Silent Hill
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First release | Silent Hill February 24, 1999[1] |
Latest release | Silent Hill: The Short Message January 31, 2024 |
Silent Hill
The later four games, Origins, Homecoming, Shattered Memories and Downpour, were developed by other, mostly Western developers. The Silent Hill franchise has expanded to include various print pieces, two feature films, and spin-off video games. As of 2013, the game series has sold over 8.4 million copies worldwide.[2]
Silent Hill is set in the series' eponymous fictional American town. The series is heavily influenced by the literary genre of psychological horror, with its player characters being mostly "everymen".[3]
Installment overview
1999 | Silent Hill |
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2000 | |
2001 | Play Novel: Silent Hill |
Silent Hill 2 | |
2002 | |
2003 | Silent Hill 3 |
2004 | Silent Hill 4: The Room |
2005 | |
2006 | Silent Hill (mobile game) |
2007 | Silent Hill: The Arcade |
Silent Hill: Origins | |
Silent Hill: Orphan | |
Silent Hill: The Escape | |
2008 | Silent Hill: Homecoming |
Silent Hill: Orphan 2 | |
2009 | Silent Hill: Shattered Memories |
2010 | Silent Hill: Orphan 3 |
2011 | |
2012 | Silent Hill: Downpour |
Silent Hill HD Collection | |
Silent Hill: Book of Memories | |
2013 | |
2014 | P.T. |
2015 | |
2016 | |
2017 | |
2018 | |
2019 | |
2020 | |
2021 | |
2022 | |
2023 | Silent Hill: Ascension |
2024 | Silent Hill: The Short Message |
Silent Hill 2 (remake) | |
TBA | Silent Hill f |
Silent Hill: Townfall |
Main series
Silent Hill (1999)
The first installment in the series follows
Silent Hill 2 (2001)
The second installment in the series follows
Silent Hill 3 (2003)
The third installment in the series follows a teenage girl named Heather as she becomes caught in a conflict within Silent Hill's cult and discovers her true origin. It was released in May 2003 for the PlayStation 2, with a port to Microsoft Windows released in October of the same year. Silent Hill 3 is a direct sequel to the first installment in the series.[7]
Silent Hill 4: The Room (2004)
The fourth installment in the series follows Henry Townshend, who finds himself locked in his apartment as strange phenomena begin to unfold around him and other residents of the building. It was released in 2004 for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and Microsoft Windows and it also marked the end of Team Silent's contributions to the series.
Silent Hill: Origins (2007)
The fifth installment in the series is a prequel to
Silent Hill: Homecoming (2008)
The sixth installment in the series follows Alex Shepherd, a soldier who has returned from a war overseas. Alex discovers upon his arrival that his father has gone missing, his mother has become
Silent Hill: Downpour (2012)
The eighth installment in the series follows Murphy Pendleton, a prisoner who is stranded in Silent Hill after his prison transport vehicle crashes. Formerly announced in April 2010[11] and developed by Vatra Games for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, the game was released on March 13, 2012.[12] It is the only game in the series that can be played in 3D (stereoscopic).
Silent Hill ƒ (TBA)
A new mainline game, entitled Silent Hill ƒ, was announced in October 2022. Developed by studio NeoBards, with creative contributions from writer
Remakes
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories (2009)
A
Shattered Memories' gameplay focuses on completion of psychological tests which alter in-game elements while in the first setting, and exploration, puzzle solving, and monster evasion when in the second setting. The game's developers avoided integrating combat into the second setting's gameplay, centering instead on a weaponless player character attempting to rescue himself from powerful opponents, as they considered this to be more fear-inducing. The game received generally positive reviews, with its graphics, storyline, voice acting, soundtrack, and use of the Wii Remote as the Wii version's controller praised by reviewers; Shattered Memories' chase sequences were criticized by some reviewers, because they deemed them potentially frustrating and short.
Silent Hill 2 (2024)
A remake of Silent Hill 2 was announced in October 2022 for the PlayStation 5 and PC. It will be console exclusive on the PlayStation 5 for the first 12 months but will also be released for PC.[16] Akira Yamaoka, the original composer, returns to write the score.
Other games
Play Novel: Silent Hill (2001)
Play Novel: Silent Hill is a visual novel adaptation of the original Silent Hill, released exclusively for the Game Boy Advance in Japan on March 21, 2001.[17] It has been fan translated into English.
