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The artstyle of the first game needs more recognition. That game makes the Otherworld look incredible. I think the ps1 graphics actually enhance it instead of hold it back. Visually my favorite of the franchise. Hope the sequel being developed for Pachinko machines lives up to the legacy.
Silent Hill 1 was more intense. Don't Cry is terrifying when you hear it in Alchemilla Hospital with Zombie Nurses Damned to roam its dark and foreboding halls. Silent Hill 2 is more heavy and sludgy, with Pyramid dragging that heavy oversized knife. And James Guilt oozing out of every moldy surface. Silent Hill 3 follows up Silent Hill 1s terror with the Bloody walls that move. And the thick heavy angry energy felt from Heather's confusion and anger. And Silent Hill 4s nightmares revolved around the antagonist. Dealing with indoctrination, imprisonment, birth, and Walters suffering. Eileen's motherly compassion even towards Walter she felt pity. But even she knew what needed to be done if she and Henry were to survive. I could go on but the games that followed just rehashed elements from the previous games. And Downpour obviously focused on heavy, cold, constant rain. Reminding Murphy Pendleton of his sins. I miss games like these.
Actually Silent Hill was subject to extreme crunch. The lead animator actually lived in his office to get this game done on time (edited because I said designer initially)
@@robrobusa unless it's Blood 2: The Chosen, where they made early alpha build and publisher was like "nah it's good, release it". At least Monolith had no crunch back then...
I really like those brief and awkward pauses of silence during conversations in silent hill, they add another spicy layer of uncannyness/creepiness to the whole mix
1:35 Actually, Team Silent did have to fight tooth and nail to make the game they wanted. Konami wanted an RE clone, but Team Silent wanted to make a game that stood on it's own merits.
Yeah, Konami tried to fuck with them untill the very end. They even wanted the guy that made the cgi cutscenes in his own overtime out of the credits because they didnt asked him to make the cutscenes :S
I remember when i was in the 8th grade I had a 10th grade friend who made me come over his house to play Silent Hill 1. Besides changing my life completely more interestingly he bet me that I could not beat the piano puzzle in under 20 minutes. 14 minutes later he owed me a pizza and lent me 25 subbed vhs tapes of sailor moon in the worst 4th generation copy quality you ever seen. Original Japanese commercials intact, blurry and frequent.
Oh man I miss those times, I was introduced to SH by a friend too, but in my case, my friend was to scared to play the game alone so he invited me and we played (tried) all the night, I was like 11 and that was definitely the scariest I game I have played to this day..
@@cyberdemon9306 I feel lucky i got to play it before Silent Hill 2 came out because its empty natural north east setting really hit a chord with me and was very similar to the nightmares i had throughout my childhood. One of my favorite parts about SH1 is the normality and how it twists without explanation. Not seeing the other world change and not not knowing why there is an air raid siren and not having anything explained. After 3 they got away from this and since the movie the series has been tainted by money and greed.
@@cyberdemon9306 I played it with an older friend too, and it was a pirated Japaneses copy, so we didn't know what we were selecting half the time. But since the dialogue was in English, and the atmosphere was so creepy, it didn't take too long for a 16 yr old and 19 yr old to get paranoid. At one point, we screamed so bad that we had to pause the game to collect ourselves. We were even paranoid on the drive home because a bit of fog rolled in.
Silent Hill isn't on Google maps other than a church and a street. But the "actual" place that is more or less Silent Hill is Centralia, Pennsylvania. It is a town that was evacuated more than 50 years back iirc due to a fire that caused an abandoned coal mine to light on fire and is still burning to this day, because of the carbon monoxide fumes coming up from the ground.
The uncensored version has actual monster kids in school instead of these mole monsters and it's creepier. First two SH games I am still replaying at least once every couple years. I guess it helps that they're only 5-6 hours long. First one is definitely the scarier one. Crappy graphics are easily forgotten once that sound design kicks in, it's still pretty immersive.
@@numchuck3 Yes the version with mole monsters in school is the censored one. NTSC-US version should be the proper one, I believe. Mole monsters only appear in Annie's Bar and in the sewers in it.
Yeah I remember when the room came out and everyone was shitting on the silent hill series but that was the last really good one(but I low-key enjoyed origins tho)
@@KuroNoTenno Don't know what do you want to expect for a fucked up (in many levels) character but ok. Unlike many other games I think it makes a bit more sense the way it is here. But I can get that lots of people don't llike this aspect
And, in the vein of the same genre as Silent Hill and Resident Evil on PS1, *_Alone In The Dark_* - though it only had the troublesome re-release on PS2, its previous releases, iirc, inspired Resident Evil
I think the most impressive aspect of SH1 was the cinematics, not just graphic wise, but the direction and the expression of the characters, i never forgot the moment Harry realize that Lisa was "one of them", the desperation on Lisa's face, the dread and disgusted face that Harry showed, running, closing the door, and hearing Lisa crying with the excelent soundtrack playing was for me the point that i realized, games are not just for kids anymore
Team Silent were the masters of psychological horror. I still remember playing this for the first time as a kid thinking nothing would scare me after playing Resident Evil. I was very wrong. This was my introduction to psychological horror and it genuinely scared the crap out of me. Silent Hill 2 was a masterpiece and even playing it as an adult would still give me nightmares.
The worst thing about SH1 is the boiler note memo that isn’t in the NA version of the game, due to a bug. This RUINED western fans who for years misinterpreted the story, due to this missing file. Do play the NA version, because it’s the best version with the correct enemies, but when you get to a certain part at the end of the game, look up the boiler note memo.
@@MemeComicsDotCom Ok. Here's the thing. We don't want to give too much away because it's a central plot point, that's why he said to look it up when you get to the room that should contain the memo. The least spoiler explanation I can give is "The fire was not part of a ritual. The fire was an accident caused by putting a girl under extreme stress. Below I'll further spoil... like a lot, so you're better off just keeping the cryptic sentence above in mind if you plan on playing. Anyway: Alessa Gillespie is the daughter of a cult leader. Alessa has psychic abilities and is a powerful child. (My theory is that this was done TO her and not natural, since she was groomed for a purpose.) The cult wanted to use Alessa's body as the vessel to bring a "god" into the world. This "god" was supposed to bring about a paradise on earth, but this "paradise" is obviously a nightmarish hell, and the god is a demonic being or ancient evil entity. Alessa did not want to go along with the sacrifice and resisted, during the struggle the boiler in their home caught fire and the house burned down, charring her body. She was kept alive, and her soul split into two. Without the note, people assumed that the fire was part of the ritual, but it's obvious once you read the note and play the game, that something went wrong. If they had succeeded with the ritual then the game would not have taken place, since the cult would have already brought about their "paradise". The whole reason you're even there in the first place isn't just an accident [even more spoilers]..... SPPPPPPPPPPOOOOOOOOIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS[[[[Cheryl is the other half of Alessa's soul and was drawn to the town]]]]]]]]]
Yeah, the Mumbler is what we're seeing in this video: the brown teddy-looking things with claws. The Grey Child looks notably more similar to a first grader, though still monstrous in appearance and definitely not mistakable for anything human.
I first played this game with a mate on his chipped Playstation before the game came out in the UK, so it was the US version. We didn't even know what it really was. We were completely unprepared. The Grey Children were much more disturbing, those noises still give me PTSD to this day.
