Love these video's, the Batman Arkham timeline is a video i've watched numerous times while at work so keep up the excellent work! I'd love for you to do Assassins Creed as well, as someone who played most of them but can't be bothered to read all the in-game emails or buy all the DLC I only kind of understand WTF is happening in the game.
I kinda love how Cheryl just straight up kills a Lovecraftian god and then take the time afterward to kick the shit out of its corpse. No wonder she only made the one game appearance in canon, even the demons of Silent Hill knew to leave her the fuck alone after that! XD
@@mattmolloy636 It's consider B-Canon or a retelling of the story in a different light. A lot of fans don't consider it to be part of the main canon though, but I can understand if someone does consider it part of the main line series. It's kinda like how a lot of people don't see Dead Alive and Dying Inside to be main canon due to it breaking a lot of the series staples and so on. But hey, there's people who don't like the reuse of Pyramid Head after Silent Hill 2. Canon is weird.
@@cheshirebryant2592 Pyramid Head did seem like it was intended to be unique to James Sunderland, and SH2 didn’t have anything to do with Cheryl/ Heather so I can understand the animosity towards that. I get what you’re saying though, makes sense. Shattered Memories was a game I never played since I didn’t grow up with it, I’m just learning about what happened after SH4 with this video now.
@@QnzColdest People think using the term “female” means you’re an incel, now. Incels did use the term “female” pejoratively; regardless, that should have no effect on the term’s use. How exactly can we continue to discuss biological sex or sex-specific issues-such as misogyny-if the term “female” is handed over to a bunch of sick, narcissistic men? We can’t. Female is nothing but a scientific term to categorize the sex that produces ovum; male, a term to categorize the sex that produces sperm. I could give less of a fuck if incels use it as a pejorative. It’s a term that will never outrun its relevance nor be co-opted by delusional men. It’s fact. Also, for anyone who needs clarification: gender is about stereotypes placed on men & women-masculinity & femininity. Gender is not an indication of sex classification; it’s a term that distinguishes biological sex (male & female) from societal expectations placed upon males & females (masculinity & femininity). When most people say gender, they’re referring to sex. I try to inform people where I can that there’s nothing wrong with using “female” & “male” to denote the two sexes. It is not accurate to refer to female health issues as “gender health issues,” for example. Gender is immaterial; sex is our material reality. Therefore, “female” & “male” will always be significant & relevant. Gender stereotypes are why people believe women aren’t beholden to various titles like COD, Halo, WOW, etc. There is no video game suitable only “for” women nor “for” men. Video games designed with women in mind can & have been enjoyed by men, & vice versa. It’s a failure of the industry to underestimate women’s enjoyment of current titles-companies continue to believe the same stereotypes that you yourself exhibit in your comment. What would women be interested in with video games? Anything. Women aren’t born with a natural affection for pink, romcoms, or RPGs. Women are raised to meet feminine stereotypes & are pressured to maintain femininity their entire lives-the consequences for women who do not conform to femininity are pervasive & constant. In America alone, it ranges from women being rejected in the workplace to being abused. Girls who grow up wanting love & acceptance like anyone else will find it difficult to earn if they shirk femininity. It’s usually claimed that most girls “grow out” of their “tomboy phase,” when really, girls are given a choice between social acceptance & femininity, or social ostracism & authenticity. Femininity is never really a choice, then, when it’s one made out of social survival. There are a lot of female “gamers” who enjoy only tactical shooters; there are a lot of women who prefer competitive online play; there are even more who enjoy RPGs & MMOs, & participate in the adjacent communities. Female participation seems to have dwindled slightly due to harassment, at least from what I’ve seen. A very small percentage of women see video games as part of their identity; still, according to a few sources from a quick google, over 40% of women in the United States report having played a video game. Brenna Hillier at VG247 reported on EEDAR surveys that confirm women primarily play mobile multiplayer games. Much of the quotes she features in that article belie the gap between industry awareness & reality. These men who publish mobile card games, like Texas Hold ‘Em, were expecting a male audience would be invested. They likely marketed only to men. Instead, they found after the fact that female mobile users were their main audience. You’d think this was some revelation akin to XY’s sermon on the mount. It’s not, though. It’s so simple. Women are not born feminine. Femininity is not our default state. It’s ingrained in us from our parents, our family members, our friends at school, & the media we imbibe. It’s an expectation put on us. Therefore-our image of being a niche group that’s only interested in a few “feminine” genres is incorrect. We are not a homogenous community of fakes. Women have diverse interests & any game concept out there could be viable for female audiences. The industry, however, is not likely to connect these dots anytime soon & include women in their target audiences. Despite the fact that more young women are playing video games today than ever before-on mobile, console, & PC-the industry still regards female participation in video gaming as purely recreational or casual. Personally I don’t really care. Male violence against women is my priority. I’d rather men stop abusing, raping, & killing us than have the video game industry include women in their marketing campaigns. Still, these choices on the part of the industry, as well as the community’s attitude towards women, reflect misogyny. That’s all I came to say & I said it. Take care.
