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there's something about the limited graphics that make the game so much more terrifying, i don't think it could be fully recreated with today's visuals
Our imagination plays a huge part in gaming. That's why the original Alien movies were so successful. I think you see the Alien once or twice in the entire movie. The rest is left to our imagination.
@@NESHatKid That's why I said most. Imho if you want good horror game and not action packed one like Dead Space you need to seek around indie games or classics from PS1/2 eras. That's sad...
@@Lancelt666 Tormented souls is a game that came out last month that takes heavily from this era of horror gaming. I wouldnt call it scary per se but it is puzzle forward and I recommend it.
To this day, there is NO other game that has sound design as terrifying as SH1. Even SH2 doesn't come close. So many of the "tracks" give off this cold, dead feeling; it's something that can't really be described, and is only understood while listening to it. The anxiety some of these tracks induce is mind blowing.
Silent Hill does have amazing sound design but the Shalebridge Cradle level for Thief 3 has by far the scariest sound design I have heard. The "soundtrack" to that level is on RU-vid and its extremely well done and very creepy. Creepier then Silent Hill 1
LOL I just found out Boulder Punch made a video about the Shalebridge Cradle. I had no idea. You can watch the video to see what I mean but it contains spoilers.
I remember playing it age 14 at night, it scared the shit out of me. The sense of loneliness, of mystery, of not knowing exactly what is going on and what went wrong, the Alessa part was intriguing too, and being able to complete puzzles on my own. So good. Credit to the creepy music and sound too.
Same. I was 19. It's the only game I've ever turned off from too much dread, and unease. No other game like it. Silent hill 2 was a disappointment compared to 1. Don't get me wrong, I love sh2, but a lot of us older dudes were still trying to figure out the lore and meaning of it all and sh2 went in a different direction without answering much.
"I've been expecting you. It was foretold by Gyromancy." - this is my absolute favorite line in this entire game, and is the first concept from a game that I looked up on the internet. I'm glad that you made it a point in this analysis!
@@seanrea8281 I'm not really glad it got cancelled because it looked fun in a different way, but it was definitely not a Silent Hill game in the vein of the original Team Silent games. As it was presented anyway. I would take a continuation of the series made by the original members of TS over Silent Hills any day of the week. Any day of the fucking year. No shade on Kojima, a lot of his stuff is batshit crazy in a good way, but I'm not so sure Kojipro wackiness is the way to bring the franchise back to glory. We surely haven't seen the last of Silent Hill, the name holds too much cultural cache to throw away. I just hope whoever gets the next crack at it understands what Team Silent was going for originally and takes the series back to it's roots. Probably not gonna happen that way, but I can be hopeful, eh? Same with Metal Gear and Castlevania for that matter. Kojima and Iga aren't coming back to those franchises and they're worth too much money to do nothing with, so the best we can hope for is that whoever gets them next understands why fans like those games in the first place.
I was same as you, knew practically everything about the games, but once I actually played them that's where I really fell in love. I dunno. Maybe your experience would be different. But for me, they're definitely all time favorite.
@Farflung Clown Part of the problem for me is that I want to mimic everything about it as close as possible to the original circumstances, which is highly unlikely. I want a junky medium size CRT square aspect-ratio TV, original PSX console and the original disc. I've tried emulation many times with various PSX games and it's just not the same. Definitely not a fan of upgrading the quality with emu settings. Still, if someone didn't get to have that experience, I see no reason for legality to get in the way of having it.
@@furiousapplesackthe ideal way of playing it as you explained is the perfect way to enjoy it, as that is the way it was optimized to be played, but it really is asking a lot to have all that in place. I really wish there was an official release that made it playable on newer gen systems while retaining the same quality.
I remember being impressed with the graphics and sound design of Silent Hill when I played it on the PlayStation. I really liked the town setting that really grounded the story in our world before going into the horror of the Otherworld.
My mom actually recommended I rent that game from Blockbuster back in the day. The beginning where you go down the alley and the camera did that wavy motion thing kind of blew my mind, going back to that design. The crudeness of the technology led to the grit of the game. Going through the school and the ghost of the children. Anytime a radio statics out I always look around for creatures. The sound alone just so good. The town and the "open" world feel about it was just something I had not experienced in a realistic sighting before. The fog really added to it. Every Wednesday here in Ohio is national weather service test day at noon..not a time that goes by that I hear that tornado siren and think of silent hill. A few years ago I went to Westin West Virginia on a ghost hunt at Trans Allegheny. The town had a curfew siren that goes off several times throughout the night..talk about adding to the mood.
