Silent Hill: Book of Memories
Silent Hill: Book of Memories is a Silent Hill role-playing spin-off game exclusively for the PlayStation Vita. The primary focus of the gameplay is on dungeon-crawling and cooperative multiplayer action…
Silent Hill: Book of Memories is an adventure developed by WayForward, released 16 October 2012 on PlayStation Vita.
What Silent Hill: Book of Memories is
Silent Hill: Book of Memories is an adventure game developed by WayForward and released in 2012. It was published by Konami. It is available on PlayStation Vita only. It runs on WF Engine. It carries an ESRB M age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The protagonist receives a strange book on his birthday from an unknown sender in Silent Hill. All of his memories are written there, and by altering the book, he finds that he can alter past events in his life. Before the changes take effect though, the character falls asleep and must survive a nightmare, explore the Otherworld and battle creatures from previous Silent Hill games on the way.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, horror and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Silent Hill series
Silent Hill: Book of Memories is the 25th of 39 entries we hold in the Silent Hill series. It arrived 7 months after Silent Hill HD Collection. The next entry was P.T. in 2014. Its critic score of 63 is 11 points below the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Silent Hill 2 at 90.
How it was received
Silent Hill: Book of Memories holds a critic score of 63 out of 100. That places it above 22% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 7 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Silent Hill: Book of Memories launched on 16 October 2012, within three weeks of Dishonored, Hotline Miami, XCOM: Enemy Unknown and Assassin's Creed III. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Dishonored, Hotline Miami, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Assassin's Creed III.
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