@@jakesnow5728absolutely true, i also had nightmares of the sounds that they were making and of the way they looked, way more than the mumblers. I also grew up with the US version and i live in Europe, for some reason back in those times (late 90s early 2000s) everyone was burning US versions of video games,primarily PS1 and 2 games,bcs we all had modded or chipped consoles back then hahah 😅
This game was pretty amazing for the time. Someone even took the entire game and turned it into a 8 map campaign for Left4Dead 1 and 2 with all the puzzles intact, its a wild ride
I still wish we could've gotten a full game for Silent Hill P.T. It offered an unrivaled horror experience that would've been groundbreaking in the horror genre for games.
Did it really though? I played it and whilst it was atmospheric and eerie and tense. It was just a series of walking back and forwards through the same gallery waiting for scripted sequences to appear/happen. So lets not overrate it as some meta horror masterpiece when it was really just your bog standard horror game with a kojima twist on it.
Listen to band Lycia, the game's soundtrack almost feels like it took inspiration from some of their stuff (especially off the Cold album and The Burning Circle and then Dust album)
I remember my buddy and I rented this in elementary school. We were scared so shitless, we started laughing. We made it to the school and I never touched it again until my junior year of high school when I played this in preparation for Silent Hill 3. Good memories. 11/10 horror. Fun fact. The final boss track was made with a dentist drill.
Yooooo I *just* finished this for the first time on my PS2 3 hours ago. Some of the little tricks it pulls are brilliant (like the locker room one) and the story is better than people had led me to expect. Oh and it's actually not very long (6 hours, 46 minutes) which for horror games is a plus most of the time. Oh and there were some surprising QOL touches, like pre-boss checkpoints and a few moments where you need to go all the way across town and the game just straight-up teleports you there. Also if you go into the final boss w/no ammo you can apparently just try to reload all of your weapons and it will drop dead so it's not possible to get screwed over in that regard. The controls, voice acting and low-detail graphics, intentional or not, really just added to the deeply weird, dismal, and oppressive vibe of the game. Also the hammer is so powerful I actually started fighting enemies lol
@Disobedient Nomead Oh yeah I'm definitely going to do a New Fear run after a little break. I want to play the extra hard mode to get some real challenge. I actually own every localized game besides Book of Memories, and have beaten 2, 3, and Origins before. I've found something to enjoy about all of them but there's no denying the original games are on a whole different level.
I was 13 when I first played Silent Hill and I was expecting it to be just another Resident Evil knockoff and boy was I wrong... It is also the only game that gave me nightmares as a kid.
I played SH2 when I was 14, expecting resident evil. The dude in the store told me 'new hot horror game, scary as shit'. And boy it wasn't just scary, it was so fucking disturbing that I got so depressed that I missed school for a week. I was too young for heavy themes it touched, I kept thinking about it and felt terrible all the time, I couldn't even comprehend it properly - it was so fucked up. And it was the experience that kept haunting me as I grew older and were relating more and more when getting more life experience, understanding everything better. SH games are the most mature games ever created, that's for sure, not because of violence, but because they require a lot of personal experience with darkest shit in life.
@@orchid9 Holy crap, I am glad I played it with a friend first time in my high school year. SH got so crazy scary, we were passing controllers back and forth because we couldn't handle the stress. On the way home around 11pm, we were just chatting in the car non stop hoping not to see any fog or little girl run out of road. One of the game that scared a 16 yrs old and 19 yrs old at the same time.
I think the reason why Silent Hill 1's graphics still hold up is that they're reminiscent of papercraft or stop motion. Even the low frame rate makes it feel like claymation, which further makes you feel like you're living in a nightmare
Low key, my favourite game ever I remember my father taking it home when I was 9 and played it untill the first scripted death and only picked it up again like 10 years later and eat it up Still very solid imo Got the vinyl of the soundtrack of the 1st and 2nd, bangers
@@ninjatanek8516 In some parts here in Mexico, there are subways and tunnels blocked by wire, normal looking streets that suddenly shift into old industrials zones, etc. I remember one time, I had to cross this metal and concrete pedestrian bridge, and the whole thing had rusty wires hanging from the upper part and all around, and the long stairs leading up to it where so badly built, each step was almost vertical; I can imagine how it looks like at night. And no, not all of the places are like that, but if you know where to look, you have the scenery for a Silent Hill live action right there, hahaha.
I miss the old days playing Silent Hill in a cold weekend with my ex-girlfriend. We had little money, just enough to grab a pizza and a couple of beers. But it was always a hauntingly beautiful experience. Plus, something in the horror and the music always turned her on for some reason.
If you're a fan of silent hill even a little then you owe it to yourself to watch the twin perfect video series on the games. They explain everything in insane detail. I actually became a bigger silent hill fan because of their videos. They are also great for days when you don't have **** to do because they can be up to like 4 hours long and there's tons of them and then they would do revisits answering fan questions or if a different interpretation was offered they would explain why it was actually this other way. Absolutely fantastic.
I recently saw playthroughs of Silent Hill 1, 2, 3 and Origins and I'm hooked. Incredible atmosphere and music and they bravely tackle difficult themes without being too on the nose. Silent Hill 2 has repeatedly been on my mind since
The only thing that really held it back was the vertex lighting, although it was not quite as noticeable as in Silent Hill 2 due to the more detailed textures environments. i still prefer the look of 2, but 3 is one hell of a stunner.
The snow in Silent Hill 1 (the game) is indeed snow, despite the movie claiming it's ash. The doctor Kaufman refers to it as snow, "...and it's snowing. At this time of year?". Additionally, the first track to play during the game is called "Summer Snow".
So many reviews and analysis of this franchise, and I'm only more than happy to hear your take on it. It's like a pre-birthday gift for me(my bday's on the 31st) ((:
Great video man, I love that you're diving into the PS1 classics. I appreciate you showing some love to Silent Hill 3. I love all the games in the original trilogy but 3 is the one that affected me the most in terms of scares and story. I'd love to hear your thoughts on P.T someday, assuming you have a PS4 with it installed or are cool with playing the UE4 remake.
Lots of content creators I follow are talking about this game this year. I remember it being one of the only games that actually made me afraid to sleep at night as a kid. One of my favorites to this day.
I had played through RE 1 and 2 a billion times by time this came out (and Alone in the Dark once on pc) but this thing still scared the absolute shit out of me. The fog was a genius addition.
Played this for the first time 5 months ago and i have to say, this is a timeless masterpiece. It soaked me in, i loved every minute. Replayed Silent Hill 2 years ago, masterpiece too. But SH1 has something special, if you did not play it, dont miss out on it!
Most rewarding thing on Silent Hill1 is getting the Laser gun after the UFO ending, and using it against enemies that haven't even appeared on screen, then advancing and see all the enemy horde dead.
9:48 one of my absolute favorite scares in the game; they set it up so well. When you go there first in the regular world, there's not much that happens (other than a gray child eating the cat that jumps out), but that sets it up so well for the body to come out of nowhere in the otherworld later on.
your like the reverse angry joe i watch your old deus ex review and was like is this the same person? then watch your newer stuff and its like a way different person. love these reviews classic angry joe vibes.
Silent Hill 3 introduced me to the franchise. Being seven years old, I did not know what I was getting myself into ; when stumbling upon this game in one of the PS2 Demo Discs . What drew my attention was the graphics, monsters projecting emotions, and even the atmosphere. In 2003, there was no other game on the PS2 pushing the hardware's limitations. Silent Hill 3 not only caught my interest into the franchise, it was the reason I wanted a PS2. Unfortunately, I couldn't get the game at my local GameStop due to ESRB rating. Years later into my high school, I began collecting PS2 games and found Silent Hill 3 for $25; Silent Hill 2 for $5, and Silent Hill 1 for $25. Worth my money and easily my favorite horror games to exist.
