It's kind of annoying to see them talk about the monsters in both the games and the movies. The movies stray pretty heavily from the games, and a lot of the monsters that appear in the movies don't really make sense outside of the context of the original game at all. Also for a video called "Backstories of the Monsters" they just skip over some of the backstories entirely, like for the Twin Victims. Silent Hill 2 is one of my favorite games and I'd love to see you react to more Silent Hill 1-4, though I wouldn't really know what to recommend - that is, outside of 60+ minute video essays by horror game channels
True, but at least he accurately said their meanings and were they manifest from, which most are from the SH games protagonist and side characters' minds to punish them for their sins. A lot of them are also just straight-up demons that have always exited, like in SH 1 and SH3.
@@ZeallustImmortalthanks for your opinion. however, you aren't gatekeeper of all opinions and people are still allowed to like and mention things that you don't like.
Might be TMI, but the nurses in SH2 were called the "bubble-head nurse". Just like the name their face was twisted and bloated. The name and the visual also may represent Jame's frustration toward the nurses & doctors of not able to cure & soothe his wife.
They represented his sexual frustration and objectification of women as well. Big tits, no face etc. James was turned on by some of the nurses while visiting his wife, and he felt guilt over it.
They have hot bodies and no face. Because he only loves his wife, they don't matter to him at all. But she's been too bedridden to have sex for years...
The best way to watch the movies is to see it as an adaptation of some concepts of the games. Because they tell kinda similar stories, they seem similar on the surface, but they are incredibly different. For example in the movies they say that ashes rain in the town, but in the original game is just snow, or the whole "alternate reality" is a movie thing, because, in the first 4 games at least, there wasn't alternate reality. Or the most important difference, Pyramid Head, who originally was just a monster completely related to James, in the later incarnation of the character kinda of just appear because he is pretty popular monster.
I don't believe there's actually an exact answer on whether or not Silent Hill takes people to an alternate reality filled with monsters, projects visions into their heads, or full on changes reality around the town. I remember watching countless theories, but I don't believe we actually got 100% confirmation.
@@revenge3265 In the first game it's pretty clear that Alessa is projecting her nightmare in the town for real. There's a book in the school I think that said that some girls just had thr ability to do shit with their minds, that's why she was burned in the ritual in the first game
The 2006 Silent Hill film is hands down the best game to movie conversion. They used the original score and everyone/everything look like they just crawled out of your TV. I watch it at least once a month.
It takes a massive dump on the lore, it's as if the writers only watched someone else play the first 10 minutes of the first two games, that means they didn't get to find out Alessa isn't actually evil or vengeful, and also all the symbolism of the monsters in the second game (who have absolutely no business appearing before Rose) was lost on them. Utter disappointment.
Silent Hill does this to people XD It was the first horror game where I was actually scared. Okay, I was 7 at the time, but still! Resident Evil was spooky, but it still felt like an action movie. Minsters were actually cool, especially to a child's imagination. But Silent Hill taught me the real meaning of horror. I still love both games with all my heart. Call me a "grass is greener" guy, but modern horror games don't feel as charismatic as those older ones
Wow she nailed the symbolism of the Nurses! When James would visit his wife in the hospital, he would get frustrated with the lack of sex and he would get turned on by some of the nurses. They represent his objectifying them as faceless with big breasts and low cut skirts. James felt guilt over mourning his sex life over his wifes illness. There are a lot more monsters based on sexuality in SH2. Another example is The Mannequin, with two legs and instead of a torso its just two more legs. The games never specifically tell you what any of the monsters represent. They dont spell it out. For instance the most you get about the nurses is from an argument James has with his wife where she says "I see the way you look at those nurses"
The way those mannequins move their legs as if theyre struggling resembles the last thing james saw of his wife mary was her struggling legs as he killed her
This is one of the worst hoaxes and theories in the game's community. James was never a sexually frustrated man. This is not evidenced anywhere in the game and in the Book of memories that talks about the first 3 games. Plus: the game's creator himself denied these theories. So if the game dev says it, it's not theory anymore, it's a fact. People tend to include sex to make the game's story darker or more perverse. The mannequins represent only lust and nothing specified to James. The game is so good it doesn't need it this dark sexual elements. James is a murderer in denial about killing his own wife and not a sexual pervert.
@@crisactube "They represent lust and are created for James specifically, but in no way is James sexually frustrated". REALLY? The other 2 posts are bang on: the nurse's body represents James contemplating breaking his vow to Mary, and their faces represent his anger at their failure to help Mary. The Mannequins have no head but 2 vjjs, are shown being abused by PH, and their legs shake like Mary struggling while James has the pillow over her. If you dont want to take the mountain of evidence as a sign, and would rather point to a random dev comment, have at it... but if i give you a jigsaw puzzle of a house, and its missing 2 random pieces, you'll still be able to clearly recognize a house.
@@NoName-cz3wn but it's not a random dev comment, he knows what he's talking about. Moreover PH is not abusing the mannequins, so your "mountain of evidence" is based on misconceptions: they have nothing to do with sexual frustration. They're not even corporeal, they're made of prothesis, we know from the lore Mary had to wear them as her debilitating illness forced her, but you can't see past their torso because James is repressing Mary's memory choking her. And then we see PH killing them (not raping), and we also see him leaving a trail of them dead (as well the lying figures) in various parts of the game, because the monsters are all parts of James' denial and delusions and PH's actions are consistent with trying to get James to face the truth. So again, the whole "PH is raping the mannequins" is utter nonsense that came out of a random GameFAQs comment (much better than a random dev comment huh?) that got quoted ad verbatim since the 2000s and it just stuck
Man, seeing this totally reminds me of the incredible Silent Hill 2 making of/documentary.. There are SO MANY hidden details in the character/monster/game design that you barely pick up on during an initial play. In fact, a quick extra detail, the nurses, while having oddly voluptuous bodies, have obscured faces because James Sunderland only paid attention to their bodies and saw them as dozens of faceless workers, toiling away in the process of trying to ease his wife's pain during the late stages of her severe illness. And Pyramid Head was given his heavy steel pyramid because the points and sharp edges are meant to be uncomfortable for the wearer; imagery for James's clear inability to carry the weight of his guilt.
The abstract daddy has another disturbing detail. It is shown but not specifically mentioned. The whole room where the creature is first encountered is a very fleshy room, with holes all over the walls and some sort of pistons moving in and out rhythmically, representing the violence Angela was submitted to, in a really graphic way.
It seemed some of the bigger details of the monsters were left out to avoid spoilers. Honestly, the monsters and the main characters are so filled with symbolism that most videos won't be able to cover it all
Probably the best aspect of the creature creation is how freakishly twisted and mutated they are means they’re nearly as likely to miss you on their attacks as hit. Unlike other ( lesser ) games where their lock-on is perfect.
