I completed this game after 17 years. And It was awsome. It's more than I can say of some actual games. This is unique. I played when I was a child but... I couldn't finish it.
Personally I like the Bad- ending the most, even though it's not canon. Maybe because I had it on my first playthrough, but it also seems so fitting and the image of dead (or dying) Harry in the car crash is really haunting..
I got that on my first play through too, I was a little disappointed bc I was trying to avoid it lol I don’t mind that I got it though still a fine ending like you said 😌
Then you must play shattered memories,since shattered memories how chyrl mason still cope with henry death and weirdly kaufmann was her therapist,brunette lisa and old cybil, and dahlia was henry wife. Like if good ending you have sh3 as cannon prequel but if you get bad ending shattered memories was the prequel instead.
You know what I just realized about the bad ending ? This whole dream he had in the bad ending is a combination of death drawing ever closer to him, his perspective of his marriage with Dhalia, maybe memories mixed up with wishes related to an unborn biological child of theirs (Alessa), memories of the abuse and bullying he might have suffered when he was at school and how the paradise promised to him by both his marriage and Cheryl's adoption ended up being a continuation of his Hell. If my theory is correct, then that other theory saying that all of the tapes at the endings of "Shattered Memories" are canon is true too, because this dream Harry had is to represent his perspective of his own life up until now.
One ending that I think would be really cool but really depressing is if Harry was unconscious and all the events that happened were in his head. Then he wakes up and sees Cheryl in the passenger seat dead because of the crash. Then Harry sits there and weeps because his daughter is dead and feels it’s his fault that she’s dead. He goes on with his life in sorrow and guilt because of the death of Cheryl. It would have been a really sad ending, but a good one at the same time.
guys pls, read desc :) i was wondering the same until i read the description, it's on another one of his videos, entitled "silent hill 1-13 final boss"
And yet, if you think about it, the Aliens turned out to be a decent bunch of guys. They gave Harry a laser gun, and destroyed Silent Hill for Cheryl in the third game.
@@gigggla bro you gotta be dumb to use that amount of time to complete this game, it's a 10h game (at least it's the time I took to finish this game because of the game overs), the second playthrough should be less than 4h.
The first time I played, I killed Cybil on that sinister carousel, I think I did something wrong, I don't know if I could save her. The end of the game Harry was running away with Cheryl.(2:29)
+Daniel de Almeida To save Cybil, you have to get a plastic bottle from the kitchen in the hospital, then use it to suck up some of the red liquid in the director's office. When you get to Cybil on the carousel, instead of fighting her, use the liquid on her.
@@LuciusC It doesn't, I think. Make sure that Cybill wastes all her ammo first before using the liquid on her (there's a small video when that happens).
so when in the bad ending we see that harry died in the car crash, so according to that, could he be in the real world ?? i mean in the peaceful touristic little town dimension of the village
I just finished the game. When I was a child, I got the good ending. Now, replaying it, even though I thought I was being even more thorough than before, I ended up getting the bad ending. Argh!
It's basically like Jacobs Ladder. A dream while he was unconscious and the world collapsing over him meant he was dead. What I mean is that he died moments after the accident.
Amo questi giochi che hanno i finali alternativi. Ancora non mi sento pronta a giocare a Silent Hill. Ho paura di avere un attacco di adrenalina tale da non dormire per giorni
lmaoo what if like u get the UFO ending but once they take harry away, u see cheryl looking for his dad too and then a sequel in which cheryl ended up in space or in another planet searching for his dad..
most players get the bad ending if you missed out getting the blood bag in the hospital, or if you use the blood bag to feed the monster in hospital, cause you need it to beat Cybil when she's possessed in the carnival, you will not kill her when you use the blood bag on her giving you the good ending.
Er, no, it's not the blood bag you give her, it's the plastic bottle containing the red liquid from the Director's office. I just finished the game for the first time yesterday. I missed filling the bottle, but I still got the Good- ending because I did the Kaufmann side quest with the motorbike.
... No I'm pretty sure he was dead. Or he committed suicide. You know after losing his daughter. Who was like, the only person he had left. You never know.
THOUGHTS:i thought i can save lisa by using the drugs found in a locker. i thought i can avoid the doctor from getting in ,in the motel, so that he cannot grab the blood in the bottle(i forgot).
Watching this, I realized something - The Birthed God's body (from SH3) is identical to Samael's here. I shouldn't be surprised, after all they are the same... entity. I'm hesitate to call that thing a god. But, I love the attention to continuity.
