Comments on: Broken Silence – Silent Hill: The Town, The Monster

By: Ahmad S. Al-Hamily

Ahmad S. Al-Hamily — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 23:16:43 +0000

@CJ: I like the way you think. Makes sense enough.

PS: In the mid of the podcast and really enjoying it. Oh yeah, Get Corpse Party has a bit of Silent Hill. You’ll see that in the very beginning of the narrative.

By: CJ Melendez

CJ Melendez — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 20:12:35 +0000

@Steven, thanks! Glad people enjoy it.

@Ahmad, Well Alessa brought Travis in because he helped her, but I think the town did as well because of his troubled past with his mother.

Henry lived in the room that Walter loved, so he was pulled in as well.

James knew Laura well and Mary loved her. Maybe what ever was copied from Mary into Maria tried to hold onto Laura as well?

By: Steven

Steven — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 19:11:14 +0000

WOW! You flawlessly just compared Silent Hill 2 to some of history’s greatest influence’s to me. Thank you for providing some clarity on some issues within the history of the town too. Job well done,sir.

By: Ahmad S. Al-Hamily

Ahmad S. Al-Hamily — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:05:57 +0000

Oh yeah, just had a thought, should those with desires allow others into their realm? Because that would make perfect sense in the aforementioned cases of Harry, Henry, and Laura. Like some sort of permission from the person or town.

By: Ahmad S. Al-Hamily

Ahmad S. Al-Hamily — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:00:14 +0000

Yeah but considering that the ones who got stuck in such nightmares were completely innocent. Your theory should be expanded a little. Maybe to include antagenoists but I’m not sure if that’s the right category for Aliessa and Walter.

Hmmmm Laura did not see the monsters if I recall that puts her right with Harry and Henry but they did see them? She should have been influenced by James’ guilt as in the previous cases but she apparently didn’t.

I think Team Silent did this to further confuse us.

By: CJ Melendez

CJ Melendez — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:42:39 +0000

Thanks!

In reference to Silent Hill 1 and 4, the town did get attracted to intense human emotion. Alessa was the first. Her powers also enhanced that. In Silent Hill 4, Walter was so crazy and dead set on being reunited with his mother that the town’s power was under fueling his desires.

By: Ahmad S. Al-Hamily

Ahmad S. Al-Hamily — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:10:16 +0000

Thank you CJ for another awesome piece

“Only when someone with deep emotional turmoil gets close, or has a tie to the town, will it reach out and pull them into the Otherworld.”

“It is simply a force that is attracted to intense human emotion.”

Like you said in the beginning CJ, this might be a case study that fits Origins, SH 2, SH 3, and Homecoming … Maybe Shattered Memories too.

But this wouldn’t apply on SH 1 and The Room because the lead characters are merely, should I say, visitors which got caught up in a very difficult situation.

Of course the otherworld concept could be approached in a more occult and secret societies prospective.

From my own opinion, the Silent Hill Series has a lot of freemasonry symbolism and rites. Not necessarily good or evil.
The transition from a reality to another could approached from that angle and Pyramid-head himself is not only a representation of James guilt but also Pyramids are really scared for freemasonry folks and that’s from what I read.

I think the developers had that in mind also and that’s just a theory of mine and I mean man fears something that he can’t explain. They had that basic idea and they made an awesome horror game that is rich and deep.

SH 2 as a case study in psychology is perfectly fine and you did your homework…. I mean it was actually a homework XD

What I love about Silent Hill is that, you can approach it from every corner and you get a lot. I mean tons and tons of factoids and still there is much to be said.

CJ keep on writing this good stuff and make us … Wonder.