Silent Hill (video game): Difference between revisions

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.

 

 

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=== ''Silent Hill 1'' presents examples of the following tropes: ===

* [[Armed Altruism]]: In an act of coolness, Cybil offers Harry her gun.

* [[Beware of Vicious Dog]]: Subverted early on; Harry runs straight into a <small>BEWARE OF DOG</small> sign, but find only intestines on the other side. K. Gordon's doghouse, however, is protected by two of these critters (regardless of [http://unrealitymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/silent-hill-dog.jpg what Harry says]).

* [[Big Red Button]]: The school's boiler room, and the hospital's power generator.

* [[Bland-Name Product]]: The bag of jellybeans containing the Key of Bethor is a knockoff of the Jelly Belly persuasion.

* [[Brand X]]: All over the place, the most famous of which is the Vestal Gigastore ([[Don't Explain the Joke|vestal as in vestal virgin; get it?]]). There’s also Queen Burger, Fedy-X Espresso parcels, Poston Market, the [[Signs of Disrepair|(S)]][[Meaningful Name|Hell]] station with the nautilus shell icon, the Circle 8 convenience store with its 7-Eleven motif, and the AEC restaurant that was apparently inspired by A&W.

* [[Cat Scare]]: Played straight until the cat leaves the scene, and then is devoured by an unseen monster; in the Otherworld, the same locker will emit pathetic meowing sounds, but opening it reveals {{spoiler|a blood-coated, but empty, locker}}.

* [[Catapult Nightmare]]: Twice. "Was I dreaming?"

* [[Ceiling Cling]]: Hanged Scratchers are known to camp out on the ceiling.

* [[Deadly Doctor]]: Dr. Kaufmann; also, a number of parasite-possessed [[Mook]] doctors.

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

* [[Drop the Hammer]]: Emergency Fire Hammer. Less a mallet, more like [http://lparchive.org/Silent-Hill-1/Update%208/8_16_32_17.jpg spike on a pole].

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

* [[Rooftop Confrontation]]: Harry is diverted to the Post Office rooftop for the duel with Floatstinger.

* [[Sawed-Off Shotgun]]: The means of close-quarters crowd control provided to Harry. [[Fridge Logic|How he managed to stuff six shells into a double-barreled boxlock has yet to be explained.]]

** Alessa's old teacher, "K. Gordon," is a reference to [[Sonic Youth]] bass guitarist Kim Gordon. This is confirmed by the reference to three more teachers who bear the names of "T. Moore", "L. Ranaldo" and "S. Shelley" (Kim's fellow bandmates, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, and Steve Shelley).

* [[The Stinger]]: Both the good and bad endings have them, though with very different implications.

* [[Swallowed Whole]]: This is a big danger when tangling with Split Head. This battle will test your strafing skill.

* [[Ticking Clock]]: Dahlia warns that Harry has to stop the Mark of Samuel from appearing all over town, or else reality will be irrecoverable.

* [[Token Romance]]: The Good ending suggests this between Harry and Cybil.

* [[Turns Red]]: Shooting at Split Head eventually causes its mandibles to start drooling. That can't be good...

* [[Twitchy Eye]]: {{spoiler|Lisa}} invokes this during her fourth appearance.