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by alone in the town
12 Jun 2023
Forum: Silent Hill 1
Topic: Why Good+ Ending is My Canon Ending (spoilers)
Replies: 68
Views: 47777

Re: Why Good+ Ending is My Canon Ending (spoilers)

Of course, the problem with that is it makes it so none of the stories afterward (or before) can even imaginably happen, because it was all Harry's Jacob's Ladder . And that's a problem for (people like) me. >imaginably Challenge accepted. I would have dropped the original Bad ending from the first...
by alone in the town
09 Jun 2023
Forum: Silent Hill 1
Topic: Why Good+ Ending is My Canon Ending (spoilers)
Replies: 68
Views: 47777

Re: Why Good+ Ending is My Canon Ending (spoilers)

Uh, yes it does; because in those films the time loop is the direct focus of the plot that is superobvious and not some vague interpretation of what's going on. It's a pretty stark difference. I agree the difference is stark, I don't agree that it is meaningful. It is not necessary that the plot ma...
by alone in the town
07 Jun 2023
Forum: Silent Hill 1
Topic: Why Good+ Ending is My Canon Ending (spoilers)
Replies: 68
Views: 47777

Re: Why Good+ Ending is My Canon Ending (spoilers)

My only issue with that is how it diminishes stories with actual looping; films such as Groundhog Day and Edge of Tomorrow for example, where the protagonist's gained experience from loops is unmistakenly shared with us, the watchers. I can't agree that exploring a concept from a different angle di...
by alone in the town
07 Jun 2023
Forum: Silent Hill 2.0: ALL the rumours and speculation
Topic: Is Konami now more open to a non-canon/hands-off approach?
Replies: 11
Views: 2115

Re: Is Konami now more open to a non-canon/hands-off approach?

That's rather oversimplifying things. Once a series grows and becomes larger, sticking to some sort of canon will undoubtedly result in recurring elements and references. Silent Hill 2 also referenced the first game in many ways, most notably in its UFO ending. And why stop at Homecoming? Shattered...
by alone in the town
06 Jun 2023
Forum: Silent Hill 1
Topic: Why Good+ Ending is My Canon Ending (spoilers)
Replies: 68
Views: 47777

Re: Why Good+ Ending is My Canon Ending (spoilers)

You could argue that restarting Silent Hill, for example, and achieving the Bad ending instead of the Bad+ ending is an example of "looping" but in that case ANY video game with multiple endings could be considered having "loops" for its character. If the experiences gained from...
by alone in the town
05 Jun 2023
Forum: Silent Hill 1
Topic: Why Good+ Ending is My Canon Ending (spoilers)
Replies: 68
Views: 47777

Re: Why Good+ Ending is My Canon Ending (spoilers)

I accept the concept of looping experience to be the only way Good+ makes any sense narratively. I don't love it, and I still don't really care for that ending. I never even cared that much about Cybil as a character or felt any extraordinary urge to save her, you spend literally five entire minutes...
by alone in the town
04 Jun 2023
Forum: Silent Hill 2.0: ALL the rumours and speculation
Topic: Is Konami now more open to a non-canon/hands-off approach?
Replies: 11
Views: 2115

Re: Is Konami now more open to a non-canon/hands-off approach?

But it seems that they are more open to the idea of allowing new projects to not be so closely tied to the old Silent Hill canon or creatures. I hope so, I personally think the 'canon' ended up ruining things more than helping things, both in terms of straightjacketing what the writers were allowed...
by alone in the town
04 Jun 2023
Forum: Silent Hill 1
Topic: Why Good+ Ending is My Canon Ending (spoilers)
Replies: 68
Views: 47777

Re: Why Good+ Ending is My Canon Ending (spoilers)

For what it's worth, I think Good+ is logically consistent. The main reason some people find it to the contrary is because of the fore-knowledge that Harry would need to save Cybil. It's understandable, but it neglects a major characteristics that make the Silent Hill series what it is: namely, ite...
by alone in the town
13 May 2023
Forum: Silent Hill Ascension
Topic: Does Ascension Pose a Risk to the Future of the Series?
Replies: 7
Views: 1290

Re: Does Ascension Pose a Risk to the Future of the Series?

Since most of us probably thought this series was moribund about a year ago, I think the risk to the future of the series is behind us at this point.
by alone in the town
11 Apr 2023
Forum: Silent Hill 2
Topic: Meaning behind Save system?
Replies: 204
Views: 81063

Re: Meaning behind Save system?

