So 5 years after uploading this thing I get a copyright strike for the music in the first 30 seconds, blocking the video in most countries. So unfortunately I had to replace the beginning song with a stock one in the TH-cam editor. The TH-cam editor is really shitty and I could barely cut it smoothly, so sorry about the new rough intro. But at least the video should be available again!
I thought my computer was screwing up at first. Then I saw this. There's no way to fight the strike? That's pretty damn stupid it took FIVE YEARS for someone to file a claim. Seems pretty shady to me.
They did that with a whole bunch of channels this place was once an amazing area to watch your favorite people make content but now the content creators have so many rules to follow its a mes they have to fix this platform make this platform number 1 again like back then
I remember collecting televisions for melee weapons and, with a conga line of monsters following me as I jogged down the street, all I could do was laugh hysterically as I envisioned a man jogging with pants laden with TVs as meandered, unconcerned, with unsightly horrors tagging along. Like, "Hey, man, stop running, Days of Our Lives is on, we gotta see if Stephano is alive again." I just... It was absurd. Utterly ridiculous.
I hated this Silent Hill game, to me this is the worst game not Homecoming. I never even finished this game because the combat was so difficult and controls were clunky. The story wasn't even interesting and didn't fit a psychological horror Silent Hill game
I agree with all of your points, but I want to point something out about your comment on the sexy nurses having no point in the game because the game has nothing to do with women. It is VERY heavily hinted that Travis sexualized and hates women deep down in Origins, and is caught with a split personality that forged from the abuse by his mother. One of the most common places you enter into the Otherworld is through Bathroom Mirrors, and notice it's always, ALWAYS the women's restroom he enters the Otherworld through. The same goes for a changing room in the theater. Notice how the Butcher has half of his face normalized, and the other half like a monster, and we see him ripping the stomach downward on a nurse disemboweling it (and taking out every part of it related to pregnancy). In the bad ending in Origins, we hear women screaming for mercy as Travis switches to presumingly his other persona. Travis talks about having blackouts, and his mom treats him like a depraved 'bad' person. Hell, even the mirrors and the whole idea behind duality. There's a lot more, but a bad split personality forged in Travis from years of abuse and the death of his father, who ended up murdering women due to an inner hatred for them which stems from his mother singling him out as being 'bad' because he was a boy and she always treated him like he was filthy and evil, and him viewing his mother as what drove his dad to kill himself. The thing is while this is hardly the most shocking twist done in the series history, Origins almost plays this element TOO subtly that most won't notice it. Hell I almost didn't notice it until my second playthrough years later and realizing a lot of the imagery was depicting duality quite strongly, hatred of women, what his mother says and his relationship with his parents, the bad ending, etc. But I thought it was worth mentioning (though the actual sexy nurses from SH2 is just being lazy and wanting to use something iconic, yadda yadda, I agree). On a completely different note, I've been watching through your videos, and I find you have very similar thoughts and do great breakdowns of those thoughts on games that's quite interesting to listen too, and we have some very similar interests. Look forward to watching more videos from you.
+Dr. Zoidberg The nurses in Silent Hill 3 are not the Sexy nurses, they look like the infected nurses in Silent Hill 1, which is reflective of it being part of Alessa's subconscious because she was kept in a hospital bed, burnt alive and unable to move or function on her own for years, Lisa was her primary nurse, but they took on a monstrous identity in her persona and inflicted pain on her, which is why the Nurses in SH1/SH3 wield more typical weapons like guns in SH3. Infliction.
Two main reasons, the first being that mental health is a strong theme in Silent Hill Origins. Travis was checked in for periods of time after the death of his father because he stayed with his hanging corpse for hours, which wasn't "healthy son, you knew it wasn't." The guy on the radio at the start refers to Travis being that one "crazy son of a bitch," and we learn that Travis has had some mental check-ups over the years. His mother also in some records did some messed up visits to hospitals to torture him and drive the evil out of him, both religiously and medically. Travis also went to go check on his mother after she was ultimately locked up for her own mental health and delusions of religion, and while Travis did visit her he hated her and this place. Though the third reason is because nurses are iconic to Silent Hill and the Origins creators wanted to use them, yes.
And he may also have a split personality disorder and one of them is a serial killer that targets women’s. Which is why the butcher exist as he represents his second personality.
@farenheit041 that's totally NOT origins backstory whatsoever, you might be looking to criticize Homecoming for that matter, it fits way better with the soldier runaround. And yes, you may be right on "Monsters were created because he was suffering, not because he was horny" but his comment made specifically clear that the story is not about hornyness, is about suppressed or repressed sexuality, which is also suffering. Motherhood sexuality as well, pretty Freud shit right there.
@ Sex is for the weak. However, I'm a sexless Chad that represses my barbaric instincts and replaces the need to ejaculate with the need to read books. So, "Every man has a nagging interest in sex." is a false statement, the only nagging interest I have is to seek knowledge and expand my brain the levels not known to the sex fiends.
10:04 - 10:06 I know the game's direction + game's music/background score would have made this moment terrifying but, without them, seeing one reflection of Travis going SFLKFMLSKFMLFS on one end while the other reflection of Travis stays stock still is great.
In my personal opinion I enjoyed this game very much and it was pretty scary to me. Yes, you have tons of weapons, you have energy drinks to keep running, but as a new game I didn't know what to expect so I was playing in a safe mood saving ammo, energy drinks, etc, till the very end. I liked the mirrors alternate dimensions, it was original for me, and the extra exploration these dimensions created did not bothered me at all (sanitarium included) and enjoyed them pretty much. And for the nurses explanation, what did you expected from a solitary trucker? Even at the intro of the game a friend tells Travis that he need to find a girlfriend, I read somewhere that this was the explanation for the nurses and for the monster you find at the motel. I know, the hammer space - trucker jacket is absurd, but in the end, it is a game and I don't have any problem with the game getting away with this. I enjoy the story, the father plot twist was heartbreaking, and as a personal opinion I can recommend this game to all my friends even with it's flaws.
i think i agree on u. the critic probably is already expecting a lot since he is very much familiar to the game series. and the expectation rises just like on any other series, whether it be a book, a movie, or a game. the expectation always rises.
The thing I love about Silent Hill is that although the map looks ginormous you only actually explore about 8% of it and all the other doors are locked so thank goodness they didn't waste any space with that nonsense because I would hate to walk into every single room find nothing and walk back out. All in all I'd say this is faithful to the idea Silent Hill one and two had with the maps but yeah the gameplay and story are their own can of worms but I actually enjoy this as it was the first Silent Hill game I played so maybe it painted my view of it going forward since the actual canon of the first game is different
The guy rescued Alessa INSIDE a house engulfed by flames, a number of factors can contribute to someone in that situation to fall unconscious, like heat, lack of oxygen since fire consumes a lot and there is the smoke too... Check the NY state health department note on that: "This can cause headaches, reduce alertness, and aggravate a heart condition known as angina. Fine particles are able to travel deeply into the respiratory tract, reaching the lungs. Inhaling fine particles can cause a variety of health effects, including respiratory irritation and shortness of breath, and can worsen medical conditions such as asthma and heart disease. During increased physical exertion, cardiovascular effects can be worsened by exposure to carbon monoxide and particulate matter. Once exposure stops, symptoms from inhaling carbon monoxide or fine particles generally diminish, but may last for a couple of days."
