I picked the PAL box art for the post picture because the American box art is shit. Even the Japanese box art is better and that's just a tile wall with a little bit of blood on it.
Silent Hill is one of those games that basically everyone with even a passing interest in the medium of video games is aware of. It's one of the big grand daddies of the horror genre and is famous for being WAY scarier than any of the other survival horror games. Resident Evil, Alone in the Dark and all that stuff were kind of scary, but Silent Hill was the first instance I ever saw anyone put down a controller and be like "whoa man, this shit..."
The plot involves Harry Mason on his quest through Silent Hill to rescue his daughter. Not too long after the game starts you get caught up in all sorts of shit involving demons, shifts into a nightmare and a satanic cult. I'm not going to go into any length about the story because there are people who have dedicated significant amount of time picking apart this games wonderful plot and if I did it in this post it would be way WAYYYYY too fucking long.
The game uses the old tank control scheme that games like Resident Evil used, except it was a little more developed. For example, readying your weapon didn't lock you to the floor and you were free to maneuver with your gun drawn or big fuck off pipe ready to swing. This made melee combat an actual option whereas other games in the genre, locking yourself in place to slice at something was guaranteed death for the player.
The game also had a ton of replay value since there was a few secret weapons to unlock and an extra ending to be acquired upon fulfilling certain conditions in a New Game +. The game also had 4 normal endings so that's at least 5 playthroughs where you will end up with something different after the final boss has been toppled.
I mean, I could talk about this game for fucking hours, it's just that good. If I tried to go through every single goddamn thing that I enjoyed about Silent Hill then this post would be really goddamn long and I don't think anyone wants to read thousands of words of gush. So instead, just go and play the fucking thing. Dig it out of a closet, borrow it off a friend, buy it off PSN, I don't care how you play it just fucking play it. The new Silent Hill games are all shit so if you've never experienced it before and you want to see just how strong a start this series had, get on it ASAP.
Silent Hill's 1,2 and 3 are THE BEST horror games to date, bar none, fight me.
Just in case, if you're interested in seeing my current fastest speed run (39:39 IGT) then the video is below.
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