Silent Hill Heaven

I guess if I were to think about this more seriously, corpses in general were used to supplement the theme of death and James' own mindset in the game. I think it would add some depth to keep the monster corpses around after they die. We can even say that the persistence of the monster corpse is a r...

Earlier Silent Hill games had enemies kind of just flatten out after being killed, usually with a stomp (or four if you're Heather). Just a piece of monster texture was left behind. When you came back to that area, the texture is usually still there. This made me a bit uneasy, especially in Silent H...

ESRB probably took this from a copy of the script. I made a thread some time ago about "sh*t" appearing in the script resource file from the original Silent Hill 2. https://silenthillforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=26852 James nor any of the other characters actually says that in-game no...

There's very little reason to think that the bullets are any more real than the monsters. There's only a few cases where the bullets are likely real (Cybil's handgun since that was brought in from the real world) but it's not unreasonable to think that their effectiveness varies depending on the wie...

>At what point do we stop picking-and-choosing what to follow? Items or objects that are associated with passage of time. The developers can bring in whatever random piece of polygon or texture they want to the game. But we know they made an effort with some items when there's a clear sense of passa...

So, VHS camcorder was not a thing then, but there might not actually be an anachronism here either. Curiosity got the better part of me so I looked into this a bit. In the late 70s and early 80s, a video camera and a separate portable VHS recorder combination was possible. The VHS camcorder that fol...

> James was not using a VHS recorder in the late '70s or early '80s, either. It's easy to be fixated on the non-existence of a VHS camcorder in that time frame. However, pushing the timeline 10 or so years forward also introduces other anachronism problems that weren't there before. For example, Sil...

> Why does the game case blurb refer to SH as Harry and Cheryl's favorite vacation spot? A marketing fluke that no one who worked on the story caught/fixed? I couldn't find anything in my rather extensive Silent Hill Japanese materials that Harry and Cheryl have visited Silent Hill before. However, ...

It would be interesting to see if the Remake adjusts the timeline. The original was heavily influenced by its source materials like Jacob's Ladder and The Shining film, which both take place in the 70s. James' attire, for example. His original attire was based on Jacob Singer's attire making it poss...

Well, there's looking at f as a new entry to the Silent Hill series, and then there's looking at it as Ryukishi07's new project. His work Higurashi no Naku Koro ni pretty much starts off with when the visual novel takes place: early summer of 1983. This isn't the first time a Silent Hill game was se...

I'm a bit partial to James having lived in Daisy Villa.

South Ashfield Heights doesn't have a Room 208 if I remember correctly.

Photograph It's of Dad and me at Christmas. Looking at this makes me want to try even harder. I have to...I can't lose. They killed my dad and they have to pay for it. An Item called "Photograph" is in the disc, but not obtainable in the final game. We know the creators decided to name th...

Did anyone else get Midsommar vibes? This is probably the most comparable shot: https://youtu.be/uC_y4CC2VRM?t=685
This is part of longer scene where the character looks sad and miserable at first, but gradually starts cracking a smile.

That particular word that was translated to "power" also can be translated to "effect," "efficacy," or "validity." While that sentence by itself can be interpreted either way, the following sentence that "Vincent and Leonard misunderstood its abilities&qu...

> Since the book is opened to a section about the Virun VII Crest, it seems to relate more specifically to The Order itself and its beliefs, symbols/sigils, u.s.w. I felt the same way before. However, it does go against Owaku's commentary about the the Seal of Metatron having no significance to the ...

The novel makes some glaring changes. Specifically, the Otherworld Laws book has a different title translated as "Heretic Laws" in the novel. It also changes the person in the tape to a man, but it's unclear what the intention behind that change is. The title Heretic Laws does make more se...

Someone commented on a misspelling of the town Brahms. Brahma with an 'a' was the original name for the town. The Japanese script still calls it [bu-ra-ma]. I believe the name was inspired from the Bermuda Triangle. I don't remember what caused the name change to eventually become Brahms. Amazing wo...

I feel Silent Hill 2 coined the term "psychological horror," though, somewhere I think fans started associating the term with Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Amnesia-like games that followed there after. It sounds almost as weird as if Shinji Mikami were to say that he was moving away from s...

I was wondering if I could rack some of you Silent Hill veterans' brains here. The Amusement Park has a special meaning when it comes to the Seal of Metatron. It was the last place that Alessa needed to place the Seal to annihilate everything in the town. The creators obviously went through a lot of...

Silent Hill 2 had an Xbox release so that Konami could have one of the first survival horror games for that console during their first launch. Xbox was released on Nov. 15, 2001 in North America. Considering that the original Silent Hill 2 was released in September 2001, a user base hadn't really fo...