I love your reviews man, but I have a different take on this game. I've first play this game while I was working as a game tester in Montreal. The game was getting a ps2 port and I when I got into the project there is almost no bugs left so I've just got to play the game 8 hours a day for about a week. At that point I had never even heard about Silent Hill. But boy, what a blast that was. As you've mentioned the music of this game is purely amazing. Being a composer myself, I had no idea that games could make such a creative use of music and sound effects. To this day its still one of my favorite game soundtrack ever. For the game itself, I understand that fans of the franchises must have had high expectations, but for me knowing nothing about it, this was a shocking experience. The town, the fog, the alternate word, the weird characters, all of it made it a really special experience for me. Since then I've became a huge Silent Hill fan and played all the games at least one. I agree it's definitely not of the best of the serie, but it's still a pretty good game imo. Yeah so I've just wanted to give my two cents on this. Keep up the good work man, your my favorite gaming channel!
I like Travis and the monster that represent him in this games. Here we have someone who is going to become serial killer sooner or later but somehow a town called Silent Hill decided to gives him a chance to either go past that or becomes what he have been trying to advoid all these times. The way Travis beat the creature down in this games truely must makes him feel very good to let go all of that weight. But I feel like the more he do it the more his other persona started to get stronger, and could overwhelm him, after he get bored of them and go for the more alived one. If you know what I mean.
Well,at least they TRIED to make something akin to the original franchise *Cough* *Cough* Silent Hill Book Of Memories *Cough* *Cough* But seriously though,the camera was rarely an issue to me while playing the game,i actually enjoyed the story and the challenges for the other runs,also the whole Stamina thing does actually make sense to me,since it could apply to the element of tension;for example,trying to outrun an enemy and then running out of stamina,as the enemies pursue you (Or the theater boss battle) as for QTEs,i think they're good when fighting enemies that jump on you an it takes like 10-5 seconds fpr them to get off you,that is,without the QTEs,and regarding the stunlock,yeah,it made the game more of a Halloween themed beat-em up than a survival horror game for me,though i won't deny that as my first Silent Hill game,i had fun. PD:Nice pummeling with a little bit of talking about the game
It did take you back to the town, albeit a different area. I didn't play the handheld version. I played the P.S 2. version and it felt pretty good there. Even with it's shortcomings, I liked the atmosphere. The combat, not so much. I guess I was just hungry to see more of the town. I have to agree with you on the details. Putting something into the game because its 'iconic' is NOT the way to do it. After playing through the first 4, at the time, I was unaware of Team Silent's fate and wasn't educated on the development process. I just wanted to get back to the town! I guess that's what drove me to complete it. If the game was a new franchise, I wouldn't have the expectations. It wouldn't have been that bad on it's own. Trying to live up to Team Silent is a very hard thing to do. Nobody can do it like them!
Hey man your awesome! very solid review! btw, glad someone agrees that silent hill downpur wasent that bad! please no spoilers, im actually enjoying it alot! I subscribed, very good reviewer!
@07:44 - Currently playing Silent Hill 3 on normal difficulty and thus far I have been able to consistently stun lock the dogs, numb bodies, and nurses by repeatedly using the charged melee attack with the pipe. About a third into the game and I have nearly a hundred bullets and am stacked with med kits and ampoules in my inventory because of how effective it is.
They fucked up a lot of lore and story in Origins. In fact, with the lore of Silent Hill, Origins shouldn't exist. Silent Hill's nightmares and monsters came to be when Alessa was trapped in her nightmares for seven years. Yet at the beginning of this game, she hasn't even started her nightmares yet. And Alessa's mom didn't start the fire in the house, that was because Alessa was under major stress and her power caused the boiler in the basement to explode.
Loving the silent hill videos! Theres actually another portable silent hill game for the PSVita. Its called Book of Memories. It has nothing to do with the main storyline to my knowledge and its some weird diablo clone.
Think its worth pointing out that the UK team of Climax was the one to take over from the American studio, not the way you state in the video that the UK team was struggling with the game and had to hand it off
That butcher did that glitch for me too. I remember at one point he was stuck in a corner and I just unloaded on that f*cker , he dropped like a sack of potatoes.
I get your point with the tank controls. I actually used them for the first half of SH2, but I don't think removing them is that big of a deal. You just have to adjust to the 3d controls same as tank controls. I actually preferred 3d in SH3&SH4.
The first time I played this game, I remember my friend and I took a TV as a weapon. We threw it at a monster in the street towards the beginning of the game. This monster charged at us. We stopped playing. We hated this one, haven’t played it since.
I'm guilty of having played this game practically once a day from start to finish for a loooong time. XD Knew that sanitarium like the back of my hand soon enough, and I unlocked every item and Accolade. I read recently that Origins was nearly a dark comedy before they handed it to different people, and it was totally reworked in a cramped amount of time. We nearly got something way worse.
Advice for anyone looking to collect these games. Origins is much better on the PSP because on the PS2 port that made a lot of areas so difficult to navigate through for items because they made it much darker in contrast. It’s so annoying. Now I have to hunt down a PSP and the game just to better enjoy it.
If origins was good the stamina mechanic would have been good to make it harder to run away from monsters making you dread monster encounters even more
Honestly if they removed the qte prompts and just made it a powerful grab attack that rather takes a chunk of hp or if you have low health its an insta kill id actually like them more. Add in a system similar to kingdom hearts revenge value where trying to stun lock enemies will cause them to invincibility frame counter grab you it would fix over zealously using melee spamming sense you would just get grabbed and take a big chunk of damage.
Lemme get this straight. The dude goes to silent hill to HELP Alyssa from a fire out of good will and intentions...and...he ends up in silent hill...JUST FOR THAT?
- A lot of PSP games were ported to PS2 due to poor sales - A lot of PSVITA games were ported to the PS4 due to poor sales Man, Sony just doesn't trust it's portable consoles
Excellent review. I've said it multiple times but I have a strong dislike for the post-Team Silent SH games. They all seem like, as you said, people trying to make what they think a Silent Hill game is rather than just making a Silent Hill game. 0rigins tries too hard to explain what we already know, Homecoming tries too hard to emulate the movie, SHSM gets rid of the combat and only has enemies appear at very specific times, and Downpour was just kind of alright.
Silent hill origins was scary for me because of the limited amounts of health kits i would get paranoid because the monsters were well designed and there were not many health kits so you could get two or three shooted by the monsters
James, have you ever play Silent Hill Orphan? (I think that was its name) It was a sort of point and click adventure with some shooting for Java mobiles, it even hava a sequel.
