@@evprince my only true silent hill games are the first 4 team silent games the rest are just a cashgrab to continue the franchise, I'm not really interested in the upcoming games, the only game I would play is a silent hill 5 by team silent maybe bokeh games studio can make it as some team silent members are working there and they could bring the rest on board.
Cinematography is the key to this franchise's success. It’s as immersive as a great film, and at a time where you could not rely on pure graphic aesthetics to accomplish this.
@@Fenrisson not better, they're different beasts. Resident evil (the ps1 games at least) is like a Zelda game, i used to play for the puzzles, different branching paths for each playthrough, etc... Silent Hill lacked alot on the gameplay aspect, but the moody atmosphere made up for it, to the point that it became it's biggest strength.
I never get sick of watching Silent Hill retrospective videos, though I am always curious of the age of the content creator. I do believe playing these games when first released is a different perspective than being influenced by social media of today and then playing them.
The fact that I just found a channel that referenced Avalanche reviews and your favorite son in the firat minute is amazing. Been watching avalanche since 2017, and have talked with him a lot about the PC adventure game basis of survival horror origin structure. Great video though this is probably the 10th or 11th SH1 retrospective Ive watched on one of my gavorite ps1 games, I cant not watch them. Yours definitely stood out
Your own take on this kicks ass! I love Silent Hill because of the time and space it represents for me - the early 2000s, watching my best friend play it on his PS2 & being scared together. Wanting to learn more, so we kept going, our braves and the stellar music keeping us company. That’s why Silent Hill (as a whole) rocks to me.
the first Silent Hill game I played was Second One got through the levels with help from a friend of mine he guided me through that hospital . I look forward to more videos of this series .
I always interpreted Lisa saying "I'm the same as them" as her saying she's been a monster nurse the entire time and just didn't realize it. Not so much that she's been dead. Also, I believe the first time you actually can hear about White Claudia is the Police Station in Central Silent Hill. It's a very missable building, but you can get there much earlier than the safe during the Kaufman questline.
Can't remember where i heard it but, the fog was used as a means to enhance the ambience while serving as a creative work around for the ps1 technical limitations. Personally speaking, the audio was my favorite part of it. The only other game on the ps1 that had superb audio imo, was the team behind Re2
So this vid has not left my home page for a week, and I'm finally giving in. For an SH1 remake/remaster idea, I've been seeing first person indy games with gorgeous visuals and atmospheres, and I'm waiting for a dev to figure out that making the town just to walk around in would be amazing. Baby steps to get everything else in. We've several maps from all the games to base the build on.
I just played silent hill for the first time last year on a handheld emulator, what is essentially a gameboy. It’s one of my favorite games ever. I hadn’t played video games in a long time and this one game me that “I have to finish this” feeling instead of burning out halfway though.
Love your content dude. It’s only a matter of time before your channel blows up. Very well spoken and entertaining to watch and listen to. Plus the subject matter is interesting too. 😊
I totally stumbled on Annie’s bar by accident, I didn’t get the map for that part or the map for old silent hill and literally bumbled my way into the good plus ending. I did have to look up guide stuff for items I had.
also very notable is that some of us who adore the game and have never played it literally just can't afford the game, i feel that's very much something you missed when you decided anyone interested who hasn't played simply doesn't want to lmao. i'd LOVE to play this but emulators don't work hardly at all on my ancient pc and i literally just cannot afford to buy the games
"Ps1 Era modern remasters are not that common." ... ummm, spyro, crash, medievil, resident evil 2, resident evil 3, Tony hawk pro skater, front mission, klanoa, panzer dragoon, ff7 remake, all final fantasy remasteres + ports... I'm pretty sure ps1 Era games are getting more attention now than any generation before. Not to mention the switch getting ports of gothic 1, gothic 2, shadow man, enclave, blade of darkness, tomb raider classic 1-3, doom trilogy and 64, turok 1-3, along with the n64 library
I have to say I really appreciate that I live in a time where streaming is common. I love survival horror games, but I am really not good at them because my hand eye coordination is so poor. I would never actually be able to finish one. But I love a good story and that’s really what drives me to consume horror game content, because out of all of the genres that I’ve explored it’s the one that really connects with me the most. Specifically the old PS1-PS2 area. People can rag on story explanation videos and streamers all they want to but it’s the only way someone like me who can’t actually physically play the game can enjoy them. Whether it’s an issue of skill or lack of access, (because I also wasn’t old enough to purchase them when they were out and they’re so hard to come across now) if it wasn’t for streaming, I would never even know that they existed. And even the most avid streaming hater has to appreciate how nice it is that a favorite old classic can get some new life and fans from some schmuck deciding to fire up a capture card or camera and play a good game.
