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The opening moments of Silent Hill 1 is not only iconic for the series and the horror genre in general but for a new IP it shows just how much Silent Hill was capable of as a horror game that creeped and scared people out of their pants showing there's something really special about that game for those brave enough to conquer those nightmares. The Silent Hill series is possibly some of my favorites in the Survival Horror genre next to Resident Evil I'm glad to see our guy cover this franchise after he did cover the Resident Evil series, keep on trucking dude.
Thank you very much my dude. And honestly yeah, I feel it was well ahead of its time in how it presented the game. It didn't seem like something possible on the PS1 (maybe even the era at all), yet we got this revolutionary game to the genre. I still find it far scarier than REs ever could be with how the nightmare sections goes. I still remember when the school area finished. It really felt like I woke up from a nightmare (especially with those church bells going)
@@TheObsessiveGamer True it's why it's a classic not to mention probably one of the earliest open world setting in a game of it's era or just the idea of the scale of walking around a small town that feels like what you would expect aside from the monsters and abandonment of the location.
You have such an unintentionally funny, yet extremely charismatic voice. Cool to see Silent Hill being cover on the channel among the likes of Nintendo’s biggest franchises.
11:27 Just a heads up that’s a picture of Akira Yamaoka, Sato is actually in the same uncropped picture but he’s the guy on the right that has the glasses and long hair
i hope the gray child and Larval Stalker gets modded back in via patch, or better yet, like the Puppet Doctor/Nurse, make it that it spawns both versions as variants. This was an era where it was taboo for kids to die in movies or video games, like Zombie kids. So they "toned" down the Graychild/Larval Stalker. Personally i find the Beta GrayChild Spookier, kinda looks like a small version of the Zelda64 ReDeads, and we all know how much that creature puts the FEAR in us. Edit: Also i like the Puppet Doctor with the glasses on. They should have included it.
Honestly they did look very spooky with that face and now I know why since it looks os much like a Redeads face lol. If they ever do a remake, I do hope we get these original versions back.
Lisa Garland's red overcoat must have been inspired by a nurse with the same clothes in the movie Exorcist 3, it's practically 1:1. Team Silent made so many nods to western horror films.
I really enjoyed this one and hope you start a Silent Hill series here. Glad you made it clear from the start that one of the designers is not the Naoto Oshima from Sonic lol. So many people mix this up. It's most unfortunate that Silent Hill went, from a commercial standpoint, downhill after the first game. The second game was expensive and didn't break even for a long time for Konami and was hated by the japanese audience. The third game wasn't also financially that big of a win for Konami. But over the years, the Silent Hill IP became legendary, unfortunately with a lot of weird decisions made by Konami. Really hope you continue this series. Also, like someone pointed out in the comments, this is not Takayoshi Sato on the picture you've shown. I'm a big fan of this mans work and it is most unfortunate you won't see much of new work for him in recent years. Takayoshi Sato is the guy with the ever changing hair, this might be important if you plan to make a video about Silent Hill 2, because his involvement there was even bigger. Cheers!
Feels like this came out at the perfect time since I just finished Silent Hill last night, and got Bad+ ending. Though glad there's still love and passion for the first Silent Hill.
Feels alot are playing it at this time of the year (and with good reason). SH1 is indeed one of those games that don't get old imo. Haven't seen anyone hate it
As someone with major depressive disorder, trust me when I say I know exactly how you feel. THAT SAID, your life has meaning and people care about you. People rely on you. People need and want you in their lives. I know it can be hard to believe but it's true.