I rather like Origins, I know some of the other entries does a better job but Origins is still a fun game to me. Not my fave, but I do enjoy it. I will agree that one lvl is just too long and it was clear when going after the different endings..as for the Butcher, I like the idea but he just wasn't used correctly. And, he isn't a complete lazy rip off. When you're in the burning house if you look carefully at one of the paintings, you will see a painting of PYRAMID HEAD! So like James, Travis saw a painting of the guy which could very well had why the Butcher looks similar. I'm not saying it is, but it could be. And, like Roah pointed out (one of the best LPers for these games as he shows everything off, and I mean everything....), the Butcher could have a very good tie in with Travis if you connect the dots. I'll go ahead and explain it, in the game you read about a "killer known as the Butcher" as well as about split personalities. If you get the bad ending, you see Travis switch back and forth between the Butcher, hinting that those bits of info were meant for him, he "is" the Butcher. Which is a very good theory, it really could work. This game has a lot going for it, but its barely used right. "There's a difference from a good idea, and making a idea work" With the 3rd Alessa, I got many bad comments over her but there is a possible reason for her to make sense. Firstly, a lot of fans refuse the idea that the burning that a accident, let me ask one important question on that---if the cult did not intend to burn her, then why did they leave her to burn alive and likely die? That would've worried everything for them, yet everybody ran out of the building to leave their "mother of God" to die in a fire. Second, we saw Cheryl being created but never the aged Alessa, maybe she was created during that fire but I have a theory. When you see her, after the intro, she's inside the mirror world and is how Travis learns of the 2 worlds. And whenever Travis is in said mirror world, you can see him still in the real world which highly resembles the moment in SH3 when Heather (who even mentions that she always thought it was never her looking back in the mirrors) sees her mirror double killed (and return as Memory Of Alessa?). This 3rd Alessa is not a plothole, nor comes from nowhere, she is in fact, Alessa's twin from the mirror world who likely came into the real world to help the real Alessa, keep in mind the other world is basically created "by" Alessa herself. Why is it so different in 4? Because that was not Alessa's other world, duh people. DX And, let me ask, after SH3 why would the other world still exist? Shouldn't it had slowly been removed? My other theory is a simple one, the other world is locked in place by the seals Alessa planted everywhere which were meant to forever seal it and all who is unlucky enough to get pulled in. But she never completed it, so its stuck. Whenever people enters the town the other world, via Alessa's seals maybe, connects to them and brings out all their deepest fears and sins. Everybody has psychic powers, but most never seem to realize it. So the town is simply attaching to anybody it can because there is nothing else it can do, after SH3 the only thing left the series can do with the cult is to have somebody try and rebuild it, other than that---there's nothing more other than random people facing their demons, but so many fans simply refuse this and reject everything different.
Silent Hill Protagonists when they come to Silent Hill: "I'm almost out of ammo, I need to run away." Travis when he comes to Silent Hill: "I'm not locked in here with you, you're locked in here with me!"
The problem with Origins is that it's trying to be both 1 and 2 at the same time. 1 was about the Cult. Harry is a simple character given little development. 2 was about James. The cult was irrelevant. 3 was about Heather and how she's intricately tied to the Cult. Origins is about the cult _and_ Travis, despite them not being connected.
I personally believe there was heavy executive influence from Konami to tie the game in with the series lore instead of allowing climax to create their own thing, since there are essentially two very different stories playing out concurrently in this game, one that is definitely more fleshed out than the other. I don’t think whether the cult is involved matters so much. I’ve always just seen the cult as a plot device in order to better elucidate the main conflicts and themes in the series
@@VideoGuy232 Well, it's clear that when Climax was given fewer restraints, they can do something good - Shattered Memories is the best post-quadrilogy Silent Hill game.
Travis doesn't need your wimpy weapons, he kills demons with his bare hands as a side job on a daily basis. Silent Hill Monsters are not nearly as strong as what he hunts in his off time.
RaVen11 it's like finding a hidden gem of a game not normally found or recognize by many people and being proud of finding something you discovered on your own or sharing it with a friend or two. it's mostly the reason I appreciate underrated channels for having less than one million subscribers.
"Hey Travis, you can use a whole bunch of shit to defend yourself" Travis: "Nah pal, I can just punch these monsters" "Why not use a literal gun and just shoot the guys?" Travis: "Punch" "But it would-" Travis: *"P U N C H"*
Not to be picky, but you made a mistake in your intro. The original version of the game was going to be made by Climax USA - and it was a horrible RE4 rip off. It then got handed over to the UK team of Climax to make sure the final product was more classic SH in style You got them mixed around is all :)
There was also the oversight of a few things, like how the trauma and abuse regarding Travis' mother trying to kill him with poison gas, his father hanging himself, and the possibility he could be suffering from a split personality (hence the supposed black outs he seems to experience), not to mention the radio chatter in the intro between Travis and a fellow trucker hinting at a rather lonely lifestyle, deprived of any supposed sexual thrills, kind of hint how things like the nurses and the butcher could make more sense. The nurses, because they could easily be just what the image of a model from one of those pin-up magazines (probably something expected of a trucker, that has to travel long distances, with little free time in-between), would look like, being filtered through Silent Hill's otherworld. The butcher on the other hand, may as well be what the image of Pyramid Head would look like, if filtered through a lens of violent tendencies and unrelenting cruelty, which possibly hints at something Travis has desperately been trying to lock away, with the bad ending implying he could've been responsible for murdering several women that reminded him of her mother (which is why the monsters the butcher ends up gutting, seemingly without being provoked or going out of its way to do so, are related to women or sexual intercourse, like the nurse or the "two-back" monster).
I personally loved this game and found it relentless with the huge maps. It gave me a feeling of constant DREAD, to touch those mirrors and have to master the same place over again, but for me that drew me in. This was the first one of the series that I had played so i looked at it for face value rather than holding it up against the others and comparing. But i guess its about what you want from a game. I personally like expansive maps and eerie music but others like a straight forward story and less travel time. Its deffo a preference thing.
I daresay that this game is love it or hate it game. I love it. It's one of my fave. And I agree with your point too. Huge map always had me constantly asking myself "how many monsters are in this room?". The music is GREAT. The control never bugged me that much. The camera works fine for me. It never really bothers me. The melee thing, well, there are a lot, like a LOT of em. I also often ended up not using them cuz I fistfought everything except bosses. Also, I have to disagree with him cuz travelling back and forth definitely changes things. Unlocking door, finding key in otherworld, etc. It's still there? ._.
Origins did one thing right: stealth. After game boxes that promised stealth mechanics, enemies that could follow your stealth, and other outright lies, in Origins turning off your flashlight and moving slowly meant you could actually creep passed enemies rather than fight them.
@@combatofhonor23 It's a little bit of both, it's scary in terms of atmosphere and monster design, and scary on the meaning behind the monsters and the twisted nature of the world and character inhabiting it.
Man, it would have been so much cooler if the story had just ditched the SH1 junk and focused on Travis' character. A trucker with a traumatic past who is possibly a serial killer (or maybe has a split personality that is a serial killer) would have been a really cool premise to play off of in a Silent Hill game.
my DUDE, Team Silent did not "leave konami" they go pushed away or fired in a more blunt way. They had been the misfits of Konami and the higher ups did not know what to do with them so they told them to just make a game and they made Silent Hill 1. There must have been some sort of animosity after so many years. Today most of the devs that made amazing games at Konami left and hate Konami (Kojima and his crew)
How can a company treat his best workers so bad? How cant they see that they need to keep talent to make good games? How cant they see the backlash from this?
@@valletas the team wanted to make a video game konami is mostly a pachinko maker now. they "fired" kojima during the mgs game and during PTs development. he formed his own studio took his ideas of pt to make his own game death stranding.
@@azadalamiq To be fair, Kojima was spending more and more money on MGS5 and on things the company didn't find necessary. And the game was late, as well. Konami sucks shit these days, but you can't really ignore Kojima's own ego and bad choices for their falling out.
Actually, in the Bad Ending, it's hinted that Travis is a serial killer that targets females and in one cutscene, someone tells him he should "meet a nice girl". This symbolizes his sexual deprivations in the same vain of James. I still agree it's a shit game though.
@@leroysinclair8499 Downpour was not that bad it's actually consider by some fans including me to be the entry that had potential and realized it in some ways and didn't in others.