The first Silent Hill movie is a perfect adaption of the games overall theme and story. The director is working on another Silent Hill film (the second movie had a different director. It's not as good but still worth checking out) which will be coming out in the future. You should definitely watch the films in order because the second film takes place after the first, similarly to the games Silent Hill 1 and 3. Also, check out some lore videos as this video felt more like it didn't really get into the lore, but rather the creatures and the mechanics (especially towards the end). My favorite (and scariest) are the victims from Silent Hill 4. Also, I would suggest checking out the game series called Fatal Frame for spooky month. If there is one game I can never finish, it's all of the Fatal Frame games. Great content as always and I hope to see more Silent Hill from you both in the future!
No, the first movie was AWFUL, it was a terrible misrepresentation of the actual story and completely butchered the original meaning and themes all for the sake of the director trying to write his fan fiction about motherhood. I'll also forever hate the first movie for what the director said, saying that he replaced mason with a female protagonist because he felt a parent looking for their child would be something more motherly and didn't make as much sense with a father, which is an awful thing to insinuate. The second movie was trash, but the first movie just offends me much more.
Do want to say that the Silent Hill Movies aren't 1 to 1 adaptations. Especially since the first movie changed the Protagonist from a Father to a Women because the director felt a male getting rightfully fearful was unmasculine (his words not mine). So go into the films knowing they don't carry the same messages & such as the games do.
Silent Hill 1 on PS1 give me really scare moments than Resident Evil 1 or 2. The last scene we saw in this video show just the end and i found it really fascinating. The last monster of the video is based on the second movie of Silent Hill (but exist also in the game) as the Spider Mannequin. It transforme a body into a doll then it take the head and put some kind "USB cable" lool into the head to be in symbiosis and take control of the soul. That's why we heard the woman scream before her voice get replace by the voice of the Spider Mannequin.
This video was a nice sampler but was kind of random and unfocused. I would say you should pick a video essay on one of the games specifically and dive deeper into that, you may keep a lot of the backstory straighter that way.
Too add to the joined twins monster, the twins are reprentation of the children who were not only little to next no food but lack of proper hygiene which resulted in their deaths. Too disposed of the bodies without the ones still alive finding out they created holes in certain empty cells and the ability rotate the cells (I recommend play the game and see how it works). One other thing if they see you, twins will scream accusing finger at you, and charge at you. So being a pafisist towards them is not going work. My guess and mainly other people on TH-cam is that they have a deep root hatred towards adults in general and might have another individual your protagonist meets later on. After killing them the body will stick around a bit longer as for what happens to the soul, if they have one is a complete mystery, best not to think about to much though.
Love your reaction. I'd love to see you play the games one day. Silent Hill lore is so profound and confusing there are essays made to this day tackling every aspect of it, and its potential symbolism. The backstories of the monsters are somewhat simplified in the video, so It would be great if you'd react to the videos of thegamingmuse. She's one of my favorite content creators who discuss Silent Hill symbolism, and I'd love to see your reaction. Not just about monsters, but also the characters, as each monster is the manifestation of their subconscious minds
In E3 1999 Was messed up showing a original Larva Stalkers without shadow ghost form showing Harry killing a monster child. The beta of Larva Stalker was not attacking the player, is just walking and wandering around. Was contraversy for killing a child in the game. If you don't trust me go watch Silent hill 1999 e3 trailer.
Silent Hill does it’s job well of scaring me psychologically, but I got hooked on it because of the lore on the world building. The monsters and their backgrounds, designs and symbolisms have all fascinated me and have provided a good read on the wikis. My question is, how do you feel now after a getting to know a small taste of SH’s plethora of creatures? Haha
I know spooky season is over, but you guys should take a look at the monsters from The Suffering, they have great designs and the in game descriptions are wonderfully narrated.
The Silent Hill series is one of my favorite horror series (the other one being Fatal Frame). The first 4 are fantastic in there own way. Silent Hill 1 being all about the fear of losing a child and being a great foundation for the series. Silent Hill 2 being all about guilt. Everyone in the game is they're because of guilt. It makes the characters relatable though you certainly don't agree with most of them. Angela being really the big exception. Yes she murdered her father but really she was a victim (at least to a larger degree then Everyone else) and it was cruel of the Town to drag her in. Silent Hill 3 deals with the fears of teenage girls. Its really interesting but as a guy I can only identify so much with it. I think it's one of the most interesting and unique of the games but I'm not in a place to truly understand Heather. The fourth entry is really where the series started going more into the overall lore of the series more then of the the personal story of the protagonist. It's good but a shift in the series.
Oooh! This is going to be good to watch your reactions! The back story to Silent Hill is Convoluted and the Movies take artistic license a little far imho.
Silent Hill is an incredible franchise with a pretty turbulent history. Silent Hill was best when it was headed by the original developers nicknamed Team Silent, they were all sort of outcasts at Konami if I remember correctly. Due to the nature of its genre, Psychological Horror, it must be handled with subtlety and nuance to be done right. This means the minute an American team got a hold of the IP, it was basically ruined. Lol. It may be an exaggeration but every game after 3 has been either mediocre or bad. A lot of them tend to retell the story of 2, following the same formula. The more the games go on the more they disrespect the originals. For instance, Pyramid Head should not exist outside of James Sunderland’s personal Hell within Silent Hill. The original monster designer, Masahiro Ito, has confirmed this. This hasnt stopped Konami from milking it for all its worth. Heres to hoping the new SH games and the SH2 remake will bring it back to its roots.
The Silent Hill movie, while not a direct adaptation, is a great, unique interpretation of the games. I thoroughly recommend watching it. There is no second movie in Ba Sing Se.
Yeah, the whole story regarding James and his wife's illness is Silent Hill 2 and probably the best game in the franchise so that's the one you should play if interested [Pyramid Head is where that is too] ... it has probably the best story and lots of psychological themes but also easier to understand; the whole cult stuff is very confusing and not well explained even if you play the game so I'm not surprised SH2 is the most compelling in the franchise. Most people start there and then get into the nitty gritty of the other games.
I feel I need to emphasize since the video fails to bring this up, and since the existence of the Dark God is ambiguous at best. It is actually heavily implied that the Dark God was a creation of the town manifested from the delusions of the cult that lived there. It's the TOWN that has the power to bring the delusions and fears of its residents to life, so the Dark God itself is just another manifestation of the Town rather than actually being a god. Just another monster.
Should be noted that Silent Hill just as itself isn't exactly linear narratively and the movies have very little to do with the games. It's more of a reimagining than a 1 to 1 representation. It makes this video weird because he's combining a bunch of different stories into 1. Like for the most part Silent Hill is just haunted. There isn't people praying over anything dragging people into the world. It's just the town itself manifesting monsters based on whatever characters happen to be in town. Silent Hill 2 has really nothing to do with the god or anything else in the series other than an explanation on why James is fighting through physical manifestations of his phycological trauma. It also creates weird problems (and this is a series thing not related just to the video or the movie). Pyramid Head and the nurses return a lot throughout the series and some of the times it makes little sense and the reason they are reappearing really is because those are the 2 most popular monster designs, they ever made. Which is a big problem in Pyramid Head's case as he's completely tied to James who was in Silent Hill 2. It has that problem of some writer's guilt is manifesting the right hand of god? Makes little sense. Kind of sucks because the best character designs are the ones where if you think about them enough, you realize what they represent and why they might be so terrifying to the actual character that spawned them. It's also part of the reason why you can see the Silent Hill franchise taking a heavy dip in quality after 4 imo.