I always laugh when people are like, "I have no idea how people figured this out in the 90's!" I played Silent Hill when it came out. In 1999. You wanna know how me and my buddy Donnie figured out the good ending stuff? We looked it up on the internet. 1999 wasn't exactly the stone age. There you go. That's how we figured shit out in the 90's. That and game magazines (Nintendo Power FTW).
Even then the devs likely didn't expect or intend for us to get good+ on the first go and prob assumed we'd experiment on replays since the plastic bottle has no other use in the game so players might try using it on everything on the second playthrough. When you get the good ending you will see Kaufman use the aglophotis so next playthrough you might think of using it the same way on Cybil
@@sonicsean34 From what I remember, we managed to save Cybil on our first playthrough (we were a little low on ammo and health, so she actually kept killing us, to the point that we thought there must be a trick to it) but it was finding the motorcycle that eluded us.
@@andrewjhollins yeah, that would definitely make you have to get Inventive and explore everywhere just in hopes of more ammo. cos for some reason I saw it as a melee-first type of game unlike Resident Evil where you wanted to avoid relying on the knife (recently started a hard mode playthru and am using guns more in that tho to keep away from enemies since they hit harder now. Need to get back to that save soon and finish it)
@@sonicsean34 what blows my mind is that I can't remember what I ate yesterday or what I'm supposed to be doing tomorrow, but I can remember, in detail, my first playthrough of a video game 24 years ago.
34:30 - SO THAT is what the hell was going on there! I watched many videos about Silent Hill and played my share of times, and never quite got it. I thought she was just another monster nurse, but didn't know or was hostile for whatever reason.
My introduction to Silent Hill was the 1st movie in 2006 and then I bought SH3 for ps2 at the time I was collecting ps2 games and loved it and played all of them since even the not so great ones and still own all my original copies ❤ My favorite is 3, but I love the 1st 4 games
I really enjoy all of your reviews :) And especially the ones about star wars games. I wanted to suggest you to do a review of star wars episode 1 the phantom menace the official game for the PC (1999) but avoid at all cost the ps1 version which was a bad port of the PC version onto the ps1. I really enjoyed that game. There also these other Lucasarts but not star wars and instead indiana jones like : -indiana jones and the infernal machine (1999) : a tomb raider-like but the best version is the og PC and not the n64 -indiana jones and the emperor's tomb (2003) I also really liked these matrix games especially the last one released in 2005 -enter the matrix (2003) & matrix path of neo (2005) I'm glad nowadays players are starting to enjoy licenced and tie-in games because I've always hated the trope "all licenced games are bad" because it's so unfair. They are actually a lot of great games, underated or even hidden gems. This bad reputation for licenced games are certainly coming from the 5th gen of consoles (like the ps1) where the developers were still strugling with 3D but the 6th gen (with the ps2, xbox, gamecube) was probably the golden era for licenced games because they released so much of them. I hope you'll cover my suggestions someday and so sorry for my bad english ;)
@@evprince Nice :) I would love to watch a full-on review for this underated tie-in game. It had some good ideas and had some pretty fun and entertainings moments ;)
Why do you have footage of either the Japanese or PAL version for footage, in the school there are no grey children so its def not the NTSC release that i would assume was your regions retail distribution
I enjoyed the retrospective I never played the game but I am curious of what you think of silent hill 3 and if it feels like it is a real sequel in its style or maybe even visuals like the reflections of what you see the monsters I'm this story the perspectives when she was a child versus do they feel connected to when she is older? Then I'm also curious how you feel or what you think about shattered memories following your thought that silent hill is the daughter's interaction and traumas manifesting and how that is what shattered memories essentially is being Harry in the world of monsters. Though I'd be curious of what you think that with Harry is painted to not be a good guy and could have caused traumas that he is experiencing in the game? Also the fact that the game solidifies the death ending of Harry. All curious questions of your opinion 😊
Might be the first time somebody has preferred the US cover to the PAL cover. Personally I prefer the latter, just much more eerie with Alessa's face in torment as it's symbolic of Silent Hills state rather than the photoshop mess of the US cover.