I really enjoyed the return of the UFO ending as it felt right. Those endings have their own mini-canon. In SH1 Harry gets abducted by aliens and at some point in time befriends them. He then returns to take James in a similar way he himself got abducted. Several years later when they were all at Harrys place (James, the Aliens and Harry himself) and learn of Heathers experience Harry decides he had it with this town so he and his alien buddies go to Silent Hill and burn it to the ground. Of course there is no UFO Ending in SH4. according to the UFO canon the town didn't even exist anymore after the end of SH3. A prequel was the only resonable way to bring it back. To bad Homecomming ignored that and brought it back. Without making any sense and it's quite clear that no thought went into it. Alex gets taken by aliens and some guy appears saying "I knew it!" Not funny, not entertaining, just UFO because UFO. Good thing Downpour decided against it.
I think you did an awesome job on this video. You perfectly went through this game and dissected exactly what made it not work, while still talking about a few things it did well. Also a great mix of comedy and getting your point across. I really enjoyed this one.
As my first Silent Hill, origins blew my mind, and then I played SH1 and I was even more amazed by the series. So I dont think it is a game to hate, it's not the best in the series, but in a series full of excellence it is extremely difficult to follow that lead. For a Silent Hill game origins is meh, but for a survival horror I think it's an awesome game...
@@Green-Raccoon777 You can start anywhere. The best ones are the first 4, so if you wanna go for the best ones start there. Origins is a great starting point. Shattered Memories is best played after 1, since its a retelling of SH1's story. Note that I have only played Origins, Shattered Memories and SH1, the latter one being my favorite game in the franchise. Would love to play the other games but don't have the time since I played the other ones while commuting (on PSP and emulated on my phone respectively) and those have no portability whatsoever because you need to either play them on PC or console. If you wanna play the "bad ones" (Downpoor and such) which are the ones Team Silent didn't work on I'd recommend to play them last. They are not bad, but lack the horror and overall feel of the first ones sadly.
@@leroysinclair8499 Absolutely love the first one. It's one of my favorite games of all time. If you like the feel and soundtrack of it you may wanna check out Portishead, which is the band that inspired Akira Yamaoka (the composer in SH1) for the soundtrack. It's my favorite band of all time and it really gives a similar vibe to Silent Hill. Their 3 albums are absolutely amazing, though the two first ones are way better than the third one.
The story completely contradicts the original game, though. It makes no sense... And tank controls work perfectly for Silent Hill games. The controls in Origins, however, are crap.
Considering the tank controll thingy: In Resident Evil 2 on N64 they had the option of direct controlls as well, but with a screen transition, the character keeps on walking the direction he was going in the screen before as long as you push the 3D stick. If you let it go, it adjusts to the new camera angle in the screen you're on. I found this to be a wonderful solution.
Not only does he go in the house, he stands up inside instead of crawling and completely ignores the magically moving fire and strange symbols. Plus he chased the girl instead of running away. He continues to investigate and decides to continue risking his life along the way. He also never notifies the police, friends, or family. He is too good for his own good and doesn't seem to know when to run.
My guess for the energy drinks thing is that they expected you would only use the running to escape monsters and stuff like that, so the energy drinks would be a rare item you’d want in case you ran out of energy while running away. Unfortunately, it didn’t work like that, but I can kinda see what they were going for.
well to be fair according to this video ( th-cam.com/video/yZnrEogAKvY/w-d-xo.html ) Travis' back story does have something to do with women. also i bacon
Well at least it's not as horrible as Homecoming...oh God not Homecoming. I skipped Origins back the day because I didn't have a PSP at that time. But I was sooooo excited to play a new Silent Hill on a HD console (well I actually played it on PC with a controller). But nope! It was a mess, it didn't even look good. It was just a bad game and a bad survival horror, not just a bad Silent Hill game.
So 5 years after uploading this thing I get a copyright strike for the music in the first 30 seconds, blocking the video in most countries. So unfortunately I had to replace the beginning song with a stock one in the TH-cam editor. The TH-cam editor is really shitty and I could barely cut it smoothly, so sorry about the new rough intro. But at least the video should be available again!
Indeed it is, thanks for caring even for your old videos
I find it stupid that they did it 5 years after it was uploaded
I thought my computer was screwing up at first. Then I saw this. There's no way to fight the strike? That's pretty damn stupid it took FIVE YEARS for someone to file a claim. Seems pretty shady to me.
They did that with a whole bunch of channels this place was once an amazing area to watch your favorite people make content but now the content creators have so many rules to follow its a mes they have to fix this platform make this platform number 1 again like back then
oh wow, this video was just recommended to me
I remember collecting televisions for melee weapons and, with a conga line of monsters following me as I jogged down the street, all I could do was laugh hysterically as I envisioned a man jogging with pants laden with TVs as meandered, unconcerned, with unsightly horrors tagging along. Like, "Hey, man, stop running, Days of Our Lives is on, we gotta see if Stephano is alive again."
I just... It was absurd. Utterly ridiculous.
P S Ok, that is objectively hilarious
And that's how Travis stole all TVs from Silent Hill. We need a quest of some poor monster from the town going to reclaim the TVs
I hated this Silent Hill game, to me this is the worst game not Homecoming. I never even finished this game because the combat was so difficult and controls were clunky. The story wasn't even interesting and didn't fit a psychological horror Silent Hill game
I'm ashamed to understand this joke
Give them back the TV :(
I agree with all of your points, but I want to point something out about your comment on the sexy nurses having no point in the game because the game has nothing to do with women.
It is VERY heavily hinted that Travis sexualized and hates women deep down in Origins, and is caught with a split personality that forged from the abuse by his mother. One of the most common places you enter into the Otherworld is through Bathroom Mirrors, and notice it's always, ALWAYS the women's restroom he enters the Otherworld through. The same goes for a changing room in the theater. Notice how the Butcher has half of his face normalized, and the other half like a monster, and we see him ripping the stomach downward on a nurse disemboweling it (and taking out every part of it related to pregnancy). In the bad ending in Origins, we hear women screaming for mercy as Travis switches to presumingly his other persona. Travis talks about having blackouts, and his mom treats him like a depraved 'bad' person. Hell, even the mirrors and the whole idea behind duality. There's a lot more, but a bad split personality forged in Travis from years of abuse and the death of his father, who ended up murdering women due to an inner hatred for them which stems from his mother singling him out as being 'bad' because he was a boy and she always treated him like he was filthy and evil, and him viewing his mother as what drove his dad to kill himself.
The thing is while this is hardly the most shocking twist done in the series history, Origins almost plays this element TOO subtly that most won't notice it. Hell I almost didn't notice it until my second playthrough years later and realizing a lot of the imagery was depicting duality quite strongly, hatred of women, what his mother says and his relationship with his parents, the bad ending, etc. But I thought it was worth mentioning (though the actual sexy nurses from SH2 is just being lazy and wanting to use something iconic, yadda yadda, I agree).
On a completely different note, I've been watching through your videos, and I find you have very similar thoughts and do great breakdowns of those thoughts on games that's quite interesting to listen too, and we have some very similar interests. Look forward to watching more videos from you.
but why are the nurses in silent hill 3?
+Dr. Zoidberg The nurses in Silent Hill 3 are not the Sexy nurses, they look like the infected nurses in Silent Hill 1, which is reflective of it being part of Alessa's subconscious because she was kept in a hospital bed, burnt alive and unable to move or function on her own for years, Lisa was her primary nurse, but they took on a monstrous identity in her persona and inflicted pain on her, which is why the Nurses in SH1/SH3 wield more typical weapons like guns in SH3. Infliction.
