While I would never consider any remake a replacement for the original, regardless of quality, execution, method, etc, if someone really does not want to experience the beauty of the original for whatever reason, this remake more than suffices. There are things I have issues with, namely the combat being too quick and "Last of Us"- like to make combat itself feel tense, very specific voice line deliveries and music changes, but none of them overshadow how genuinely brilliant this remake is. By far the biggest downside was the performance, but I'm seeing improvements and removal of UE5 stuttering in most scenarios post-launch.
A horror game so good it arguably caused the downfall of it's own series and influenced other horror games to do the same.
Future Silent Hill games would try to replicate the psychological aspects, whispering not-so-subtley to the player that they're doing an SH2 on ya, the only one to come close without being terrible would be Shattered Memories on the Wii.