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Just slap adblock in your browser, sorry for youtubers but this thing of making the non-premium experience total shit in order to promote buying the *MONTHLY* upgrade is bullshit. Suck my dick youtube, What are you now? EA?
@@edwinortega4499 I've played all *two* of them multiple times, and the first one is the better of the two imo. They actually did a great job with the second one, even with vocalizing Isaac, but the raw, cluttered, cramped, shitty atmosphere of the Ishimura in the first game really gets to me much more than the polished city feel of the second game. There's great shit in the second one all the way through but the first one lays it on thick and never lets up.
@@EYOUTz1993 i agree plus even though the atmosphere is still well done in the second, you cant really recreate that first time seeing those creatures crawl through the vent, murdering your team
Just replayed through all three of them this year, and it is incredible how perfect the first game is. Second one didn't do much for me; it's more of a horror-themed shooter where the shooting doesn't hold up too well. And I still don't understand the hate for 3. It's much easier than the other two on Normal difficulty, but it comes full circle to The Thing where the series drew it's inspiration from.
@@AbsoluteDeicide the third one just seemed more action oriented than the others. The first one scared me constantly, but the third was mainly just through jump scares.
The first SH soundtrack is very Tetsuo The Iron Man. That shit slams. I just watched the movie for the first time last weekend and I was ok for the first quarter of the movie, then Pyramid Head showed up and got dropped off the face of the earth, the whole hospital scene - yeah, I lost it then, haha.
This game and Parasite Eve are still the only times that gaming with my girlfriend looked like a console commercial because she would actually curl up on the couch with me when I played, wouldn't let me play without her and would even suggest that we put it on when I hadn't mentioned it. It was a golden time when anything seemed possible. I'm not crying you're crying.
sh1 & 2 have a really special place in my heart since i played them as a kid. i recently replayed them, and they hold up just great, specially sh1. the low poly aesthetic is magical man.
I must say that I really like the first SH movie, but on the other hand, I didn't really played any SH game.. but in my opinion, it was the best horror movie from 2006.. it has great atmosphere and music (which I know is from the games)
the movie has the right presentation but the plot isn't so great. it loses the weird, dreamlike vibe of the game in favour of a more straight horror tone, and for some reason decides to change the cult from a weird pagan thing into a puritan one, which is a weird choice
They messed up some important characters tho. Harry, Lisa Garland, Kauffman, and some monsters also (pyramid head, nurses) and so that affect the story.
I'm the same. Loved the first movie but couldn't get into Silent Hill games, though I tried only the first two games, I've always got bored after a few hours. It sure doesn't help that I didn't play them at the time of their release too
Fun fact. You don't have to fire a single bullet to defeat Silent Hill's final boss. Spend all of your bullets before descending on the last staircase, and I do mean ALL OF YOUR BULLETS. Pistols, shotguns, hunting rifles. You need to have absolutely zero ammo before the boss encounter. Then all you have to do is go around the stage dodging the monster for about two or three circles and you're done. The creature will automatically keel over and die. See, the whole boss fight is a scripted event which will automatically end once you spent all of your bullets. It's mind trickery to make it seem like you've been fighting a difficult boss. Not sure if it's intentional or because of technical reasons but there you have it. How to kill the last boss in SIlent Hill without ever firing a single shot. Kind of.
The first Silent Hill is still one of my favorite games of all time. 2 and 3 were my introduction into the series, but I went back and played 1 and it was so worth it. It's a shame we never really got another good one after 1-4, and 4 was kinda odd anyways =0
I remember the days of silent hill and RE even Dino Crysis I played all of them form start to finish locking my self away from the world and loved every minute of it.....and i still have all these games in mint condition in my collection ...thanks for the memories G-man.
Loved your take on this mate, still have me original copy on PS1 with the 'WARNING: This game is not recommended for those with heart problems or the elderly' sticker on the front case, your title's spot on too as the original Silent Hill on PS1 is absolutely 'timeless' and IMO still 1 of the best games on the console! :)
I played this game a lot back in the day. Did you know that you can break the neck of those flying monsters with a well timed steel pipe swing? It will then slowly fly away from you near the ground with it's head dangling.
I have to fundamentally disagree about the first movie (the second movie is an insult to both the games and filmmaking in general). The first movie took great care in recreating the environments, camera motion and atmosphere from the games and it did it admirably. the acting is cheesy and the story is stripped down to accommodate a two hour run time but that doesn't make the story inherently bad. the director was a huge fan of the games and I think he did a great job converting silent hill from one art form to another. it's not the best movie ever made and has some problems but atmospherically there's not another movie that can touch it and there's nothing bad enough in the movie to ruin the experience for me. And if you watch the behind the scenes, a lot of the things they did to achieve various effects practically (as apposed to digitally), it's really quite impressive. All that aside though, in the end, I just think it's a fun, entertaining movie worth your time whether or not you've played the games. And, as far as I'm concerned, it's hands down the best video game movie ever made because it actually takes its self seriously as a movie instead of a cash grab. I can't think of another video game movie that even comes close.
@@gilgamesh310 I wouldn't, personally. Silent Hill was a much more competent film with its source material than MK. Besides, the latter suffered the curse of the PG-13 rating. Mortal Kombat should NEVER be PG-13.
@@gilgamesh310 that movie is cheep and hyper cheesy in a way that silent hill isn't. that's more of a good bad movie than an actually, legitimately good movie. It's fun but really can't be taken seriously other than the fact that it's a good example of early CGI.
@@LuckyPunkProd Do competent that it didn't understand anything about the symbolism in the game. Yeah, Mortal Kombat definitely should have had more violence. I still think its fun, though.
@@bananastand-2241 Yea, someone looked and even the posters on the inside are the same. Google it, it is pretty cool. Plus all the street names are famous horror/thriller writers.
yay finally, been waiting for this one since the Resident Evil retrospective, If you're going to do the entire series at some point play Downpour on RPCS3, its actually legitimately good when you can play it on the pc
The thing I liked best about the first Silent Hill is that the multiple endings were influenced by actions you took in game. There was an entire section of the game that was skippable if you were not too worried about the fates of some of the other characters you encountered. Later entries in the series used a some what cryptic set of criteria to determine which of the endings you would earn. Eventually the spread of FAQs and (later) walkthroughs would demystify that process to an extent. However, I still think the first game allowing you to directly manipulate the narrative toward the ending you were trying to get was my favorite system .
I was so upset when I missed that extra section of the game during my playthrough as I wanted the full experience. I explored around that area as I thought heading there was the next main objective and then I accidentally triggered the actual next objective, prohibiting me from concluding that side arc.
As a kid I found this disc at my older cousins house and as soon as I got into the back alley with the camera going overhead it took me like a solid few minutes to move on beetween screens. I only got to the part where the monsters start showing up and shut it down. As an adult I had a vague memory of this game scaring me shitless so I booted it up and beat the thing. Great game.
@Censorship S**ks Of course not. However, the fourth controller mysteriously died so the child couldn’t play smash with the rest of us. _what a shame_ I’m joking, by the way.😉
The game is so good, I bought it from Toy R Us classic PS game bin for 20 bucks despite the fact I only played it once at friends house, got scared shitless, and don't own a PS of my own. Had to play it at another friend's house or use Bleem to get it semi working on my PC. Later on making the entire computer assignment on it (make a pamphlet with Microsoft word to promote the game). That's how much I love the original Silent Hill.