You pretty much nailed it with the Nurses. James is considered the favorite protagonist from the SH franchise (And it's not just cuz SH 2 is the best game in the series) for a reason. He's very well written and a really interesting character to learn more about as you play through the game. The remake is coming soon, so maybe you guys should play it! He's not a bad person. . . But he also is a bad person. The nurses being a manifestation of his sexual frustration is a bit messed up when you remember that his wife was literally dying while he was being frustrated at a lack of sex. Pyramid Head is the biggest manifestation of James' issues and the first time you run into PH he's literally sexually assaulting a weird leg monster.
I know i'm late but if you are interested in the story of Silent Hill i'd totally recommend TotallyPointlessTV's video on Silent Hill 2. Mind you it's long, but goes in depth with the story and a bit of humor to ease the creepyness and depression. Sus vídeos me alegran los días, saludos de México.
I think as a stand-alone movie, the silent hill movie is good. I've never played the game, so I can't say how that changes people's impressions of the movie.
I would highly recommend playing silent hill 1 to 3 before watching the films. The films aren't bad but the game's horror is far superior and better lore. Sadly after SH3 the game's dip in quality. SH4 wasn't meant to be a SH to begin with. Pyramid head is far better in the games esp SH 2, the films make him into some weird dark protector. Which the later games used, in SH 5 he is a twisted form of justice.
If you don't want to play the games yourself, the youtuber Yourfavoriteson, did a documentary about each of them that can stand in for playing them. He does his videos as if he's explaining stuff he thinks is cool to his father.
Yeah the "Gods" and "angels" are only seen has good from the cultist perspective of their religion but to normal people there just abominations and something straight from hell. Some monsters are manifested by the people residing in Silent Hill while others have always existed since the beginning.
well there's one thing I'm not big fans of Silent Hell it is still really creepy movie game but I only like shorter half honor Doom 3 bfg or Resistance 2 scary chimera's alien aggressively conquered invaders
Definitely play the games first, at least the first 2-3! Very chill yet scary games. The movies are good too, but not 100% accurate to the original games/characters
The first movie, despite some of the creative liberties it took, is actually a pretty solid adaptation. The 2nd... well we don't talk about it much. However, it's been recently revealed the director and producer of the first are returning to make a 3rd film, which is good news. The franchise itself tho is one of my favorites due to the depth of psycho-horror. I recommend you guys check out more lore on monsters cuz there's even more interesting ones than listed here
mind if i ask for reaction to War thunder legends, its a 4 part series about the planes and tank of war thunder they arent too long so you could do all 4 easily in 1 video
Wow, the video skipped so many creatures, and missed info on some of them the video covered. Also the movies lacks the original context, y'all should definitely look at a video with only the video game adaption.
Yeah, the movies should be treated as completely different entities to the games. They change the story a lot and are overall not great adaptations. For the uninitiated at least the first movie would probably be an enjoyable watch, but it's very different from the game it's based on. It has surface level similarities, (a parent looking for their lost child in a town called silent hill) but they do some weird changes like switching the protagonists gender because the idea of a man looking for his lost child was deemed unmasculine according to the movies director.
I’m not familiar with silent hill either but these monsters look really crazy unsettling my kind of game any way day 27 life is strange two and true colors reaction request
4:30: The issue most _Silent Hill_ fans have with the depiction of Pyramid Head as seen in the movies (and to a slightly lesser extent in _Dead By Daylight_ ) is that, once the series became popular enough that KONAMI saw it as something to exploit for profit, they completely disregarded the established canon of Pyramid Head's creation/ reason for existing/ mode of operation, and to a much more severe degree, how the metaphysical landscape of Silent Hill works. Pyramid Head was originally supposed to be exclusive to and only found in Silent Hill 2: this being because he was a manifestation of the central protagonist, James Sunderland's, mental traumas and internal conflicts. Now, here is where I present to you a chance to not be spoiled to the wonderfully twisted and creepy slow burn that is Silent Hill 2's story, which, even after they released more games afterwards, was and still is regarded as the crowning masterstroke of the entire series as a _WHOLE_ . Many other fans would go ballistic if I'd spoiled the core plot twist/ story point of the game without you having played it for yourself. But seriously; the games been out for *20 FREAKING **_YEARS_* , so I'd imagine that anyone who hadn't played Silent Hill 2 has been living under a rock and never played any of the gaming consoles prior to the 4th or 5th generation of videogames! Anyways; Pyramid Head (originally called in-game by James the "Red Pyramid Thing" ) was a manifestation of James' conflicted feelings over him killing his terminally ill wife, Mary Sunderland, by smothering her with her pillow, which was motivated by both a positive/ good reason and negative/ evil reason. The "Good" reason was because he felt sorrow for his suffering lady-love and couldn't stand to see her waste away and be miserable, be self-conscious over how the disease was ravaging her body and making her face seem much older than it truly was, making her cough up blood from her damaged lungs. So it was, from an empathetic point of view, a merciful act of euthanasia, putting an end to her suffering so that she wouldn't have to prolong her misery. He loved his wife and didn't want her to be anguished by her feelings of revulsion towards her wizened, sickly appearance, and her inability to move around or do anything, making her feel that she was a burden to James, keeping him from being happy, from living his life. The less-altruistic "Evil" reason is as appallingly awful as it is incredibly simple: he was experiencing a severe case of "blue-balls" because of his inability to have sexual relations with his wife which left him feeling resentful towards Mary, left him feeling as though he was deprived of his ability to gratify his carnal urges, which he felt entitled to, and when he wasn't able to get with his wife, his eyes began to wander and (though it is implied he never _physically_ had relations with them; he merely fantasized and kept it to himself) proceeded to undress the younger, more beautiful nurses, to think about being with them so he could satisfy his desires which his wife wasn't doing for him. What certainly didn't help matters was that the illness was causing Mary to verbally and physically lash out him, accusing him of being disloyal to her and thinking her "ugly," such as when James tried to bring her flowers in a vase, which she, in a rage, then flung at him, making him retreat in fear, and causing her to realize what she had done, and regret doing it. It didn't matter to James that his wife acted the way she did because she was pain and experiencing a whirlpool of negative emotions of self-loathing and clingy jealousy; she was "unnecessarily cruel" and "unjust" to him even though he was trying his hardest to keep her alive, to care for her when nobody else would, and he couldn't bring himself to fully forgive her for berating him and threatening him, leading him to eventually snap and kill her in a fit of rage. James is a character who, the more you learn about him, the more you feel disgusted by what he did... but you also, at least to a degree, empathize, if not sympathize with what he did, because what he did came from a very mixed-up, human line of reasoning. Does that justify what he did? No. And James would agree with that, because he immediately felt regret for his actions, so much so that he repressed the memory of what he had done, convincing himself in a fit of delusional grief, that she had died three years ago from the illness itself, rather than him having killed her shortly before he arrived in Silent Hill to "look for her, after receiving her letter (which, after you defeat Pyramid Head for the final time, you realize that the 'letter' she sent was actually a blank piece