Hmm. They really did try to move the series further with SH4... but in the end, I think it backfired. They overdid it. I haven't found it in me to finish the game because of how tedious everything is -- the ghosts, retravelling the idiot worlds that look exactly the same as before, things invading my apartment AHH!

However, it did have a fantastic story (as usual with Silent Hill). As I found RE4 to be equally tedious and lacking a decent plot, I rank SH4 over it.