What neo said... The thing I liked about SH is after I beat it, I wasn't like "Wow, that's what happened... *puts game away in drawer*" I was like "I didn't fully understand that..." so I actually thought about some things, then played it again and again to get all the endings... and put more things together... and read plot guides... it's just got an AWESOME plot, IMO... confusing, yes, but that's part of the fun... you put some pieces together yourself... The game developer said in an interview that he wanted it to be that way... he wanted people to actually think about the plot after beating the game, and come to their own conclusions, kinda... and there are many different theories ranging from SH1 was kind of a "test" to harry because he never got to tell his daughter that she was adopted before he died (in the theory he died) in that car accident...
Another has to do with like some confusing stuff and harry being used as dhalia's pawn...
Anyways... After playing SH1, I really wanted to find out more about what happened in the town... like it's history... and in SH2, that's what they did... not through the main "Mary, are you really in this town?" storyline, but through other things... documents and pictures that tell of mass executions, some boat sinking in the lake, a plague or big disease thing...
Resident Evil has a pretty good storyline too like if you read it in plot guides... but they rarely even try to piece each one together and fully link together throughout each game... That's why like I play the games and think "Man, this game's story is kinda blah
" and then I read like a plot guide and it just seems so much more deep... why can't they make it like that in the actual game?
And also yeah what neo said about the scares... RE is about "BOO! hahaha gotcha!" scares... and SH is more atmospheric... creepy things like where's that noise coming from, where does this long hallway go... things that can kinda creep you out if you actually have an imagination
Anyways... I hope that in SH2, there's more shifting between the two worlds than in SH2... and and and ummm it should take place over a larger part of town and it should be just a bigger game in general than SH1 or 2... it would be nice if there were a lot of whole new areas, but also some of the areas you've seen in SH1 or 2... Maybe even some of the areas that were blocked off in those games... I also hope that they explain Dhalia Gellespi's role more, since she seemed to play a major role in the first game's storyline (like with the cult and drug stuff), and then in SH2, Maria turns into something that looks a lot like Dhalia... like the clothes and stuff kinda... yep...