@@supposedhumanmars You mention about other people feeling this or needing that from him as reasons to not “disappear” without knowing anything about his life. What about him as an individual and how he feels? The biggest factor that causes desires to “disappear” is the feeling of lacking control over one’s circumstances. Sometimes such feelings have a legitimate basis; sometimes they don’t. Sometimes they’re caused by fixating on past failures, and other times it’s simply a lack of hope. imho It’s up to the individual if they choose to “disappear.” No one here can force them not to. I don’t encourage anyone to “disappear,” but I respect that the person has suffered greatly and understand I can’t dictate what they should or shouldn’t do. But one thing I’ll say is that I strongly believe the majority of people that went through with it only regret it. There were many copycat “disappearers” that mimicked what they saw on 13 Reasons Why. They thought they could record several hours worth of rants on cassette tapes and everyone will pass them around at school when they’re gone just like in the TV show. But no one did, and none of their other expectations were met. Nothing changed at the school they complained about, there were no grieving students that repented for the bullying they did, and the world kept spinning. Even though they now better understand how differently the world _really_ works compared to what they saw on TV, they now have no power to do anything about the problems they complained about. They can’t go back and have a do-over like in a video game. They’re stuck in a metaphorical prison regretting the actions they _should_ have taken while they were alive and still had the opportunity to do something.
Perfect timing! I just recently streamed Silent Hill 1 for my first playthrough and fell in love with the game, now I'm playing Silent Hill 2 for the second time technically, but its been nearly 20 years since I played it for the first time so its basically my first time.
I still remember never making it out of the Otherworld version of the school since I was too scared to venture far beyond the initial starting area due to the darkness, the enemies, and most importantly that damned piano being pounded on nonstop. Truly a masterpiece of psychological horror. 😂
Hey, when talking about Takayoshi Sato, you used the picture of another developer named Sato, but that was an environmental artist if I recall, not the animator you're discussing.
Ya know I've always taken this game's technical side for granted but frankly, for the PS1, a console less powerful than today's pocket calculators, this large 3D map of the whole town to explore was downright impressive. Even camera tricks like the one in the alley where the POV swings down and forwards and back again as you run through must have been pushing the console to its very limits
I love seeing stuff like this. It's so revolutionary. Nowadays developers have such free range to do whatever they want they don't have to worry about many limitations even on consoles nowadays. So you know whenever they do something they add fog in a game or super dark areas it's not necessarily because they're trying to cover up areas loading in its just because thats what they wanted to do. It blows my mind how genius these old developers were. "We want to make a game on the PlayStation 1 that's fully 3D and not use pre-rendered backgrounds So how do we do that?" And some genius underdog developer says "....lets cover the place in fog." It seems so simple now but I mean that was absolutely genius back then. Because since it was a horror game the idea of fog flooding the city is absolutely perfect. If they were tasked with making any other genre of game they wouldn't have been able to use fog to cover things up and they would have had to end up using pre-rendered backgrounds even though they didn't want to. But since they just so happened to get tasked to make a horror game everything worked out perfectly in their favor. I think that's phenomenal. The ideas that this small group of developers had is truly impressive and I love the fact that people played Silent Hill for years and years without ever knowing the true reason why the fog got created in the first place. We just thought it was to be freaky and scary and creepy. We never knew that the map was loading as we were walking. Absolutely phenomenal.
@@TheObsessiveGamer that they are, slowly but surely joining the remake and port train which has been working out pretty well for them, now it's a matter of proving they can make some original tales that can be as successful. I would love for them to potentially finish up the og Castlevania storyline that got cut off as soon as the minds behind that series jumped ship to pursue success elsewhere, I think they created the Bloodstained series being a spiritual successor to Castlevania not sure if that can realistically happen but hey people can dream.
@@bobafett4265 I really do dream of Castlevania getting its proper conclusion. I know IGA has expressed interest on if Konami did ask him to do more games (probably as a freelancer) he'd have at least 2 more stories to tell. I'm hoping Konami's new fresh approach to game development again leads to such results too.
It always used to surprise me how many copies of the Metal Gear Solid series were on store shelves, versus Silent Hill games. I guess Konami always wanted Silent Hill to be widely praised with a cult following if they wouldn’t print as many discs as Metal Gear.
