Variety: Konami wants to play a game, picks up Saw rights

His scrabble is played with little hot coals for letters. No gloves allowed.

THIS

omg KONAMI even...

See, buy up the rights to anything that has had some success and what does the mind think off of reflex? E A.

I look forward to the political debate over video game violence vs. movie violence in the marketplace that this title certainly has the potential to force.

I would consider it worth it at that price. I bought it at launch and feel I overpayed, but only by a little. At $20 less, I would consider it about right.

The Zero Punctuation review of it was pretty fair, I think. (Aside from seriously misconstruing how important and in-character Pyramid Head's brief appearances in the game are. He must not have finished the game.) This game is good but not awesome. Not as good as the masterpieces of the series, but an order of magnitude above most of their recent efforts. It's a Silent Hill game you don't need to be embarassed to be seen playing. But don't kid yourself into thinking it will be SH 1-4 caliber.

It does suggest the developer has the potential to REACH that caliber given more time to explore effectively blending American- and Japanese-style horror. Right now, they don't really seem to be very comfortable with either one on its own, let alone trying to fuse them. The game's main flaw is that it seems to lurch from one to the other without warning and rarely does either quite right. But there is potential, and their freshman effort in the series is quite playable on its own, despite not being perfect.

However, if there's one thing talking to other people has taught me, it's that how much you enjoy SH5 is not directly related to how much you enjoyed previous games in the series. People seem to have very varying experiences, and this seems like a strong candidate for renting or borrowing before buying, if possible.

Really? I would've picked Martha Washington. Or the Jolly Green Giant.

No, those are good, too. We just have different priorities.

You mean like Phantasmagoria?

Uh...yeah. :|

Holy balls I saw some youtube clips of that game, bruuuuuuuuuutal.