Silent Hill: The Arcade (2007)
Silent Hill: The Arcade is an arcade game that deals with two characters, Eric and Tina, who have entered the town of Silent Hill and must battle monsters while uncovering the mystery behind Eric's nightmares about a girl and a steamship.[18] The Arcade has a multiplayer element, where each player can choose to be either Eric or Tina.[19] A second player can join the game at any time.[20]
Silent Hill: Orphan (2007)
Silent Hill: The Escape (2007)
Silent Hill: Orphan 2 (2008)
Silent Hill: Orphan 2 is a mobile game, and a sequel to Silent Hill: Orphan.
Silent Hill: Orphan 3 (2010)
Silent Hill: Orphan 3 is a mobile game, and a sequel to Silent Hill: Orphan 2.
Silent Hill HD Collection (2012)
This pack marked the first time Silent Hill 3 was playable on an Xbox console. The collection got mixed to negative reviews due to severe issues with both games, such as severe framerate problems, lockups and more. While the PlayStation 3 version was patched, the Xbox 360 patch was cancelled and Konami offered refunds to all Xbox 360 owners of the game.[22]
Silent Hill: Book of Memories (2012)
Silent Hill: Ascension (2023)
An
Silent Hill: The Short Message (2024)
Following messages from her friend Maya, Anita finds herself at a crumbling apartment block, infamous for rumors of suicides. Drawn inside, Anita soon finds her sense of reality shattered as she encounters bizarre, otherworldly spaces, haunted by a twisted monster. Maya's message was clear — ""can't leave til you find it"" — but what is it that Anita is really looking for?
Silent Hill: Townfall (TBA)
A new game, Silent Hill: Townfall, was announced in October 2022 with a reveal trailer. It will be developed by No Code and published by Annapurna Interactive.[31]
Cancelled games
Nintendo DS titles
WayForward Technologies, developers of Silent Hill: Book of Memories, worked on a series installment for the Nintendo DS in 2006. They developed a one-room prototype demo using the lead character and assets from Silent Hill 2 before the game was cancelled.[32]
Renegade Kid pitched their DS title Dementium: The Ward as a Silent Hill spin-off title. It was rejected by Konami for various reasons involving Konami not wanting to trust a small company with the Silent Hill license. Renegade Kid later pitched a modified version of Dementium II which was also rejected, but for Konami simply not wanting to enter the DS space with a horror title at the time.[33]
Silent Hill 5
Before Silent Hill: Origins was made, Team Silent was tasked with working on a fifth installment in the Silent Hill series, simply titled "Silent Hill 5", and development started as early as Silent Hill 3. The game was delayed due to demand from fans wanting to get proper closure for the first game.[34] The planned story of Silent Hill 5 was to focus on a damaged human being summoned to Silent Hill for a certain reason. Akira Yamaoka described the story as "the darkest story we have come up with".[35]
Another unique feature of the game was to be the fact that it started off in Silent Hill as an everyday town with people going about their lives, which would slowly begin to rot away as players progress in the game.[36]
Broken Covenant
Before Climax Studios started working on what would later become Silent Hill: Origins, they had originally pitched a different game idea to Konami in 2006. Intended to be a PlayStation 3 exclusive, the proposed game would have taken place in Arizona and starred protagonist Father Hector Santos. The priest would have utilized water, a major motif in the game, to perform "holy rites and rituals". The proposal never received a greenlight from Konami, and it was reimagined as an original title called Broken Covenant, but that too was eventually shelved.[37]
Cold Heart
Silent Hill: Cold Heart was the originally planned version of Silent Hill: Shattered Memories.[38] The game would have followed a female protagonist called Jessica Chambers as she decides to take a trip to visit her parents. However, in doing so she becomes trapped in an enormous snowstorm. To save her herself, she follows an ambulance in hopes of finding a safe place, which would leave her to suddely end up in Silent Hill.[39] Compared to Shattered Memories where running is the only way to avoid enemies, the game would have retained the use of Melee Combat from previous games. These combat moments were meant to take advantage of the Wii controller to create a real and intense experience using improvised weapons.[38]
The Box
Silicon Knights announced the titles in production when the company ceased development in 2012. One of these games was called Silent Hill: The Box,[40] but later became known as The Box, which could have been the codename for the title after a publishing deal fell through given the company's financial status. Some early conceptual screenshots from the game can be seen in the Silent Hill Memories website.[41]
2013 sequel
In 2013, Masahiro Ito was involved in a direct sequel to Silent Hill 3. Ito was displeased with the way the character Pyramid Head was used in later installments of the series[42] and wanted to reintroduce the antagonist Valtiel. An opening scene in the Otherworld involving a baby carriage was also envisioned, in which Valtiel would slaughter Pyramid Head.[42] The game was eventually cancelled, but as late as 2017, Ito has stated that if he ever makes a new game, he would carry out his plan to kill Pyramid Head or just not use him.[43]