of paper with no writing on it whatsoever, meaning James likely hallucinated Mary's summons to Silent Hill)." Furthermore, this feeling of personal guilt extended into a total disregard for his own sense of self-preservation, with there being numerous red-flags throughout the story. This including; Angela Orosco warning James that the town of Silent Hill was dangerous, to which he responded with an eerily detached, wistful tone of voice that, 'He believed her; he just didn't really care what happened to him'; James showing zero-hesitation towards doing potentially life-threatening or disgusting things, such as jumping into a pitch-black vertical drop that he had no way of knowing how far down it would go, jumping into an actual grave with his own name above it, choosing to pick up a weapon and fight a clearly inhuman monster rather than run away as any sane person would do, sticking his hand into a wall that had strange noises coming out of it, being pricked by something, then sticking his hand _back in a SECOND TIME_ , and perhaps most disturbingly of all, reaching with his ungloved hand into an unflushed and visibly... "used" toilet just to retrieve a wallet (and the key inside) that was crucial to solving a puzzle. Obviously, he doesn't value his own life all that much if he's willing to put himself into danger with such alarming frequency. All of this, that I have been documenting for you was to show Pyramid Head's ultimate reason for being: James believed that he deserved to be punished for what he'd done, even when he had repressed his own memories and invented the story that his wife had died three years prior in his head. But he couldn't bring himself to actually 'self-terminate' because of perhaps cowardice over ending his own life, but just as likely because he had chosen to forget what he had done, and thus could not consciously find a reason to end his own life... so he relegated the task to the embodiment of his guilt, to serve as his "Executioner," the one to make him atone for his slaying of Mary with his life. Depending on which ending you get (as Silent Hill is known for having multiple endings, dependent on your personal choices and your interactions with the world around you), James either becomes resolved and brave enough to finally own up to his actions and kill himself, finally able to take responsibility for his sins and to do right by his wife... or, alternatively, he fails to learn any lesson, gives in to his evil impulses, and leaves Mary for 'Maria,' the young, healthier doppelganger of Mary that Silent Hill conjured up to tempt him away from remaining loyal to his wife, and ultimately ignores the epiphany that he did anything wrong and therefore, can live comfortably in his own selfish and cruel delusions. This is where the player's direct involvement in how the story turns out determines their ultimate fate, meaning that you, as the player, are responsible for how James chooses to deal with the situation, and whether or not he comes out a better man, or becomes the demon he feared himself to be.
Lol they went a little too far with that first part of the video and all that god lore 😆 And with the movie... at least not as bad as the RE movies 🙄 Anyway, cool video and reaction in general
I'm so sorry that you had to watch the "movie" in this video or those scenes. The movies are bad and don't have to do (almost) anything with the games, which are better. The movies just tell something else and don't get the point of what Silent Hill is. But if people like the movies, that's okay. It's just that the games are better to tell the story.
evil/dark goddess alessa as portrayed in the video (and the movie) is not canon, if you actually play and make it to the end of the first game (something Gans didn't do) you will know its absolute BS
Never liked the channel this video comes from. Always feels like an AI voice reading an auto-generated script. And it tends to get details very wrong. There's a lot of videos out here made by actual fans that are far more informative. I'd love to see more Silent Hill on this channel though, it's a great franchise (with a few very notable exceptions). I hope the new games do it justice, it's been through some rough times over the last decade.
This is not to throw shade on DnD. But the video you two reacted too was kinda garbage. They explained some of the monsters well enough, but then for allot of them, they were explaining how they are killed by the main character. In a weird way it almost feels like the script wasn't written by a person, or just by reacting to what was on screen. idk.
The video was extremely poor when it comes to understanding Silent Hill. Marvelous Videos often has no idea what the hell they're talking about. To say those two abortions of a movie are completely unrelated to the games would be an understatement. There is no dark god that created Silent Hill. That's just what the cult believes.
When dealing with silent hill stick to the games. The movies are alright For the games 1,3,and homecoming are connected Slient hill 2 is connected to the room by a single note you can find One last thing there is an ester egg in silent hill 3 if you have save data from silent hill 2 One last thing silent hill is based off a real place in America
A simple healthy man and a simple beautiful woman watch material on monsters together, showing their reaction. Without a bunch of genders, without specific clothes\piercings\stupid haircuts\dyed hair, without vulgar expressions, without trying to prove or impose anything on anyone. Looking at you guys, you understand one simple truth - life is a very simple thing that people themselves litter with absolutely unnecessary things.
It's kind of annoying to see them talk about the monsters in both the games and the movies. The movies stray pretty heavily from the games, and a lot of the monsters that appear in the movies don't really make sense outside of the context of the original game at all. Also for a video called "Backstories of the Monsters" they just skip over some of the backstories entirely, like for the Twin Victims.
Silent Hill 2 is one of my favorite games and I'd love to see you react to more Silent Hill 1-4, though I wouldn't really know what to recommend - that is, outside of 60+ minute video essays by horror game channels
True, but at least he accurately said their meanings and were they manifest from, which most are from the SH games protagonist and side characters' minds to punish them for their sins. A lot of them are also just straight-up demons that have always exited, like in SH 1 and SH3.
Doesn't really matter if he brings up the movie since he clearly states and shows that they are different from their game counterparts
@@SellocaYeah but the movies are ass and shouldn't be mentioned to begin with
@@ZeallustImmortalthanks for your opinion. however, you aren't gatekeeper of all opinions and people are still allowed to like and mention things that you don't like.
@@Emerald-t7k Whats your favorite franchise?
Might be TMI, but the nurses in SH2 were called the "bubble-head nurse". Just like the name their face was twisted and bloated. The name and the visual also may represent Jame's frustration toward the nurses & doctors of not able to cure & soothe his wife.
They represented his sexual frustration and objectification of women as well. Big tits, no face etc.
James was turned on by some of the nurses while visiting his wife, and he felt guilt over it.
Yeah…”frustration” is a good word for it
They have hot bodies and no face. Because he only loves his wife, they don't matter to him at all. But she's been too bedridden to have sex for years...
They were also kinda hot for like no reason
@@angel__king they were hot for a good reason, though.
Silent Hill is such a cool, creepy, and emotional story. 2 has a very deep meaning on letting go, guilt, and moving on.
Silent hill 2 had an amazing story with so much symbolism that I made a literature review from it as my schoolwork.
I absolutely love Silent Hill. Such an incredibly Phenomenal Franchise. The First 4 Of the Games are Easily some of my favorite games of all time
The best way to watch the movies is to see it as an adaptation of some concepts of the games. Because they tell kinda similar stories, they seem similar on the surface, but they are incredibly different. For example in the movies they say that ashes rain in the town, but in the original game is just snow, or the whole "alternate reality" is a movie thing, because, in the first 4 games at least, there wasn't alternate reality. Or the most important difference, Pyramid Head, who originally was just a monster completely related to James, in the later incarnation of the character kinda of just appear because he is pretty popular monster.