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interesting.. thanks for the answers. im a huge SH2 fan but don't know anything about the other games. just started playing sh3
Two main reasons, the first being that mental health is a strong theme in Silent Hill Origins. Travis was checked in for periods of time after the death of his father because he stayed with his hanging corpse for hours, which wasn't "healthy son, you knew it wasn't." The guy on the radio at the start refers to Travis being that one "crazy son of a bitch," and we learn that Travis has had some mental check-ups over the years. His mother also in some records did some messed up visits to hospitals to torture him and drive the evil out of him, both religiously and medically. Travis also went to go check on his mother after she was ultimately locked up for her own mental health and delusions of religion, and while Travis did visit her he hated her and this place.
Though the third reason is because nurses are iconic to Silent Hill and the Origins creators wanted to use them, yes.
Your comment deserves a lot more likes :)
A man who travels alone most of the year from one part of the country to the other doesn't have repressed sexual feelings. Sure.
I was thinking the same
And he may also have a split personality disorder and one of them is a serial killer that targets women’s. Which is why the butcher exist as he represents his second personality.
@farenheit041 that's totally NOT origins backstory whatsoever, you might be looking to criticize Homecoming for that matter, it fits way better with the soldier runaround.
And yes, you may be right on "Monsters were created because he was suffering, not because he was horny" but his comment made specifically clear that the story is not about hornyness, is about suppressed or repressed sexuality, which is also suffering. Motherhood sexuality as well, pretty Freud shit right there.
@ Sex is for the weak. However, I'm a sexless Chad that represses my barbaric instincts and replaces the need to ejaculate with the need to read books.
So, "Every man has a nagging interest in sex." is a false statement, the only nagging interest I have is to seek knowledge and expand my brain the levels not known to the sex fiends.
@@I_Am_Wasabi_Man please say sike
10:04 - 10:06 I know the game's direction + game's music/background score would have made this moment terrifying but, without them, seeing one reflection of Travis going SFLKFMLSKFMLFS on one end while the other reflection of Travis stays stock still is great.
Origins is my favorite Silent Hill game, its creepy AF, has a very good story, was the first SH I played and gave me a nightmare on the same night
why didnt you talk about travis? his story arc was the reason i got it.
In my personal opinion I enjoyed this game very much and it was pretty scary to me. Yes, you have tons of weapons, you have energy drinks to keep running, but as a new game I didn't know what to expect so I was playing in a safe mood saving ammo, energy drinks, etc, till the very end. I liked the mirrors alternate dimensions, it was original for me, and the extra exploration these dimensions created did not bothered me at all (sanitarium included) and enjoyed them pretty much. And for the nurses explanation, what did you expected from a solitary trucker? Even at the intro of the game a friend tells Travis that he need to find a girlfriend, I read somewhere that this was the explanation for the nurses and for the monster you find at the motel. I know, the hammer space - trucker jacket is absurd, but in the end, it is a game and I don't have any problem with the game getting away with this. I enjoy the story, the father plot twist was heartbreaking, and as a personal opinion I can recommend this game to all my friends even with it's flaws.
i think i agree on u. the critic probably is already expecting a lot since he is very much familiar to the game series. and the expectation rises just like on any other series, whether it be a book, a movie, or a game. the expectation always rises.
That Luigi's Mansion music though. XD
I have always loved playing Origins but it definitely falls short compared to Team Silent's work.
Just discovered your channel and i'm very impressed. You certainly put a lot of heart in your videos. Keep it up, and call me subscribed :D
i love that you cosplay as all the boxart
The thing I love about Silent Hill is that although the map looks ginormous you only actually explore about 8% of it and all the other doors are locked so thank goodness they didn't waste any space with that nonsense because I would hate to walk into every single room find nothing and walk back out. All in all I'd say this is faithful to the idea Silent Hill one and two had with the maps but yeah the gameplay and story are their own can of worms but I actually enjoy this as it was the first Silent Hill game I played so maybe it painted my view of it going forward since the actual canon of the first game is different
The guy rescued Alessa INSIDE a house engulfed by flames, a number of factors can contribute to someone in that situation to fall unconscious, like heat, lack of oxygen since fire consumes a lot and there is the smoke too... Check the NY state health department note on that:
"This can cause headaches, reduce alertness, and aggravate a heart condition known as angina. Fine particles are able to travel deeply into the respiratory tract, reaching the lungs. Inhaling fine particles can cause a variety of health effects, including respiratory irritation and shortness of breath, and can worsen medical conditions such as asthma and heart disease. During increased physical exertion, cardiovascular effects can be worsened by exposure to carbon monoxide and particulate matter. Once exposure stops, symptoms from inhaling carbon monoxide or fine particles generally diminish, but may last for a couple of days."
"inexplicably falls unconscious" is just a lazy shade throw.
bout time, fuck boy. I've been rewatching the 2014 special for the past week :P
I didn't even realize that I had an assault rifle until I reached the hotel boss, suffice to say it was a very easy fight
I love your reviews man, but I have a different take on this game. I've first play this game while I was working as a game tester in Montreal. The game was getting a ps2 port and I when I got into the project there is almost no bugs left so I've just got to play the game 8 hours a day for about a week. At that point I had never even heard about Silent Hill. But boy, what a blast that was. As you've mentioned the music of this game is purely amazing. Being a composer myself, I had no idea that games could make such a creative use of music and sound effects. To this day its still one of my favorite game soundtrack ever. For the game itself, I understand that fans of the franchises must have had high expectations, but for me knowing nothing about it, this was a shocking experience. The town, the fog, the alternate word, the weird characters, all of it made it a really special experience for me. Since then I've became a huge Silent Hill fan and played all the games at least one. I agree it's definitely not of the best of the serie, but it's still a pretty good game imo. Yeah so I've just wanted to give my two cents on this. Keep up the good work man, your my favorite gaming channel!
That's neat
Lol I heard that Earthbound music xD It was so fitting too.
The combat doesnt suck, Travis is just a big chad who punches beasts
I like Travis and the monster that represent him in this games. Here we have someone who is going to become serial killer sooner or later but somehow a town called Silent Hill decided to gives him a chance to either go past that or becomes what he have been trying to advoid all these times.
The way Travis beat the creature down in this games truely must makes him feel very good to let go all of that weight. But I feel like the more he do it the more his other persona started to get stronger, and could overwhelm him, after he get bored of them and go for the more alived one. If you know what I mean.
Well,at least they TRIED to make something akin to the original franchise *Cough* *Cough* Silent Hill Book Of Memories *Cough* *Cough*
But seriously though,the camera was rarely an issue to me while playing the game,i actually enjoyed the story and the challenges for the other runs,also the whole Stamina thing does actually make sense to me,since it could apply to the element of tension;for example,trying to outrun an enemy and then running out of stamina,as the enemies pursue you (Or the theater boss battle) as for QTEs,i think they're good when fighting enemies that jump on you an it takes like 10-5 seconds fpr them to get off you,that is,without the QTEs,and regarding the stunlock,yeah,it made the game more of a Halloween themed beat-em up than a survival horror game for me,though i won't deny that as my first Silent Hill game,i had fun.
PD:Nice pummeling with a little bit of talking about the game
It did take you back to the town, albeit a different area. I didn't play the handheld version. I played the P.S 2. version and it felt pretty good there. Even with it's shortcomings, I liked the atmosphere. The combat, not so much. I guess I was just hungry to see more of the town. I have to agree with you on the details. Putting something into the game because its 'iconic' is NOT the way to do it. After playing through the first 4, at the time, I was unaware of Team Silent's fate and wasn't educated on the development process. I just wanted to get back to the town! I guess that's what drove me to complete it. If the game was a new franchise, I wouldn't have the expectations. It wouldn't have been that bad on it's own. Trying to live up to Team Silent is a very hard thing to do. Nobody can do it like them!
with my thumps up you passed to 4K! GREAT VIDEO I LOVE SILENT HILL!