@@TheDeepOne85 no, it was Silent Hill 1, that dude got the job to be director in Silent Hill 2 because of how much he worked doing every CGI scene in 1 in order to be credited
The first game always has a special place for me too because the day i exchanged a game for silent hill from my friend that movie was on air on tv.. That was some sick shit..
I think movie adaptation is fairly good. I mean more specifically comparing to other game based movies. But absolutely,the lore should've been focused more. Though then again nitpicking about having possibly hours of plot compacted to couple hours might not work either.
Yea my exact opinion, I even would say its the best "Video Game Movie Adaption" (perhabs with the WoW Movie) but just that... there are a lot worse Video Game Movies in comparison. But as just a "Horror" Movie there are a lot better ones :)
@@AquaShibby3000 Yeah, I don't think it's exactly award winning, groundbreaking movie, but then again. I think everyone can agree that there's plethora of horror movies that are worse than Silent Hill. Thinking about overall quality of horror movies, I'd say it's well above average. After all, there's a lot of absolutely horrible horror movies that fail on every possible level :)
Silent Hill four is the most underrated game in the series. Something about this game freaked me out more than any of the others. It was almost too dark. The opening when you turn the game on is god damn freaky.
I recognized a gmanlives video from the preview alone, either I quantum entagled my humor with yours or you're becoming recognizable, in which I hope the latter happened
From the western Silent Hill games I can only recommend Shattered Memories which is a cool reimagining of the first game even though it's very short and easy. The psychological profiling gimmick was pretty cool though. Origins is okay and plays like the first 3 games, but adds nothing to the series and messes with the lore. Homecoming is garbage with almost no redeeming values, awful story and clunky combat. Downpour had some neat ideas but was ruined by the terrible technical aspects and performance.
I just beat this game for the first time the other day and I absolutely loved this game. Solving most of the puzzles on my own was so satisfying. The way that this game makes you explore and find your way around on your own was a breath of fresh air compared to games of today. For the first time in a while a game made me feel like an adult lol. I’m kind of mad at myself that I got the bad ending because I did have the unknown chemical but didn’t know how to use it and the Kauffman side quest completely eluded me. Overal love this game and can’t wait to play the sequels.
I envy you that you can experience SH2 fresh... love that games atmosphere and story. Until today I realy like to watch LPs from different gamers that exp that game for the first time :)
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1:56 Darth Vader voice: Noooooo!
So Australia also only got the cut Version with the Teddybears or did you use that footage on purpose to avoid trouble?
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The artstyle of the first game needs more recognition. That game makes the Otherworld look incredible. I think the ps1 graphics actually enhance it instead of hold it back. Visually my favorite of the franchise.
Hope the sequel being developed for Pachinko machines lives up to the legacy.
Tink tink tink tink tink, brrrring ding ding ding ding
A true silent hill experience
I agree. The primitive visuals help give it a surreal nightmare quality. I would say that SH1 was actually scarier than SH2.
First one has top creep factor definitely.
It really nails Silent Hill's trademark spooky atmosphere with the MUA HA HA Dracula voice the plays every time you miss a shot.
Silent Hill 1 was more intense. Don't Cry is terrifying when you hear it in Alchemilla Hospital with Zombie Nurses Damned to roam its dark and foreboding halls. Silent Hill 2 is more heavy and sludgy, with Pyramid dragging that heavy oversized knife. And James Guilt oozing out of every moldy surface. Silent Hill 3 follows up Silent Hill 1s terror with the Bloody walls that move. And the thick heavy angry energy felt from Heather's confusion and anger. And Silent Hill 4s nightmares revolved around the antagonist. Dealing with indoctrination, imprisonment, birth, and Walters suffering. Eileen's motherly compassion even towards Walter she felt pity. But even she knew what needed to be done if she and Henry were to survive. I could go on but the games that followed just rehashed elements from the previous games. And Downpour obviously focused on heavy,
cold, constant rain. Reminding Murphy Pendleton of his sins. I miss games like these.
Actually Silent Hill was subject to extreme crunch. The lead animator actually lived in his office to get this game done on time
(edited because I said designer initially)
Yeah ... every game crunches at the end. EVERY game. Just sometimes there is such a thing as crunch culture and that is where shit goes bad.
Video game in nutshell. So sad
@@robrobusa unless it's Blood 2: The Chosen, where they made early alpha build and publisher was like "nah it's good, release it".
At least Monolith had no crunch back then...
Didn't he do that because he wanted credit for those cutscenes but konami said "Then you'll have to do it on your own" and he said "Ok bitch" and yeah
Wasn't that Silent Hill 2? Pretty sure you're talking about the guy who did all the facial animations by himself.
I really like those brief and awkward pauses of silence during conversations in silent hill, they add another spicy layer of uncannyness/creepiness to the whole mix
It's nuts
It's very reminiscent of Twin Peaks, Deadly Premonition etc. I love that surreal dialog pauses in horror shows and games!
I used to love to watch dark syde Phil play this
1:35 Actually, Team Silent did have to fight tooth and nail to make the game they wanted. Konami wanted an RE clone, but Team Silent wanted to make a game that stood on it's own merits.
Yeah, Konami tried to fuck with them untill the very end. They even wanted the guy that made the cgi cutscenes in his own overtime out of the credits because they didnt asked him to make the cutscenes :S
@@lillith3159 Yeah, Konami was a shitty company even back then.
Konami should have sucked off the whole team.
Konami are scumbags
I remember when i was in the 8th grade I had a 10th grade friend who made me come over his house to play Silent Hill 1. Besides changing my life completely more interestingly he bet me that I could not beat the piano puzzle in under 20 minutes. 14 minutes later he owed me a pizza and lent me 25 subbed vhs tapes of sailor moon in the worst 4th generation copy quality you ever seen. Original Japanese commercials intact, blurry and frequent.
Oh man I miss those times, I was introduced to SH by a friend too, but in my case, my friend was to scared to play the game alone so he invited me and we played (tried) all the night, I was like 11 and that was definitely the scariest I game I have played to this day..
@@cyberdemon9306 I feel lucky i got to play it before Silent Hill 2 came out because its empty natural north east setting really hit a chord with me and was very similar to the nightmares i had throughout my childhood. One of my favorite parts about SH1 is the normality and how it twists without explanation. Not seeing the other world change and not not knowing why there is an air raid siren and not having anything explained. After 3 they got away from this and since the movie the series has been tainted by money and greed.
@@cyberdemon9306 I played it with an older friend too, and it was a pirated Japaneses copy, so we didn't know what we were selecting half the time.
But since the dialogue was in English, and the atmosphere was so creepy, it didn't take too long for a 16 yr old and 19 yr old to get paranoid.
At one point, we screamed so bad that we had to pause the game to collect ourselves.
We were even paranoid on the drive home because a bit of fog rolled in.
Glorious
I played this game when I was 5
Theres an actual place called Silent Hill and get this:
Its a ghost town.
Oh shiet
Pretty sure Silent Hill was inspired by places like Centralia, Pennsylvania. Joe Scott has a video on the subject!
@@artturihautanen nope. Devs have repeatedly claimed that they were not inspired by any town. I'm pretty sure they haven't even heard of this town.
Silent Hill isn't on Google maps other than a church and a street.
But the "actual" place that is more or less Silent Hill is Centralia, Pennsylvania.