Nah, the movies ruin practically everything about the games just like the Resident Evil films, at least until the games began doing that themselves.
@@Alyrael I mean, yeah, but I was trying not to be mean xd
@@vixo551 The movies deserve all of the hate they get.
I don't believe there's actually an exact answer on whether or not Silent Hill takes people to an alternate reality filled with monsters, projects visions into their heads, or full on changes reality around the town. I remember watching countless theories, but I don't believe we actually got 100% confirmation.
@@revenge3265 In the first game it's pretty clear that Alessa is projecting her nightmare in the town for real. There's a book in the school I think that said that some girls just had thr ability to do shit with their minds, that's why she was burned in the ritual in the first game
The 2006 Silent Hill film is hands down the best game to movie conversion. They used the original score and everyone/everything look like they just crawled out of your TV. I watch it at least once a month.
It takes a massive dump on the lore, it's as if the writers only watched someone else play the first 10 minutes of the first two games, that means they didn't get to find out Alessa isn't actually evil or vengeful, and also all the symbolism of the monsters in the second game (who have absolutely no business appearing before Rose) was lost on them. Utter disappointment.
Silent Hill 2’s story sticks with you a while after you beat the game
Interesting to see you guy's mood shift from happy and chirpy to absolutely numb and dread, silent hill am I right 😂
Silent Hill does this to people XD
It was the first horror game where I was actually scared. Okay, I was 7 at the time, but still! Resident Evil was spooky, but it still felt like an action movie. Minsters were actually cool, especially to a child's imagination. But Silent Hill taught me the real meaning of horror. I still love both games with all my heart. Call me a "grass is greener" guy, but modern horror games don't feel as charismatic as those older ones
I hate to say it but, it’s so funny to see his wife face change with disbelief she even grabbed the dog for support lol
Wow she nailed the symbolism of the Nurses!
When James would visit his wife in the hospital, he would get frustrated with the lack of sex and he would get turned on by some of the nurses.
They represent his objectifying them as faceless with big breasts and low cut skirts. James felt guilt over mourning his sex life over his wifes illness.
There are a lot more monsters based on sexuality in SH2. Another example is The Mannequin, with two legs and instead of a torso its just two more legs.
The games never specifically tell you what any of the monsters represent. They dont spell it out. For instance the most you get about the nurses is from an argument James has with his wife where she says "I see the way you look at those nurses"
The way those mannequins move their legs as if theyre struggling resembles the last thing james saw of his wife mary was her struggling legs as he killed her
This is one of the worst hoaxes and theories in the game's community. James was never a sexually frustrated man. This is not evidenced anywhere in the game and in the Book of memories that talks about the first 3 games. Plus: the game's creator himself denied these theories. So if the game dev says it, it's not theory anymore, it's a fact. People tend to include sex to make the game's story darker or more perverse. The mannequins represent only lust and nothing specified to James. The game is so good it doesn't need it this dark sexual elements. James is a murderer in denial about killing his own wife and not a sexual pervert.
@@crisactube "They represent lust and are created for James specifically, but in no way is James sexually frustrated".
REALLY?
The other 2 posts are bang on: the nurse's body represents James contemplating breaking his vow to Mary, and their faces represent his anger at their failure to help Mary.
The Mannequins have no head but 2 vjjs, are shown being abused by PH, and their legs shake like Mary struggling while James has the pillow over her.
If you dont want to take the mountain of evidence as a sign, and would rather point to a random dev comment, have at it... but if i give you a jigsaw puzzle of a house, and its missing 2 random pieces, you'll still be able to clearly recognize a house.
@@NoName-cz3wn but it's not a random dev comment, he knows what he's talking about. Moreover PH is not abusing the mannequins, so your "mountain of evidence" is based on misconceptions: they have nothing to do with sexual frustration. They're not even corporeal, they're made of prothesis, we know from the lore Mary had to wear them as her debilitating illness forced her, but you can't see past their torso because James is repressing Mary's memory choking her. And then we see PH killing them (not raping), and we also see him leaving a trail of them dead (as well the lying figures) in various parts of the game, because the monsters are all parts of James' denial and delusions and PH's actions are consistent with trying to get James to face the truth. So again, the whole "PH is raping the mannequins" is utter nonsense that came out of a random GameFAQs comment (much better than a random dev comment huh?) that got quoted ad verbatim since the 2000s and it just stuck
Man, seeing this totally reminds me of the incredible Silent Hill 2 making of/documentary.. There are SO MANY hidden details in the character/monster/game design that you barely pick up on during an initial play.
In fact, a quick extra detail, the nurses, while having oddly voluptuous bodies, have obscured faces because James Sunderland only paid attention to their bodies and saw them as dozens of faceless workers, toiling away in the process of trying to ease his wife's pain during the late stages of her severe illness.
And Pyramid Head was given his heavy steel pyramid because the points and sharp edges are meant to be uncomfortable for the wearer; imagery for James's clear inability to carry the weight of his guilt.
The abstract daddy has another disturbing detail. It is shown but not specifically mentioned. The whole room where the creature is first encountered is a very fleshy room, with holes all over the walls and some sort of pistons moving in and out rhythmically, representing the violence Angela was submitted to, in a really graphic way.
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It seemed some of the bigger details of the monsters were left out to avoid spoilers. Honestly, the monsters and the main characters are so filled with symbolism that most videos won't be able to cover it all
Silent Hill in a nutshell. "Well that was disturbing"
It's a great series. Definitely a unique franchise that focuses more on psychological and emotional torture.
What i liked about the Silent Hill games is that every story is different.
I am so happy you guys are getting into this series. Is one of my favorite horror games besides Resident Evil.
12:35 I can’t tell you how many times I said that whenever I ran into something while playing silent hill as a kid.😂
Probably the best aspect of the creature creation is how freakishly twisted and mutated they are means they’re nearly as likely to miss you on their attacks as hit. Unlike other ( lesser ) games where their lock-on is perfect.
Silent Hill is a masterpiece of series, whether it's movies or games.
SH3 will always be my favorite game ever!
The first Silent Hill movie is a perfect adaption of the games overall theme and story. The director is working on another Silent Hill film (the second movie had a different director. It's not as good but still worth checking out) which will be coming out in the future. You should definitely watch the films in order because the second film takes place after the first, similarly to the games Silent Hill 1 and 3. Also, check out some lore videos as this video felt more like it didn't really get into the lore, but rather the creatures and the mechanics (especially towards the end). My favorite (and scariest) are the victims from Silent Hill 4. Also, I would suggest checking out the game series called Fatal Frame for spooky month. If there is one game I can never finish, it's all of the Fatal Frame games. Great content as always and I hope to see more Silent Hill from you both in the future!