Wonder what happened to Cybill afterwards? I mean, SH3 proves Harry saved Alessa/Cheryl/Heather, so it's possible he saved Cybill too. But there's no reference to her anywhere later.
@@taroupriapus5202 Where is it confirmed? I mean, it's not like Cybill and Harry were lovers, so there was no reason she would have been part of their lives. So her not being mentioned by Heather doesn't necessarily mean she's dead.
@@Aivottaja here's the article silenthill.fandom.com/wiki/Cybil_Bennett In Silent Hill: Homecoming, Deputy Wheelertells Alex Shepherd and Elle Holloway that a female police officer from Brahms disappeared when she went to Silent Hill. The only evidence left of her was her motorcycle, which was found crashed on the road to Silent Hill. It is heavily implied this was Cybill. When asked if Cybil was dead, developer Masahiro Ito bluntly responded, "Yes, I remember Cybil is dead." When asked the meaning of Owaku's statement, he replied, "If you choose 'good+' ending among them, she is not dead, maybe." Director Keiichiro Toyama, who left Team Silentafter Silent Hill and was not involved with latter entries, initially stated that he intended the "Good" ending to be the true ending, and he believes Owaku developed Silent Hill 3around the first game's "Good" ending. However, Toyama changed his mind and also considers the "Good+" ending to be "a true ending".
@@Aivottaja I don't think they've ever explained what happen to Cybil. Silent Hill 3 kinda left Cybil's fate ambiguous. Maybe she just moved on? I mean you would think maybe she would have heard the news about the cult stalking Harry and his child, and maybe wanted to get him some protection. But no, I guess the developers forgot about her.
can someone explain to me where that girl dragged him at 2:10? with the bad plus ending, with Cybil slapping him, was she still possessed? She was moving kinda funny.
Will anyone tell me how to find out where all the locations are? I know you have to firstly start channeling at school, then hospital, etc. but how to find out ?
bad ending should be the real..considering is based on jacobs ladder and in the movie its bad ending, spoiler: guy died in war and the whole movie is his alucination in coma. epic btw
Actually the Good- ending is the canon one, according to Silent Hill 3. Good+ is the "best" ending, but it's not the true ending since Cybil does not make it out alive.
How do you know she doesn't survive? It't not known what happens to her, so both GOOD+ and GOOD can be canon. However, Keiichiro Toyama had the GOOD ending in mind when he wrote the story, but in 2012 when he was asked by fans on Twitter what ending he considers canon, he said for him the true ending is GOOD+. alchemillahospital.net/keichiro-toyama-on-the-true-ending-of-sh1/
Thing is, if we consider the Good+ ending "canon", *a lot of things don't make sense*. I always thought that "Good +" was an "extra" ending to reward those who replayed the game, because story-wise, Harry has literally no reason to throw a weird substance he just "happened to find" that, at first glance, wasn't important to him to begin with (thus he had no reason to pick it up), and never used up until that point at a woman that's trying to kill him, for multiples reasons: a)The damn could be corrosive, thus it can kill her by *literally* burning her face if he isn't going down that route (you don't need to be an expert in Chemistry to know that substances are corrosive and dangerous to human skin). b)He _literally_ has no reason to use it, because he's been holding up until that point a substance that nobody knows what it does. So, that thing can be as useful as spitting on her, or as said in point a, could end up killing her (which, again, there are *more better alternatives if you're going the non-lethal route*). Heck, it could even make Cybil stronger/enraged in the worst case scenario. c)He's in a state of panic. Let's be honest here, who would throw a bottle holding a weird substance to defend themselves while your life is hanging in the line, when you probably have a damn gun in your hands? Unless Harry looked up on a guide on the Internet and learned about how to save Cybil, he shouldn't have used a random substance he just happened to find *by "chance"* on a woman that's shooting at him with a _gun_. Heck, not even us, the players, were able to get the "Good ending +" without replaying the game or looking up at some random guide on the internet (let's be honest here, please. *Chances for getting said ending without getting spoiled and playing for the first time is below 1%*). It's just outside of human's common sense, and illogical.
