Ok, so after a horrendous first impression, I actually like SH4 a lot.
It's not scary or terribly atmospheric, and again everything seems kind of rushed, with everyone I meet getting murdered sometime within the next 20 minutes. But for some reason I'm intrigued and don't want to put it down.
Gameplay isn't horrible, and it certainly has better melee combat than previous installments.
This part is just awful, though. I got stuck for a whole minute on one wall guy who wouldn't shrink back after knocking me over.
yeesh.
I like Henry for how soft-spoken he is, but the standard "moron syndrome" affecting Silent Hill protagonists showed itself during the part where he asks a woman covered in her own blood with numbers carved into her chest, "Are you ok!?"
I really like the chick living next door to him, too, but if experience has taught me anything it's that any character in Silent Hill I like will end up getting killed :<