No, the first movie was AWFUL, it was a terrible misrepresentation of the actual story and completely butchered the original meaning and themes all for the sake of the director trying to write his fan fiction about motherhood. I'll also forever hate the first movie for what the director said, saying that he replaced mason with a female protagonist because he felt a parent looking for their child would be something more motherly and didn't make as much sense with a father, which is an awful thing to insinuate. The second movie was trash, but the first movie just offends me much more.
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Do want to say that the Silent Hill Movies aren't 1 to 1 adaptations. Especially since the first movie changed the Protagonist from a Father to a Women because the director felt a male getting rightfully fearful was unmasculine (his words not mine). So go into the films knowing they don't carry the same messages & such as the games do.
For me, SCARLET is one of the greatest SILENT HILL moments.
Scary, Sad, disgustings...
Silent Hill 1 on PS1 give me really scare moments than Resident Evil 1 or 2. The last scene we saw in this video show just the end and i found it really fascinating. The last monster of the video is based on the second movie of Silent Hill (but exist also in the game) as the Spider Mannequin. It transforme a body into a doll then it take the head and put some kind "USB cable" lool into the head to be in symbiosis and take control of the soul. That's why we heard the woman scream before her voice get replace by the voice of the Spider Mannequin.
This video was a nice sampler but was kind of random and unfocused. I would say you should pick a video essay on one of the games specifically and dive deeper into that, you may keep a lot of the backstory straighter that way.
I highly agree!
Too add to the joined twins monster, the twins are reprentation of the children who were not only little to next no food but lack of proper hygiene which resulted in their deaths. Too disposed of the bodies without the ones still alive finding out they created holes in certain empty cells and the ability rotate the cells (I recommend play the game and see how it works). One other thing if they see you, twins will scream accusing finger at you, and charge at you. So being a pafisist towards them is not going work. My guess and mainly other people on TH-cam is that they have a deep root hatred towards adults in general and might have another individual your protagonist meets later on. After killing them the body will stick around a bit longer as for what happens to the soul, if they have one is a complete mystery, best not to think about to much though.
Love your reaction. I'd love to see you play the games one day. Silent Hill lore is so profound and confusing there are essays made to this day tackling every aspect of it, and its potential symbolism. The backstories of the monsters are somewhat simplified in the video, so It would be great if you'd react to the videos of thegamingmuse. She's one of my favorite content creators who discuss Silent Hill symbolism, and I'd love to see your reaction. Not just about monsters, but also the characters, as each monster is the manifestation of their subconscious minds
In E3 1999 Was messed up showing a original Larva Stalkers without shadow ghost form showing Harry killing a monster child. The beta of Larva Stalker was not attacking the player, is just walking and wandering around. Was contraversy for killing a child in the game. If you don't trust me go watch Silent hill 1999 e3 trailer.
silent hill 2 the game is a masterpiece and still to this day keeps people guessing to the monsters metaphorical forms.
They did my boy Robbie the Rabbit dirty. Not even a mention.
Silent Hill does it’s job well of scaring me psychologically, but I got hooked on it because of the lore on the world building. The monsters and their backgrounds, designs and symbolisms have all fascinated me and have provided a good read on the wikis.
My question is, how do you feel now after a getting to know a small taste of SH’s plethora of creatures? Haha
I know spooky season is over, but you guys should take a look at the monsters from The Suffering, they have great designs and the in game descriptions are wonderfully narrated.
We still check out spooky stuff from time to time so we can put this on our request list 🙂
The same TH-camr made a video of all the monsters of Silent Hill. All with horrifying appearance and different motives
Silent hill is one my favorite series ever. Even though i know most of this stuff i love when ppl post silent hill 😊
You guys should check out the evil within 1&2
I don't know if this is the place to put a request, but... I would love if you make a reaction of the executions of Manhunt 1 & 2
The Silent Hill series is one of my favorite horror series (the other one being Fatal Frame). The first 4 are fantastic in there own way.
Silent Hill 1 being all about the fear of losing a child and being a great foundation for the series.
Silent Hill 2 being all about guilt. Everyone in the game is they're because of guilt. It makes the characters relatable though you certainly don't agree with most of them. Angela being really the big exception. Yes she murdered her father but really she was a victim (at least to a larger degree then Everyone else) and it was cruel of the Town to drag her in.
Silent Hill 3 deals with the fears of teenage girls. Its really interesting but as a guy I can only identify so much with it. I think it's one of the most interesting and unique of the games but I'm not in a place to truly understand Heather.
The fourth entry is really where the series started going more into the overall lore of the series more then of the the personal story of the protagonist. It's good but a shift in the series.
Oooh! This is going to be good to watch your reactions! The back story to Silent Hill is Convoluted and the Movies take artistic license a little far imho.
you guys need to play sh2
Silent Hill is an incredible franchise with a pretty turbulent history. Silent Hill was best when it was headed by the original developers nicknamed Team Silent, they were all sort of outcasts at Konami if I remember correctly. Due to the nature of its genre, Psychological Horror, it must be handled with subtlety and nuance to be done right. This means the minute an American team got a hold of the IP, it was basically ruined. Lol. It may be an exaggeration but every game after 3 has been either mediocre or bad. A lot of them tend to retell the story of 2, following the same formula.
The more the games go on the more they disrespect the originals. For instance, Pyramid Head should not exist outside of James Sunderland’s personal Hell within Silent Hill. The original monster designer, Masahiro Ito, has confirmed this. This hasnt stopped Konami from milking it for all its worth. Heres to hoping the new SH games and the SH2 remake will bring it back to its roots.
5:56 Well, have you ever seen a real angel? 😜
You two should watch Every Necromorph type made by World of Monsters!
The Silent Hill movie, while not a direct adaptation, is a great, unique interpretation of the games. I thoroughly recommend watching it.
There is no second movie in Ba Sing Se.
It's a crime the first 2 games haven't gotten remakes. If only the series was owned by Capcom and not Konami.
Welcome to Silent Hill~
Can you guys do evil within monsters explained
Ah the SH nurses. To quote Alucard: "the return of the why-boner.. with a vengeance!"
These creatures are insane looking
about 10% of the information displayed in this video is correct
Yeah, the whole story regarding James and his wife's illness is Silent Hill 2 and probably the best game in the franchise so that's the one you should play if interested [Pyramid Head is where that is too] ... it has probably the best story and lots of psychological themes but also easier to understand; the whole cult stuff is very confusing and not well explained even if you play the game so I'm not surprised SH2 is the most compelling in the franchise. Most people start there and then get into the nitty gritty of the other games.
And yeah you nailed what the nurses symbolize, there is a lot there.
I feel I need to emphasize since the video fails to bring this up, and since the existence of the Dark God is ambiguous at best.
It is actually heavily implied that the Dark God was a creation of the town manifested from the delusions of the cult that lived there.
It's the TOWN that has the power to bring the delusions and fears of its residents to life, so the Dark God itself is just another manifestation of the Town rather than actually being a god. Just another monster.
still think Silent hill have some of the most horrific designs around honestly.