It's really disappointing what has Konami has done to Silent Hill and Metal Gear (another of my favorites) and now they are trying to bring some franchises back but I'm on the fence 😢
I used to be a big fan of the original Silent Hill entries (specially SH2). But I realized that it's not these games i like, but the media that Team Silent took inspiration from. Specially David Lynchs work. I still appreciate the games quality, impact and creativity ...and yeah, i never thought I would ever say that, but here we go: they are ALL way overhyped. And everything else in the franchise besides the original 4 games is trash. Personal opinion, but for me it's time to let this series go.
Can't stand Avalanche lol, dude is stubborn as hell with his nostalgia. Dude didn't even wanna try survival horror indie games until like a year or two ago.
As unlikely as it seems playing it with my brother in its release year no guides or anything we eventually worked out all the endings we just kept trying different things no matter how random they seemed
Love this game but MAN has the gameplay aged horribly… I can’t believe Konami is going straight to remaking Silent Hill 2, which honestly doesn’t even need a remake it’s still perfectly playable as opposed to this one.
With the Silent Hill games going for about a hundred bucks or more online and the Resident evil games being in a more moderate price range it's difficult to collect the classic SH games. I do love the first installment though and - unpopular opinion - I find the second game boring and sort of over hyped. I liked the original better, more than any of the RE games.
The japan cover i find horrible, it looks like sprayed on graffiti in a bathroom somewhere, the font on the title silent hill is the only thing that tells you this might be a horror title. I dont know why anyone would think this is a horror title by itlself
went from the greatest to just a joke kinda sad really. final fantasy 7. silent hill. resident evil2-3. digimon world. deathrap dungeon. some of th egreatest games and its all on the little crappy box that isplaystation
Gatekeeping to people who actually play the game was actually pretty common. Touhou was the same way. There's even a phrase for fans who dont play the games, Secondary.
This earned you a new sub, make all the silent Hill content you want. You know what, I remember playing RE when it came out and being blown away, but it was never scary because it was kinda cartoony and a bit cliche, plus the voice acting and cut scenes sort of made it a bit goofy - still a fantastic game and I loved it but it lacked something in terms of horror. I bought SH when it came out and it was a different beast - it was peeking 'round corners and turning all the lights on kinda stuff, it blew my mind and I loved it. I'm like you, I've consumed hundreds of hours of SH content and it never gets old. Many thanks and merry Christmas 👍
Dude hell yeah! This came out great!
Also, Florida bois support Florida bois
@AvalancheReviews Gator state represent
@@evprince my only true silent hill games are the first 4 team silent games the rest are just a cashgrab to continue the franchise, I'm not really interested in the upcoming games, the only game I would play is a silent hill 5 by team silent maybe bokeh games studio can make it as some team silent members are working there and they could bring the rest on board.
If the Cuban Viking is involved, I'm there.
Ain't from Florida, but TN representing!
Cinematography is the key to this franchise's success. It’s as immersive as a great film, and at a time where you could not rely on pure graphic aesthetics to accomplish this.
Well said! The clunky gameplay helps in the immersion, but the aesthetics is what makes Silent Hill a better horror game than Resident Evil.
@@Fenrisson not better, they're different beasts.
Resident evil (the ps1 games at least) is like a Zelda game, i used to play for the puzzles, different branching paths for each playthrough, etc...
Silent Hill lacked alot on the gameplay aspect, but the moody atmosphere made up for it, to the point that it became it's biggest strength.
27:23 - Guess we're getting nowhere fast.
we need more of these, the world is deprived of good art right now!
Good stuff, Silent Hill 1-3 were classics.
I love finding long retrospectives on this series. It's my favorite horror series of all time, and I will never get sick of hearing about it.
never get tired of hearing people talk about my favorite horror game of all time
Brilliant video, and great thoughts throughout. It's a joy to see such great content for Silent Hill.
Come back to town anytime ~
And thank you so much for your contribution!