Sure the ps2 version is the best!
Pretty sure the butcher represented the possibility that Travis was a serial killer. All the photos of the 'crime scenes' being his victims etc.
What happened when a chad got stuck in silent hill. He punches his way out instead
Hey man your awesome! very solid review! btw, glad someone agrees that silent hill downpur wasent that bad! please no spoilers, im actually enjoying it alot! I subscribed, very good reviewer!
Its a bit of a missed opportunity this didn't include younger versions of Claudia and Vincent. Claudia was Alessas childhood friend
@07:44 - Currently playing Silent Hill 3 on normal difficulty and thus far I have been able to consistently stun lock the dogs, numb bodies, and nurses by repeatedly using the charged melee attack with the pipe. About a third into the game and I have nearly a hundred bullets and am stacked with med kits and ampoules in my inventory because of how effective it is.
3:12
Book of memories: *sad whining*
They fucked up a lot of lore and story in Origins. In fact, with the lore of Silent Hill, Origins shouldn't exist. Silent Hill's nightmares and monsters came to be when Alessa was trapped in her nightmares for seven years. Yet at the beginning of this game, she hasn't even started her nightmares yet. And Alessa's mom didn't start the fire in the house, that was because Alessa was under major stress and her power caused the boiler in the basement to explode.
Loving the silent hill videos! Theres actually another portable silent hill game for the PSVita. Its called Book of Memories. It has nothing to do with the main storyline to my knowledge and its some weird diablo clone.
Think its worth pointing out that the UK team of Climax was the one to take over from the American studio, not the way you state in the video that the UK team was struggling with the game and had to hand it off
That butcher did that glitch for me too. I remember at one point he was stuck in a corner and I just unloaded on that f*cker , he dropped like a sack of potatoes.
it was released on the psp first and it definitley shows even if you compare it to SH4, which came out 3 years prior.
I get your point with the tank controls. I actually used them for the first half of SH2, but I don't think removing them is that big of a deal. You just have to adjust to the 3d controls same as tank controls. I actually preferred 3d in SH3&SH4.
Travis is a mean drunk
After the Silent Hill marathon, will you consider giving American McGee's Alice a review?
The first time I played this game, I remember my friend and I took a TV as a weapon.
We threw it at a monster in the street towards the beginning of the game. This monster charged at us.
We stopped playing. We hated this one, haven’t played it since.
I'm guilty of having played this game practically once a day from start to finish for a loooong time. XD Knew that sanitarium like the back of my hand soon enough, and I unlocked every item and Accolade.
I read recently that Origins was nearly a dark comedy before they handed it to different people, and it was totally reworked in a cramped amount of time. We nearly got something way worse.
It shouldn't have been sexy nurses, but rather sexy trucks.
Advice for anyone looking to collect these games. Origins is much better on the PSP because on the PS2 port that made a lot of areas so difficult to navigate through for items because they made it much darker in contrast. It’s so annoying. Now I have to hunt down a PSP and the game just to better enjoy it.
Emulators
If origins was good the stamina mechanic would have been good to make it harder to run away from monsters making you dread monster encounters even more
Honestly if they removed the qte prompts and just made it a powerful grab attack that rather takes a chunk of hp or if you have low health its an insta kill id actually like them more. Add in a system similar to kingdom hearts revenge value where trying to stun lock enemies will cause them to invincibility frame counter grab you it would fix over zealously using melee spamming sense you would just get grabbed and take a big chunk of damage.
Lemme get this straight.
The dude goes to silent hill to HELP Alyssa from a fire out of good will and intentions...and...he ends up in silent hill...JUST FOR THAT?
Slepy Isa apparently he a serial killer that kills women
Who is that that you have doing these silent hill intros?
So this is Joe baker back story
- A lot of PSP games were ported to PS2 due to poor sales
- A lot of PSVITA games were ported to the PS4 due to poor sales
Man, Sony just doesn't trust it's portable consoles
I haven't checked your review on Downpour yet, but I bet you're gonna say that comparing to it this one is damn masterpiece :D
Excellent review. I've said it multiple times but I have a strong dislike for the post-Team Silent SH games. They all seem like, as you said, people trying to make what they think a Silent Hill game is rather than just making a Silent Hill game.
0rigins tries too hard to explain what we already know, Homecoming tries too hard to emulate the movie, SHSM gets rid of the combat and only has enemies appear at very specific times, and Downpour was just kind of alright.
Silent hill origins was scary for me because of the limited amounts of health kits i would get paranoid because the monsters were well designed and there were not many health kits so you could get two or three shooted by the monsters
Crazy truck driver beats the shit out of innocent townspeople, Police doesn't know what to do.
what did the opening remind you of?
I played it on PS2 and its way too dark on dark areas, I have to crank up my tv brightness in order to properly see
Holy crap, was that the Jungle Temple theme from Wallace and Gromit; In Project Zoo?
Silent Hill of Rage
8:10 Trucker Power!
Silent Hill 1 and Origins are my favorite. I'm playing through Silent Hill 2 right now, pretty good so far.
11:17 SH2 also had stamina depletion though, how do i know this? In speedruns they quicksave the game to reset the stamina
James, have you ever play Silent Hill Orphan? (I think that was its name)
It was a sort of point and click adventure with some shooting for Java mobiles, it even hava a sequel.
I rather like Origins, I know some of the other entries does a better job but Origins is still a fun game to me. Not my fave, but I do enjoy it. I will agree that one lvl is just too long and it was clear when going after the different endings..as for the Butcher, I like the idea but he just wasn't used correctly.
And, he isn't a complete lazy rip off. When you're in the burning house if you look carefully at one of the paintings, you will see a painting of PYRAMID HEAD! So like James, Travis saw a painting of the guy which could very well had why the Butcher looks similar. I'm not saying it is, but it could be.
And, like Roah pointed out (one of the best LPers for these games as he shows everything off, and I mean everything....), the Butcher could have a very good tie in with Travis if you connect the dots. I'll go ahead and explain it, in the game you read about a "killer known as the Butcher" as well as about split personalities.
If you get the bad ending, you see Travis switch back and forth between the Butcher, hinting that those bits of info were meant for him, he "is" the Butcher. Which is a very good theory, it really could work. This game has a lot going for it, but its barely used right.
"There's a difference from a good idea, and making a idea work"
With the 3rd Alessa, I got many bad comments over her but there is a possible reason for her to make sense. Firstly, a lot of fans refuse the idea that the burning that a accident, let me ask one important question on that---if the cult did not intend to burn her, then why did they leave her to burn alive and likely die? That would've worried everything for them, yet everybody ran out of the building to leave their "mother of God" to die in a fire.
Second, we saw Cheryl being created but never the aged Alessa, maybe she was created during that fire but I have a theory. When you see her, after the intro, she's inside the mirror world and is how Travis learns of the 2 worlds. And whenever Travis is in said mirror world, you can see him still in the real world which highly resembles the moment in SH3 when Heather (who even mentions that she always thought it was never her looking back in the mirrors) sees her mirror double killed (and return as Memory Of Alessa?).
