SILENT HILL
Description :
Silent Hill is a survival horror video game for the PlayStation published by Konami and developed by Team Silent, a group in Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo. The first installment in the Silent Hill series, the game was released in North America in February 1999, in Japan in March 1999 and in Europe in the Summer of 1999. Silent Hill uses a third-person view, with real-time rendering of 3D environments. To mitigate limitations of the console hardware, developers liberally used fog and darkness to muddle the graphics. Unlike earlier survival horror games that focused on protagonists with combat training, the player character of Silent Hill is an "everyman".
The game follows Harry Mason as he searches for his missing adopted daughter in the eponymous fictional American town of Silent Hill; stumbling upon a cult conducting a ritual to revive a deity it worships, he discovers her true origin. Five game endings are possible, depending on actions taken by the player, including one joke ending.
Silent Hill received positive reviews from critics on its release and was commercially successful. It is considered a defining title in the survival horror genre, and is also considered by many to be one of the greatest video games ever made, as it moved away from B movie horror elements toward a more psychological horror style, emphasizing atmosphere. Various adaptations of Silent Hill have been released, including a 2001 visual novel, the 2006 feature film Silent Hill, and a 2009 reimagining of the game, titled Silent Hill: Shattered Memories. The game was followed by Silent Hill 2 in 2001, and a direct sequel, Silent Hill 3, in 2003.
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Story Guide for Silent Hill (Source Internet)
Story :
Silent hill, a relatively unknown town in the United States
which has been suffering from false magical claims and its
tragic fate since the civil war, now is slowly re-establishing
itself, 7 years ago a huge fire burned a couple of houses in
the city area, after that the city started to change, now it
is one of the most famous holiday spots in the area. Many
people come to silent hill with their families just to enjoy
their time and have some fun.
Harry mason, a 36 year old writer is one of those people, he
used to come here often with his wife, seven years ago just
after the horrible fire occurred in the town harry and his
wife find a child laying on the side of the road exiting
from silent hill, they decide to keep the baby and name it
Cheryl, a couple of years after that Harry's wife suffers
a strange disease and passes away, now harry was left alone
with Cheryl, he raised Cheryl better then most people
would treat their own flesh and blood.
Silent hill was still Harry's favorite vacation spot, he
still went there often with Cheryl now, it was just another
vacation time when something went wrong. Cheryl was drawing
something in her sketchbook and harry was driving towards the
town, suddenly he notices a police bike coming in at a very
fast speed. The officer stays with Harry's car for a few
seconds then speeds on in front, harry ignores the officer
and continues back to his driving.
A little while later harry see's a wreck of a motorcycle on
the side, quickly identifying it harry turns around to see
the passing wreck , but he fails to notice the figure coming
ahead of the car in time, a young girl steps in front of the
car and harry tries his best to avoid the girl and in doing
so crashes the car, and gets knocked out.
When harry wakes up he finds Cheryl missing, she's not in
the car, so he gets out of the car and starts looking for her
in the town of silent hill..
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The Silent Hill Manual :
The resort town of Silent Hill slips into quiet desolation,
now that the peak of development and growth has passed by.
The memories of a tragic fire 7 years ago still haunt the
townsfolk, and with the tourist season long past, there is
hardly a shadow stirring.
Harry Mason prefers to take late vacations with his daughter
Cheryl. This year they've made plans to visit Silent Hill.
Due to car trouble, they reach the outskirts of the town
late at night. Cheryl is sleeping in the back seat as a
motorcycle cop roars past his truck.
Moments later Harry spots the motorcycle dumped on the shoulder.
There is no one to be seen. It paints an ominous picture.
Suddenly, a shadow appears in front of the car. Harry turns
the wheel in panic. The car slides off the edge of the
road and into a gully.
Harry eventually regains consciousness. Cheryl is nowhere
to be seen. Snow is falling out of season. Where has
Cheryl disappeared to?
Harry walks toward a town he sees in the distance.
Characters :
Harry Mason
Age : 36
Job : Writer
Harry mason is a 36 year old writer who comes to the town
of silent hill often, his wife and he found a baby once there
and they started to adopt the baby, after losing her wife in
a strange disease harry continues coming back to this town with
her daughter who was now named Cheryl. There's something about
this place that harry likes which keeps him bringing back here
but this time when harry comes into a town a freak accident
later he looses cherry's sight. Now harry must find her daughter
quickly before any thing bad happens to her, but harry cant
stop wondering about the young teenage girls figure who he
see's many a times throughout the town of silent hill , and
something even more disturbing about this town, there were
no people here, everyone had just vanishes, and it was also
snowing in the middle of summer.
Something even more disturbing thats been happening to harry
in this town is that sometimes suddenly the town goes all dark
and the floors are replaced my large mesh walls, and all the
buildings seem to ghostify, the entire town becomes like a picture
out of hell, but then it goes back to normal again.
Harry finds out that he's not entirely alone in the town of
silent hill, there is a cop from the neighboring town of
brahms, cybill, a creepy old lady dahlia, and later on in the
game he finds a nurse named lisa who only seems to appear in
hell side of the town, what is the mystery behind this town
and what does it all have to do with him and Cheryl, harry
must find out the answers to these questions before its too
late.
Cheryl Mason
Age : 7
Job : Student
Cheryl is Harry's only child and after the death of his wife
harry and Cheryl have gotten closer to each other then before.