It is a town that was evacuated more than 50 years back iirc due to a fire that caused an abandoned coal mine to light on fire and is still burning to this day, because of the carbon monoxide fumes coming up from the ground.
@ya skirt. oh cool! i recalled it being the game too. good to know!
The uncensored version has actual monster kids in school instead of these mole monsters and it's creepier. First two SH games I am still replaying at least once every couple years. I guess it helps that they're only 5-6 hours long. First one is definitely the scarier one. Crappy graphics are easily forgotten once that sound design kicks in, it's still pretty immersive.
Uncensored version?
@@numchuck3 Yes the version with mole monsters in school is the censored one. NTSC-US version should be the proper one, I believe. Mole monsters only appear in Annie's Bar and in the sewers in it.
@TriP Yeah, the irony is that the "children" in the school don't so much look like demonic kids than slugs with human proportions.
I miss the wonky textures of earlier PlayStation games, the way they would sometimes bend or jitter
@Brandon Piperjack Yeh the PAL demo that came with MGS1 still had the kids, then they were removed for the finished version.
Don't overlook SH4. The story and atmosphere is just as good as the first 3. After that is where the series takes a dump.
Yeah I remember when the room came out and everyone was shitting on the silent hill series but that was the last really good one(but I low-key enjoyed origins tho)
Unfortunately, story and atmosphere, good as they are, can't really help the game, when the latter half is a big escort quest.
@@KuroNoTenno I think it works in its favor. But I can get why people would not like it as much as the others.
@@MadsonOnTheWeb It really doesn't. Having to drag a barely-competent AI partner around makes the game annoying.
@@KuroNoTenno Don't know what do you want to expect for a fucked up (in many levels) character but ok. Unlike many other games I think it makes a bit more sense the way it is here. But I can get that lots of people don't llike this aspect
Hopefully, with more PS1 reviews like this, you'll cover stuff like Sypthon filter, Tenchu and Soul Reaver
Soul reaver was on ps1? I thought that was dreamcast exclusive?
@@kingdomkey2262
It was remastered for the dreamcast.
@@kingdomkey2262 , nope - I first saw it when someone I knew was showing off his PS1 back in the day.
And, in the vein of the same genre as Silent Hill and Resident Evil on PS1, *_Alone In The Dark_* - though it only had the troublesome re-release on PS2, its previous releases, iirc, inspired Resident Evil
Dude. I forgot about Tenchu
I think the most impressive aspect of SH1 was the cinematics, not just graphic wise, but the direction and the expression of the characters, i never forgot the moment Harry realize that Lisa was "one of them", the desperation on Lisa's face, the dread and disgusted face that Harry showed, running, closing the door, and hearing Lisa crying with the excelent soundtrack playing was for me the point that i realized, games are not just for kids anymore
“No last minute crunch” lol
It was crunch all the way from day one.
Team Silent were the masters of psychological horror. I still remember playing this for the first time as a kid thinking nothing would scare me after playing Resident Evil. I was very wrong. This was my introduction to psychological horror and it genuinely scared the crap out of me. Silent Hill 2 was a masterpiece and even playing it as an adult would still give me nightmares.
five night at frankies
ikr, arent there like 4 nights or something?
Firefight at McSpankies when
Souls night at Jankies
Who else expected him here
Fünf Nachte bei Führer's
The worst thing about SH1 is the boiler note memo that isn’t in the NA version of the game, due to a bug. This RUINED western fans who for years misinterpreted the story, due to this missing file. Do play the NA version, because it’s the best version with the correct enemies, but when you get to a certain part at the end of the game, look up the boiler note memo.
Plz enlighten me ; I’m googling this, but would want ur personal viewpoint plz
@@MemeComicsDotCom ditto
@@MemeComicsDotCom Ok. Here's the thing. We don't want to give too much away because it's a central plot point, that's why he said to look it up when you get to the room that should contain the memo. The least spoiler explanation I can give is "The fire was not part of a ritual. The fire was an accident caused by putting a girl under extreme stress. Below I'll further spoil... like a lot, so you're better off just keeping the cryptic sentence above in mind if you plan on playing. Anyway:
Alessa Gillespie is the daughter of a cult leader. Alessa has psychic abilities and is a powerful child. (My theory is that this was done TO her and not natural, since she was groomed for a purpose.) The cult wanted to use Alessa's body as the vessel to bring a "god" into the world. This "god" was supposed to bring about a paradise on earth, but this "paradise" is obviously a nightmarish hell, and the god is a demonic being or ancient evil entity. Alessa did not want to go along with the sacrifice and resisted, during the struggle the boiler in their home caught fire and the house burned down, charring her body. She was kept alive, and her soul split into two. Without the note, people assumed that the fire was part of the ritual, but it's obvious once you read the note and play the game, that something went wrong. If they had succeeded with the ritual then the game would not have taken place, since the cult would have already brought about their "paradise". The whole reason you're even there in the first place isn't just an accident [even more spoilers].....
SPPPPPPPPPPOOOOOOOOIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS[[[[Cheryl is the other half of Alessa's soul and was drawn to the town]]]]]]]]]
GrandmasterofWin wow and I thought the ufo ending was a lot to unpack . I do remember reading about what u just said waaaaay back in the day. Thanks
@@GrandmasterofWin finally i understand the sh storyline😂😂
Fun fact: one of the monsters the Grey Child isn’t seen in most countries outside of the US. It was replaced with the Mumbler due to their appearance.
Yeah, the Mumbler is what we're seeing in this video: the brown teddy-looking things with claws. The Grey Child looks notably more similar to a first grader, though still monstrous in appearance and definitely not mistakable for anything human.
I first played this game with a mate on his chipped Playstation before the game came out in the UK, so it was the US version. We didn't even know what it really was. We were completely unprepared. The Grey Children were much more disturbing, those noises still give me PTSD to this day.
I had nightmares about those...and the noises the Grey Children make is just haunting.
@@jakesnow5728absolutely true, i also had nightmares of the sounds that they were making and of the way they looked, way more than the mumblers. I also grew up with the US version and i live in Europe, for some reason back in those times (late 90s early 2000s) everyone was burning US versions of video games,primarily PS1 and 2 games,bcs we all had modded or chipped consoles back then hahah 😅
Can't beat the music in Silent Hill 2, love it. How can you sit there eating monsters when there's pizza everywhere??
I was just thinking "a new Gman vid would be sweet right about now" , stop reading my mind 😏
He needs to review Ghostrunner
@@idrinkmilk282 a wise man once said " ain't nothing like a fistful a cash or a bliss fulla the hash" and thats fax
Silent hill 4 is really underrated and definitely deserves another look
This game was pretty amazing for the time. Someone even took the entire game and turned it into a 8 map campaign for Left4Dead 1 and 2 with all the puzzles intact, its a wild ride
whats the name of the campaign?
@@churchguy8325 i am pretty sure its just called Silent Hill
I still wish we could've gotten a full game for Silent Hill P.T.
It offered an unrivaled horror experience that would've been groundbreaking in the horror genre for games.
Thinking about P.T. still hurts... I wish we could have gotten that game. 😭😭
Did it really though? I played it and whilst it was atmospheric and eerie and tense. It was just a series of walking back and forwards through the same gallery waiting for scripted sequences to appear/happen. So lets not overrate it as some meta horror masterpiece when it was really just your bog standard horror game with a kojima twist on it.
@@ISetYourFaceOnFire demo ≠ full game experience
P.T. is essentially a modernized Silent Hill 1, but seems as scary as Amnesia and I fuckign love it.