Silent Hills
During Sony Computer Entertainment's presentation at
During the 2015
The cancellation of the game was met with significant backlash from fans, who later started a petition on Change.org asking for Konami to continue the project. The petition has received 194,279 signatures as of 4 March 2016[update].[48] Numerous remakes of P.T. have spawned as a result of the game's extremely limited availability; it remains unavailable on the PlayStation Store, and has since been blocked from running on the PlayStation 5.[49]
Future
In June 2022, in an interview with French gaming website JeuxVideo.Com, Christophe Gans (director of the 2006 Silent Hill movie) confirmed that he had completed a script for a third Silent Hill film, and was aiming for a 2023 release for the project. He later reiterated this in an interview with JeuxActu, and elaborated that the third film project is to be part of what will be a "relaunch" of the Silent Hill brand, accompanied by new video games.[50]
In October, Gans spoke once again about the upcoming relaunch and his third film, stating during an interview at the Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival that "I know a bit about the [next Silent Hill game]. I work with Team Silent, the original creators. I work in collaboration with Konami", suggesting that members of the original development team, Team Silent, are involved with the upcoming game(s).[51][52] On October 19, Konami released a video revealing a new film, Return to Silent Hill, and several new Silent Hill games: a Silent Hill 2 remake, Silent Hill: Townfall and Silent Hill f.[53][54] Both Akira Yamaoka and Masahiro Ito are confirmed to be returning for the Silent Hill 2 remake; Yamaoka as composer and Ito as the lead concept artist.
Cast and characters
Recurring elements
Plot traits and symbolism
The plots of the installments in the Silent Hill series, except Shattered Memories and The Room, share a common setting: the foggy rural American town of Silent Hill, which is a fictional location set in the northeastern United States: some games specifically reference the town as being located in Maine, whereas in the film the town is set in West Virginia. The town in the first three games was inspired by concepts of a small town in America as depicted by various media from various countries of origin. While some of the development planning is more reminiscent of that of a Japanese village, indirect influence comes from perhaps two factual American towns in particular: Cushing, Maine[b] and Snoqualmie, Washington.[c] The town from the film series, however, was inspired by Centralia, Pennsylvania.[d] Silent Hill is depicted in Shattered Memories as a heavily snow-covered town in the midst of a blizzard, while the events of The Room primarily occur in the fictional neighboring city of South Ashfield, with the player venturing forth to smaller locales around Silent Hill.
The series' player characters experience an occasional dark alteration of reality called the "Otherworld".
Some recurring monsters include the Nurses, who are included in almost every Silent Hill game, typically due to the sexual frustration or health conditions many of the protagonists experience during the course of the game's events; Pyramid Head, another recurring monster who became the series mascot, whose canon appearances have been contested; and Robbie the Rabbit, an amusement park mascot. A dog named Mira is also included in many joke endings. Another recurring plot trait in the Silent Hill series is a fictional religious cult known only as The Order. The organization has certain members who act as antagonists in most of the series' installments (such as Dahlia in the first and prequel, Claudia in 3, Walter in The Room, and Judge Holloway in Homecoming), and operates the "Wish House" (also called "Hope House"), an orphanage for poor and homeless children built by a charity organization called the "Silent Hill Smile Support Society".[58]
The religion followed by the Order is focused on the worship of a chief deity,[59] who is named Samael in Origins,[60] but simply referred to as "God" in the previous games. The group's dogma is derived from a myth: the deity set out to create paradise, but ran out of power during the process; she will someday be resurrected, thus becoming able to finally create paradise and save mankind.[59] The town's cult repeatedly participates in illegal acts: ritual human sacrifices whose purpose is the deity's resurrection,[61] illegal drug trade,[62] and kidnapping and confinement of children in a facility to teach them its dogma through brainwashing, while presenting the facility as an orphanage.[58] Also repeatedly featured are various religious items with magical properties, appearing widely in the games of the series.[63]
Three thematic elements consistently drive the narratives of Silent Hill games: the theme of a main protagonist who is depicted as an "everyman" (with the exception of Homecoming, where the protagonist is thought to be a soldier and the game's mechanics operate as such),[64] and the everyman's quest, either a search for a missing loved one[65] or a situation where the protagonist wanders into the town apparently by accident but is in fact being "summoned" by a spiritual force in the town.