Cheryl loves his father very much but she doesn't know the dark
truth behind her life, choral is not Harry's real daughter , they
found her on the side of the road exiting from silent hill about
7 years ago, she was a newborn baby at that time and she wouldn't
have survived on her own so harry and his wife took her as their
own child and adopted her, but no one knows about that.
Cheryl on the other hand is like any other 7 year old kid but
unknown to her and to harry that the town of silent hill has a
demonic bond with this town. Before his wife died, harry used
to come to this town often for relaxing and vacation, but after
his wife's death he started to come here with his daughter and
now this is one of their favorite vacation spots thanks to the
local resort area. Although she has been coming to this town on
each vacation , when Cheryl reaches a certain age group the
town started to act on itself and awaited cherry's arrival.
Now that Cheryl and silent hill are 1 again what will happen
What is the dark secret behind cherry's birth and why was she
on the side of the road, play the game to find out.
Cybil Bennett
Age : 22
Job : Officer at the Brahm's police station
Cybil is just your regular female officer who lives in the
neighboring town of silent hill, an equally small town known
as Brahm's. She used to come to silent hill often and she
knows this place just like her home town, one night suddenly
all communications from silent hill were cut off and there
was no trace of what happened, no distress signal, no calls
for help , it was like the town just vanished into thin air.
The Brahm's police force sent cybil to go and check out the
town to make sure that everything was alright, since she
knew more about the town she was the likely candidate for this
job. Cybil was just heading for the town when harry see's her
on her bike in the opening FMV.
Next time harry meets cybil is in the cafe where she took
harry probably after saving his life from those little zombies.
Cybil gives her gun to harry and leaves the town to look for
any survivors and for some information about what happened here.
The next time harry meets her is further into the game where she
claims to have seen a ghostly figure running towards the road
leading to the resort area of the town but she couldn't follow
because the road was cut. All in all cybil is one of the good
guys in this game and she helps harry find his daughter .
Dahlia Gillespie
Age : Over 60+
Job : Kinda witch
The first time harry meets this creepy old lady is in the
church of silent hill where she is ringing the church bell
probably calling someone, probably calling harry to come and
meet him there, she is a creepy old woman who talks about
the town in a weird sense of way and there is more to it
then it appears, she seems to know more about the town's
dark history and the events that are happening at the town
then anyone else, when harry meets her she hands harry an
item called the flaurous which is essentially the key to
beating the dark world around harry. During the course of
the game harry finds dahlia couple of times in different
places, how she is able to travel through town is unknown.
Each time harry meets her she either gives harry information
about whats been happening or either tells him vital clues
she appears to be helping harry reach his daughter but there
is more to it then the eye can see, is she just a creepy old
lady who is helping out or is she a creepy old lady who is
leading harry to something, or just using harry like a puppet
to fulfill her quests.. play the game to find out.
Doctor Kaufman
Age : 50
Job : Director at the hospital
Harry meets doctor kaufman at first inside the hospital where
he had just killed one of those monsters, when he first meets
harry he tries to shoot him as if he doesnt believe that harry
is a real human, but when harry does prove to him that he's
a human then kaufman loosens up a bit and starts sharing his
information with harry, but the weird thing is that kaufman
also seems to be on the events that have been happening in the
town lately. When harry asks him what was wrong with the town
the kaufman replies that he was just taking a nap and when he
woke up the entire place was like this. He also seems to know
about one particular case of burns from the several deaths which
happened when the town of silent hill was burned 7 years ago.
Later on in the game you find kaufman in the resort area where
harry saves his life from an attacking monster, but kaufman being
the rude person he is doesn't thank harry at all, a little while
after that when harry discovers an important item in the motel
area kaufman comes in suddenly and snatches the item off Harry's
hands, and he also appears to be very angry that harry found that
item in the first place, kaufman knows about the things that
have been happening in this town and he is an important key in
the unfolding of the secrets.
Lisa
Age : In her 20's
Job : Nurse at the hospital
Lisa is one of the nurses working at the hospital , harry
finds her in the hospital examination room , and unlike any
other people he had met in the game lisa appears to only
be there in the dark side of the town, when harry first
meets lisa she is really scared at that time and she doesn't
want harry to let her go and she doesn't wants to be alone
again, she tries her best to make harry stay with him but
when she realizes that harry wont stop at anything to find
his daughter, lisa helps harry out a little bit and tells
him of an alternate way of reaching the resort area of the
town. Other then that lisa also tells harry about the past
history of the town and the burning incident that occurred
seven years ago.
Unknown to harry is that kaufam, who was the director of the
hospital, put lisa incharge of a patient from the burning
incidents, a young girl named alessa who's body was VERY
badly burned and she had to be strapped up completely like a
mummy. Lisa was literally disgusted by this and she was always
asking kaufman to change his post, she even has a fight about
it with kaufman which you can see in the opening FMV, the lisa
kinda creats a bond with the burned child. But she also makes
a big mistake, she finds out what doctor kaufman was planning
and her life is in constant danger.
Alessa
Age : Young teenager
Job : ? scaring the hell out of harry
Harry finds this girl in many places in the town and each
time harry finds her she disappears before harry has the chance
to ask anything, her name is alessa and she is definitely not
normal, something is wrong with her , she is trying to avoid
harry but harry needs to find her and talk to her and ask her
where his daughter is, will harry catch up to alessa ? find
out in the game.
(Complete)