This 3rd Alessa is not a plothole, nor comes from nowhere, she is in fact, Alessa's twin from the mirror world who likely came into the real world to help the real Alessa, keep in mind the other world is basically created "by" Alessa herself. Why is it so different in 4? Because that was not Alessa's other world, duh people. DX
And, let me ask, after SH3 why would the other world still exist? Shouldn't it had slowly been removed? My other theory is a simple one, the other world is locked in place by the seals Alessa planted everywhere which were meant to forever seal it and all who is unlucky enough to get pulled in. But she never completed it, so its stuck. Whenever people enters the town the other world, via Alessa's seals maybe, connects to them and brings out all their deepest fears and sins.
Everybody has psychic powers, but most never seem to realize it. So the town is simply attaching to anybody it can because there is nothing else it can do, after SH3 the only thing left the series can do with the cult is to have somebody try and rebuild it, other than that---there's nothing more other than random people facing their demons, but so many fans simply refuse this and reject everything different.
love the snoic shirt
I don't know what controls are on kingdom hearts one playstation 2 but the little mermaid level made sick because when you swim the camera is bad.
sh origins and 4 my favourite
what soundtrack is used in the outro?
Silent Hill Protagonists when they come to Silent Hill:
"I'm almost out of ammo, I need to run away."
Travis when he comes to Silent Hill:
"I'm not locked in here with you, you're locked in here with me!"
Time for a trucker hoe-down. *Adjusts belt buckle and spits before putting up his dukes*
Imagine they make a Silent Hill spin-off and run wild with the concept of "badass Travis" (kinda like how Metal Gear rising revengeance)
@k_kubes honestly I would buy that.
The problem with Origins is that it's trying to be both 1 and 2 at the same time.
1 was about the Cult. Harry is a simple character given little development.
2 was about James. The cult was irrelevant.
3 was about Heather and how she's intricately tied to the Cult.
Origins is about the cult _and_ Travis, despite them not being connected.
U mean *inextricably* tied
@@ClassicKrusty No, intricately works there as well.
I personally believe there was heavy executive influence from Konami to tie the game in with the series lore instead of allowing climax to create their own thing, since there are essentially two very different stories playing out concurrently in this game, one that is definitely more fleshed out than the other.
I don’t think whether the cult is involved matters so much. I’ve always just seen the cult as a plot device in order to better elucidate the main conflicts and themes in the series
@@VideoGuy232 Well, it's clear that when Climax was given fewer restraints, they can do something good - Shattered Memories is the best post-quadrilogy Silent Hill game.
But this doesn't mean is not a good silent hill game and i personally enjoyed a lot, and it has the most bonus unlockable items, weapons, outfits.
"Spiders! Punch'em! Snakes! You want some too?" -AVGN
Pretty much the combat of this game.
Travis doesn't need your wimpy weapons, he kills demons with his bare hands as a side job on a daily basis.
Silent Hill Monsters are not nearly as strong as what he hunts in his off time.
His a road warrior
Travis is related to Joe Baker from Resident Evil 7
travis is the long lost great grandad of doom guy
He’s a semi distant cousin of the Winchesters
you thought Loki was Kratos' son think again, IT WAS TRAAAVIS
A random masked dude hands you a game in the middle of the night? That's creepypasta material right there.
James Williams
But he’s such a nice man, he gives out free copies of Silent Hill games. For Free.
My kind of thing. ☺
@@dru4111 It's Silent Hill Origins though. I don't think that's that nice.
It kinda is there’s a creepy pasta game called “The Uncle Who Works at Nintendo” Markiplier did an entire playthrough on his channel
Brady seems fine with it.
Use fist against monsters? Kratos would be proud
if you see Kratos using the fist for the entire game I would agree, but he needs weapons to progress, what a wimp.
RE5 Chris Redfield approves !
Trucker Powers Activate!
This channel is criminally underrated.
true
RaVen11 it's like finding a hidden gem of a game not normally found or recognize by many people and being proud of finding something you discovered on your own or sharing it with a friend or two. it's mostly the reason I appreciate underrated channels for having less than one million subscribers.
+Dgaf Srh Getting payed to do what you love is cool, as long as it doesn't compromise integrity.
Force0fWi11
Agreed.
wu
"Hey Travis, you can use a whole bunch of shit to defend yourself"
Travis: "Nah pal, I can just punch these monsters"
"Why not use a literal gun and just shoot the guys?"
Travis: "Punch"
"But it would-"
Travis: *"P U N C H"*
ONE PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWNCH!
The only reason the punch exit is for winning the wrestler costume by completing the challenge.
The main character is such a chad he murders monsters with his hands
Not to be picky, but you made a mistake in your intro.
The original version of the game was going to be made by Climax USA - and it was a horrible RE4 rip off.
It then got handed over to the UK team of Climax to make sure the final product was more classic SH in style
You got them mixed around is all :)
There was also the oversight of a few things, like how the trauma and abuse regarding Travis' mother trying to kill him with poison gas, his father hanging himself, and the possibility he could be suffering from a split personality (hence the supposed black outs he seems to experience), not to mention the radio chatter in the intro between Travis and a fellow trucker hinting at a rather lonely lifestyle, deprived of any supposed sexual thrills, kind of hint how things like the nurses and the butcher could make more sense.
The nurses, because they could easily be just what the image of a model from one of those pin-up magazines (probably something expected of a trucker, that has to travel long distances, with little free time in-between), would look like, being filtered through Silent Hill's otherworld.
The butcher on the other hand, may as well be what the image of Pyramid Head would look like, if filtered through a lens of violent tendencies and unrelenting cruelty, which possibly hints at something Travis has desperately been trying to lock away, with the bad ending implying he could've been responsible for murdering several women that reminded him of her mother (which is why the monsters the butcher ends up gutting, seemingly without being provoked or going out of its way to do so, are related to women or sexual intercourse, like the nurse or the "two-back" monster).
What was worse, the final game, or this RE4 style concept?
@@Nikku4211 final game isn’t that bad, at least it plays and feels like silent hill, instead of an RE4 clone
I personally loved this game and found it relentless with the huge maps. It gave me a feeling of constant DREAD, to touch those mirrors and have to master the same place over again, but for me that drew me in.
This was the first one of the series that I had played so i looked at it for face value rather than holding it up against the others and comparing. But i guess its about what you want from a game. I personally like expansive maps and eerie music but others like a straight forward story and less travel time. Its deffo a preference thing.
I daresay that this game is love it or hate it game.
I love it. It's one of my fave.
And I agree with your point too. Huge map always had me constantly asking myself "how many monsters are in this room?". The music is GREAT.
The control never bugged me that much.
The camera works fine for me. It never really bothers me.
The melee thing, well, there are a lot, like a LOT of em. I also often ended up not using them cuz I fistfought everything except bosses.
Also, I have to disagree with him cuz travelling back and forth definitely changes things. Unlocking door, finding key in otherworld, etc. It's still there? ._.
Origins did one thing right: stealth. After game boxes that promised stealth mechanics, enemies that could follow your stealth, and other outright lies, in Origins turning off your flashlight and moving slowly meant you could actually creep passed enemies rather than fight them.
You don't need to slow down, turning it off is enough to avoid most battles.
You can do it in SH2 too.
That was in the first game, too
The weapon breaking down thing is actually kind of fun in my playthrough back then, because i beat the devil-lookin dude with a fucking tv
For me Silent Hill Origins was a scary game, i don't even know why. Maybe becuase of good monster design.
videogamerka000 1 year later but... Well, this game has a lot of jumpscares, so maybe thats it
Silent hill isn't supposed to be scary its supposed to be psychological horror it fucks with your mind
@@combatofhonor23 It's a little bit of both, it's scary in terms of atmosphere and monster design, and scary on the meaning behind the monsters and the twisted nature of the world and character inhabiting it.
