8 Remasters That Made Video Games WORSE

Although since the mid 2000s, the Silent Hill franchise has seen a gradual decline in quality culminating in the cancellation of a reboot that would have saved it and a pachinko machine where its headstone should have been, its early entries are some of the best titles that video game horror has to offer.

During the 7th generation of consoles, when HD ports of last-gen titles were gathering momentum, Hijinx Studios set about bringing seminal PS2 titles Silent Hill 2 and 3 to modern consoles - and they ballsed it up as spectacularly as anyone could.

The Silent Hill games are known for their visuals being scratchy and lo-fi, with a thick fog hanging over the town that obscured visibility and an aggressive film grain filter further adding to that sense of unease. The fog in the HD ports is reduced to barely a few wisps, and the grain is gone entirely. Little to no texture or modelling work has been performed, so the lack of fog or grain simply throws the dated models and environments into sharp, painful relief.

Coupled with its clumsily upscaled and stretched cinematics and unnecessarily re-recorded voice acting, the Silent Hill HD Collection is an embarrassing, lazy port, and fatally undermines everything that makes Silent Hill special.