Me too! I'm too scared to play this game (woman in her 30's lol), yet there is something so fascinating about the lore. It's not like other horror franchises that rely on jump scares and cheap tricks. Not sure what it is, but it keeps my add brain interested.
Things to never do in Silent Hill 1. Never split up or leave someone to go do something 2. Never trust a child 3. Don’t even go to Silent Hill in the first place
Hearing that there's a dog named Bear in the Silent Hill Dead/Alive comic who is not only a good boy but also doesn't end up dying made me happy considering I also have a dog named Bear
Watching this vid, I realize that Silent Hill isn't cursed, it just solves some mental issues by violent and unethical confrontation. Like a psychiatrist from Yelp.
@@yousaywhatnow2195 Not necessarily. Laura, in SiIent Hill 2 cannot see the monsters, since she's a child with no great lasting traumas or regrets, yet.
It's "natural state" seems to be a sort of karmic punishment, you make your own demons. However when people like the Order start messing around with it you get people who can unleash their demons onto others.
Considering konami still owns the rights, well probably never get a proper remake or remaster. Theyre more concerned on milking all their titles via pachinko
I like Travis. He isn't there by force. He is there by choice. Out of concern for the child he fears he couldn't save while working through his trauma.
@@irondennis1 yeah me too. Konami is mad greedy they'd rather put the silent hill logo on gambling machines than let Kojima take it. I mean it is his intellectual property in the sense he came up with it not in the sense that konami technically owns that and metal gear. Hopefully we see them both resurrected.
So what I've gathered is: Silent Hill is a genuinely cursed/possessed town, whose demons use the visitor's inner demons to attack them. Your ability to survive depends on how well you can resist, both physically and (preferably?) psychologically. You can actually thrive in Silent Hill, if you're able to own your demons.
I’m fascinated with what Silent Hill is despite having played zero of their games because I’m a little piss baby, so this explanation satisfies my curiosity. I love the concept of a ghostly town that tries to help people with their troubles (or punish their misdeeds) in it’s own strange, violent, probably more harmful than good, eldritch-abomination way.
I prefer to think that Silent Hill doesn't have agendas in mind in regards to its visitors. It merely acts as a mirror reflecting their hidden side. All their traumas, their secrets, hopes and dreams But, I suppose it has a somewhat malevolent attitude as the spiritual power of the area was twisted due to the execution of the original inhabitants of the area by eauropean settlers
If you go to Silent Hill and you don’t lose consciousness, are you really experiencing Silent Hill? I want a t-shirt that says “I lost consciousness at Silent Hill and all I got was this t-shirt”
I'll never forget looking at Mary's letter near the end of Silent Hill 2 only to find it blank. The shivers. I had never been so richly trolled by a video game before. Magical.