Never heard of him!
by alone in the town
10 Apr 2023
Forum: Silent Hill 2
Topic: Meaning behind Save system?
Replies: 204
Views: 81063

Re: Meaning behind Save system?

Sure, but the longer letter wouldn't require nine literal pieces of paper, either. The red square feels like more of an abstract symbol of the letter, rather than a direct, physical manifestation. The letter, itself, is massively important. It is the purported catalyst of the entire adventure, it (v...
by alone in the town
09 Apr 2023
Forum: Silent Hill 2
Topic: Meaning behind Save system?
Replies: 204
Views: 81063

Re: Meaning behind Save system?

What if the red square is the letter ? And, you have nine of them at the end, because that's the last chance to save the game before we see and hear the full letter, in its entirety? What if the full letter is a little more than 8.5 times as long (77 lines) as the abridged and possibly fake version ...
by alone in the town
27 Feb 2023
Forum: Silent Hill: Townfall
Topic: A map and date are depicted in the TOWNFALL trailer
Replies: 10
Views: 1843

Re: A map and date are depicted in the TOWNFALL trailer

Mine of SH2 was also saved on a floppy, and a large amount of it was written on an ancient Windows 95 Thinkpad with a monochrome display (hence the need for the floppy).
by alone in the town
24 Feb 2023
Forum: Silent Hill: Townfall
Topic: A map and date are depicted in the TOWNFALL trailer
Replies: 10
Views: 1843

Re: A map and date are depicted in the TOWNFALL trailer

Maybe a lil more likely they'd be using that particular piece of tech in 1998, since my long and hard minutes of research lead me to believe that it didn't exist quite yet in '88. I never really thought of handheld TVs as ever being very popular or widespread. It's the kind of idea that was was poss...
by alone in the town
23 Feb 2023
Forum: Silent Hill: Townfall
Topic: A map and date are depicted in the TOWNFALL trailer
Replies: 10
Views: 1843

Re: A map and date are depicted in the TOWNFALL trailer

I love these challenges, so here's my take. First, I couldn't find a TV that looked exactly like this, but I did find one that is quite visually similar: the Sony Watchman FDL-310 https://i.imgur.com/CIAFzo0.png The user manual was printed in 1989, according to the user manual I found on Sony's webs...
by alone in the town
20 Feb 2023
Forum: Silent Hill 2
Topic: IGN readers voted Silent Hill 2 as the best horror game of all time
Replies: 22
Views: 5600

Re: IGN readers voted Silent Hill 2 as the best horror game of all time

In that case they would need to make the environments really interesting, not just random obscure references or subtles hints of the lore like we had before so modern players won't get bored. Also, the time that we spend at the streets would need to be shorter, I still remember how everybody compla...
by alone in the town
20 Feb 2023
Forum: Silent Hill 4: The Room
Topic: Joseph Schreiber really was losing his mind (E3 Trailer stuff)
Replies: 6
Views: 3410

Re: Joseph Schreiber really was losing his mind (E3 Trailer stuff)

I've said for years that Silent Hill 4 would have been a much better game if Joseph was the character and focus of the story, rather than some dude who moves into his place after he dies and reads Joseph's notes telling us about the more interesting adventures he got to have.
by alone in the town
17 Jan 2023
Forum: Silent Hill Origins
Topic: PSP or PS2?
Replies: 10
Views: 4995

Re: PSP or PS2?

Originally, I played the PS2 version, paid full price for it and everything, and I thought it was literally unplayable because it was so dark that indoors areas were basically too dark to effectively navigate no matter what I did to my display to try to mitigate the effect. On the PSP, however, it w...
by alone in the town
08 Jan 2023
Forum: Silent Hill 2
Topic: IGN readers voted Silent Hill 2 as the best horror game of all time
Replies: 22
Views: 5600

Re: IGN readers voted Silent Hill 2 as the best horror game of all time

I find myself wondering, if Silent Hill 2 had been made (not remade ) in 2023, would there even be combat with monsters at all? Because, honestly, those have always felt, to me, like gameplay elements included, in large part, because you didn't not include them in a turn-of-the-century horror videog...
by alone in the town
08 Jan 2023
Forum: Silent Hill 2 Remake
Topic: And... Predictably, people are already complaining.
Replies: 20
Views: 5298

Re: And... Predictably, people are already complaining.

Present company excepted, Silent Hill fans are really insufferable and impossible to please. It does make me chuckle watching these people act like they're the ones who spent 20 years examining and critiquing this game on the atomic level, just because they've watched YouTube analyses derived from t...