It’s crazy how Konami went from being this gaming powerhouse with hit after hit with contra, metal gear solid, Castlevania and silent hill and they just pissed it away to focus on mobile games and pachinko
You know, I blame Germany and the UK for the European censorship. This was the time when EU was not a priority for console makers, so we often got inferior versions of games, if we even got some games at all (looking at you Parasite Eve and Chrono Cross). Germany really loves it's censorship, especially concerning video games, so that's why instead of Contra, we got Probotector because having different versions for just few countries was not even in the mind of publishers. But Europe, being mainly a PC region at that time, some countries got their neutered versions of PC games, like changing the pedestrians into zombies or robots in Carmageddon while other, more relaxed countries got their games uncensored.
will you cover heartgold soulsiver and black and white pokemon cut content too? there was leaks on those games too, i even have some low quality beta footage tghat i recorded myself lol
I plan to do so, infact I plan to over time go over the leak in general. I got one video planned on Ruby and Sapphire (dubbed as Part 2) that covers the ones from that leak.
@@TheObsessiveGamer For me I love the way the camera works. It's insanely disorienting on some things, but I kind of dig it. I love games that feel like a playable movie, and Silent Hill is certainly one of them
@@JuvenileNiall Yeah the camera I feel is the best part. Despite being tank controls you don't feel it because the camera constantly stays behind you. But yeah it really does feel like it plays like a movie and I believe that was intention too hah. Hopefully the game hasn't been too tough to get use to
@@TheObsessiveGamer I've needed a walkthrough several times for the most simple of things. So I am doing horrible. BUT, I am desperate to see this thing through, so I'm working through it despite my incompetence lmao
@JuvenileNiall tbh I did too for a bit there until I got use to the games. It plays so differently from anything else that I definitely needed some guidance at first haha. Once you pass the School area, you should be able to do this guide less I imagine since you should have a hang of the game by then :)
For Johnson the big return culminated in Lion v Angron. That's nothing. The biggest impact of Arcs of Omen was felt by Vashtorr in that he is now cruising space in a chained together Caliban. What did the Lion get? A handful of 10k year old Space Marines who probably aren't highly trusted by the troops that didn't turn traitor and flee. I do agree with the "pop a rating" analogy. This was great for 40k TT players but underwhelming for the Black Library researchers and readers. My hope is that going forward we get to see the events that matter and GW don't smoke and mirror them off screen. Let us witness El Johnson reuniting with his only living brother. Show us how Old Leo takes seeing his father on the throne. Don't GW this stuff up lol
@@TheObsessiveGamer man... First off, appreciate you and your content. Secondly, was commenting on one video in a playlist it went on to the next, this one, and it didn't click before I hit send.
@@FnRenner haha figured something like that happened, but also neat that I was next the recommended video as such. PS. Peak taste for being into Space Marines 👌
How was it even possible to call first Silent Hill a Resident Evil clone back then, when Resident Evil itself was a clone of Alone in the Dark. And we can call RE a clone of AitD since they played similarly, while Silent Hill had open 3D environment and had more darkness than entire AitD trilogy. Silent Hill series became a RE clone since Homecoming and judging from last released remake, Silent Hill will keep dreaming of being a RE clone series until it wakes up back to it's roots.
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The opening moments of Silent Hill 1 is not only iconic for the series and the horror genre in general but for a new IP it shows just how much Silent Hill was capable of as a horror game that creeped and scared people out of their pants showing there's something really special about that game for those brave enough to conquer those nightmares.
The Silent Hill series is possibly some of my favorites in the Survival Horror genre next to Resident Evil I'm glad to see our guy cover this franchise after he did cover the Resident Evil series, keep on trucking dude.
Thank you very much my dude. And honestly yeah, I feel it was well ahead of its time in how it presented the game. It didn't seem like something possible on the PS1 (maybe even the era at all), yet we got this revolutionary game to the genre.
I still find it far scarier than REs ever could be with how the nightmare sections goes. I still remember when the school area finished. It really felt like I woke up from a nightmare (especially with those church bells going)
@@TheObsessiveGamer True it's why it's a classic not to mention probably one of the earliest open world setting in a game of it's era or just the idea of the scale of walking around a small town that feels like what you would expect aside from the monsters and abandonment of the location.
You have such an unintentionally funny, yet extremely charismatic voice.
Cool to see Silent Hill being cover on the channel among the likes of Nintendo’s biggest franchises.