Fun fact bout the letter, in the hotel when you have to put all your items on the shelf, you can keep the letter and picture on you and still use the elevator. Another way to find out that the letter and picture aren't real
I will NEVER forget playing the first Silent hill. I was 13/14 ish... it didnt matter if it was day or night, it was still equally terrifying. What an absolute masterpiece and masterclass in horror. As a side note: there is a moment when you are down in the sewers and it turns "otherworld" ... there was a combination of the music and the nature of the monsters popping in to chase you from the darkness that for the only time in all my life, and still to this day, made me legitimately let out an audible scream of terror.
This is kinda long, I apologize! It seems like you may be just slightly older than me. SH wasn’t the first horror game series I got the joy of playing, as I was introduced to survival horror at 10 years old in ‘97 with the original RE2 - the dual disc one, too. I couldn’t play that in he daytime either, I’d make my Mom play it because I was so scared. When I finally got wind of SH, I was like 12? And while I could play RE by then only a little into the night, I couldn’t even _touch_ SH 😭. What SH does so well that RE doesn’t do is that it gets into the player’s psyche. The level of psychological stress that SH gives the player is something that RE just fails at imo. I don’t want people to think that I’m shitting on RE, because I’m not, it’s one of my most nostalgic gaming series close to my heart given all the playing my Mom and I have done (across various types of games as well). I’m just noting the difference between SH and RE. RE is very… I don’t believe I have the right words for it, but a very different kind of horror that doesn’t mess with your mind the way SH does. And other people are right, SH deserves a resurgence with remakes the way RE’s getting. Ugh, the memories I’d love to revisit!! While I still have the old SH games, I don’t have those systems anymore so I’d love to play them again redone with the beautiful things game design can achieve today.
@@azylum1979 Those little jerks with the knives that they dig into your legs? I _haaaaaate_ those little friggin’ gremlins, always wanted to punt those little barbecued freaks.
Remembered playing at roughly the same age. I borrowed the ps1 disc from a friend. Played it alone, at night, in the basement, with noone at home. Yep. After that scene I was done. Such an amazing game for its time.
I want a shirt that says "my dad went to silent hill and all I got was this lousy t-shirt." If there's ever a reboot, I hope they keep the original Alessa storyline.
Fun fact: Howard Blackwood in Silent Hill Past Life is the very same Howard Blackwood in Silent Hill Downpour, which means people can be trapped in the hellish phenomena of Silent Hill for decades, even centuries while aging very slowly until the town deems it necessary to release them, which explains why Angela Orosco in Silent Hill 2 and J.P. and Bobby Ricks in Downpour are completely aware that the town is not normal. Also, Past Life was released months before Silent Hill Downpour, the comic's writers and illustrators back in 2011 said that Past Life has a few connections to Downpour despite being less than 200 years apart.
Yep. In the part of the Past Life comic book where he and Jeb Foster talk about the murders they've committed in the past, Howard tells Jeb that he has been in Silent Hill for a "long time", hinting he has been there decades before the American Civil War began, and in the comic there is a picture of him cutting off a Caucasian man's head off, hinting that Howard used to be a slave tracker, a person that hunts and kills slave owners before he went to Silent Hill and became a mailman there, hinting that he didn't always kill in self-defense, some of it was for revenge, which is understandable considering what horrors my African ancestors went through during that time. I know this because Silent Hill Past Life is one of the few comic books I still physically have. A majority of the comic books I own (the Silent Hill Downpour comic about Anne Cunningham included) are all digital.
I know about the Konami lending their properties to other studios rumor and that whole Abandoned fiasco before but the immense lack of care Konami has for Silent Hill is just sad. Here we have Capcom pumping out RE stuff up and down and Silent Hill was left to rot when it deserves just as much attention and care as well.
My favorite theory on Pyramid Head is that while he serves as a judge to James, he is also his protector. He wants James to forgive himself for his pain, or at least not run away from it.
