Silent Hill: Shattered Memories is not the kind of game you're used to seeing on the Wii. This is not the kind of game you're used to seeing anywhere, unless you seek out obscure and disturbing PC games from indie developers. It's certainly not what you're used to seeing if you played other Silent Hill games. Shattered Memories is a unique horror experience, one that aims squarely at the “that's damn freaky” part of your brain and largely hits the target.
The game warns players from the beginning that it uses psychological methods to “play you” as you play the game, adjusting the story and content based on your responses to a series of interview questions. The game's action is framed by a series of sequences where you interact with your psychologist, a man with a mix of orthodox and very unorthodox therapeutic techniques. But the majority of the game has you
This article appears in Jan 6-12, 2010.