11:27 Just a heads up that’s a picture of Akira Yamaoka, Sato is actually in the same uncropped picture but he’s the guy on the right that has the glasses and long hair
Oh whoops, good catch, will update the pin with that info shortly. Thanks!
i hope the gray child and Larval Stalker gets modded back in via patch, or better yet, like the Puppet Doctor/Nurse, make it that it spawns both versions as variants.
This was an era where it was taboo for kids to die in movies or video games, like Zombie kids. So they "toned" down the Graychild/Larval Stalker.
Personally i find the Beta GrayChild Spookier, kinda looks like a small version of the Zelda64 ReDeads, and we all know how much that creature puts the FEAR in us.
Edit: Also i like the Puppet Doctor with the glasses on. They should have included it.
Honestly they did look very spooky with that face and now I know why since it looks os much like a Redeads face lol. If they ever do a remake, I do hope we get these original versions back.
Lisa Garland's red overcoat must have been inspired by a nurse with the same clothes in the movie Exorcist 3, it's practically 1:1. Team Silent made so many nods to western horror films.
Oh sweet silent hill. Hoping you cover the others. 🤞 4 has a lot of cut stuff
I do plan to do so 👌 and interesting on the 4 having cut content on that scale
10:05
That enemy was trying to eat his ass.
and he can suck
I really enjoyed this one and hope you start a Silent Hill series here. Glad you made it clear from the start that one of the designers is not the Naoto Oshima from Sonic lol. So many people mix this up. It's most unfortunate that Silent Hill went, from a commercial standpoint, downhill after the first game. The second game was expensive and didn't break even for a long time for Konami and was hated by the japanese audience. The third game wasn't also financially that big of a win for Konami. But over the years, the Silent Hill IP became legendary, unfortunately with a lot of weird decisions made by Konami.
Really hope you continue this series. Also, like someone pointed out in the comments, this is not Takayoshi Sato on the picture you've shown. I'm a big fan of this mans work and it is most unfortunate you won't see much of new work for him in recent years. Takayoshi Sato is the guy with the ever changing hair, this might be important if you plan to make a video about Silent Hill 2, because his involvement there was even bigger. Cheers!
Feels like this came out at the perfect time since I just finished Silent Hill last night, and got Bad+ ending.
Though glad there's still love and passion for the first Silent Hill.
Feels alot are playing it at this time of the year (and with good reason). SH1 is indeed one of those games that don't get old imo. Haven't seen anyone hate it
I wished I was cut content...
Nah, I want you to exist :P
As someone with major depressive disorder, trust me when I say I know exactly how you feel. THAT SAID, your life has meaning and people care about you. People rely on you. People need and want you in their lives. I know it can be hard to believe but it's true.
What he said 👆even if times are bad, always have hope as things can always get better even in the bleakest of times
@@supposedhumanmars
You mention about other people feeling this or needing that from him as reasons to not “disappear” without knowing anything about his life.
What about him as an individual and how he feels? The biggest factor that causes desires to “disappear” is the feeling of lacking control over one’s circumstances. Sometimes such feelings have a legitimate basis; sometimes they don’t. Sometimes they’re caused by fixating on past failures, and other times it’s simply a lack of hope.
imho It’s up to the individual if they choose to “disappear.” No one here can force them not to. I don’t encourage anyone to “disappear,” but I respect that the person has suffered greatly and understand I can’t dictate what they should or shouldn’t do. But one thing I’ll say is that I strongly believe the majority of people that went through with it only regret it.
There were many copycat “disappearers” that mimicked what they saw on 13 Reasons Why. They thought they could record several hours worth of rants on cassette tapes and everyone will pass them around at school when they’re gone just like in the TV show. But no one did, and none of their other expectations were met. Nothing changed at the school they complained about, there were no grieving students that repented for the bullying they did, and the world kept spinning. Even though they now better understand how differently the world _really_ works compared to what they saw on TV, they now have no power to do anything about the problems they complained about. They can’t go back and have a do-over like in a video game. They’re stuck in a metaphorical prison regretting the actions they _should_ have taken while they were alive and still had the opportunity to do something.