I guess the actress was emotional reading it, too, which hurts my heart. She was so soft spoken and sweet sounding. I remember feeling emotionally drained, too :(
I fell asleep watching a playthrough of Silent Hill 2, and when the ending came up I pretty much dreamt that I lived(well.... died I guess....) the ending of the game and my girlfriend was the one reading the exact same letter. What a fucking bizarre and surreal experience. I'd argue the game isn't even meant to be played after that, rather you should roll the dice with it playing while you sleep and see if you end up just dreaming the game out. Talk about fucking with your head lol
I have a tattoo on my arm that says "in my restless dreams i see that town." Because those words stuck in my head for weeks after i first heard it. So powerful.
if you think thats funny, just know that the game was released on the wii, and the controls for that sequence was to hold the wii remote and nunchuck to the sides and scoot like youre actually in a wheelchair
@@geoffreygorgonzola248 I brought SH: SM to a gaming party at my old college and that part made people lose it. The game is such an unintentional comedy gem.
I love how in one of the stories some random lady that Jason has never met just rips out her own heart, hands it to him, and he's just like "aight bet"
i just love how the SilentTeam trying really hard on making Silent hill lore base on Alessa and the Order but then Silent Hill 2 doesn't have anything to do with it and yet it's the best one out of them all
Yeah 2 is about james guilt over killing his wife and the monsters are created from his mind. In the rest of the games except downpour the monsters are from the mind of someone the cult wants to sacrifice. 1=Harry's daughter 3=Alyssa 4=Walter Sullivan
I actually think silent hill 3 is the best one. The part that made me think that is the church. You get a map of the church and then you expand on it but right after the original map ends the rest is the otherworld which means that that part of the church it’s non existent. You literally don’t get any info on that besides the map which it’s peak gameplay storytelling.
@@joeywalker2061 actually in SH 3 the monster are created from Heather. Most of them have pregnancy imagery. Vincent even explicitly tells Heather that she is the one creating the monsters also Claudia tells her that its not her that's distorting the world, that's why there are monsters outside of silent hill. Like the mall, train station, and office building.
In silent hill 2 she really threw the gun away because she didn't want to kill herself. Also you guys make such good summary videos that are very enjoyable. It's criminal how some of your videos don't have alot of views
Silent Hill has such an enriched storyline as well, and i really would love to see the illustrated short comics turned into a tv series or another properly redone movie series reboot. This franchise just had so much going for it and it sucks to see it just sitting in limbo again.
My dad used to play all the games while I watched. As a small kid, I was of course scared by the monsters, but found the story completely fascinating. I specifically remember the room in the 4th game, watching my dad run from room to room in the apartment looking for a solution to a puzzle. These games are ones I've never personally had the pleasure to play but they are very meaningful to me. They always remind me of my dad. 💙💙
In Silent Hill 4: The Room, if you look at the pictures he took in Silent Hill around his bedroom, the dialogue given about how he views Silent Hill answers a lot of questions about how others, like the people in Silent Hill 2, viewed the town as an idyllic vacation spot. My theory... maybe right, maybe wrong... is that Silent Hill has a glamour over it, completely hiding it's dark side, and it lures people in like a pitcher plant, where it reads their souls and judges them to determine who just sees a quiet little picturesque town, and can just leave, and who is broken enough to require it's aid and punishment, both seem as one and the same by the town.
I like these types of videos, especially since I'm afraid of playing horror games, lol. But, I like to hear the lore of famous games. Keep up the good work!
I'm not afraid, I just don't have the time when I have other games to get to. Horror games seem to move at a crawl. With some exceptions, like the evil within. Not a fan of the first game, but loved the second.
I'm definitely not a gamer and have no desire to ever play this myself but I do appreciate when people like you make these deep-dives into the game and its lore because it's still interesting to learn about game with complicated storylines like this and Bioshock.
One thing I've never understood about the Jeb backstory... Was Helene and the sheriff dead the whole time?? Was he just imagining them? They go from alive to dead to alive and then dead again... are they just spirits?
For some fun watch Josh Strife Hayes' review of the 1st silent hill. He...definitely has a perspective on the game. You live your life thinking you have silent hill all figured out and that everyone's agreed on a plot then BAM "mostly drugs".