Yeah, kinda sad it got cancelled, pachinko go BRRRRRRRR.
I love the original silent hill soundtrack, it reminds me of some kind of Ministry & NIN inspired nightmare.
Listen to band Lycia, the game's soundtrack almost feels like it took inspiration from some of their stuff (especially off the Cold album and The Burning Circle and then Dust album)
I remember my buddy and I rented this in elementary school. We were scared so shitless, we started laughing. We made it to the school and I never touched it again until my junior year of high school when I played this in preparation for Silent Hill 3. Good memories.
11/10 horror. Fun fact. The final boss track was made with a dentist drill.
I always appreciate it when someone talks about the first game and not just the second.
Yooooo I *just* finished this for the first time on my PS2 3 hours ago. Some of the little tricks it pulls are brilliant (like the locker room one) and the story is better than people had led me to expect. Oh and it's actually not very long (6 hours, 46 minutes) which for horror games is a plus most of the time. Oh and there were some surprising QOL touches, like pre-boss checkpoints and a few moments where you need to go all the way across town and the game just straight-up teleports you there. Also if you go into the final boss w/no ammo you can apparently just try to reload all of your weapons and it will drop dead so it's not possible to get screwed over in that regard.
The controls, voice acting and low-detail graphics, intentional or not, really just added to the deeply weird, dismal, and oppressive vibe of the game.
Also the hammer is so powerful I actually started fighting enemies lol
Also combat gets a lot easier to maneuver if you hold sprint while strafing--the first boss in particular is a LOT easier with that maneuver.
@Disobedient Nomead Oh yeah I'm definitely going to do a New Fear run after a little break. I want to play the extra hard mode to get some real challenge.
I actually own every localized game besides Book of Memories, and have beaten 2, 3, and Origins before. I've found something to enjoy about all of them but there's no denying the original games are on a whole different level.
@Disobedient Nomead also yeeeeah I've actually played all the way through 2 on the HD Collection and 😬
I was 13 when I first played Silent Hill and I was expecting it to be just another Resident Evil knockoff and boy was I wrong... It is also the only game that gave me nightmares as a kid.
I played SH2 when I was 14, expecting resident evil. The dude in the store told me 'new hot horror game, scary as shit'. And boy it wasn't just scary, it was so fucking disturbing that I got so depressed that I missed school for a week. I was too young for heavy themes it touched, I kept thinking about it and felt terrible all the time, I couldn't even comprehend it properly - it was so fucked up. And it was the experience that kept haunting me as I grew older and were relating more and more when getting more life experience, understanding everything better. SH games are the most mature games ever created, that's for sure, not because of violence, but because they require a lot of personal experience with darkest shit in life.
@@orchid9 Holy crap, I am glad I played it with a friend first time in my high school year. SH got so crazy scary, we were passing controllers back and forth because we couldn't handle the stress. On the way home around 11pm, we were just chatting in the car non stop hoping not to see any fog or little girl run out of road.
One of the game that scared a 16 yrs old and 19 yrs old at the same time.
I think the reason why Silent Hill 1's graphics still hold up is that they're reminiscent of papercraft or stop motion. Even the low frame rate makes it feel like claymation, which further makes you feel like you're living in a nightmare
Low key, my favourite game ever
I remember my father taking it home when I was 9 and played it untill the first scripted death and only picked it up again like 10 years later and eat it up
Still very solid imo
Got the vinyl of the soundtrack of the 1st and 2nd, bangers
Where I live, there are literally places that look exactly like Silent Hill's "other world" stages XD
Where
@@ninjatanek8516 In some parts here in Mexico, there are subways and tunnels blocked by wire, normal looking streets that suddenly shift into old industrials zones, etc.
I remember one time, I had to cross this metal and concrete pedestrian bridge, and the whole thing had rusty wires hanging from the upper part and all around, and the long stairs leading up to it where so badly built, each step was almost vertical; I can imagine how it looks like at night. And no, not all of the places are like that, but if you know where to look, you have the scenery for a Silent Hill live action right there, hahaha.
I miss the old days playing Silent Hill in a cold weekend with my ex-girlfriend. We had little money, just enough to grab a pizza and a couple of beers. But it was always a hauntingly beautiful experience. Plus, something in the horror and the music always turned her on for some reason.
My man.
Sounds cozy
I been there
If you're a fan of silent hill even a little then you owe it to yourself to watch the twin perfect video series on the games. They explain everything in insane detail. I actually became a bigger silent hill fan because of their videos. They are also great for days when you don't have **** to do because they can be up to like 4 hours long and there's tons of them and then they would do revisits answering fan questions or if a different interpretation was offered they would explain why it was actually this other way. Absolutely fantastic.
BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOREVER🙏🏾🙏🏾
I recently saw playthroughs of Silent Hill 1, 2, 3 and Origins and I'm hooked. Incredible atmosphere and music and they bravely tackle difficult themes without being too on the nose. Silent Hill 2 has repeatedly been on my mind since
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Kind of like Nirvana’s “Bleach” in comparison to “Nevermind”.
Exactly My thoughts!
Silent Hill 3 will always be the best looking game ever made for me.
The only thing that really held it back was the vertex lighting, although it was not quite as noticeable as in Silent Hill 2 due to the more detailed textures environments. i still prefer the look of 2, but 3 is one hell of a stunner.
Thought this was a baking video with all that CAKE in the thumbnail
The snow in Silent Hill 1 (the game) is indeed snow, despite the movie claiming it's ash. The doctor Kaufman refers to it as snow, "...and it's snowing. At this time of year?". Additionally, the first track to play during the game is called "Summer Snow".
What a game and what an era, I get so mad about Konami when I go back and see what they used to put out when we were growing up.
So many reviews and analysis of this franchise, and I'm only more than happy to hear your take on it. It's like a pre-birthday gift for me(my bday's on the 31st) ((:
Great video man, I love that you're diving into the PS1 classics. I appreciate you showing some love to Silent Hill 3. I love all the games in the original trilogy but 3 is the one that affected me the most in terms of scares and story.
I'd love to hear your thoughts on P.T someday, assuming you have a PS4 with it installed or are cool with playing the UE4 remake.
Lots of content creators I follow are talking about this game this year. I remember it being one of the only games that actually made me afraid to sleep at night as a kid. One of my favorites to this day.
I had played through RE 1 and 2 a billion times by time this came out (and Alone in the Dark once on pc) but this thing still scared the absolute shit out of me. The fog was a genius addition.
Damn never thought gman would tackle silent hill, one of my favorite trilogys
Played this for the first time 5 months ago and i have to say, this is a timeless masterpiece. It soaked me in, i loved every minute.
Replayed Silent Hill 2 years ago, masterpiece too. But SH1 has something special, if you did not play it, dont miss out on it!
Yeah i agree SH1 the best of the whole series, and alot better then SH2 in regards to horror and scariness. SH3 is my second favorite.
Most rewarding thing on Silent Hill1 is getting the Laser gun after the UFO ending, and using it against enemies that haven't even appeared on screen, then advancing and see all the enemy horde dead.
23:18. "As they say in NZ, fintistic" Mate I spilled my coffee. You made my day, cheers mate!
9:48 one of my absolute favorite scares in the game; they set it up so well. When you go there first in the regular world, there's not much that happens (other than a gray child eating the cat that jumps out), but that sets it up so well for the body to come out of nowhere in the otherworld later on.
your like the reverse angry joe i watch your old deus ex review and was like is this the same person? then watch your newer stuff and its like a way different person. love these reviews classic angry joe vibes.