I never get sick of watching Silent Hill retrospective videos, though I am always curious of the age of the content creator. I do believe playing these games when first released is a different perspective than being influenced by social media of today and then playing them.
Amazing video. i feel like the first SH is sorely under appreciated. i get sad when someone says they like silent but not the “cult stuff”
The fact that I just found a channel that referenced Avalanche reviews and your favorite son in the firat minute is amazing. Been watching avalanche since 2017, and have talked with him a lot about the PC adventure game basis of survival horror origin structure. Great video though this is probably the 10th or 11th SH1 retrospective Ive watched on one of my gavorite ps1 games, I cant not watch them. Yours definitely stood out
Your own take on this kicks ass! I love Silent Hill because of the time and space it represents for me - the early 2000s, watching my best friend play it on his PS2 & being scared together. Wanting to learn more, so we kept going, our braves and the stellar music keeping us company. That’s why Silent Hill (as a whole) rocks to me.
one of the BEST games i played on the PS1! very memorable!
Great stuff! Your channel is definitely going places!
i'm so glad i'm finding more and more silent hill content, there's only so many times i can rewatch the same videos, props to you 🤍
I would love to see a remaster of SH1 in the style of the new Tomb Raider I-III remasters.
Very excellent, sir
the first Silent Hill game I played was
Second One got through the levels with help from a friend of mine he guided me through that hospital .
I look forward to more videos
of this series .
The first Silent Hill has consistently stayed in my top 10 list ever sunce I first played it and it's definitely my favorite game in the series
Just re started my OG save file up again last week.. 1999🤷🏾
What a treat! Wrong season, Sir Prince! The Goat survival horror, yes please!
Great video!! This is also my favorite entry in the franchise. Good to see it getting the love it deserves!
I always interpreted Lisa saying "I'm the same as them" as her saying she's been a monster nurse the entire time and just didn't realize it. Not so much that she's been dead.
Also, I believe the first time you actually can hear about White Claudia is the Police Station in Central Silent Hill. It's a very missable building, but you can get there much earlier than the safe during the Kaufman questline.
LET'S GO MAINE!
Silent hill f looks so cool tbh
Can't remember where i heard it but, the fog was used as a means to enhance the ambience while serving as a creative work around for the ps1 technical limitations. Personally speaking, the audio was my favorite part of it. The only other game on the ps1 that had superb audio imo, was the team behind Re2
So this vid has not left my home page for a week, and I'm finally giving in.
For an SH1 remake/remaster idea, I've been seeing first person indy games with gorgeous visuals and atmospheres, and I'm waiting for a dev to figure out that making the town just to walk around in would be amazing. Baby steps to get everything else in. We've several maps from all the games to base the build on.
I just played silent hill for the first time last year on a handheld emulator, what is essentially a gameboy. It’s one of my favorite games ever. I hadn’t played video games in a long time and this one game me that “I have to finish this” feeling instead of burning out halfway though.
Any quality SH content is always a good content to watch. Such a timeless masterpiece. Awesome in depth retrospective!!
Love your content dude. It’s only a matter of time before your channel blows up. Very well spoken and entertaining to watch and listen to. Plus the subject matter is interesting too. 😊
Nice crossover
Let's frickin gooooooooo
Silent hill retrospective? LFG
Always down to watch SH content
I totally stumbled on Annie’s bar by accident, I didn’t get the map for that part or the map for old silent hill and literally bumbled my way into the good plus ending. I did have to look up guide stuff for items I had.
Let's FUCKING GO!!!!!
1:08:04 you’ve obviously never heard of the gamingmuse or max derrat or silent archives
also very notable is that some of us who adore the game and have never played it literally just can't afford the game, i feel that's very much something you missed when you decided anyone interested who hasn't played simply doesn't want to lmao. i'd LOVE to play this but emulators don't work hardly at all on my ancient pc and i literally just cannot afford to buy the games
Thanks Evan.
Outstanding video. Have watched it several times. Have you seen TiptoeTheTanks Silent Hill lore reviews? If not, I think youd appreciate them.
I have not surprisingly. It sounds like I've got some homework!
@@evprince Her username is Lady of Lore now. Definitely worth checking out.
the greatest game on PS1, BUT Silent Hill 2 is the greatest of all time.