Can't wait for silent hill remake 🤩
More silent hill is cool
Should be noted that Silent Hill just as itself isn't exactly linear narratively and the movies have very little to do with the games. It's more of a reimagining than a 1 to 1 representation. It makes this video weird because he's combining a bunch of different stories into 1. Like for the most part Silent Hill is just haunted. There isn't people praying over anything dragging people into the world. It's just the town itself manifesting monsters based on whatever characters happen to be in town. Silent Hill 2 has really nothing to do with the god or anything else in the series other than an explanation on why James is fighting through physical manifestations of his phycological trauma. It also creates weird problems (and this is a series thing not related just to the video or the movie). Pyramid Head and the nurses return a lot throughout the series and some of the times it makes little sense and the reason they are reappearing really is because those are the 2 most popular monster designs, they ever made. Which is a big problem in Pyramid Head's case as he's completely tied to James who was in Silent Hill 2. It has that problem of some writer's guilt is manifesting the right hand of god? Makes little sense.
Kind of sucks because the best character designs are the ones where if you think about them enough, you realize what they represent and why they might be so terrifying to the actual character that spawned them. It's also part of the reason why you can see the Silent Hill franchise taking a heavy dip in quality after 4 imo.
I hope you do more Max0r reactions soon. Would love to see your reactions to his videos on Final Fantasy XV, Ultrakill, and Control.
So much more missing monsters like the specters from sh4.
You pretty much nailed it with the Nurses. James is considered the favorite protagonist from the SH franchise (And it's not just cuz SH 2 is the best game in the series) for a reason. He's very well written and a really interesting character to learn more about as you play through the game. The remake is coming soon, so maybe you guys should play it! He's not a bad person. . . But he also is a bad person. The nurses being a manifestation of his sexual frustration is a bit messed up when you remember that his wife was literally dying while he was being frustrated at a lack of sex. Pyramid Head is the biggest manifestation of James' issues and the first time you run into PH he's literally sexually assaulting a weird leg monster.
I would love to see you rect to the fear and hunger games
I know i'm late but if you are interested in the story of Silent Hill i'd totally recommend TotallyPointlessTV's video on Silent Hill 2.
Mind you it's long, but goes in depth with the story and a bit of humor to ease the creepyness and depression. Sus vídeos me alegran los días, saludos de México.
I think as a stand-alone movie, the silent hill movie is good. I've never played the game, so I can't say how that changes people's impressions of the movie.
I would highly recommend playing silent hill 1 to 3 before watching the films. The films aren't bad but the game's horror is far superior and better lore.
Sadly after SH3 the game's dip in quality. SH4 wasn't meant to be a SH to begin with.
Pyramid head is far better in the games esp SH 2, the films make him into some weird dark protector. Which the later games used, in SH 5 he is a twisted form of justice.
If you don't want to play the games yourself, the youtuber Yourfavoriteson, did a documentary about each of them that can stand in for playing them. He does his videos as if he's explaining stuff he thinks is cool to his father.
He did a good job with sh. Just watched the full retrospection video recently.
Yeah the "Gods" and "angels" are only seen has good from the cultist perspective of their religion but to normal people there just abominations and something straight from hell. Some monsters are manifested by the people residing in Silent Hill while others have always existed since the beginning.
I don't consider Homecoming a Silent Hill game
Yo Nick from Left 4 dead
"Doesn't look like an angel" I mean have you not heard or read what the angels in the bible look like?
Would love to see the rest of the reactions for murder drones
I think I'd make a good silent hill nurse
well there's one thing I'm not big fans of Silent Hell it is still really creepy movie game but I only like shorter half honor Doom 3 bfg or Resistance 2 scary chimera's alien aggressively conquered invaders
Definitely play the games first, at least the first 2-3! Very chill yet scary games. The movies are good too, but not 100% accurate to the original games/characters
How about the history of doom monsters
The first movie, despite some of the creative liberties it took, is actually a pretty solid adaptation. The 2nd... well we don't talk about it much. However, it's been recently revealed the director and producer of the first are returning to make a 3rd film, which is good news. The franchise itself tho is one of my favorites due to the depth of psycho-horror. I recommend you guys check out more lore on monsters cuz there's even more interesting ones than listed here
Silent Hill game its good when you play. if you want know more about Silent Hill. don't just watch cutscenes. you need to play Silent Hill
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mind if i ask for reaction to War thunder legends, its a 4 part series about the planes and tank of war thunder
they arent too long so you could do all 4 easily in 1 video
Wow, the video skipped so many creatures, and missed info on some of them the video covered.
Also the movies lacks the original context, y'all should definitely look at a video with only the video game adaption.
Want to know another scary true fact alessa and Me share the same surname
Gillispie?😮
@@alainmarceux6817 yes
Please react to more monsters backstorys
Yeah, the movies should be treated as completely different entities to the games. They change the story a lot and are overall not great adaptations. For the uninitiated at least the first movie would probably be an enjoyable watch, but it's very different from the game it's based on. It has surface level similarities, (a parent looking for their lost child in a town called silent hill) but they do some weird changes like switching the protagonists gender because the idea of a man looking for his lost child was deemed unmasculine according to the movies director.
Naraka bladepoint please
I’m not familiar with silent hill either but these monsters look really crazy unsettling my kind of game any way day 27 life is strange two and true colors reaction request
4:30: The issue most _Silent Hill_ fans have with the depiction of Pyramid Head as seen in the movies (and to a slightly lesser extent in _Dead By Daylight_ ) is that, once the series became popular enough that KONAMI saw it as something to exploit for profit, they completely disregarded the established canon of Pyramid Head's creation/ reason for existing/ mode of operation, and to a much more severe degree, how the metaphysical landscape of Silent Hill works.
Pyramid Head was originally supposed to be exclusive to and only found in Silent Hill 2: this being because he was a manifestation of the central protagonist, James Sunderland's, mental traumas and internal conflicts.
Now, here is where I present to you a chance to not be spoiled to the wonderfully twisted and creepy slow burn that is Silent Hill 2's story, which, even after they released more games afterwards, was and still is regarded as the crowning masterstroke of the entire series as a _WHOLE_ . Many other fans would go ballistic if I'd spoiled the core plot twist/ story point of the game without you having played it for yourself.
But seriously; the games been out for *20 FREAKING **_YEARS_* , so I'd imagine that anyone who hadn't played Silent Hill 2 has been living under a rock and never played any of the gaming consoles prior to the 4th or 5th generation of videogames!
Anyways; Pyramid Head (originally called in-game by James the "Red Pyramid Thing" ) was a manifestation of James' conflicted feelings over him killing his terminally ill wife, Mary Sunderland, by smothering her with her pillow, which was motivated by both a positive/ good reason and negative/ evil reason.
