AuraTwilight wrote:It still doesn't really work without cheapening everything involved.
Cheapening everything involved? You mean the facts?
Now.. I'm just going rote:
* Cheryl in SHSM- same appearence as in SH1 and Sh3
* Kaufman, a doctor that tries to reppeal Cheryl's fantasyses- Kaufman, a doctor that tries to reppeal God from Alessa's womb
* Dahlia, Cheryl' mother with same intentions as Dr.K's + hated by her daughter- Dahlia, a mother, a cult member, also hated by her daughter
* Locations in SHSM (mall, Midwich, Balkan church/nightlub, Alchelmilla hospital, etc..)- same as in SH1
* Midwitch High school- Midwich school
* Lisa, a nurse that nurtures Cheryl+ self medication may cause hallucinations- Lisa, a nurse that nurtures Alessa, freaked out because she sees her world and hatred
* Cheryl steales some stuff in the mall and kills Malcolm- Heather slashing monsters in the mall and taking different stuff to help her get through the "Otherworld"
* students mocking Cheryl for sleeping with a profesor- kids mocking Alessa for beeing a witch
* topic title-- Dr. K. threws a glass to shake off Cheryl- Dr.K. threws the Aglaphotis to cause the premature birth of God
* Lisa dying of overdose (bleeds out from her head)- Lisa's mutation (bleeds out from the head)
* People trying to help Cheryl- the Order
* rejecting the truth- preventing the birth of God
These banal examples, that I even didn't have to mention, didn't seem to me like nodds. I doubt that the developers put them there as nodds to the original game. To me they seem more like connections. We are all trying to develop theories, not establish them. To develop a theory we don't always have all the 100% true facts, we use what we have; it doesn't mean we are cheapening everything envolved. If I was, like you said, "cheapening everything involved", then all the theories that are not a 100% true are, as you say: "cheapened". But that's not the point. It's always easier to testimony for an easier fact "Silent Hill Shattered Memories is cannon, a diffent universe
. Bam! Period"; but sometimes we have to try to think about something that may seem insoluble, especially in SH which is a complex game. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that every piece in SH must be an enormous, complex, insoluble riddle. But we have to examine every point of view.