I'll never understand why Harry doesn't even try to save or help Lisa. She's still speaking as Lisa before he shoves her. It's something that always got to me. Save her.
Most people universally loves SH2. But for me the first game is something really special, its plot, characters and soundtrack where ahead of its time. Even by today standards its plot still great. The first time my brother completed it he get the worst ending, that really shocked us (we where pree- teens). It was just an unforgettable experience. Its direct sequel (SH3) is maybe the most disturbing game i've ever played.
@@fnd25832 is praised to high heavens now a days thanks to all these video essays, but people forget that at the time, a lot of fans were somewhat disappointed at how toned down the horror and imagery was, and wanted more of what the first game offered. Silent hill 3 was made as a way of giving the fans what they wanted. I love 2, even when it came out, but I couldn’t help but feel the same about the horror and atmosphere being much milder than the first.
sometimes I can’t help but to focus on the way Konami handles this franchise..it’s like having your old grandparents give you a glass of water that’s filled to the brim
Glad to see that the beauty of classic Silent Hill remains timeless and still being talked about by content creators. I love Silent Hill and it's a shame that Konami just loves putting their IPs to shit.
I like your mention of the game knowing when to scale back on the sounds. As awesome as Akira's work on the series undoubtably is, I feel like they got worse at this with each entry, being particularly a bit obnoxious in Silent Hill 3 (my otherwise favourite). In that game, almost any enemy you come across, even if you've seen it ten times before, will trigger boss music. It's a little bit much. The second entry did that a bit, but not as much - same with the fourth. The first, got the balance right from the beginning. A balance I wish they'd kept to. Minor fault for sure, but worth a mention I think.
It's my favorite. A very unique game, even within the series itself. It's something I don't think a remake could do justice to since it made every disadvantage it had, part of the game itself.
Great timing for this video. I just finished playing through this game for the first time and loved it so much I went through it a few more times to get all the endings and bonus items. Fantastic game.
It's still my favourite game in the series. Some people like to make a big show of gushing over SH2, or sometimes SH3, and while I enjoyed those two games, they didn't feel revolutionary to me in any way other than graphically after playing SH1. SH1 was the invention of a whole new genre. SH2 was just more of that, but prettier. Very good, and very welcome, but following the template laid out for them.
@@helladankseedco.2411 I agree I haven't played 4 yet but 2 was more sad than scary while 3 was to much filler 1 really was a good beginning title I wished they remade it on ps2
You are probably the first person doing a review and keeping in mind the context of when the game was released. Great video! It's obvious that a lot of reviewers didn't play the game when it released and has no idea of what the gaming market was like back then. They try to be incredibly smart but end up sounding stupid because they compare a 20 year old game with the new games on the market. I'm so happy someone noticed the voice acting is meant to be unsettling and dream like. Many people complain about this without realizing the artistic value behind it.
I will say, that the industrial soundtrack does give this game and series, a special vibe when compared to other survival horror titles. It mixes with The Otherworld perfectly to create this sort of cold, metallic hellscape...I like it!
I honestly prefer the original Silent Hills to the Resident Evil series. SH is all about making you feel powerless against a vengeful otherworldly force, while RE is an action horror series. Both are amazing, but SH's focus on horror just does it for me.
Im not sure why i hadnt considered this before watching this video but i wonder if Dahlia saying "it was foretold by gyromancy" is in reference to the Seal of Metatron that Alessa keeps conjuring, and an early red herring from Dahlia so that Harry will be more likely to assume that Dahlia is correct when she says its the Mark of Samael and is what's causing the monsters and otherworld
Dude, I don't know what they're thinking. Obviously people want another silent hill game. They just keep ignoring us. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that Abandoned is in fact another new one, or at least a remake.
@@leonkennedy4936 One thing is pretty much confirmed at this point: Bloober Team is making a Silent Hill game. But to be honest, this is like that last team I wanted to see make a SH game lol. Hopefully they give the IP to Kojima or Bokeh Studio (the new Toyama studio).
