Random: Internet Trolls Tried to Downgrade Our Silent Hill 2 PS5 Review Score

In my restless dreams

We awarded Bloober Team’s brilliant PS5 remake of Konami’s iconic survival horror Silent Hill 2 a 9/10 because we genuinely believe it’s one of the strongest games of the year. At the time of writing, the title currently commands an 87 on Metacritic, suggesting the rest of the industry agrees. But not everyone is happy about the high scores!

Earlier today, Wikipedia was forced to lock the game’s page after Internet trolls tried to rewrite the release’s review scores – literally. A screenshot shared on Reddit shows our score edited down from 9/10 to 3/10 – with other sites like Eurogamer.net and IGN also having their scores downgraded.

Seriously? Trolls can't handle SH2R's success so they vandalized the Wikipedia review scores
by u/Sea-Measurement5025 in silenthill

It’s not exactly clear why this has happened. One theory is that the game is being targeted for altering the clothing and facial features of some female characters. The remake was also the subject of intense scrutiny for the longest time, due to the original’s status as a classic game. Whatever the case, it’s ridiculous.

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Fortunately, the original scores have been restored, and, as mentioned, the Wikipedia page has been locked to prevent further unnecessary edits.

Silent Hill 2 launched this weekend in early access, so many people are already enjoying the psychological adventure on PS5. If you’re one of those people, or you’re planning to pick up the title next week, then do have a gander at our Silent Hill 2 guide, which can help you solve the game’s puzzles and find its collectibles.

[source reddit.com, via twitter.com, eurogamer.net]

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• Nei
• Yesterday, 11:21pm

If you feel personally attacked by the successful reviews of any videogame, it’s probably time to use the internet to look for some kind of professional help. We can all be better than this.

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• Areus
• Yesterday, 11:25pm

@Nei There is no cure for what they have.

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• Loamy
• Yesterday, 11:25pm

Jokes on them. We're all enjoying the game 🤷

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• j2c
• Yesterday, 11:30pm

Or they could be trying to hurt the game because it’s not available to play on their platform.

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• ear_wig
• Yesterday, 11:34pm

Humans are really awesome.
Great job humans. 👏🏻

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• PsBoxSwitchOwner
• Yesterday, 11:36pm

Ahh the internet.

Should have to pass tests to be allowed to use it.

First question being - are you a f*cktard?

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• colonelkilgore
• Yesterday, 11:44pm

My guess at the reasons… some people are green with envy 🤢

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• Orpheus79V
• Yesterday, 11:57pm

Perfectly reasonable behaviour of course, nothing unhinged going on here.

On another note, this article says it was published 'Tomorrow 00:15' I just thought that was amusing. Quit the time travelling Sammy.

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• Dr_ENT
• 56m ago

Green team fanboys must be jealous

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• colonelkilgore
• 56m ago

The beauty of this is that it led me to learn all about the Silent Hill Circumcision-wiki altering debacle from a few years back. Not only priceless but spiritually-affirming that a new/remake in the same series also has wiki-altering shenanigans:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7-HrspiKfY

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• nessisonett
• 55m ago

The funny thing is that Wikipedia picks up on this stuff almost instantly and then your IP’s banned. And yet we were told constantly growing up never to use Wikipedia for research in school. Now we have AI if you want laughable disinformation.

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• B_Lindz
• 54m ago

What a healthy and open-minded community.

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• DennisReynolds
• 53m ago

Only played the first hour and so far Blooper have done an excellent job, the visuals are stunning while still keeping the atmosphere intact. Hopefully this is a turning point for Blooper.

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• starbuck2212
• 50m ago

These people are dumb af. Why would you even waste the time it took to do that?!

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• Optimus
• 49m ago

Absolutely ridiculous if it’s because of character design changes. I hope games become even more “woke”. Love watching these trumpers and incels meltdown.

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• LifeGirl
• 46m ago

Maybe it is being targeted for no other reason than ''trolls are gonna troll''.
Not everything has to have an agenda or a conspiracy behind it - even in these politically charged times in which we live. For some people, it really is just a bit of fun to ruin someone else's day.

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• PsBoxSwitchOwner
• 30m ago

@LifeGirl there has been a lot of discourse around the release.

You only need half a brain cell in this case to realise it’s not just been done for ‘funsies’ by a troll

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• LordVile
• 27m ago

@Orpheus79V They've done this multiple times before, even though you can access it before its officially listed publish time, likely due to that time being busier and if their's notifications (I don't know if there is for when a new article comes) then you would see multiple at a time. But frankly I do not know

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• UltimateOtaku91
• 17m ago

Being a Playstation console exclusive probably has something to do with it.

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• playstation1995
• 15m ago

Haters gonna be haters .word up son

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• SystemAddict
• 14m ago

Maybe they should find the handgun

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• Danloaded
• 6m ago

I was one of the people who didnt think bloober could pull it off but im happy I was proven wrong. Why are we dunking on success now XD

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• nomither6
• 2m ago

lol this is hilarious 😂 quality news tbh

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