Silent Hill 3 introduced me to the franchise. Being seven years old, I did not know what I was getting myself into ; when stumbling upon this game in one of the PS2 Demo Discs . What drew my attention was the graphics, monsters projecting emotions, and even the atmosphere. In 2003, there was no other game on the PS2 pushing the hardware's limitations. Silent Hill 3 not only caught my interest into the franchise, it was the reason I wanted a PS2. Unfortunately, I couldn't get the game at my local GameStop due to ESRB rating. Years later into my high school, I began collecting PS2 games and found Silent Hill 3 for $25; Silent Hill 2 for $5, and Silent Hill 1 for $25.
Worth my money and easily my favorite horror games to exist.
*UA-cam is getting real comfortable with these double 15 second unskipable ads.*
reason why i turned the adblock back on...last time i used my phone to watch a video i felt im on some dodgy website that illegally hosts tv series' and will probably instal a virus on your pc if you click on the wrong thing on the screen
Just slap adblock in your browser, sorry for youtubers but this thing of making the non-premium experience total shit in order to promote buying the *MONTHLY* upgrade is bullshit. Suck my dick youtube, What are you now? EA?
*"If someone took waterboarding and put into MP³ form, then this is what it would sound like"*
CIA: "Write that down! Write that down!!"
Hell yea, you should also do the dead space series at the very least the first game is a masterpiece!
The second is the master piece, the first was a fantastic stepping stone , still waiting for the third game to be made some day
@@edwinortega4499 I've played all *two* of them multiple times, and the first one is the better of the two imo. They actually did a great job with the second one, even with vocalizing Isaac, but the raw, cluttered, cramped, shitty atmosphere of the Ishimura in the first game really gets to me much more than the polished city feel of the second game. There's great shit in the second one all the way through but the first one lays it on thick and never lets up.
@@EYOUTz1993 i agree plus even though the atmosphere is still well done in the second, you cant really recreate that first time seeing those creatures crawl through the vent, murdering your team
Just replayed through all three of them this year, and it is incredible how perfect the first game is. Second one didn't do much for me; it's more of a horror-themed shooter where the shooting doesn't hold up too well. And I still don't understand the hate for 3. It's much easier than the other two on Normal difficulty, but it comes full circle to The Thing where the series drew it's inspiration from.
@@AbsoluteDeicide the third one just seemed more action oriented than the others. The first one scared me constantly, but the third was mainly just through jump scares.
Ngl, al these months seeing silent hill content, and now return to the popularity spotlight, it feels incredible
The first SH soundtrack is very Tetsuo The Iron Man. That shit slams.
I just watched the movie for the first time last weekend and I was ok for the first quarter of the movie, then Pyramid Head showed up and got dropped off the face of the earth, the whole hospital scene - yeah, I lost it then, haha.
This game and Parasite Eve are still the only times that gaming with my girlfriend looked like a console commercial because she would actually curl up on the couch with me when I played, wouldn't let me play without her and would even suggest that we put it on when I hadn't mentioned it. It was a golden time when anything seemed possible. I'm not crying you're crying.
To say that a VPN is a VPN was ingenious. ^^
sh1 & 2 have a really special place in my heart since i played them as a kid. i recently replayed them, and they hold up just great, specially sh1. the low poly aesthetic is magical man.
I must say that I really like the first SH movie, but on the other hand, I didn't really played any SH game.. but in my opinion, it was the best horror movie from 2006.. it has great atmosphere and music (which I know is from the games)
the movie has the right presentation but the plot isn't so great. it loses the weird, dreamlike vibe of the game in favour of a more straight horror tone, and for some reason decides to change the cult from a weird pagan thing into a puritan one, which is a weird choice
They messed up some important characters tho. Harry, Lisa Garland, Kauffman, and some monsters also (pyramid head, nurses) and so that affect the story.
I'm the same. Loved the first movie but couldn't get into Silent Hill games, though I tried only the first two games, I've always got bored after a few hours. It sure doesn't help that I didn't play them at the time of their release too
The use of the clips here is in another level! Great work, Gman! haahahhaa
Back when Konami released some actual games instead of pachinko machines.
I'm binge watching your videos, why did I just find you this week.
I used to play this with my Dad back in the day, it still scares me even for my dad, but it was a very good timeless memories with him.
Cherish it bother :)
Wish I had a console back then, but hey, at least we played lots of quake together.
Fun fact. You don't have to fire a single bullet to defeat Silent Hill's final boss. Spend all of your bullets before descending on the last staircase, and I do mean ALL OF YOUR BULLETS. Pistols, shotguns, hunting rifles. You need to have absolutely zero ammo before the boss encounter. Then all you have to do is go around the stage dodging the monster for about two or three circles and you're done. The creature will automatically keel over and die. See, the whole boss fight is a scripted event which will automatically end once you spent all of your bullets. It's mind trickery to make it seem like you've been fighting a difficult boss. Not sure if it's intentional or because of technical reasons but there you have it. How to kill the last boss in SIlent Hill without ever firing a single shot. Kind of.
The first Silent Hill is still one of my favorite games of all time. 2 and 3 were my introduction into the series, but I went back and played 1 and it was so worth it.
It's a shame we never really got another good one after 1-4, and 4 was kinda odd anyways =0
I remember the days of silent hill and RE even Dino Crysis I played all of them form start to finish locking my self away from the world and loved every minute of it.....and i still have all these games in mint condition in my collection ...thanks for the memories G-man.
MilaTheChad with the thumbnail
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"Take this and hope you don't have to use it"
*Seconds later, A fucking Gargoyle out of nowhere*
Loved your take on this mate, still have me original copy on PS1 with the 'WARNING: This game is not recommended for those with heart problems or the elderly' sticker on the front case, your title's spot on too as the original Silent Hill on PS1 is absolutely 'timeless' and IMO still 1 of the best games on the console! :)
I played this game a lot back in the day.
Did you know that you can break the neck of those flying monsters with a well timed steel pipe swing? It will then slowly fly away from you near the ground with it's head dangling.
I have to fundamentally disagree about the first movie (the second movie is an insult to both the games and filmmaking in general). The first movie took great care in recreating the environments, camera motion and atmosphere from the games and it did it admirably. the acting is cheesy and the story is stripped down to accommodate a two hour run time but that doesn't make the story inherently bad. the director was a huge fan of the games and I think he did a great job converting silent hill from one art form to another. it's not the best movie ever made and has some problems but atmospherically there's not another movie that can touch it and there's nothing bad enough in the movie to ruin the experience for me. And if you watch the behind the scenes, a lot of the things they did to achieve various effects practically (as apposed to digitally), it's really quite impressive.
All that aside though, in the end, I just think it's a fun, entertaining movie worth your time whether or not you've played the games. And, as far as I'm concerned, it's hands down the best video game movie ever made because it actually takes its self seriously as a movie instead of a cash grab. I can't think of another video game movie that even comes close.
I’d put the first Mortal Kombat film above it, but it’s still one of the best film adaptations of a game. Not that that’s saying much at all.
@@gilgamesh310 I wouldn't, personally. Silent Hill was a much more competent film with its source material than MK. Besides, the latter suffered the curse of the PG-13 rating. Mortal Kombat should NEVER be PG-13.
@@gilgamesh310 that movie is cheep and hyper cheesy in a way that silent hill isn't. that's more of a good bad movie than an actually, legitimately good movie. It's fun but really can't be taken seriously other than the fact that it's a good example of early CGI.