I hope the Silent Hill2 remake isn't completely rubbish...
Silent Hill 1 needs an update
"Ps1 Era modern remasters are not that common."
... ummm, spyro, crash, medievil, resident evil 2, resident evil 3, Tony hawk pro skater, front mission, klanoa, panzer dragoon, ff7 remake, all final fantasy remasteres + ports... I'm pretty sure ps1 Era games are getting more attention now than any generation before.
Not to mention the switch getting ports of gothic 1, gothic 2, shadow man, enclave, blade of darkness, tomb raider classic 1-3, doom trilogy and 64, turok 1-3, along with the n64 library
I have to say I really appreciate that I live in a time where streaming is common. I love survival horror games, but I am really not good at them because my hand eye coordination is so poor. I would never actually be able to finish one.
But I love a good story and that’s really what drives me to consume horror game content, because out of all of the genres that I’ve explored it’s the one that really connects with me the most. Specifically the old PS1-PS2 area.
People can rag on story explanation videos and streamers all they want to but it’s the only way someone like me who can’t actually physically play the game can enjoy them.
Whether it’s an issue of skill or lack of access, (because I also wasn’t old enough to purchase them when they were out and they’re so hard to come across now) if it wasn’t for streaming, I would never even know that they existed.
And even the most avid streaming hater has to appreciate how nice it is that a favorite old classic can get some new life and fans from some schmuck deciding to fire up a capture card or camera and play a good game.
I always laugh when people are like, "I have no idea how people figured this out in the 90's!"
I played Silent Hill when it came out. In 1999. You wanna know how me and my buddy Donnie figured out the good ending stuff? We looked it up on the internet. 1999 wasn't exactly the stone age.
There you go. That's how we figured shit out in the 90's. That and game magazines (Nintendo Power FTW).
Even then the devs likely didn't expect or intend for us to get good+ on the first go and prob assumed we'd experiment on replays since the plastic bottle has no other use in the game so players might try using it on everything on the second playthrough. When you get the good ending you will see Kaufman use the aglophotis so next playthrough you might think of using it the same way on Cybil
@@sonicsean34 From what I remember, we managed to save Cybil on our first playthrough (we were a little low on ammo and health, so she actually kept killing us, to the point that we thought there must be a trick to it) but it was finding the motorcycle that eluded us.
@@andrewjhollins yeah, that would definitely make you have to get Inventive and explore everywhere just in hopes of more ammo. cos for some reason I saw it as a melee-first type of game unlike Resident Evil where you wanted to avoid relying on the knife (recently started a hard mode playthru and am using guns more in that tho to keep away from enemies since they hit harder now. Need to get back to that save soon and finish it)
@@sonicsean34 what blows my mind is that I can't remember what I ate yesterday or what I'm supposed to be doing tomorrow, but I can remember, in detail, my first playthrough of a video game 24 years ago.
@@andrewjhollins it's amazing what the brain prioritises
34:30 - SO THAT is what the hell was going on there! I watched many videos about Silent Hill and played my share of times, and never quite got it. I thought she was just another monster nurse, but didn't know or was hostile for whatever reason.
Bro just do a podcast at this point
Actually...
My introduction to Silent Hill was the 1st movie in 2006 and then I bought SH3 for ps2 at the time I was collecting ps2 games and loved it and played all of them since even the not so great ones and still own all my original copies ❤
My favorite is 3, but I love the 1st 4 games
I really enjoy all of your reviews :)
And especially the ones about star wars games. I wanted to suggest you to do a review of star wars episode 1 the phantom menace the official game for the PC (1999) but avoid at all cost the ps1 version which was a bad port of the PC version onto the ps1. I really enjoyed that game.
There also these other Lucasarts but not star wars and instead indiana jones like :
-indiana jones and the infernal machine (1999) : a tomb raider-like but the best version is the og PC and not the n64
-indiana jones and the emperor's tomb (2003)
I also really liked these matrix games especially the last one released in 2005
-enter the matrix (2003) & matrix path of neo (2005)
I'm glad nowadays players are starting to enjoy licenced and tie-in games because I've always hated the trope "all licenced games are bad" because it's so unfair. They are actually a lot of great games, underated or even hidden gems.
