’m not really sure what it’s supposed to be. It’s listed as a PSP Movie on Gamefly, so maybe it’s a movie? Except it’s more like an interactive sort of nongame thing where your reward for pushing buttons is a tiny selection of things, like animated comic books, and a selection of music from the various Silent Hill games.<\/p>\n
The animated comics aren’t really all that animated. I don’t know who decided it would be a good idea, but they’re just sorta…moving the panels around, moving some of the people [or parts of them] around in the panels, and making the word-boxes and speech bubbles pop up in a very annoying way. But, hey, it’s set to music!<\/p>\n
I think I’m getting ahead of myself here, because the comics were actually the second thing I found. The first was a room with a movie screen, and all that room does is show you select stills from the games. I’ve got the internet for that.<\/p>\n
After pressing buttons at random [and finding out that the circle button on the PSP does bad, bad things when you’re trying to watch a movie], I figured out that the funny compass-type thing in the lower lefthand corner of the screen was there to tell me which directions I could go. Or, well, it was showing me which arrow to press on the DPad to start up another animated sequence between DVD menus, because you don’t really have a lot of choices on which direction you go once you press the button. Controlling Harry in the first game wasn’t quite this bad.<\/p>\n
After the comics I already mentioned, I had to back out to the main room and pick a different direction. Lots of backing out and starting over here, because, y’know, it’s the school….<\/p>\n
I probably should’ve mentioned that first. The, uh, ‘interactive menu’ seems to be based on the school. Or the bastard lovechild of the school and the hospital, because I’m pretty sure I saw a wheelchair in there. It looks good, which is a plus. I just wish I’d been able to see more of it while the camera was zipping me off to my next exciting D-pad and X selecting adventure.<\/p>\n
The next dead-end I managed to find was the trailers section, which, again, kinda let down. I found out that you can’t always adjust the screen mode on the PSP while watching UMDs [at least, not if you’re me], and was stuck watching the Silent Hill movie trailer in a grotesquely smeared-out sort of way. The other trailers almost made up for it, though. I got to enjoy my little nostalgia moment with the original opening sequence from the original game [did anyone else notice if they left off the ‘e’ in ‘create’ in the game? Because there was an e missing in this one. I can’t find out right now, because the PS2 is busy with GT4], and two and three were all familiar goodness. The trailer for SH4, though? I’d never seen that one. I may need to track it down so I can watch it on something bigger than my hand…and not so mirror-like.<\/p>\n
That was probably the best thing about all this. The Silent Hill 4 trailer that I hadn’t already seen.<\/p>\n
After the trailers, there were some interviews I didn’t even bother to look at, and a smallish selection of music from the games. If you want the music, you’re better off tracking down the soundtracks. Really. I guess I can understand why they left off I Want Love [I’m rather fond of the studio mix] from the third, and I’m almost glad they also left Hometown out, but to have Promise, but no Promise (Reprise)? And the selection from the fourth game is just pathetic.<\/p>\n
So…I’m glad I didn’t buy this. I’m also glad I got to see the PSP doing something other than running a GTA game. That little screen isn’t half bad, once you figure out exactly how to hold it so you’re not looking at yourself while trying to watch something. I suppose the thing has its uses, but I definitely prefer my DS Lite. The last time it sucked at me like this was when I was trying to play Trauma Center…which would’ve been better with a little hand-walking two-headed giant-baby thing, I think. Way better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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