+lorenzo romano "I always thought that "Good +" was an "extra" ending to reward those who replayed the game" I would agree with that, yeah. And this is also what Toyama had in mind when he wrote the story. GOOD+ was supposed to be more like an extra (he called it "a game’s game") and thought it will be discovered within few weeks at least. To his surprise it was discovered immediately. But still, it wasn't really made official what the actual canon ending is, even the Book of Lost Memories states that it's left up to the players imagination what happens to Cybil. And the fact that the writer itself said he changed his mind nowadays kinda contributes to that. So yeah, while in theory both endings would work, I guess if you want to be really technical and use logic while also considering the writer's personal idea (at the time the game was made!), GOOD makes more sense. I think it's still nice to have this bit of mystery when it comes to Cybil, making the player use his own mind without having something set it stone that wouldn't leave any room for imagination. It's even more effective in Silent Hill 2, where there is also no official canon ending and basically any ending would work.
symphony137 I wouldn't mind if "Good +" was the "canon" ending, it's just that, if we take it as canon, then the whole story falls apart, because Good + itself is a bloody mess for the previous point mentioned. Some years ago, there was a discussion about the "canon" ending for the original Silent Hill in a Silent Hill forum (I believe it's called SH Heaven), which explained why Good + ending couldn't work in theory (and debunked the possibility of "time loops" in SH 1), and it should be considered (in my opinion) a "joke" ending like UFO.
i like to remember konami when was making awesome games like this and no the disgusting shitty ass companie that is today makes me sad we might never see gems like this one :(
I've aways wondered if cybil really escaped with Harry or Harry really killed her. Think about a whole game made about her after all this time. We need one bad.
The UFO was such a awful ending for him to have... I can't even imagine what kind of terrible life is waiting for him. Maybe they'll make him their s*xslave WTF xD
so in the bad+ ending Harry and Cybil basically die in that burning room?? I had the Good- ending so Harry got away, but from the looks of the bad+ they don't make it out
I know thats more than one year but, harry didn't died on the car crash, everything happened, but all in the another world, dimension, or limbo, or whatever the hell it is. He's not dead, he's alive and trapped in that world forever.
Imagine being a guy going through his first playthrough and getting the UFO ending lmao
is impossible, you have to complete the game at least once to get the ufo ending
@@doxoforo420 it's possible if you shared a console with someone else who already completed the game i.e. your brother or sister
You here my man? Yo you got some good taste.
@@docc_ yo
I never saved Cybil on my first playthrough :(
"Have you seen a little girl around here? Black hair, br- AUGH!"
XD
I told you....fucking aliens!
lol, even the developers knew it was funny
this explains why harry in the SH3 UFO ending talks like an alien...because he is an alien!
Short black hair
Bruh I thought that was a bioshock infinite reference
The end of the good- ending is funny. Harry just looks around like WTF and looks up at the player like "Okay, what do I do now?"
Bad- ending was the best. It all turned out to be the last hallucinations of a dying man.
it suppose to be the real one since jacobs ladder used this one
@@flowrepins6663 the comment you're replying to is six years old
flow repins666 if that’s the “real one”, then why does Harry appear in SH3?
@@crypticbeast1013 You answered your own question.
Yves Heinrich not really, because he’s dead in the ending. And Harry is alive in SH3
that slap tho lmao
And she sounds so unenthusiastic it's hilarious
I completed this game after 17 years. And It was awsome. It's more than I can say of some actual games. This is unique. I played when I was a child but... I couldn't finish it.
I thought I was bad, I just finished it after like 3 years, I had gotten stuck on Cybil.
I just finished it today lmao
You were playing this for 17 years....?
Finished all the 5 endings still back on the early 2000s. This is one of my most favorite games ever
Finished all the 5 endings still back on the early 2000s. This is one of my most favorite games ever
wow, awkward title to the video. makes it look like there's 14 endings in silent hill 1.
Ok to make it wasy
SILENT HILL 1 - 14 ALL ENDINGA
@@karlataghoy7925 Nah, mate. You're still making it look like there's 14 Endings. Have an honest look at yourself and sort yourself out FFS LOL!
Yeah he missed the best ending where both Bennett and the baby are present
Well damn was the ps1 that powerful to have 14 endings to one game?????
exactly what i thought
Personally I like the Bad- ending the most, even though it's not canon. Maybe because I had it on my first playthrough, but it also seems so fitting and the image of dead (or dying) Harry in the car crash is really haunting..
ikr...
I got that on my first play through too, I was a little disappointed bc I was trying to avoid it lol I don’t mind that I got it though still a fine ending like you said 😌
Then you must play shattered memories,since shattered memories how chyrl mason still cope with henry death and weirdly kaufmann was her therapist,brunette lisa and old cybil, and dahlia was henry wife.