This bad reputation for licenced games are certainly coming from the 5th gen of consoles (like the ps1) where the developers were still strugling with 3D but the 6th gen (with the ps2, xbox, gamecube) was probably the golden era for licenced games because they released so much of them.
I hope you'll cover my suggestions someday and so sorry for my bad english ;)
Love this! I absolutely want to do a full video on Phantom Meanace for PC!
@@evprince Nice :)
I would love to watch a full-on review for this underated tie-in game. It had some good ideas and had some pretty fun and entertainings moments ;)
Why do you have footage of either the Japanese or PAL version for footage, in the school there are no grey children so its def not the NTSC release that i would assume was your regions retail distribution
It was provided in collaboration with Silent Hillside
I enjoyed the retrospective I never played the game but I am curious of what you think of silent hill 3 and if it feels like it is a real sequel in its style or maybe even visuals like the reflections of what you see the monsters I'm this story the perspectives when she was a child versus do they feel connected to when she is older? Then I'm also curious how you feel or what you think about shattered memories following your thought that silent hill is the daughter's interaction and traumas manifesting and how that is what shattered memories essentially is being Harry in the world of monsters. Though I'd be curious of what you think that with Harry is painted to not be a good guy and could have caused traumas that he is experiencing in the game? Also the fact that the game solidifies the death ending of Harry. All curious questions of your opinion 😊
We'll have to find out when I make the videos! I'll keep these in mind when I do.
Might be the first time somebody has preferred the US cover to the PAL cover. Personally I prefer the latter, just much more eerie with Alessa's face in torment as it's symbolic of Silent Hills state rather than the photoshop mess of the US cover.
A fair sentiment, to be honest.
It's really disappointing what has Konami has done to Silent Hill and Metal Gear (another of my favorites) and now they are trying to bring some franchises back but I'm on the fence 😢
Unrelated - watching @ 25 min in - u should play the first dark souls 1 if haven't already.
I used to be a big fan of the original Silent Hill entries (specially SH2). But I realized that it's not these games i like, but the media that Team Silent took inspiration from. Specially David Lynchs work. I still appreciate the games quality, impact and creativity ...and yeah, i never thought I would ever say that, but here we go: they are ALL way overhyped.
And everything else in the franchise besides the original 4 games is trash. Personal opinion, but for me it's time to let this series go.
Can't stand Avalanche lol, dude is stubborn as hell with his nostalgia. Dude didn't even wanna try survival horror indie games until like a year or two ago.
You lost me with the whole multiple dimensions.
As unlikely as it seems playing it with my brother in its release year no guides or anything we eventually worked out all the endings we just kept trying different things no matter how random they seemed
Love this game but MAN has the gameplay aged horribly… I can’t believe Konami is going straight to remaking Silent Hill 2, which honestly doesn’t even need a remake it’s still perfectly playable as opposed to this one.
Given the way the 4 mainline games differ, I gonna say SH2 is a soft reboot
With the Silent Hill games going for about a hundred bucks or more online and the Resident evil games being in a more moderate price range it's difficult to collect the classic SH games. I do love the first installment though and - unpopular opinion - I find the second game boring and sort of over hyped. I liked the original better, more than any of the RE games.
The japan cover i find horrible, it looks like sprayed on graffiti in a bathroom somewhere, the font on the title silent hill is the only thing that tells you this might be a horror title. I dont know why anyone would think this is a horror title by itlself
went from the greatest to just a joke kinda sad really. final fantasy 7. silent hill. resident evil2-3. digimon world. deathrap dungeon. some of th egreatest games and its all on the little crappy box that isplaystation
Gatekeeping to people who actually play the game was actually pretty common. Touhou was the same way. There's even a phrase for fans who dont play the games, Secondary.
This earned you a new sub, make all the silent Hill content you want.
You know what, I remember playing RE when it came out and being blown away, but it was never scary because it was kinda cartoony and a bit cliche, plus the voice acting and cut scenes sort of made it a bit goofy - still a fantastic game and I loved it but it lacked something in terms of horror.
I bought SH when it came out and it was a different beast - it was peeking 'round corners and turning all the lights on kinda stuff, it blew my mind and I loved it.
I'm like you, I've consumed hundreds of hours of SH content and it never gets old.
Many thanks and merry Christmas 👍