Being late to every party seems to be a trend with me. Showing up this late for the PSP party is not a shock. However I do know that there are others like me that enjoy buying systems late because you can but the games fer really freaking cheap. Silent Hill Shattered Memories is not only cheap it is also a game series that I love so a double win. How ever once the game is started the win is not so great. One of the great aspects of the Silent Hill franchise is beating the snot out creepy crawlies. And that is the big change with this title. No fighting at all. When the monsters come out to play you run away. I cannot believe that we have been reduced to little running babies like this. All is not lost the protagonist of the game has a smart phone that he carries around. This smart phone has his map all messages that are give to you . If any phone numbers are found you can call them and some puzzles require you to make these calls. The camera feature of the smart phone reveals things that cannot be seen with the naked eye. The options save feature and logs ( calls made photos taken ) are also found on this smart phone. Where all the new features so not hit it out of the park the interactions with certain objects most certainly does. Object that have a small white arrow pointing at them can be interacted with. When you look closely at them a small hand appears on the screen. This hand can grab object and twist off lids, turn things over and manipulate them in a plethora of ways. This opens the doors to man new ways to challenge the players intellect with puzzles. The puzzles themselves in the game are neither tough nor easy just kind of in the middle. The Story of the game leaves a lot to be desired. As the game is played it seems that the story is handed out is small fragmented chunks leaving me wondering what the hell happened. Since I am bitching let me add this what the hell is going on with the monsters in this version that look like Disney took the reigns on this one. I know this is a hand held but the psp has the same power as the PSX so What the hell is this crap. So all in all why should you play this game? Honestly the only reason that I can give s if your a huge fan of the franchise other than that????? Run RUN AWAY.