@@MichaelFromTheAttic I heard about the bloober thing but thought it was just a rumor, but that's real? I'm starting to feel like its just not possible that even if they made another game, it won't produce the magic that 1 and 2 was able to do. Like catching lightning in a bottle. I do feel like kojima could do some cool things with it. 1 and 2 were pure gold. The feeling those games left with me after finishing those games still stick with me to this day.
@@leonkennedy4936 The partnership between Bloober and Konami is official though. So aside from Silent Hill, I don't know what they might be doing haha! Fingers crossed for a good game though. Maybe with a bugger budget they will deliver.
I liked this video, because you actually mention the occult, sick black magic shit in the game. It's funny, how the original SH is the only one that accurately touches on those themes, talking about gyromancy, the story of a girl being ritualisticaly tortured, the actual sommuning of an actual demon, the whole plot of a town being involved in it, which, given its connections with Twin Peaks, is very revelatory of 70s "Satanic Panic", which is very real, and goes on to this day. If there is a God, there is most certainly an opposite natural force for evil, and shows like Twin Peaks, or almost all David Lynch movies talk about. I recommend anyone checks out Jay Dyer's analysis of David Lynch works. he also has movie analysis on RU-vid where he decodes Hollywood movies.
I bet because of how they say silent with an R that's how they incorporated the siren in silent hill and then just landed on silent hill afterwards lol
Going through the effort of setting up an emulator on my PC just to play these games was one of the best decisions of my life. I cannot believe how genuinely fantastically these games have aged, and how they continue to dance on the competition 20 years later. Silent Hill has been the scariest video game franchise I've ever played, I would so far as to say that it was THE most viscerally terrifying experience I've had with ANY horror franchise from ANY medium. I love David Lynch, and he used to be my #1 horror artist, but I think Team Silent just claimed that title.
I just bought this game for $250 on mercari 😭 I had it as a kid but I just bought a ps2 again to play my old favorites. In a few years they’ll be gone from circulation and only emulated.
Silent hill I like it's so awesome I really appreciate the atmosphere of all the silent hill games it's one of the best horror games franchises out there in the horror genre. Btw the your videos are good boulder punch keep up the good work 😃👍😎
I didn't think there was another youtuber apart from Avalanche reviews that would cover these games as well as you just did here. Great video and content, keep it up!
I've been to Silent Hill at lest 4..... No! like 21 times and every time I go some weird crap always ends up happening. I would NOT recommend visiting, but hey I'm not here to tell you what to do 😒
2:03 I just played it for the first time and beat it a few days ago (bad ending lmao) AND YES. It has a twin peaks vibes. I immediately picked up on it. How can you not think twin peaks when the main character is named HARRY and Lisa's last name is GARLAND. I'm surprised Dale Cooper wasn't referenced or maybe I missed it. I thought it would play like resident evil but it is actually much better, from controls to the story. Such a good game and quite the experience. It's unsettling and at times scary with a few tasteful jump scares. The music is on point. Truly one of the best games ever made.
The beginning of this video lol. It’s begging to be followed up with “Were you hitting that like button and leaving a comment too?” I first played Silent Hill 1 back when the PS4 was about to come out, and I was shocked at how a game that looked this terrible by today’s standards was this terrifying. Still one of the scariest games I’ve ever played. The game holds up INCREDIBLY well. And the way the map works is just the coolest thing ever to me, how it automatically updates to point out broken doors, obstacles, and noteworthy points of interest. So much they did right, way back in the day. This game has my utmost respect.
I just beat this game for the first time a few days ago. No clue why it took me so long, I've had a physical copy since I was a kid and I've started multiple playthroughs, but never wound up getting past "Nowhere" for one reason or another. Absolutely fantastic game, it still holds up extremely well, and honestly the PS1 graphics really add a lot to the creepy atmosphere of the game. I would turn off the setting in Duckstation that corrects the wobbly vertices and textures whenever it transitioned over to the other world, so those parts would be all warped and fucked up looking compared to the fog world, really adds to the surreal vibe.
lol, it was always funny when monsters would pause for you to observe or do something. "Oh well excuse me, I'll hold off attacking you until you answer that phone. Don't worry take your time" 13:23
The game landscape has changed so much now that a game like silent hill could be made by nine people and be a succes and now that would require hundreds. I can see why konami and other games studios just stopped trying to make big games
The best thing, for me, was a fanfic that did this story as a parody and reading Henry as not actually looking for Cheryl was the most relateable he ever felt for me. Lol
I'm of the opinion that Kōjima couldn't save this series, only OG Team Silent could and can do it. Kōjima has a huge ego and I personally think MGS was the only masterpiece, though MGS5 has amazing gameplay the story is horrible.
