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Silent Hill 1 is a classic, nice dark ambiance, awesome post-industrial soundtrack done by Mr. Yamaoka.
Great horror game. Now, many things in SH are based in Japanese folklore, like the *anti-air attack (or whatever you call it in english) sirens, the appearance of bathrooms, etc.
Silent Hill 2 was quite a touching history, specially in one of the endings when you drive towards the lake (to kill yourself) bringing with you the dead body of your wife after reading a quite sad letter she left you longtime ago. Now that was a masterpiece, sad, somber, diabolically done.
3 and 4, meh, didnt really like them, I mean, they were ok.
First of all, spoilers would be nice, considering I'm sure there's people who haven't beaten the game yet.
Second, I have to agree a little with you. However, I did like SH3, simply because of the simply disturbing imagery and story. Plus, it was a nice continuation of SH1
Angela's father was a woodcutter or lumberjack, and since SH is surrounded by woods it's very likely she lived near SH before she ran to SH.
I think what I liked most about SH2 was the intense imagery and metaphors everywhere. It was all about repressed desire, debauchery, and the other blights of the human condition.
When James comes to SH he's forgotten about killing his belated wife, but there are hints everywhere that allude to his feelings toward her, and related to his emotions at the time of her passing.
She was sick for a while and was bound to a hospital, wherein James undoubtedly encountered numerous nurses. The "Bubble Head" nurses are faceless, which symbolizes the number of them he surely saw and the fact that none of them probably tried to console him. They have extreme cleavage and hiked-up miniskirts, no doubt symbolising pent-up sexual frustration wrought by a young wife unable to "provide".
PH, a symbol for James himself, kills Maria over and over--and Maria is identical to Mary. PH is also briefly seen "working over" the leg+leg mannequins in the apartments. More sexual frustration. Maria herself is dressed trampy, which could possibly be a desire for what Mary never was.
There are lots of theories about Angela Orosco but I believe she killed her father. It's pretty obvious what the man did to her as a child (the room in the labyrinth with the pulsating sphincters, the torn photo of her family in the apartments, the picture of a woman with a bloody crotch-area in the burning house, and, of course, the Abstract Daddy, which is obviously a fiendish looking man hunched over a bed). In a fit of dementia, she very likely blocked it out, like James did, until she came to SH and realized her own misdeeds, then confined herself to the burning staircase (a version of her own self-inflicted Hell).
But what confuses me most is the little blonde girl that hates James, knows Mary, and runs around SH, apparently immune to the horrible imagery. What's up with her? Is she another figment of James' mind (which only appear when SH goes to the otherworld, and the little girl can appear in either the cloudy or the otherworld)? Or was she just a mischievous, lost little girl (but how would she know Mary)? That little girl is probably the most confusing character in any SH game.
(Oh, and I just remembered a monster that creeps me out more than PH: those little shadow babies in SH1, in the school. They couldn't hurt you, they'd just follow you around from time to time, cooing, disappearing and reappearing. Good GOD those creeped the bejeebus outta me.)
Angela's father was a woodcutter or lumberjack, and since SH is surrounded by woods it's very likely she lived near SH before she ran to SH.
I think what I liked most about SH2 was the intense imagery and metaphors everywhere. It was all about repressed desire, debauchery, and the other blights of the human condition.
When James comes to SH he's forgotten about killing his belated wife, but there are hints everywhere that allude to his feelings toward her, and related to his emotions at the time of her passing.
She was sick for a while and was bound to a hospital, wherein James undoubtedly encountered numerous nurses. The "Bubble Head" nurses are faceless, which symbolizes the number of them he surely saw and the fact that none of them probably tried to console him. They have extreme cleavage and hiked-up miniskirts, no doubt symbolising pent-up sexual frustration wrought by a young wife unable to "provide".
PH, a symbol for James himself, kills Maria over and over--and Maria is identical to Mary. PH is also briefly seen "working over" the leg+leg mannequins in the apartments. More sexual frustration. Maria herself is dressed trampy, which could possibly be a desire for what Mary never was.
There are lots of theories about Angela Orosco but I believe she killed her father. It's pretty obvious what the man did to her as a child (the room in the labyrinth with the pulsating sphincters, the torn photo of her family in the apartments, the picture of a woman with a bloody crotch-area in the burning house, and, of course, the Abstract Daddy, which is obviously a fiendish looking man hunched over a bed). In a fit of dementia, she very likely blocked it out, like James did, until she came to SH and realized her own misdeeds, then confined herself to the burning staircase (a version of her own self-inflicted Hell).
But what confuses me most is the little blonde girl that hates James, knows Mary, and runs around SH, apparently immune to the horrible imagery. What's up with her? Is she another figment of James' mind (which only appear when SH goes to the otherworld, and the little girl can appear in either the cloudy or the otherworld)? Or was she just a mischievous, lost little girl (but how would she know Mary)? That little girl is probably the most confusing character in any SH game.
(Oh, and I just remembered a monster that creeps me out more than PH: those little shadow babies in SH1, in the school. They couldn't hurt you, they'd just follow you around from time to time, cooing, disappearing and reappearing. Good GOD those creeped the bejeebus outta me.)
I can answer the Angela/Laura thing with one concept. Everyone perceives Silent Hill differently. To Eddie, it was full of people laughing at him, along with dead bodies everywhere, and the monsters he saw were probably the very same dog monsters from SH3. Infact, when you face off against him, you're in a meat locker scattered with dead bodies, that was probably a glimpse into how he saw Silent Hill.
Laura wasn't guilty of any wrong doing before coming tot he town. She saw it as a simple resort town. Now, to Angela, she probably saw the town as being on fire constantly, and the monsters she saw looked like her father probably. When James saved her from "Angela's Papa", she had given up on life, so that's why she wished he hadn't saved her. When you last see her, she's in the hotel that is suddenly on fire. This is a Angela's world crossed into James' world.
Mm, I've never played any SH games, but have just recently accidentally came across the song Room of Angel from SH4, apparently. I've been listening to it non-stop for the past 30 min. ._o
Track and field games are the most addictive games to play! (Apart from PES) I'm still trying to drop the lust for this little number on the atari. It's the only reason that console stays plugged in :
I have the first one and never got around to playing it for some reason - been wanting to for years and years, but now my PS2 has broked so I can't play it anyways until I get a new PS2 or a PS3. Think I'll go with the PS3 just so I can finally get into next-gen while still being able to play my massive backlist of PS1-PS2 games.
Ah, me too! Well, not really, I've wanted one for a while. But as cute and Katamari-y as Loco Roco is, I was never hot about getting the handheld till I found out about Origins.
I am bored of always talking about survival horror. But sometimes, I just can't help myself.
The original Silent Hill is a rarity. It is like Resident Evil, but that is only because of the controls. The story is more dream like, whereas Resident Evil is about mutant monsters and viral outbreaks.
Silent Hill 2 loses brownie points because I wasn't fond of James, the hero. He just came across as clueless at times. Almost robotic.
Silent Hill 4 was not my cup of tea, really. All that horrendous fiddle faddling with the room and other worlds made me feel like I was going crazy too. It was like that from start to finish as well, which made it all the more annoying.
Hopefully the fifth instalment displays more of an improvement...
