The first Silent Hill 2 and Metaphor: ReFantazio reviews have been published

The first Silent Hill 2 and Metaphor: ReFantazio reviews have been published.

Both games were reviewed in this week’s issue of the Japanese magazine Famitsu, which were later posted online by Ryokutya2098. Famitsu’s scoring system sees 4 members of the staff play the game and give a score, which is combined to give each game an overall score out of 40.

Metaphor: ReFantazio received 9/9/10/9 from the four critics, giving the game a total score of 37/40.

According to Famitsu, the game takes 80 hours to finish, or over 100 including side activities. Excerpts of the translated review claim that “the gameplay itself feels almost the same as the Persona series” and that “the coolness of the presentation is on a different level.”

Silent Hill 2 received a 35/40 overall score, with each individual score breaking down into 8/9/9/9. The game takes 16 to 18 hours to clear, according to the magazine. A translated excerpt of that review claims, “The sense of realism and creepiness brought by the beautiful visuals and sound is incredible.”

The Silent Hill 2 remake is released on October 8 for PS5 and PC.

VGC’s recent Silent Hill 2 hands-on preview said the game is reminiscent of Capcom‘s recent remakes of its Resident Evil games.

“Crucially, for the health of the series, Silent Hill 2 feels like it’ll be exactly the kind of shot in the arm that will bring the series back into vogue,” we wrote.

“The Resident Evil remake comparisons will likely be inescapable, but is that a bad thing when Capcom’s latest efforts have been just as genre-defining for modern survival horrors as both Resident Evil and Silent Hill were in the genre’s nascent days?”

Metaphor: ReFantazio is scheduled for release on October 11.

A VGC hands-on preview said that Metaphor: ReFantazio ” is going to make the wait for Persona 6 so much easier”.

“It’s not a Persona clone, but the team has taken everything you’d want them to from a Persona title, and brought it to its new world of Metaphor: ReFantazio,” we wrote.

“If the future of Atlus is swapping between a Metaphor and a Persona every few years, we’re all for it.”