The other world motel spookes me a lot for some reason.
Because you are literally controlling a monster that can btfo of monster with fist
Man, it would have been so much cooler if the story had just ditched the SH1 junk and focused on Travis' character. A trucker with a traumatic past who is possibly a serial killer (or maybe has a split personality that is a serial killer) would have been a really cool premise to play off of in a Silent Hill game.
my DUDE, Team Silent did not "leave konami" they go pushed away or fired in a more blunt way. They had been the misfits of Konami and the higher ups did not know what to do with them so they told them to just make a game and they made Silent Hill 1. There must have been some sort of animosity after so many years. Today most of the devs that made amazing games at Konami left and hate Konami (Kojima and his crew)
How can a company treat his best workers so bad? How cant they see that they need to keep talent to make good games? How cant they see the backlash from this?
@@valletas the team wanted to make a video game konami is mostly a pachinko maker now. they "fired" kojima during the mgs game and during PTs development. he formed his own studio took his ideas of pt to make his own game death stranding.
@@azadalamiq To be fair, Kojima was spending more and more money on MGS5 and on things the company didn't find necessary. And the game was late, as well.
Konami sucks shit these days, but you can't really ignore Kojima's own ego and bad choices for their falling out.
Despite everything u pointed out I still really enjoyed this game
Vikings426
Yup, it was a good gsme just short
Idk. I enjoy it too but from what I heard, some people don't find it good.
I guess this is one of those love it or hate it game 😂
Actually, in the Bad Ending, it's hinted that Travis is a serial killer that targets females and in one cutscene, someone tells him he should "meet a nice girl". This symbolizes his sexual deprivations in the same vain of James.
I still agree it's a shit game though.
Why not instead of a nurse make a hooker? I think it would have more in commun with the character and it will be a new monster
It was better than shattered memories and downpour
@@valletas I don’t think hookers go to hospitals
@@leroysinclair8499 Downpour was not that bad it's actually consider by some fans including me to be the entry that had potential and realized it in some ways and didn't in others.
Man the quality has increased a ton! Really liking the style here Nitro.
I really enjoyed the return of the UFO ending as it felt right. Those endings have their own mini-canon. In SH1 Harry gets abducted by aliens and at some point in time befriends them. He then returns to take James in a similar way he himself got abducted. Several years later when they were all at Harrys place (James, the Aliens and Harry himself) and learn of Heathers experience Harry decides he had it with this town so he and his alien buddies go to Silent Hill and burn it to the ground. Of course there is no UFO Ending in SH4. according to the UFO canon the town didn't even exist anymore after the end of SH3. A prequel was the only resonable way to bring it back. To bad Homecomming ignored that and brought it back. Without making any sense and it's quite clear that no thought went into it. Alex gets taken by aliens and some guy appears saying "I knew it!" Not funny, not entertaining, just UFO because UFO. Good thing Downpour decided against it.
oh man.. am i the only person on this planet who love all the sh games? all of them have some cool things
No , you are not alone. I also like all silent hill's games.
Snake D Uchiha am i glad to read that i kknew it!
***** for me they are all good except shattered memories i like to pretend it doesnt exist
***** rofl
zarkorockera then you don't like all of them if you don't like shattered memories, cause it does exist.
I think you did an awesome job on this video. You perfectly went through this game and dissected exactly what made it not work, while still talking about a few things it did well. Also a great mix of comedy and getting your point across. I really enjoyed this one.
Thanks TH-cam, a week later I discover this exists.
As my first Silent Hill, origins blew my mind, and then I played SH1 and I was even more amazed by the series. So I dont think it is a game to hate, it's not the best in the series, but in a series full of excellence it is extremely difficult to follow that lead. For a Silent Hill game origins is meh, but for a survival horror I think it's an awesome game...
Sora Udagawa same
This was the first SH game I played and beat. After that I downloaded the first on my psp. I loved origins
@@Green-Raccoon777 You can start anywhere. The best ones are the first 4, so if you wanna go for the best ones start there. Origins is a great starting point. Shattered Memories is best played after 1, since its a retelling of SH1's story. Note that I have only played Origins, Shattered Memories and SH1, the latter one being my favorite game in the franchise. Would love to play the other games but don't have the time since I played the other ones while commuting (on PSP and emulated on my phone respectively) and those have no portability whatsoever because you need to either play them on PC or console.
If you wanna play the "bad ones" (Downpoor and such) which are the ones Team Silent didn't work on I'd recommend to play them last. They are not bad, but lack the horror and overall feel of the first ones sadly.
@@leroysinclair8499 Absolutely love the first one. It's one of my favorite games of all time. If you like the feel and soundtrack of it you may wanna check out Portishead, which is the band that inspired Akira Yamaoka (the composer in SH1) for the soundtrack. It's my favorite band of all time and it really gives a similar vibe to Silent Hill. Their 3 albums are absolutely amazing, though the two first ones are way better than the third one.
Silent hill origins was actually my first as well, why I have such love for it lol
Being able to kill monsters with your fists reminds me of End of Zoe from Resident Evil 7 but without any of the campiness.
I find Rad's mis-speaking kind of charming in general, but "UV drip stands" at 7:10 is probably my favorite.
Glad I found this comment lol I was like... UV? lol
This has somehow become prophetic for 2020
I kinda like the story in Origins. Tank control was outdated, I'm glad they moved on from it. I actually enjoyed Origins more than I did with SH4.
The story completely contradicts the original game, though. It makes no sense... And tank controls work perfectly for Silent Hill games. The controls in Origins, however, are crap.
Yeah tank controls in modern games is one of fhe laziest ways of making it sesm challenging. Just makes them seem dated and a little bit sad
Considering the tank controll thingy: In Resident Evil 2 on N64 they had the option of direct controlls as well, but with a screen transition, the character keeps on walking the direction he was going in the screen before as long as you push the 3D stick. If you let it go, it adjusts to the new camera angle in the screen you're on. I found this to be a wonderful solution.
My favorite part was the theaters though. That was new
Not only does he go in the house, he stands up inside instead of crawling and completely ignores the magically moving fire and strange symbols. Plus he chased the girl instead of running away. He continues to investigate and decides to continue risking his life along the way. He also never notifies the police, friends, or family. He is too good for his own good and doesn't seem to know when to run.
I think it has more to do with allesa's influence over him because dhalia clearly states she is using him.
My guess for the energy drinks thing is that they expected you would only use the running to escape monsters and stuff like that, so the energy drinks would be a rare item you’d want in case you ran out of energy while running away. Unfortunately, it didn’t work like that, but I can kinda see what they were going for.
well to be fair according to this video ( th-cam.com/video/yZnrEogAKvY/w-d-xo.html ) Travis' back story does have something to do with women.
also i bacon
Well at least it's not as horrible as Homecoming...oh God not Homecoming. I skipped Origins back the day because I didn't have a PSP at that time. But I was sooooo excited to play a new Silent Hill on a HD console (well I actually played it on PC with a controller). But nope! It was a mess, it didn't even look good. It was just a bad game and a bad survival horror, not just a bad Silent Hill game.
I actually really enjoyed origins. I liked going to the locations from 1, and seeing the characters.
I think its a good start to newcomers of the series actually
I liked the weapon variety a lot. It really teaches you about how each weapon should word in a survival horror game.