Silent Hill: Book of Memories Review

Silent Hill: Book of Memories isn’t a good game, but it’s one I keep coming back and playing. While we were tantalized with the Diablo-like gameplay of Warrior’s Lair (a crossplay dungeon crawler) before the PlayStation Vita launched, the game formerly known as Ruin hasn’t been seen or heard from in months. Development hell, they call it. Now, Silent Hill is here to fill that void, but it does so without any style or polish.

Book of Memories is nothing like the Silent Hill games that have come before. This isn’t a tense, single-player adventure. Rather, Book of Memories is a multiplayer dungeon crawler. You pick a character and go through level after level of nurses, butchers and creepy crawlers while hacking and slashing. You aren’t trying to run from the things that go bump in the night; you’re trying to run through them and collect their loot.