Like if good ending you have sh3 as cannon prequel but if you get bad ending shattered memories was the prequel instead.
You know what I just realized about the bad ending ? This whole dream he had in the bad ending is a combination of death drawing ever closer to him, his perspective of his marriage with Dhalia, maybe memories mixed up with wishes related to an unborn biological child of theirs (Alessa), memories of the abuse and bullying he might have suffered when he was at school and how the paradise promised to him by both his marriage and Cheryl's adoption ended up being a continuation of his Hell. If my theory is correct, then that other theory saying that all of the tapes at the endings of "Shattered Memories" are canon is true too, because this dream Harry had is to represent his perspective of his own life up until now.
I dont think we're supossed to take the UFO ending seriously. I take it as some kind of funny joke the creators put in there, like an easter egg.
kikolapersona duh
kikolapersona duh
I love condescending fuckwits
@@underthenorthernstar duh both of you
you get an amazing weapon sooooo i love it
Wasn't there also an ending where Harry, Cybil and the baby make it out alive?
Read the description. The video's owner explained it.
Yeah that's the Good Plus ending.
Yes, and after that ending it changes the intro movie! d>_0b
the good+ ending
That UFO ending just fricking killed me. :D And that music just doesn´t help either. xD
One ending that I think would be really cool but really depressing is if Harry was unconscious and all the events that happened were in his head. Then he wakes up and sees Cheryl in the passenger seat dead because of the crash. Then Harry sits there and weeps because his daughter is dead and feels it’s his fault that she’s dead. He goes on with his life in sorrow and guilt because of the death of Cheryl. It would have been a really sad ending, but a good one at the same time.
"Sorry...umm.." that line even to this day manages to crack me up given the situation he's in xD
omg Cheryl voice was soooo cuuute when she said ( goodbye )
Really? Overall I thought this game had bad voice acting.
the voices are alright but the way they deliver the dialogue is cheesey like resident evil
Recon SS She said Gubai ... not goodbye ... just a joke ...
I laughed so hard when I heard it the first time
When she said goodbye daddy that broke my heart... Because it reminded me of my own daughter 😢
That UFO ending put me in the mind fuck
Wheres your +good ending.. That ending was running with cybil
Killing time silent hill
It's missing here it seems. Killing Time is the song for GOOD, not GOOD+.
guys pls, read desc :) i was wondering the same until i read the description, it's on another one of his videos, entitled "silent hill 1-13 final boss"
Right a sied that too where it is????
And yet, if you think about it, the Aliens turned out to be a decent bunch of guys. They gave Harry a laser gun, and destroyed Silent Hill for Cheryl in the third game.
The very first time i played this i got the Good- ending. Picking up the potion to save Cybil can be very easily missed.
The UFO ending is like the dance sceen in Spider Man 3. Fortunately its only optional as it would have otherwise killed the fanchise.
Someone misspelled joke.
i wonder if someone saw the ufo ending first than the others endings
You can't get the UFO ending without beating the game at least once.
oh, thats good.
Skywalker Jump Bullshit. You can't unless you beated the game.
@@Majpancake Thank god for that, imagine the shock you would get, using weeks maybe months to clear it to get ufo end lol
@@gigggla bro you gotta be dumb to use that amount of time to complete this game, it's a 10h game (at least it's the time I took to finish this game because of the game overs), the second playthrough should be less than 4h.
The bad ending leads to shattered memories and the goood ending leads to silent hill 3
Wow you serious 😳!?
@@91Definite I learned about it from Matt Patt especially Patt he know a lot about silent hill
The first time I played, I killed Cybil on that sinister carousel, I think I did something wrong, I don't know if I could save her. The end of the game Harry was running away with Cheryl.(2:29)
+Daniel de Almeida To save Cybil, you have to get a plastic bottle from the kitchen in the hospital, then use it to suck up some of the red liquid in the director's office. When you get to Cybil on the carousel, instead of fighting her, use the liquid on her.
+Daniel de Almeida Killing Cybil was actually the canon choice according to Silent Hill 3.
+DeathofInk
well good, because how the f**k were you supposed to even know that! It made no sense
@@LuciusC It doesn't, I think. Make sure that Cybill wastes all her ammo first before using the liquid on her (there's a small video when that happens).
@@claudiourrutiaaranguiz9281 actually, you can just run up and throw it in her face as soon as the battle starts
so when in the bad ending we see that harry died in the car crash, so according to that, could he be in the real world ?? i mean in the peaceful touristic little town dimension of the village
OMG that UFO ending though!
