Why do I find the Labyrinth so unsettling?
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Mephisto wrote:Funny of you to make fun of people who don't write right, i'm not english and by seeing this behaviour I'm glad that I'm not.
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I believe she was just being sarcastic, doesn't mean you should
take a stab at "english" peoplez....
But what you said before that post actually made a lot of sense, it did feel like he was trying to escape his own mind, well observed.
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I was more creeped out by the fact that James jumped into seemingly bottomless pits and got out without injury... But the labyrinth itself was creepy because it consited of several areas that all screamed out decay, chaos and the "destruction" of reality as we know it. I also wondered how deep it really was and who built it.
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^Hahaha yeah I wasn't expecting it either.
I love that you can find PH's room in the Labyrinth...
I love that you can find PH's room in the Labyrinth...
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Agreed. The prison and morgue and all the hole jumping before the labyrinth was way more unsettling to me than the actual labyrinth.Oddish wrote:Right... much of the Labyrinth's scare factor is what leads up to it. Especially that morgue, which I think is the most horrible location in the entire game. The way those corpses are just so indifferently stuffed into holes and left to rot... urghhh.
If the game began in the labyrinth, it wouldn't be nearly as scary.
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^Same here. That morgue was creepy as hell. But I just love that Walter Sullivan grave. I love little cameos like that (even if it is a retroactive cameo).
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The bodies crammed into the holes in the wall before James jumps in made me think that there was a boss down there that ate the bodies. Then I was like, "Wait that doesn't make sense." Then I realized how redundant that statement is in Silent Hill, because I was maybe eight hundred fifty thousand feet below the earth at that point and GOING FARTHER.
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And yet ended up on the surface. I love impossible-space shit like that. It makes it all the more unnerving.
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"We are the Warriors at the End of Time. We are the lost, the last, the unkind. We are the Warriors on the Edge of Time and we're tired, we're tired... We're tired of making love..."
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LoL I agree, the Labyrinth is very unsettling >_< During my first playthrough, I only ran into Pyramid Head in the circular area where you can go up the ladders and you don't know which side PH is on (unless you run right smack into him) ^^; In the water area, I didn't see, hear or run into him. But with my 2nd playthrough when I was in the water area, I thought at first it was a lying figure heading towards me but nope nope...it was Pyramid Head and that freaked me the hell out!! I didn't know he could be down there too so I was like "WtF?!"
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Re: Why do I find the Labyrinth so unsettling?
I find the labyrinth nerve wrecking to me because when I saw PH underground where you find his sword , I thought" shit he's going to be everywhere, so every time there was a corner I approached cautiously fearing that he would be waiting..
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Re: Why do I find the Labyrinth so unsettling?
I think what gives the Labyrinth a lot its creepiness is the fact that it's purely otherworldly. You know that given all the holes you've jumped down and the depth you've plummeted to, you can't possibly be in the real world anymore. You're in the depth of the town's darkness, and the darkness in James' mind. He's got some issues.
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