There's different types of scary; RE4 takes the title for "Pants-shitting" scary, but I say that Silent Hill takes the title for "Nail biting, twitching creepy" scary.
I wouldn't describe it as "boring" at all. Not having ways to kill your enemies was the entire point.
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