Silent Hill (video game): Difference between revisions

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[[File:silent_hill_1_6089.png|frame| [[Blatant Lies|It's your usual, quiet, out-of-the-way little town.]]]]

 

{{quote|''When I woke up, it was like this. Everyone seems to have disappeared. And it's snowing out, this time of year. Something's gone seriously wrong. Did you see those monsters? Have you ever seen such aberrations? Ever even heard of such things? You and I both know creatures like that don't exist.''|Doctor Michael Kaufmann}}

 

 

Single father Harry Mason is taking his daughter Cheryl on a holiday to the resort town of Silent Hill. Disaster strikes as Harry swerves to avoid a girl standing in the road and [[Fright Deathtrap|crashes his car]].

It is hard to spoil the plot of ''Silent Hill'' because very little is explicitly stated. The story revolves around one man's personal struggle to find his daughter, his role as a pawn in a cosmic battle between two powerful entities over the power of a god, arcane rituals of an occult variety, reincarnation, possession, drug addiction, and alternative realities. The player [[Unreliable Narrator|receives few explanations for anything that happens]], and the game often glosses over or completely ignores key events while presenting the player with intense imagery and deeply psychological horror.

 

 

Konami released a remake/reimagining of this game (''[[Silent Hill: Shattered Memories]]'') in 2009.

 

* [[All Just a Dream]]: {{spoiler|The worst ending. A non-canon [[Dying Dream]].}}

* [[And Knowing Is Half the Battle]]: Note the awesome "Study, Dammit!" poster in Store 8. It depicts a hippie [[Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You|pointing a gun]] at the viewer.

* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: {{spoiler|Harry fights a manifestation of the cult's god in the final battle.}}

* [[Do Not Run with a Gun]]: Harry is the worst marksman in the series by far.

* [[Dying Dream]]: {{spoiler|The worst ending reveals the whole game to have been this, but it's not the canon ending.}}

* [[Enter Solution Here]]: The code to Lisa's room in Nowhere.

* [[I Can't Reach It]]: The key inside the birdcage. D'oh!

** The school's rain gutter contains a key lying just out of reach. You'll need to divert the water.

* [[Infinity+1 Sword]]: The emergency hammer in Alchemilla Hospital's power generator room that's obtainable while in the otherworld. It is the best melee weapon you can find and is really good on Puppet Nurses and Puppet Doctors.

* [[Justified Save Point]]: Fish gotta swim, writers gotta write. Harry takes careful notes on his experiences; these notepads come in handy for Heather {{spoiler|aka Cheryl}} in ''[[Silent Hill 3]]''.

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