I just finished 1-3 2 is the saddest for me and I mite never play it again but it will stick with me for a long time. And I gotta say the story is one of the best in gaming. Everyone should play these games
The nostalgia is insane. I was about 6 when I first played it. I remember my mom watching me play with the Walkthrough book(FUCK IM OLD) I got from blockbuster helping me get thru the puzzles and when I got stuck.. 18:19 and oh my god this fucking scene… so fucking good
Nice video, i think it's a little bit too technical, like you are talking about parts of the game, not about the game as a whole, like you would explain how the engine of a car work instead of explaining your journey and your unique feelings about the game, idk this is my idea 5 min into the video, maybe you change later on but still a little too much time to talk about your experience as so on, it's quite interesting and very nice job investigating and presenting it through the video Yeah it defenitly changes when you talk about the story, men you good at this, i think you should have talked about it way earlier and make the sound and so on things more mixed into your own narration, keep it up
I agree on sound, and it's a big part why David Lynch and John Carpenter are so effective, they've a control over sound and music in a way very few filmmakers and game developers ever do. David Lynch as a sound designer he's brilliant and unique. Silent Hill series was also truly unique in sound design. One of my biggest gripes of both Kōnami and Sony is all remakes that happen and don't happen there's 2 series Kōnami should do: Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2 Solid Snake from the Japanese home computer console the MSX2. Another is Silent Hill the first one. They should assemble same sound design. 1 big problem with Metal Gear Solid The Twin Snakes on Gamecube was rewriting and redubbing the dialogue, reimagining cut scenes like it's Matrix, and changing a lot of the soundtrack and sound design. MGS TTS is graphically amazing with ability to jump railings and aim in 1st person. I still prefer Sony PlayStation version. However, the Gamecube remake of Resident Evil is vastly superior to the Sony PlayStation 1 original. All that said, a remake of Silent Hill would be the remake most of all I'd want. It was a late Sony PlayStation 1 game and the game was more ambition than what the Sony PlayStation 1 at 32 bit 3D capabilities could honestly handle because 2-4 look amazing for PS2. I'm a Metroidvania player, I prefer gameplay and rarely do I care about dialogue and story, Heavy Rain is one of the worst non game interactive movie ever made. Silent Hill is one with gameplay and puzzles and is totally unique, totally surreal and horrifying similar to the Black Lodge in the 12 Sycamore Trees circle in Glastonbury Grove in Twin Peaks. I'm replaying it now and thinking about buying the 2nd one on disc for PS2.
I think it is time for a new AAA classic survival horror game. And the franchise that should do it is Alone In The Dark, the granddaddy of them all. A proper remake of the original or Alone In The Dark: The New Nightmare could be legendary.
It's incredibly interesting to hear how much influence David Lynch's work had on the series. I don't think I would have placed it unless it was pointed out, but now that it has been, it's fairly obvious. Especially in the stunted vocal work. That's why I think in the remaster, Troy Baker simply didn't get it. I'd be curious to find out if he's much of a Lynch fan at all. They'd have been better off getting Kyle MacLachlan and Chris Isaak. 😱🤣
This game would benefit the most from a RE2/3 style remake, even if it turns out worse than the original, which they usually do. A 1:1 attempt with just some upgrades on technical stuff would be best. Kind of amazing the lack of fan attempts at remakes, compared to other titles...
Silent Hill is one of the greatest and scariest psychological horror video games of all time. The story, music, images, astomphere, tension, direction, and cinematography was absolutely and positivity horrifying and terrifying. 😰😱 It really identifies and analyzes the boundaries between reality and fiction as it questions your sanity. It was decent. To this day I still play it and I consider it a classic. Silent Hill is a true blue ultimate masterpiece in horror gaming. Konami created a classic that will be in our hearts forever. It never gets old. 😍💯👍😎
That's my only beef with this game is Lisa. When she asked for help and for Harry to save her, he pushes her. He should've embraced her. Now there's the argument she's a demon and would consume his soul, but we'll never know.