The "Good" reason was because he felt sorrow for his suffering lady-love and couldn't stand to see her waste away and be miserable, be self-conscious over how the disease was ravaging her body and making her face seem much older than it truly was, making her cough up blood from her damaged lungs. So it was, from an empathetic point of view, a merciful act of euthanasia, putting an end to her suffering so that she wouldn't have to prolong her misery. He loved his wife and didn't want her to be anguished by her feelings of revulsion towards her wizened, sickly appearance, and her inability to move around or do anything, making her feel that she was a burden to James, keeping him from being happy, from living his life.
The less-altruistic "Evil" reason is as appallingly awful as it is incredibly simple: he was experiencing a severe case of "blue-balls" because of his inability to have sexual relations with his wife which left him feeling resentful towards Mary, left him feeling as though he was deprived of his ability to gratify his carnal urges, which he felt entitled to, and when he wasn't able to get with his wife, his eyes began to wander and (though it is implied he never _physically_ had relations with them; he merely fantasized and kept it to himself) proceeded to undress the younger, more beautiful nurses, to think about being with them so he could satisfy his desires which his wife wasn't doing for him.
What certainly didn't help matters was that the illness was causing Mary to verbally and physically lash out him, accusing him of being disloyal to her and thinking her "ugly," such as when James tried to bring her flowers in a vase, which she, in a rage, then flung at him, making him retreat in fear, and causing her to realize what she had done, and regret doing it. It didn't matter to James that his wife acted the way she did because she was pain and experiencing a whirlpool of negative emotions of self-loathing and clingy jealousy; she was "unnecessarily cruel" and "unjust" to him even though he was trying his hardest to keep her alive, to care for her when nobody else would, and he couldn't bring himself to fully forgive her for berating him and threatening him, leading him to eventually snap and kill her in a fit of rage.
James is a character who, the more you learn about him, the more you feel disgusted by what he did... but you also, at least to a degree, empathize, if not sympathize with what he did, because what he did came from a very mixed-up, human line of reasoning.
Does that justify what he did?
No.
And James would agree with that, because he immediately felt regret for his actions, so much so that he repressed the memory of what he had done, convincing himself in a fit of delusional grief, that she had died three years ago from the illness itself, rather than him having killed her shortly before he arrived in Silent Hill to "look for her, after receiving her letter (which, after you defeat Pyramid Head for the final time, you realize that the 'letter' she sent was actually a blank piece of paper with no writing on it whatsoever, meaning James likely hallucinated Mary's summons to Silent Hill)."
Furthermore, this feeling of personal guilt extended into a total disregard for his own sense of self-preservation, with there being numerous red-flags throughout the story.
This including; Angela Orosco warning James that the town of Silent Hill was dangerous, to which he responded with an eerily detached, wistful tone of voice that, 'He believed her; he just didn't really care what happened to him'; James showing zero-hesitation towards doing potentially life-threatening or disgusting things, such as jumping into a pitch-black vertical drop that he had no way of knowing how far down it would go, jumping into an actual grave with his own name above it, choosing to pick up a weapon and fight a clearly inhuman monster rather than run away as any sane person would do, sticking his hand into a wall that had strange noises coming out of it, being pricked by something, then sticking his hand _back in a SECOND TIME_ , and perhaps most disturbingly of all, reaching with his ungloved hand into an unflushed and visibly... "used" toilet just to retrieve a wallet (and the key inside) that was crucial to solving a puzzle.
Obviously, he doesn't value his own life all that much if he's willing to put himself into danger with such alarming frequency.
All of this, that I have been documenting for you was to show Pyramid Head's ultimate reason for being: James believed that he deserved to be punished for what he'd done, even when he had repressed his own memories and invented the story that his wife had died three years prior in his head. But he couldn't bring himself to actually 'self-terminate' because of perhaps cowardice over ending his own life, but just as likely because he had chosen to forget what he had done, and thus could not consciously find a reason to end his own life... so he relegated the task to the embodiment of his guilt, to serve as his "Executioner," the one to make him atone for his slaying of Mary with his life.
Depending on which ending you get (as Silent Hill is known for having multiple endings, dependent on your personal choices and your interactions with the world around you), James either becomes resolved and brave enough to finally own up to his actions and kill himself, finally able to take responsibility for his sins and to do right by his wife... or, alternatively, he fails to learn any lesson, gives in to his evil impulses, and leaves Mary for 'Maria,' the young, healthier doppelganger of Mary that Silent Hill conjured up to tempt him away from remaining loyal to his wife, and ultimately ignores the epiphany that he did anything wrong and therefore, can live comfortably in his own selfish and cruel delusions.
This is where the player's direct involvement in how the story turns out determines their ultimate fate, meaning that you, as the player, are responsible for how James chooses to deal with the situation, and whether or not he comes out a better man, or becomes the demon he feared himself to be.
Lol they went a little too far with that first part of the video and all that god lore 😆 And with the movie... at least not as bad as the RE movies 🙄 Anyway, cool video and reaction in general
the movie, first 5 games and further games have different lore but stick to the original 5 games lore way better then the others
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I'm so sorry that you had to watch the "movie" in this video or those scenes. The movies are bad and don't have to do (almost) anything with the games, which are better. The movies just tell something else and don't get the point of what Silent Hill is. But if people like the movies, that's okay. It's just that the games are better to tell the story.
Please play the games!!❤️❤️❤️
evil/dark goddess alessa as portrayed in the video (and the movie) is not canon, if you actually play and make it to the end of the first game (something Gans didn't do) you will know its absolute BS
This dude kept switching narrations from monster history to what they look like and how to fight them. Did not explain the lore of the twins
Watch silent hill 2006 ,and the upcoming teturn to silent hill ..never watch revelation please 😊
Please dont watch the films! Id recommend finding a playthriugh or cutscenes of the forst 3 games.
Never liked the channel this video comes from. Always feels like an AI voice reading an auto-generated script. And it tends to get details very wrong. There's a lot of videos out here made by actual fans that are far more informative. I'd love to see more Silent Hill on this channel though, it's a great franchise (with a few very notable exceptions). I hope the new games do it justice, it's been through some rough times over the last decade.
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This is not to throw shade on DnD. But the video you two reacted too was kinda garbage. They explained some of the monsters well enough, but then for allot of them, they were explaining how they are killed by the main character. In a weird way it almost feels like the script wasn't written by a person, or just by reacting to what was on screen. idk.
The video was extremely poor when it comes to understanding Silent Hill. Marvelous Videos often has no idea what the hell they're talking about. To say those two abortions of a movie are completely unrelated to the games would be an understatement. There is no dark god that created Silent Hill. That's just what the cult believes.
When dealing with silent hill stick to the games. The movies are alright
For the games 1,3,and homecoming are connected
Slient hill 2 is connected to the room by a single note you can find
One last thing there is an ester egg in silent hill 3 if you have save data from silent hill 2
One last thing silent hill is based off a real place in America
A simple healthy man and a simple beautiful woman watch material on monsters together, showing their reaction. Without a bunch of genders, without specific clothes\piercings\stupid haircuts\dyed hair, without vulgar expressions, without trying to prove or impose anything on anyone. Looking at you guys, you understand one simple truth - life is a very simple thing that people themselves litter with absolutely unnecessary things.