Back to basics of Silent Hill !!! - Report of a fanatic ;-)

Silent Hill Origins is the 5th part of Silent Hill and at the same time it reflects the evolution of evil in small Silent Hill again, that it takes place before the first part.
The beginning of the game was introduced by a beautifully designed Render Video. After that Travis is all alone on a country road and he wants to find out where the girl, who was still on the road recently, has gone.

Getting started with Travis are from the controller once getting used to and the camera is a disappointment. Since you have to move the camera any way. In some places you have only the ability to center the camera.
From the graph ago Silent Hill is not up to date, but here one must consider that "Silent Hill Origins" a PSP Import is.
The greatest strengths of this game are on the one hand the soundtrack by Akira Yamaoka, which was produced specially for this game. Secondly, the Silent Hill typical atmosphere that comes back also here to express.

Story: 5/5
The story rumd to Silent Hill Origins was again very well designed, so as you'd expect for a worthy successor Silent Hill. However, I think that in some places the story is down a bit thin and you could learn more about the town can. Even the character of Travis was presented not as extensively.
In some places, but was again betrayed so much.
Still leaves a story back clearance for all discussions. For example: What has Allessa ago with Travis?
The world changes, but I find not as good as its predecessors. As you come into the parallel world through a mirror and thus can always switch freely between the two worlds. That leaves me personally something the atmosphere. Just as it took place in Silent Hill 1 as an example by the siren, I liked much better.
More I do not want to say because I do not want to spoil it.

Monster Design: 4/5
The monsters are sometimes already known in SHO and some are new.
For example, the nurse an old acquaintance.
However, there were also monsters that looked very similar to other SH games. For example: Straight Jacket or the Butcher, who has a resemblance to the Pyramid Head.
Nevertheless, the monsters have been very well set by the creators in scene and often represented quite cruel.

Combat system: 3/5
The combat system in SHO is quite often been very annoying for me. Because you threw television and other things, but this does not always go as correct. So it was in advance often that one was attacked in CV assigns a corner, but it is not much paying attention to because the camera was not sitting properly. In addition, melee weapons all zrebrechen after a certain application time. Dadruch that many melee weapons are present there are accordingly not very many fire weapons.
Nevertheless, the team has come up with something in the development and I can imagine that some will have fun with it Monster with toasters, remote Sehrn, bottles, lamps and other killing.

Camera: 2/5
As already written there in SHO unfortunately no free moving camera. This is sometimes very annoying. But still, the camera movements are very typical of a SH and therefore very atmospheric again.

Locations: 4/5
From the Locations SHO is one of my Favoroiten the Silent Hill series. For all locations are from the forth design and the selection very well done and varied. So my favorite is the voice Motel, but also the Alchemilla Hospital, because it awakens some memories from Silent Hill 1.

Soundtrack: 5/5
Akira Yamaok created with the Soundtracck again very dark and harmonious atmosphere in the small town of Silent Hill. He is very varied. The soundtrack in my opinion can compete strongly with its predecessors and has me frankly very surprised. He has specially been writing a soundtrack for the PSP game.

Replayability: 5/5
For me it was in any case not the last time that I played through SHO, SHO Biette because very many extras. How many extra weapons, 14 costumes and a total of 3 ends. Moreover, I find the extra options for the 1.Spieldruchgang quite well.

PS2 implementation: 2/5
Unfortunately, the implementation of PS2 is very unkind.
Because some bugs push the gameplay. Thus there are often sound and Musikbugs.
The promised simple camera work was not implemented. And otherwise there was virtually no reason to get the PS2 version, if you already had the PS2 version. Except, perhaps, that you can enjoy the game on a bigger screen. Although you can do so by an appropriate cable that even with the PSP.

My conclusion:
Silent Hill Origins is an absolute MUST HAVE for any fan. Since you can have a lot of fun when you had with the predecessors and so better acquainted with the background story "Silent Hill". Furthermore, there is reunion with Lisa Garland or Dr.Kaufmann and the Alchemilla Hospital. Denneoch some will be disappointed by the short season. Although my first Druchgang lasted over 8 hours, but a passage in 2 hours would also be possible.
For each "non-fan" it is definitely a buy recommendation and you needed even in this game none of the predecessors know. In addition, the price / performance ratio is very good with 30.
For all PSP owners I do not advise more likely to buy because there are hardly any differences. If then perhaps only for the valuable Silent Hill Collection!

I give the game the final score:

4/5