If you're circumcised then yes you are
I'm a simple person, i see Silent Hill in the title and click it even if i don't know the channel
Perfect timing! I just recently streamed Silent Hill 1 for my first playthrough and fell in love with the game, now I'm playing Silent Hill 2 for the second time technically, but its been nearly 20 years since I played it for the first time so its basically my first time.
Nice! Halloween games aligned 😎 you playing remake of 2 or og?
@@TheObsessiveGamer Doing the OG, ain't got the money to spend on the remake yet, maybe next Halloween XD
Yeah I feel you lol. I wanna run the second game myself before hitting that up
I still remember never making it out of the Otherworld version of the school since I was too scared to venture far beyond the initial starting area due to the darkness, the enemies, and most importantly that damned piano being pounded on nonstop. Truly a masterpiece of psychological horror. 😂
Every friend group has a Mumbler
@@selfaware7617 clearly that one big handed kid Alessa didn't like who mumbled all the time :P
@@TheObsessiveGamer The Mumbler is included in the Fallout 4 mod, Whispering Hills. I just saw that on a stream vod
@@selfaware7617 Euro players really must have dug deeper here in making that mod as such haha
Hey, when talking about Takayoshi Sato, you used the picture of another developer named Sato, but that was an environmental artist if I recall, not the animator you're discussing.
It's funny that that "Team of Misfits" made one of the great survival horror IPs.
Ya know I've always taken this game's technical side for granted but frankly, for the PS1, a console less powerful than today's pocket calculators, this large 3D map of the whole town to explore was downright impressive. Even camera tricks like the one in the alley where the POV swings down and forwards and back again as you run through must have been pushing the console to its very limits
I love seeing stuff like this. It's so revolutionary. Nowadays developers have such free range to do whatever they want they don't have to worry about many limitations even on consoles nowadays. So you know whenever they do something they add fog in a game or super dark areas it's not necessarily because they're trying to cover up areas loading in its just because thats what they wanted to do. It blows my mind how genius these old developers were. "We want to make a game on the PlayStation 1 that's fully 3D and not use pre-rendered backgrounds So how do we do that?" And some genius underdog developer says "....lets cover the place in fog." It seems so simple now but I mean that was absolutely genius back then. Because since it was a horror game the idea of fog flooding the city is absolutely perfect. If they were tasked with making any other genre of game they wouldn't have been able to use fog to cover things up and they would have had to end up using pre-rendered backgrounds even though they didn't want to. But since they just so happened to get tasked to make a horror game everything worked out perfectly in their favor. I think that's phenomenal. The ideas that this small group of developers had is truly impressive and I love the fact that people played Silent Hill for years and years without ever knowing the true reason why the fog got created in the first place. We just thought it was to be freaky and scary and creepy. We never knew that the map was loading as we were walking. Absolutely phenomenal.
Oh yeah i remember Konami. They used to make videogames. Good times yo
Hoping that they are making a comeback as of late lol
@@TheObsessiveGamer that they are, slowly but surely joining the remake and port train which has been working out pretty well for them, now it's a matter of proving they can make some original tales that can be as successful.
I would love for them to potentially finish up the og Castlevania storyline that got cut off as soon as the minds behind that series jumped ship to pursue success elsewhere, I think they created the Bloodstained series being a spiritual successor to Castlevania not sure if that can realistically happen but hey people can dream.
@@bobafett4265 I really do dream of Castlevania getting its proper conclusion. I know IGA has expressed interest on if Konami did ask him to do more games (probably as a freelancer) he'd have at least 2 more stories to tell. I'm hoping Konami's new fresh approach to game development again leads to such results too.
The SH2 remake is GOTY material, believe it.
@chrisbj5251 I've yet to play the remake but from everything I've seen, it's a worthy contender
It always used to surprise me how many copies of the Metal Gear Solid series were on store shelves, versus Silent Hill games. I guess Konami always wanted Silent Hill to be widely praised with a cult following if they wouldn’t print as many discs as Metal Gear.
Despite that it still sold very well. Being only second to Metal Gear with that impressive 2 million sold
It’s crazy how Konami went from being this gaming powerhouse with hit after hit with contra, metal gear solid, Castlevania and silent hill and they just pissed it away to focus on mobile games and pachinko
10 people changed the face of survival horror!
