Parasite Eve is totally worth it. Highly recommend. It's kind of like the marriage of Resident Evil and Final Fantasy (for lack of better comparison) as it uses RPG style elements within a survival horror style game. Something that on paper shouldn't work, but really does. And quite well.

Silent Hill's combat is a chore, but at least it has the fun side effect of making you dread monsters. lol
100%, haha. I hardly ever kill anything in Silent Hill unless it happens to either be easy to kill, in my way or in a place I'm going to be constantly coming back to. Which doesn't work so well for Silent Hill 4 though considering the ghosts are indestructible unless you have one of those cursed sword things that pin them. Even then those swords are super limited.