The installments in the Silent Hill series contain various symbolism. The symbols are images, sounds, objects, creatures, or situations, and represent concepts and facts, as well as feelings, emotions, and mental states of the characters.[69][70][71][72][73][74][75][76]
Gameplay
The installments in the Silent Hill series use a
The player characters of every Silent Hill game have access to a variety of melee weapons and firearms, with Origins and Downpour also featuring rudimentary hand-to-hand combat.[79] Shattered Memories is the sole exception: it is designed without combat and based around evasion of the creatures. Another key feature of the series' gameplay is puzzle-solving, which often results in the acquisition of an item essential to advance in the games.
Development
Concept and influences
Development of the Silent Hill series started in September 1996 with the beginning of the development of its first installment,
The first installment's scenario was created by director
The first game, Silent Hill, utilizes real-time 3D environments. To mitigate limitations of the hardware, developers liberally used fog and darkness to muddle the graphics.[3]
Sato estimated the budget of the first installment at US$3–5 million and Silent Hill 2's at US$7–10 million.[87] He said that the development team intended to make Silent Hill a masterpiece rather than a traditional sales-oriented game, and that they opted for an engaging story, which would persist over time – similar to successful literature.[84]
The games are known to have drawn influence from media such as Jacob's Ladder; Phantoms; Session 9; Alien; Stephen King's The Mist; and the art of Francis Bacon, largely through cultivating a technique of inducing fear through more psychological levels of perception. Many sequences and tropes from these films share identical concepts.[90][91] The films and television series of American filmmaker David Lynch are also acknowledged to have influenced Team Silent during the initial games' production,[92][93] especially that of Silent Hill 2.[93]
Another major influence is
The Order's religion is based on various characteristics of different religions, such as the
Audio
The installments in the Silent Hill series feature various sound effects,[69][95] some of them being ambient, as well as silence;[95] the sound effects have been added with the intent of inducing certain emotions and feelings in the player,[69][95] such as urgency, displeasure,[95] or a sense of disturbance of their psyche.[69] According to the series' former sound director Akira Yamaoka, atmosphere is an emphasized element of the series, if which had not been given importance, the series' production would have been impossible.[95] The games also feature soundtracks scored by Yamaoka.[96][97][98][99][100][101][102]
The genres of the musical pieces range from industrial to trip hop to rock, and some pieces include vocals by voice actress Mary Elizabeth McGlynn.[65][98][99][100][101][102] The music of Silent Hill 3 and 4 also contains performance and songwriting contributions from musician and voice actor Joe Romersa.[103] Downpour and Book of Memories feature soundtracks scored by composer Daniel Licht;[27][104] Downpour includes music belonging to the industrial genre and vocals by McGlynn as well as by Jonathan Davis of the band Korn.[104][105]
Reception and legacy
Game | Metacritic |
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Silent Hill | (PS1) 86/100[106] |
Silent Hill 2 | (PS2) 89/100[107] (Xbox) 84/100[108] (PC) 70/100[109] |
Silent Hill 3 | (PS2) 85/100[110] (PC) 72/100[111] |
Silent Hill 4: The Room | (PS2) 76/100[112] (Xbox) 76/100[113] (PC) 67/100[114] |
Silent Hill: Origins | (PSP) 78/100[115] (PS2) 70/100[116] |
Silent Hill: Homecoming | (PS3) 71/100[117] (X360) 70/100[118] (PC) 64/100[119] |
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories | (Wii) 79/100[120] (PS2) 77/100[121] (PSP) 73/100[122] |
Silent Hill: Downpour | (X360) 68/100[123] (PS3) 64/100[124] |
Silent Hill HD Collection | (PS3) 70/100[125] (X360) 69/100[126] |
Silent Hill: Book of Memories | (Vita) 58/100[127] |
Silent Hill: The Short Message | (PS5) 52/100[128] |
The Silent Hill franchise has been praised for its graphics, atmosphere, and narrative. While the first three installments received critical acclaim, and the fourth game received general praise from critics, later games in the series were less well received.[129]
The first installment in the series, Silent Hill, received a positive response from critics on its release and was commercially successful. It is considered a defining title in the survival horror genre, moving away from B movie horror elements toward a psychological style of horror emphasizing atmosphere.[3]
Silent Hill 2 received critical acclaim. It was named the fourteenth best game of the PS2 by IGN, saying that "it preserved most of the original game's what-might-be-out-there fear, but with major advances to the graphics and sound, the game was able to deliver a far more immersive, frightful and compelling storyline".[130] Silent Hill 2 is considered one of the best horror games of all time by many, as it features on several "best games ever" lists by critics.