You know, I blame Germany and the UK for the European censorship. This was the time when EU was not a priority for console makers, so we often got inferior versions of games, if we even got some games at all (looking at you Parasite Eve and Chrono Cross). Germany really loves it's censorship, especially concerning video games, so that's why instead of Contra, we got Probotector because having different versions for just few countries was not even in the mind of publishers. But Europe, being mainly a PC region at that time, some countries got their neutered versions of PC games, like changing the pedestrians into zombies or robots in Carmageddon while other, more relaxed countries got their games uncensored.
thanks
It's peak
Truly. Never gets old
will you cover heartgold soulsiver and black and white pokemon cut content too? there was leaks on those games too, i even have some low quality beta footage tghat i recorded myself lol
I plan to do so, infact I plan to over time go over the leak in general. I got one video planned on Ruby and Sapphire (dubbed as Part 2) that covers the ones from that leak.
I literally just started playing this game TODAY. The timing of this to show up on my homepage is absolutely insane
Heh hope you enjoy it! Did a runthrough of it for this video. Still can't believe how ahead of its time it was I feel
@@TheObsessiveGamer For me I love the way the camera works. It's insanely disorienting on some things, but I kind of dig it. I love games that feel like a playable movie, and Silent Hill is certainly one of them
@@JuvenileNiall Yeah the camera I feel is the best part. Despite being tank controls you don't feel it because the camera constantly stays behind you.
But yeah it really does feel like it plays like a movie and I believe that was intention too hah. Hopefully the game hasn't been too tough to get use to
@@TheObsessiveGamer I've needed a walkthrough several times for the most simple of things. So I am doing horrible. BUT, I am desperate to see this thing through, so I'm working through it despite my incompetence lmao
@JuvenileNiall tbh I did too for a bit there until I got use to the games. It plays so differently from anything else that I definitely needed some guidance at first haha. Once you pass the School area, you should be able to do this guide less I imagine since you should have a hang of the game by then :)
If u ever need motivation or feel worthless, just know team silent was a team of ragtag z list and busy work employees and look what they achieved
Small teams + powerful tools.
That's the way to go.
15:14, I'd buy this "guy" a dinner.
Wouldn't call them powerful per say, but the geniuses made amazing use of what they had at their disposal.
Back when Konami had the balls to take risks.
For Johnson the big return culminated in Lion v Angron. That's nothing. The biggest impact of Arcs of Omen was felt by Vashtorr in that he is now cruising space in a chained together Caliban. What did the Lion get? A handful of 10k year old Space Marines who probably aren't highly trusted by the troops that didn't turn traitor and flee.
I do agree with the "pop a rating" analogy. This was great for 40k TT players but underwhelming for the Black Library researchers and readers.
My hope is that going forward we get to see the events that matter and GW don't smoke and mirror them off screen. Let us witness El Johnson reuniting with his only living brother. Show us how Old Leo takes seeing his father on the throne. Don't GW this stuff up lol
Didn't expect a Space Marines reference under a Silent Hill video lol
@@TheObsessiveGamer man... First off, appreciate you and your content. Secondly, was commenting on one video in a playlist it went on to the next, this one, and it didn't click before I hit send.
@@FnRenner haha figured something like that happened, but also neat that I was next the recommended video as such.
PS. Peak taste for being into Space Marines 👌
@@TheObsessiveGamer I put your videos on as background when I am doing up models. Relaxing videos please Grandpa Nurgle
How was it even possible to call first Silent Hill a Resident Evil clone back then, when Resident Evil itself was a clone of Alone in the Dark. And we can call RE a clone of AitD since they played similarly, while Silent Hill had open 3D environment and had more darkness than entire AitD trilogy. Silent Hill series became a RE clone since Homecoming and judging from last released remake, Silent Hill will keep dreaming of being a RE clone series until it wakes up back to it's roots.
OH HEEEEELLLLLLLLLL YEEEEEEEES HEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Heh long and awaited. Hope I delivered :)
@@TheObsessiveGamer This was better than I was hoping.
You're the best bro!