@@LuckyPunkProd Do competent that it didn't understand anything about the symbolism in the game. Yeah, Mortal Kombat definitely should have had more violence. I still think its fun, though.
@@afurinperil I thought it did cheesy very well. Christopher Lambert brought a satisfying campiness to Raiden that fight well.
@GmanLives, In my opinion the two Fear Effect games on the Ps1 don't get the recognition that they seriously deserve. Both games were brilliant!
I love that the school is the same one in Kindergarten Cop. Classic shit.
Whaaa? No way, thats incredible.
@@bananastand-2241 Yea, someone looked and even the posters on the inside are the same. Google it, it is pretty cool. Plus all the street names are famous horror/thriller writers.
@@maskedhobo but since there were no scenes filmed on the roof, the roof looked like a standard Japanese one lol
You know, chain link fence all around
@@BZABuddy damn. I always forget about that little fact. Sad stuff.
that ad placement tho.. kudos to you gman
yay finally, been waiting for this one since the Resident Evil retrospective, If you're going to do the entire series at some point play Downpour on RPCS3, its actually legitimately good when you can play it on the pc
The thing I liked best about the first Silent Hill is that the multiple endings were influenced by actions you took in game. There was an entire section of the game that was skippable if you were not too worried about the fates of some of the other characters you encountered. Later entries in the series used a some what cryptic set of criteria to determine which of the endings you would earn. Eventually the spread of FAQs and (later) walkthroughs would demystify that process to an extent. However, I still think the first game allowing you to directly manipulate the narrative toward the ending you were trying to get was my favorite system .
I was so upset when I missed that extra section of the game during my playthrough as I wanted the full experience. I explored around that area as I thought heading there was the next main objective and then I accidentally triggered the actual next objective, prohibiting me from concluding that side arc.
Dog ending, best ending
As a kid I found this disc at my older cousins house and as soon as I got into the back alley with the camera going overhead it took me like a solid few minutes to move on beetween screens. I only got to the part where the monsters start showing up and shut it down. As an adult I had a vague memory of this game scaring me shitless so I booted it up and beat the thing. Great game.
I mentioned silent hill around some of the zoomer kids in my family.
One of them said “the movie?”
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💀 no step on SNEK? 🇺🇸🇭🇰
@Colour Barz imo original is quite overhyped and I played it when it was still fresh.
@Censorship S**ks
Of course not.
However, the fourth controller mysteriously died so the child couldn’t play smash with the rest of us.
_what a shame_
I’m joking, by the way.😉
The game is so good, I bought it from Toy R Us classic PS game bin for 20 bucks despite the fact I only played it once at friends house, got scared shitless, and don't own a PS of my own.
Had to play it at another friend's house or use Bleem to get it semi working on my PC. Later on making the entire computer assignment on it (make a pamphlet with Microsoft word to promote the game).
That's how much I love the original Silent Hill.
Silent hill 1 had my favorite Radio white noise of any game. Masterpiece
Doo A DOOM ETERNAL DLC REVIEW gman!!!
Another wonderful video by Gman and another excellent thumbnail from MilaTheMute, power duo!
"kino"
proof that gmanlives lurks on /v/
which also means he knows the whole board thinks he's a manchild and a joke
Can you explain more? I’m interested if you don’t mind
@@nono-zc1dj post something about him there, you'll see for yourself
im really surprised he hasn't deleted my comment yet
That’s 4chan for you. I doubt he takes it very personally.
@Mialisus ACKSHUALLY /v/ almost unanimously likes jerma :)
I think with modern emulation, you can switch the lighting to per-pixel rather than gouraud shading to make it look even better.
"no crunch" dude had to literally sleep under his desk for years to animate every cut scene by himself so not exactly true
Silent Hill 2 you're on about
@@TheDeepOne85 no, it was Silent Hill 1, that dude got the job to be director in Silent Hill 2 because of how much he worked doing every CGI scene in 1 in order to be credited
Game devs be like " I have a specific set of skills that...will allow me to make this video game".
I just hope the rumors of a new silent game are true. It's been far too long
Where'd ya hear that? Noice! :D
I hope they're untrue, I just want Konami to leave the series alone and fucking die
cashcows like you are the reason why we get originally pretty good games and movies run into the ground
@@kalinmir like you?
@@kalelvigil1510 wtf is wrong with you to die? No way
The first game always has a special place for me too because the day i exchanged a game for silent hill from my friend that movie was on air on tv.. That was some sick shit..
I think movie adaptation is fairly good. I mean more specifically comparing to other game based movies. But absolutely,the lore should've been focused more. Though then again nitpicking about having possibly hours of plot compacted to couple hours might not work either.
Yea my exact opinion, I even would say its the best "Video Game Movie Adaption" (perhabs with the WoW Movie) but just that... there are a lot worse Video Game Movies in comparison. But as just a "Horror" Movie there are a lot better ones :)
@@mconfuddle4028 what about Detective Pikachu ?
@@mconfuddle4028 I could easily say that it's the best game based movie.
I understand all of the complaints of it as an adaptation of Silent Hill, but I think it's a fun fairly effective horror flick.
@@AquaShibby3000 Yeah, I don't think it's exactly award winning, groundbreaking movie, but then again. I think everyone can agree that there's plethora of horror movies that are worse than Silent Hill. Thinking about overall quality of horror movies, I'd say it's well above average. After all, there's a lot of absolutely horrible horror movies that fail on every possible level :)
Silent Hill four is the most underrated game in the series. Something about this game freaked me out more than any of the others. It was almost too dark. The opening when you turn the game on is god damn freaky.
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Yeah, i really like that track "Your mums footsteps" by Akira Yamaoka.
That's how i feel when your mum's footsteps
Anyone else think that silent hill homecoming and downpour are super underrated!? I sure sure as hell do! F-ing love those games!!!
Rejoice kids you will never get anything this good in the modern days or even in the future.
There's nothing quite like playing these games when they originally came out. They were so scary that I had trouble just turning the game on.
Honestly the first Silent Hill Movie is pretty good. Easily one of the best video game adaptations ever 🚬
I recognized a gmanlives video from the preview alone, either I quantum entagled my humor with yours or you're becoming recognizable, in which I hope the latter happened
Review dead space.
That analogy of a rock band recording out of a garage is the perfect description of the difference between 36 chambers and wu tang forever.
From the western Silent Hill games I can only recommend Shattered Memories which is a cool reimagining of the first game even though it's very short and easy. The psychological profiling gimmick was pretty cool though.
Origins is okay and plays like the first 3 games, but adds nothing to the series and messes with the lore.
Homecoming is garbage with almost no redeeming values, awful story and clunky combat.
Downpour had some neat ideas but was ruined by the terrible technical aspects and performance.
To this day i will never understand how they thought having western devs work on the series going forward was a good idea.
I just beat this game for the first time the other day and I absolutely loved this game. Solving most of the puzzles on my own was so satisfying. The way that this game makes you explore and find your way around on your own was a breath of fresh air compared to games of today. For the first time in a while a game made me feel like an adult lol. I’m kind of mad at myself that I got the bad ending because I did have the unknown chemical but didn’t know how to use it and the Kauffman side quest completely eluded me. Overal love this game and can’t wait to play the sequels.
I envy you that you can experience SH2 fresh... love that games atmosphere and story.
Until today I realy like to watch LPs from different gamers that exp that game for the first time :)