Silent Hill Andreas Halonen

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Short ver. report by Andreas Halonen 2009 [email protected]

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Short ver. report by Andreas Halonen 2009

[email protected]

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• Introduction

This report will inform you about Silent hill homecoming for Playstation 3 and

a bit of game history.

I have always been intrigued by the little town of Silent hill and the people

that live in it or just pass through it. There is so much evil that fits inside this

small ghost town. I love the environments, sound and atmosphere the game

offers you while playing and lingers with you when you turn off the game.

Silent hill follows you where ever you go and that makes the game

experience so much more alive.

I have decided to try and give the perspective of a long time game player

and a Silent hill fan. I myself have mostly played Silent hill one and two

before playing Homecoming that is the fifth in the original series. I hope you

will be interested to try the game after you read this report.

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• Silent Hill in the beginning

The story of Silent hill began in 1999 when the first game was released called Silent

hill for Playstation one. Konami presented it like a survival horror game and Silent

hills followers grew with every title released. The most popular titles are Silent Hill 1, 2

and 3 the odd one out is Silent hill 4 The Room that wasn’t the same success as the

first three and made the series lose some fans.

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• Silent hill – The game

All Silent hill games take place in several realities one more “normal” with a

thick mist covering town and one dark and deranged the city and places are

the same but still they look very different the dark side of Silent hill is filled

with blood and gore and mutant monsters.

Our hero Alex and his brother Josh that your searching for.

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• The people

• In all the games you meet people from town or members of the police force.

Homecoming is no different here you meet old childhood friends, people

from Shepherd’s Glenn and your mother who still lives in town. In

homecoming you can for the first time in the series, you may select

responses when engaging in dialogue with other characters that Alex

encounters in the game, which in turn may affect how you will see the plot

unfold.

• Here is a childhood friend and a villager living in Shepherd’s Glenn.

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• Puzzles

A big part of Silent Hill is small puzzles or quests to be able to get forward in

the game you have to solve them. Often you really have to bend your mind

to be able to crack the puzzle and get past the problem.

Here are two pictures of what the puzzles might look like.

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• The game play

In homecoming you use a new fight system with “fast and weak attack”, “strong

and slow attack” and “dodge” this allows the game play to become more

versatile and gives the player an opportunity to fight in a more advanced

way with different styles and combinations. At the same time the developers

made the monster in Silent hill more aggressive to even out the balance

while fighting. In earlier Silent hill games monster had a more pattern like

movement so you could easily predict and what the monster would do after

a while of playing.

Here is a picture with our hero character Alex fighting an evil nurse.

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• The environment

When exploring Silent hill or Shepherd’s Glenn you will experience a few

different areas most of the time you will run around on the city streets and

inside schools and hospitals. The way the town looks depends if you are in

the normal realm or the darker one this varies from time to time. Of course

you will be presented graveyards, shops, junkyards and other houses.

When you are in town and try to leave the town you will see that it won’t let

you leave and you will find that the street ends in a ravine.

Here a picture of a typical street

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• The monsters

In the game you will encounter a lot of different creatures and mutant

people few things that has followed Silent hill though out the years that’s the

Nurses and fleshy feral dogs. In homecoming you will encounter both these

and Lurkers and much more. Monsters can hide in houses, water, small

holes and almost everywhere so you are always hunted, and remember

your radio so you know when something is coming for you in the dark and

misty town.

Here are pictures of a fleshy feral dog and a Lurker.

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• The music

Music and sound has always been a large part of Silent hill and a part that

makes the game play even scarier, since the sound is so well designed and

placed just right to make your spine chill when you least expect it. Akira

Yamaoka returned from the past Konami team for the Silent hill series to be

the game's producer for homecoming, as well as to create both music and

sound effects for the game.

Akira Yamaoka has been the music designer though out all the different

Silent hill games. Akira has been the primary contact between Double Helix

in USA and the Konami studios in Japan with the collaboration that took

place making Silent hill homecoming. This is the first time Konami has

joined forces with a western company and makes a great fusion for future

collaborations.

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• The Bogey man of Silent hill

Every story needs a character that’s in the center of attention and “Pyramid

head” is the one in this series. He’s very evil and he is the one who brings

the darkness to Silent hill and Shepherd’s Glenn you can often hear him in

the darkness dragging his huge knife against the floor. Pyramid Head is one

of the few monsters that’s portrayed with very masculine appearance. He

resembles a tall, pale, muscular man covered with a white, blood-soaked

robe reminiscent of a butcher's smock. His most outstanding feature is a

large, red, triangular helmet that covers his head completely and his very

large knife of course.

Here is a picture of Pyramid head from the Silent hill the movie.

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• Save symbols of the game and inventory

When you find a room with this special symbol on the wall is to know that

you are safe for now and may save the progress you have made so far.

This symbol indicates that your ok and may rest a bit

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• Conclusions

As an experienced survival horror enthusiast I must say I really like Silent

hill homecoming they have grasped much of the details I’m looking for when

playing. Great graphics, music and sound, game play and well designed

environments. I my own mind Silent hill really fill the need of today’s survival

horror game demands and should be played by many people. (I recommend

that young persons and people with heart problems stay away from the

game thought). Silent hill comes with an age marking of 18+ so young

people should not play it. I know I would play it still if I were under 18 but the

marking is just a recommendation.

Thank you for reading.

If you are more intressted please read the full report.

Your author – Andreas Halonen 2009/05/29

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