I honestly didn’t know there were silent hill comic books but not surprised that there are, I do love how the main thing in the silent hill franchise is that there’s a lot of different demonic monsters
You've made me come up with a theory about what makes this game amazing. I have finished the first 3 games about 5 times. The last time I finished them I followed a guide to obtain absolutely everything in the game (files, extra cut scenes, etc) The I attempted to piece together the story by myself and I was completely unable to do so. After watching your video, I understand the story better but I realized that there is not a lot to it that "makes sense" and I now have a theory. What makes Silent Hill amazing is not the plot nor the story, not even the characters. It's the feel. The feel that you are trapped in some form of fever nightmare that you can't comprehend. You keep investigating and exploring and you learn new things, but the full understanding of what's happening will always evade you. What happened to the other people in the town? Who came up and how did they come up with all the rituals, talismans, and magic, etc? Heck, what on Earth is Silent Hill? I believe that Silent Hill 1, 2 and 3 focused more on the vibe rather than the story and the plot, and the other games (mainly the ones created in America) have focused on creating a plot that "makes sense", have attempted to answer the questions that the first 3 games left unanswered and have completely failed to recreate the magic of the first 3 games. Sadly, I don't think that this tendency will change. I hope I am wrong.
Wrong. Much of this video is non cannon info. The only cannon games is SH 1-4 and possibly PT. This is an issue the SH community constantly has. Wich is knowing what’s cannon and what’s not. Konami doesn’t help much either
@@kalebpinkston3495 actually Konami as far as I'm aware has never said none of the games or comics are cannon anymore so it's all cannon lore but much of silent hill lore is up for interpretation so you can take lore videos like this with a grain of salt and head cannon your own lore if you don't agree with how this video explains it
As someone who really only knew about the games, I can really see the true purpose of Silent Hill; it's guilt and punishment, either from outside forces or from ourselves. Whether we think we deserve it or not. Gnarly stuff, gotta love it!
Been scrolling the comments under this amazing video but have seen NO LOVE for the amazing music by Akira Yamaoka. Incredible emotional pieces and the songs with lyrics (I forget the female singer, Elizabeth is her first name iirc) are incredible. They've been on my iPod since SH3. GREAT video. The comics were totally new to me. I appreciate the hard work.
This video has made me realize how much of a power struggle is going on in silent hill. It's kinda cool and insane all at the same time. I had only played the games, as I lived in the middle of nowhere it was a 6hr drive both ways to even try to get the comics. The silent hill universe is very well written out. Thanks for this awesome (but long) video!
True. Though, it would be interesting if SH was in space with the aliens and how to escape back to SH for further mind devastation on your character since SH is equally as bad as alien's spaceship in space because you don't know what time period you had arrived back in SH. I had always been curious in exploring this part of SH.
Despite the fact most people I know disliked Downpour, I actually quite liked the alternative take on Silent Hill being more focused on rain than fog. I also thought the narrative twists were well done and the moment where you become the Bogeyman for the fight was one I still remember having an "Oh sh*t" reaction to. It will never be 2 or even 3 but I feel like as a more modern take it really worked.
I'm with you The rain fits very nicely into the Silent Hill franchise anyways as much of it is based around mental anguishes. It's often used as a literary device to denote things like sadness/despair, introspection, and a cleansing & renewal. Kinda washing away your sins and learning to forgive yourself. Fits Downpour like a glove, whereas the fog worlds likely represent feeling lost and unsure of your way in life. Loneliness and fear of what's beyond.
Easily the best summary setup for this series. Great work!!! Being a die hard fan it is incredibly difficult given how much detail is in each entry. Popcorn on standby for the vid!
I remember playing one of these Silent Hill games and that was Silent Hill 4: The Room where Henry was trapped in his apartment. Just looking at all the other Silent Hill games they were all so scary I couldn’t even finish playing the one I had. Scary.
Out of all the comics/visual novels, Sinner's Reward actually felt like a silent hill story, both in the visual aesthetics, the narrative pacing which were clearly inspired by the first two SH games, and how it uses the secondary characters to toy with and torment the protagonist, and even though pyramid head doesn't belong anywhere outside of James' version of the town he makes an appearance that makes a bit more sense than anything else but the original SH2.