XD
I think that song really got to me too!
Hunner Budder it was so weird Wtf xD
That UFO ending was... more jovial than it deserved to be. XD
Bad ending is the best... It makes the game very logical.
the first time I got the Good+ ending
me too :)
Bad+ here. Lol,i suck.
Bad- here, I hate myself.
@@DerGraueFuchsss Bad- here, too ehh
the first one i got was i don`t remember i took 4 months to beat this game.
I just finished the game. When I was a child, I got the good ending. Now, replaying it, even though I thought I was being even more thorough than before, I ended up getting the bad ending. Argh!
Man you’ve must of really explored the hell out of the game to get the good ending , in jealous !
playing this game back in the days was hard, you needed a guide book to figure out the damn puzzles.
i would prefer the baddest ending just not to end in just F*ckn UFO lol
It's basically like Jacobs Ladder. A dream while he was unconscious and the world collapsing over him meant he was dead. What I mean is that he died moments after the accident.
Amo questi giochi che hanno i finali alternativi. Ancora non mi sento pronta a giocare a Silent Hill. Ho paura di avere un attacco di adrenalina tale da non dormire per giorni
A me è successo con Silent Hill The Room.
The secret ending is probably the most weirdest and hilariuos ending ever.
I always have good+ ending because i dont know if silent hill have many ending -_-
What
the only thing that I remember from this game is "what's this?"
lmaoo what if like u get the UFO ending but once they take harry away, u see cheryl looking for his dad too and then a sequel in which cheryl ended up in space or in another planet searching for his dad..
I just finished my first playthough. Game is spectacular. Controls haven't aged well but the sense or horror has!
Okay that last ending was clearly done for the lulz
most players get the bad ending if you missed out getting the blood bag in the hospital, or if you use the blood bag to feed the monster in hospital, cause you need it to beat Cybil when she's possessed in the carnival, you will not kill her when you use the blood bag on her giving you the good ending.
Er, no, it's not the blood bag you give her, it's the plastic bottle containing the red liquid from the Director's office. I just finished the game for the first time yesterday. I missed filling the bottle, but I still got the Good- ending because I did the Kaufmann side quest with the motorbike.
The Bad+ ending was the most coherent. No more cheryl, god, alessa or heather and garry lives at the end.
I got myself busy for days then got kidnapped by ufo
Dang Cybil's voice be layk "Harry." "Go."
5:27 maybe this is the beginning of silent hill shattered memories
Yes.
Shattered Memories - Bad ending
SH3 - Good ending
The intended canon ending - Good+ ending
Thank you daddy, goodbye
Then whole world starts to fcking colapse in flames
... No I'm pretty sure he was dead.
Or he committed suicide.
You know after losing his daughter.
Who was like, the only person he had left.
You never know.
Loki Oxenstierna 🗿🗿🗿 the way you said this lol
that last one is hilarious. but no idea where you would get that pendant thing to get the ending. i even forgot the red liquid to use on cybil :P
They should remake it.
THOUGHTS:i thought i can save lisa by using the drugs found in a locker. i thought i can avoid the doctor from getting in ,in the motel, so that he cannot grab the blood in the bottle(i forgot).
Acabo de tener un mal final y apesta, pero la escena de créditos posteriores con Harry muerto en un accidente de coche es bastante inquietante
tfw u always get the worst ending in all Silent Hill games when playing it for the first time
Let me ask you..
What?
@@stefanlepes4264 Have you seen a little girl around here?
@@lukeofficial9436 😂😂😂
@@lukeofficial9436 short with black hair- AUGHH
Watching this, I realized something - The Birthed God's body (from SH3) is identical to Samael's here. I shouldn't be surprised, after all they are the same... entity. I'm hesitate to call that thing a god. But, I love the attention to continuity.
Wonder what happened to Cybill afterwards? I mean, SH3 proves Harry saved Alessa/Cheryl/Heather, so it's possible he saved Cybill too. But there's no reference to her anywhere later.
it's confirmed shes dead. the canon ending in sh1 is the good ending where Harry survived but cybill died. in sh3 there's no mention of cybil
@@taroupriapus5202 Where is it confirmed? I mean, it's not like Cybill and Harry were lovers, so there was no reason she would have been part of their lives. So her not being mentioned by Heather doesn't necessarily mean she's dead.
