What delighted me was that they often had consequences attached that would make the environment around you worse, so the onus is on you to solve it and move on so you can escape the fog-thick terror of hanging around. Genius atmosphere-led game design!
No spoilers for the story at large of course, but the way that Silent Hill 2 reveals the purpose of its creature designs and the trauma of its supporting cast is masterful. I will be having nightmares about fire-filled rooms and the presentation of its enemies, with their caged frames and unbearable animations. I could really go on, but I think at some point, you need to just go and experience this game for yourself.
Silent Hill 2 is far more affecting and meaty than that. This video from Super Eyepatch Wolf is a lovely accoutrement if you do finish it.
With its sink fetuses and talking bags, P. Silent Hill 2 is a contained story, and a masterpiece that needs to be appreciated but not overly referenced. For the love of God, leave Pyramid Head alone, but modernise the psychological horror game design principles and we could be onto a winner. I played 'Silent Hill 2' for the first time and I get it now. By Jordan Oloman. Credit: Konami Plus, with rumours swirling that Silent Hill games are coming back, it seems like a good time to try and figure out what made Silent Hill 2 so special, and what developers should try to keep in mind when they make a new one.
Credit: Konami Any corpses that remain look like the protagonist, and the real humans you find are all deeply troubled and talk with a disjointed cadence. More Gaming Stories:. I guess. I was out in Boulder last week on a panel about video games and whether they can be art, and a lot of the students said they were really looking forward to "Silent Hill" because it's one of the best games and they read on the internet that the movie was supposed to live up to the game.
That was all speculation, of course, because Sony Pictures declined to preview the film for anybody, perhaps because they were concerned it would not live up to the game, or because they were afraid it would. When I told one student that the movie was not being previewed, there was real pain on his face, as if he had personally been devalued. Not only can I not describe the plot of this movie, but I have a feeling the last scene reverses half of what I thought I knew or didn't know.
What I can say is that it's an incredibly good-looking film. The director, Christophe Gans , uses graphics and special effects and computers and grainy, scratchy film stock and surrealistic images and makes "Silent Hill" look more like an experimental art film than a horror film -- except for the horror, of course.
The visuals are terrific; credit also to cinematographer Dan Laustsen, production designer Carol Spier, and the art, set and costume artists. But what are we to make of dialogue such as I will now describe? A group of undead citizens of the ghost town of Silent Hill have gathered for some witch-burning. The town was abandoned 30 years ago because of the fumes from mine fires which still smolder beneath the surface.
Grey ash falls like rain. The townspeople pile wood on a bonfire in the center of an abandoned church, and tie an alleged witch to a ladder which is then lowered over the flames until the victim's skin gets extra crispy. She is tied to the ladder and prepared to be lowered and roasted, when her mother bursts into the church and cries out, and I quote, "It's OK, baby. Everything's gonna be OK! The people who live in Silent Hill are dead, I guess.
Some of them glow like old embers on a fire, which is not a sign of life. They live in abandoned buildings and in the mines and in a Smoke and Flame Factory, which you will recall from my Little Movie Glossary is a factory-like location of uncertain purpose which generates a lot of smoke and flames.
Also sharing their space are rat-like little CGI insects, who scurry around thinking they look a lot scarier than they do. Rose has come here with her daughter Sharon because the girl has taken to sleep-walking at night, and standing on the edge of high cliffs while saying "Silent Hill" in her sleep.
Obviously the correct treatment is to take her to the abandoned town itself. Since they were already dead, and still in purgatory, they couldn't return to the real world. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top.
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What happens to the girls at the end of the movie? Ask Question. Asked 9 years, 2 months ago. Active 1 year, 4 months ago. Viewed k times. Improve this question. BlueMoon93 Dragos Dragos 2, 3 3 gold badges 18 18 silver badges 25 25 bronze badges. Sharon seems different because she's not completely Sharon anymore. Dark Alessa Alessa's evil side and Sharon Alessa's good side merge after the church massacre.
Alessa is, in a sense, reborn whole; only now she finally has the mother she deserves. Alessa is giving herself the childhood she never had. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Also the color of the scene is different to suggest that that is the same chair : One theory I cannot find some backup canon sources states that they stay there because Alessa doesn't want them to leave. Improve this answer. Alenanno Alenanno 3, 1 1 gold badge 26 26 silver badges 32 32 bronze badges. That's the interpretation I go with as well.
The idea is that Alessa and Sharon recombine and become a complete person but because Alessa suffered so much in the real world she would rather stay with her new mom in the world she created and pulled Silent Hill into.
Cecil from goodbadflicks has a good video on the movie here: youtu. The idea that Alessa doesn't want them to leave isn't exactly a theory. Ankit Sharma Ankit Sharma k 85 85 gold badges silver badges bronze badges.
Ankit Sharma k 85 85 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Littm Littm 5 5 bronze badges. Have you seen the movie? What is your opinion on the ending? For me the child is still possessed and they're trapped in the alternate dimension lol :D. Are you saying that there can be no explanation, because the team behind it wanted it that way? I was actually hoping for some reasons behind them being trapped there and the possession of the girl.
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