I am so glad you made this video! I'm actually a wuss when it comes to horror games, but I want to know about the plot anyway because many of them have amazing lore and have a very gritty and edging story. And Silent Hill is something that I have had the urge to play, but too afraid to even think about playing. So thanks a lot for your effort!!!
Watching this for the first time since it was first uploaded, and I really hope this gets as many views as the resident evil story summary you guys did. Extremely detailed and entertaining, great work
Drink whenever a character is knocked uncosuious 🤣. Awesome video! Very conscise and thourough! Thank you for doing all the hard work to tie all these stories together, fascinating video!
in the end i am just glad that alessa, the anti heroine, finally have her happy ending as heather even though she lost her father in the process. at least this time she can have a normal life without being chased by the order cult
Some of these comics are just horribly bad. Their stories feel like a zombie apocalypse filled with people armed to the teeth with weapons and almost army-like behavior. It ignores completely the sense of loneliness, abandonment, fear, and isolation that Silent Hill represents. Hell, even Pyramid Head shows up for no reason at the painter's one, it's absurd.
I like the idea of Silent Hill as a comic book but the execution has to be there. Most of the comics were bad,a few had decent art. Just never reached the potential.
I think Original Sin, Sinners Reward and Anne's Story are the only ones that are any good, not perfect but worth reading at least once. Everything by Scott Ciencin was bad, realllllly bad.
@@A_RU-vid_Commenter Having good art won't excuse bad plot and bad execution. Pyramid Head became too popular for its own good, and thanks to Homecoming, Silent Hill is now a wasteland of idiocy for bad stories. Save for Downpour, that story was good, but the creatures... Meh
I never knew there was so much to Silent Hill yet now I'm obsessed with the comics. I only played the games. I cannot wait to completely dig into everything.
Silent hills is one of my most favorite horror games to play and the amount of effort and detail in this video is just amazing Such an underrated channel that rightfully deserves more subscribers and recognition You got a new subscriber 🔥💯
Really enjoyed this video! The stories behind the graphic novels/comics were really interesting, and I enjoyed the art style. You’ll be able to update this video with new SH content after the new games release!
I've never really played silent Hill but I've always liked the plot, I've seen channels that summarize the games like totallypointlesstv but this video that goes into the comics as well is awesome, thanks for your hard work!
Tbh I like the Style of Shattered Memories. Yeah, the story shouldn't have been changed so much but I like that you cant fight against the enemies. It makes it really terrifying to me
I honestly enjoyed that game because it let us just wander around and quietly explore Silent Hill. Also the first time my controller rang and I hesitantly raised it to my ear and said "hello" automatically was a fine, fine moment in my gaming life.
Honesty shattered memories is my favorite in the franchise for how it plays with your expectations. You think the plot is going one way with the way it starts like the original but more and more things don’t add up that can’t just be chalked up to tweaks until the first of the twists leaves you lost until the final twist drills a nail in, even more so depending on your choices.
My first was SH3, played it all the way to the end. Now I'm doing SH4, beaten 2 last month. I cannot fathom how there are people still making content about these games XD
Aside from this incredibly awesome video, the art style of past life is phenomenal I absolutely love it Y'all did a great job on going into detail on every aspect of this series, bravo!!! Edit: I completely forgot to mention, p.t. was such a heartbreaking situation, development-wise... I literally CRIED MY EYES RED when they announced it wasn't going to be completed. I was so damn excited to have such a beautifully made silent hill game come to fruition. It would have been so amazing... It still makes me sad that they never made it...
Very unpopular opinion, but I love Homecoming. It's a decent-ish game, pretty standard storyline, but it's Alex's story and revelations during the game. I guess I connect to it somehow, where since I have parents who love me but can't express it effectively, kind of similar-ish to Homecoming. Plus the familial generational sacrifice thing is kind of morbidly cool.
It's interesting that the town took on a character of its own. In the first game, it could have been any ole place. It was Alessa's story. Then it became Silent Hill's story.