Canon or no?
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What are you talking about? Travis doesn't come back in Origins, he IS Origins.DarkeningNightmare wrote:it's canon cuz travis comes back in origins
"Oh yeah, I've been here before
I can see it with eyes closed
Shadows that look like blood
Dead as far as the mind goes
Fear that comes from my head
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I can see it with eyes closed
Shadows that look like blood
Dead as far as the mind goes
Fear that comes from my head
Lives in the mirror"
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Think he meant Homecoming. Of course it could be argued as to weather or not that's canon too, but whatever.Drewfus wrote:What are you talking about? Travis doesn't come back in Origins, he IS Origins.DarkeningNightmare wrote:it's canon cuz travis comes back in origins
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That's a slippery slope argument. Team Silent may not have made Origins or Homecoming, but as has been stated before, Team Silent itself changed over the course of 1-4. You could deny the canon of any of the games on this ground.
Konami has the final say as to what is and isn't canon. They can retcon and alter things at their leisure as the series evolves. I hate Origins more than you can imagine, but I find it difficult to deny it based solely on that fact. Fortunately, in the long run, I find the events of Origins ultimately of little impact and importance, so I can for the most part ignore it while considering it canon.
Konami has the final say as to what is and isn't canon. They can retcon and alter things at their leisure as the series evolves. I hate Origins more than you can imagine, but I find it difficult to deny it based solely on that fact. Fortunately, in the long run, I find the events of Origins ultimately of little impact and importance, so I can for the most part ignore it while considering it canon.
"Oh yeah, I've been here before
I can see it with eyes closed
Shadows that look like blood
Dead as far as the mind goes
Fear that comes from my head
Lives in the mirror"
I can see it with eyes closed
Shadows that look like blood
Dead as far as the mind goes
Fear that comes from my head
Lives in the mirror"
Not when you have multiple stories that you are trying to fit together into a coherent whole. SH: Origins fits into canon; it features how little Alessa got "split" and how Cheryl came to be. The SH movie (despite having great visual FX and being fairly true to the "three-level" nature of the town) does not, since it radically alters Dahlia's character and position in the cult, provides an alternate origin for Cheryl/Sharon, and turns Alessa from innocent victim to mass-murdering monster). Origins might have different rules, like fragile weapons and unrestricted transit between realities via the mirrors, but it fits with the overall storyline.
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thank you. it especially fits at the end whenOddish wrote:Not when you have multiple stories that you are trying to fit together into a coherent whole. SH: Origins fits into canon; it features how little Alessa got "split" and how Cheryl came to be. The SH movie (despite having great visual FX and being fairly true to the "three-level" nature of the town) does not, since it radically alters Dahlia's character and position in the cult, provides an alternate origin for Cheryl/Sharon, and turns Alessa from innocent victim to mass-murdering monster). Origins might have different rules, like fragile weapons and unrestricted transit between realities via the mirrors, but it fits with the overall storyline.
PRIME_BBCODE_SPOILER_SHOW PRIME_BBCODE_SPOILER:
you hear harry and his wife name the baby cheryl
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Well... Heres what I think...
If something is part of a series, and it is in the same format as the rest of the things in that series (so this would be Silent Hill Origins, Silent Hill, Silent Hill 2, Silent Hill 3, Silent Hill 4: The Room, and Silent Hill: Homecoming, the VIDEO GAMES) then it is canon. I honestly never thought I would see myself typing out that word...
The Silent Hill movie can be canon in the "movie universe" however.
But anyway... At least Origins didn't turn out to be something like Resident Evil Gaiden...
If something is part of a series, and it is in the same format as the rest of the things in that series (so this would be Silent Hill Origins, Silent Hill, Silent Hill 2, Silent Hill 3, Silent Hill 4: The Room, and Silent Hill: Homecoming, the VIDEO GAMES) then it is canon. I honestly never thought I would see myself typing out that word...
The Silent Hill movie can be canon in the "movie universe" however.
But anyway... At least Origins didn't turn out to be something like Resident Evil Gaiden...
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What about the Arcade and Silent Hill: Orphan? Are those canon, according to your rules? What if a video game was made that totally contradicted the others, like deciding, "Unfortunately, Alessa and Harry never survived the events of SH1."
[quote="BlackFire2"]I thought he meant the special powers of her vagina.[/quote]
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Well, considering Silent Hill: Origins is an actual part of the series, I would think it's canon. It's not jut some spinoff like Orphan and Arcade.AuraTwilight wrote:What about the Arcade and Silent Hill: Orphan? Are those canon, according to your rules? What if a video game was made that totally contradicted the others, like deciding, "Unfortunately, Alessa and Harry never survived the events of SH1."
EDIT:And I just realized that this is a double post.
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Really? Not the monsters or ANYTHING?I have never played the arcade game for myself sadly but I have watched ALMOST the entire game from beginning to end on the internet and I really didn't see anything that contradicted the story (the game was just stupid).
[quote="BlackFire2"]I thought he meant the special powers of her vagina.[/quote]
Origins is Canon, enough said. I just played through it again recently for the 50th time. And I can tell you that it's canon.. all the references are there. And especially with the good ending you hear the voices of Harry and his wife naming the child Cheryl. Plus through out the game you have Lisa and kauffman in there.. and there are even references to the drugs that were being passed around in the town. Sure it was mostly about travis.. but just because the story is alot about the main character, does that make it any less canon? I mean look at silent hill 2.. I mean that really didn't say much about Alessa or anything. Does that make Silent Hill 2 any less canon than the rest of the series?
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