Silent Hill: Book of Memories pre-release impressions

Writing about this game is very hard for me, and not because there isn't really all that much information about it, but because I can already tell that it fucking sucks.  I'm a big Silent Hill fan, I loved 1-3 and even 4 despite it's flaws.  I was even willing to give downpour some credit for somewhat being a step in the right direction, but this? this is a fucking joke, it's a mess, a disaster, and it's not even come out yet.

So just what is Silent Hill: Book of Memories?  Well it ain't a Silent Hill game I'll tell you that.  The story line follows some prick that you design yourself, and you find a book or some shit where your entire past is written, and then you can bend reality or some nonsense in order to change your past and....WHAT THE FUCK HAS THIS GOT TO DO WITH SILENT HILL?! someone please tell me the link here?  also it's on the Vita, thought that was worth mentioning.

You know, if they changed to art style to something more original, and just called it "Book of Memories", maybe I wouldn't be flying off the handle, but why in the name of Jesus thorny butthole does it carry the Silent Hill name?  From what I can tell of the one video I've seen about it, it doesn't even have anything to do with Silent Hill. 

But the story isn't my biggest issue here, Silent Hill's story has been getting fucked every which way since Origins so it's something I've come to expect now.  But the gameplay? oh god does the gameplay look shitty.

First of all, did anyone ever play THIS fucking game?

If you did, your basically looking at the same sodding game.  From what I can tell of the gameplay footage the game focuses on multiplayer dungeon crawling, where all the dungeons look like rusty Silent Hill buildings as opposed to caves.  So first of all, Silent Hill is supposed to be a fucking horror game franchise right? so why the fuck has it suddenly turned into a loot based hack n' slash.  The only difference between this and Baldurs Gate is that the loot now doesn't drop as much so that it semi fits in with the whole survival horror thing.  Secondly, why in the name of holy cock shitting hell does it have a multiplayer focus?  What made Silent Hill really scary, was that sense of being alone, that sense that the only things that exist in the town are you, and shit that wants you dead.  But now its OK! You have up to 3 other friends to cover your back and make sure the nasties don't get you! 

Newsflash! THATS NOT FUCKING SCARY!  Good lord how do you fuck this up so bad.

Just let Silent Hill die, please, for the love of God.  All these western developers have no idea what the holy fuck they are doing and every new game just makes me want to hurl every member of the development teams into an active volcano.  But to be honest with you, even if you got the Japanese to take a crack at it, it would probably STILL be a shitty game.  The stroke of genius with this series has long gone, and it ain't comin' back, just put it to rest and lets look back fondly on what were truly some of the greatest horror games ever.  Stop destroying the legacy of Silent Hill!