Praise was particularly aimed at the dark, cerebral narrative and storytelling, exploration and handling of mature themes and concepts, such as mental illness and domestic abuse, the sound design and musical composition, the atmospheric and frightening tone and direction, fear-inducing and tense gameplay, along with the graphics, and the symbolic nature of the monster designs. Silent Hill 2 is widely considered to be the best installment in the Silent Hill game series and is considered by many to be a masterpiece of the horror game genre.
Silent Hill 3 was well received by critics, especially in its presentation, including its environments, graphics and audio, as well as the overall horror elements and themes that are continued from past installments.[131][132] The game received praise for its story, which was a continuation of the first game's story.[133][134]
In comparison to the previous three installments, Silent Hill 4: The Room was met with a mostly positive reception, though lower than that of the game's predecessors; many reviewers disliked the increased emphasis on combat, lessening the focus on the horror aspect of gameplay, while praise was aimed at the atmospheric tone and direction, the sound design, graphics and the storyline, while the changes from the series' conventions were met with a range of responses, varying from positive to negative.
Origins received positive reviews despite some criticism. It was praised for going back to the old gameplay formula—according to IGN, Origins does justice to the series as a whole. However, some criticized the series' increasing predictability. GameSpot stated that "this old fog needs to learn some new tricks".[137]
Homecoming received mixed reviews. It was praised for its graphics and audio, but the horror and gameplay have been met with mixed reactions. Some critics, such as GameSpot, felt that it lost "the psychological horror factor that the series is so well-known for".[138] Some critics were harsher; IGN called the game a "letdown".[139]
Shattered Memories received more positive reviews. GameSpot praised the game's effort at reinventing the first game's plot, rather than being a simple remake.[140]
Downpour received mixed reviews. While certain critics praised the soundtrack and story elements, it has been let down by "sluggish combat" and "occasional freezes".
HD Collection has also received mixed reviews. Critics criticised towards many technical issues plaguing both games and artistic changes made to the games. Book of Memories, while receiving mixed reviews, has been the least well received game in the series, with most criticism regarding the game's shift in genre.
Other media
Print media of the Silent Hill franchise include a series of comic book adaptations;
Spin-off video games based on the series include the visual novel Play Novel: Silent Hill for the Game Boy Advance,[146][147] the arcade game Silent Hill: The Arcade,[148] and the mobile games Silent Hill: The Escape and Silent Hill: Orphan.[149]
Konami has announced Silent Hill-themed pachinko machines, one in 2015 and another two titled Silent Hill: Return and Silent Hill: Escape in 2019.[150][151]
Downloadable content for the video games Dead by Daylight and Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals, were released in June 2020 and March 2021 respectively.
Film series
A film adaptation of the first game in the series, Silent Hill, was released in 2006. It was adapted and directed by French film director, producer and writer Christophe Gans. Gans himself is a big fan of the Silent Hill game series. A second film adaptation, titled Silent Hill: Revelation, written and directed by M. J. Bassett and based on Silent Hill 3,[152] was released in 2012. Christophe Gans expressed an interest in making a third film in a 2020 interview, stating that a script is being developed centred on puritanism.[153] In October 2022, a sequel to the first film was announced to be in early development, referred to as Return to Silent Hill, with Gans returning to direct and the film being based on Silent Hill 2.[154]
In popular culture
- industrial black metal band, recorded Physical Illucinations in the Sewer of Xuchilbara (The Red God), a 2004 EP named after a god from the franchise. There's also a reference to being recorded "in the confines of Toluca Prison", a location from Silent Hill 2. The track lists and tracks themselves also reference Silent Hill and feature music and voice samples, most notably of Claudia Wolf, the main antagonist of Silent Hill 3.[155]
- Dementium: The Ward, a survival horror game for the Nintendo DS, was originally pitched as a Silent Hill game, though it was turned down by Konami.[156]
- The "Upside Down", a location in the Netflix 2016 horror TV series Stranger Things, is inspired by the series' namesake foggy town.[157]
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Notes
- ^ Stylized in all caps as "SILENT HILL".
- ^ The hometown of horror novelist Stephen King, who based many of his novels' fictional Maine towns upon it. His novel Carrie and his short stories "The Mist" and "1408" are among his known influences on the series of Silent Hill.
- ^ The exterior filming location of avant-garde soap opera Twin Peaks, along with its neighboring areas North Bend and Fall City. The four Team Silent–made games are rife with references to and thematic reflections of Twin Peaks, particularly its original two seasons.
- ^ A town that was gradually abandoned due to a 50-year inability or unwillingness to extinguish a coal mine fire.
- ^ A modern ghost town, engulfed in smoke because of a still burning fire in an underground coal mine.