@@Aivottaja
here's the article silenthill.fandom.com/wiki/Cybil_Bennett
In Silent Hill: Homecoming, Deputy Wheelertells Alex Shepherd and Elle Holloway that a female police officer from Brahms disappeared when she went to Silent Hill. The only evidence left of her was her motorcycle, which was found crashed on the road to Silent Hill. It is heavily implied this was Cybill.
When asked if Cybil was dead, developer Masahiro Ito bluntly responded, "Yes, I remember Cybil is dead." When asked the meaning of Owaku's statement, he replied, "If you choose 'good+' ending among them, she is not dead, maybe."
Director Keiichiro Toyama, who left Team Silentafter Silent Hill and was not involved with latter entries, initially stated that he intended the "Good" ending to be the true ending, and he believes Owaku developed Silent Hill 3around the first game's "Good" ending. However, Toyama changed his mind and also considers the "Good+" ending to be "a true ending".
@@Aivottaja I don't think they've ever explained what happen to Cybil. Silent Hill 3 kinda left Cybil's fate ambiguous. Maybe she just moved on? I mean you would think maybe she would have heard the news about the cult stalking Harry and his child, and maybe wanted to get him some protection. But no, I guess the developers forgot about her.
I got the good- ending because I forgot about the unknown liquid in the hospital
can someone explain to me where that girl dragged him at 2:10?
with the bad plus ending, with Cybil slapping him, was she still possessed? She was moving kinda funny.
It's believed that Lisa (the bloody nurse) dragged Kaufmann to Hell; where she went for failing to protect Cheryl
Matt Rhoades ah
Why the fuck in any game with multiple endings i always get the worst 1!?
I feel you...
WTF !! The last ending unbelievable XD ! I think that's the weirdest ending that I saw during my carrer in games !
You should play silent hill 2 the joke ending is even better
Whats the song at the tail end of the "Good Ending"? Sounds like "Come Come my lady"
2 hour before I completed the game with bad ending
What, did they change the good ending now? I had cybil running with me in the end. Maybe he had killed cybil when she was infected.
when I saw the UFO ending I was like "wtf did I see lol"
Will anyone tell me how to find out where all the locations are?
I know you have to firstly start channeling at school, then hospital, etc. but how to find out ?
What about good+ ending when you save cybil and give that bottle to Kaufman
i literally just finished the game and i got the worst ending possible 😭 but damn that last shot is creepy
it's a secret ending featured in all silent hill episodes
ufo ending is hillarious
“Thank you daddy. Goodbye” IM LAUGHING I CANT BELIEVE I PLAYED THESE GAMES WITHOUT LAUGHING ONCE
I just finished and I got it. 😭 The good thing is I will sleep tonight.
She's like "adios" and then gone🤣
thing is i've seen that last ending on multiple videos like this one
6:50 *doom door closing.mp3*
That UFO ending tho X'D
I'm pissed dude I spent 12 hours just for the worst ending
bad ending should be the real..considering is based on jacobs ladder and in the movie its bad ending, spoiler:
guy died in war and the whole movie is his alucination in coma. epic btw
I've only seen the playthroughs of this game. What was the doctor doing there in the good ending?
The slap lmao
Actually the Good- ending is the canon one, according to Silent Hill 3. Good+ is the "best" ending, but it's not the true ending since Cybil does not make it out alive.
How do you know she doesn't survive? It't not known what happens to her, so both GOOD+ and GOOD can be canon. However, Keiichiro Toyama had the GOOD ending in mind when he wrote the story, but in 2012 when he was asked by fans on Twitter what ending he considers canon, he said for him the true ending is GOOD+.
alchemillahospital.net/keichiro-toyama-on-the-true-ending-of-sh1/
Thing is, if we consider the Good+ ending "canon", *a lot of things don't make sense*. I always thought that "Good +" was an "extra" ending to reward those who replayed the game, because story-wise, Harry has literally no reason to throw a weird substance he just "happened to find" that, at first glance, wasn't important to him to begin with (thus he had no reason to pick it up), and never used up until that point at a woman that's trying to kill him, for multiples reasons:
a)The damn could be corrosive, thus it can kill her by *literally* burning her face if he isn't going down that route (you don't need to be an expert in Chemistry to know that substances are corrosive and dangerous to human skin).
b)He _literally_ has no reason to use it, because he's been holding up until that point a substance that nobody knows what it does. So, that thing can be as useful as spitting on her, or as said in point a, could end up killing her (which, again, there are *more better alternatives if you're going the non-lethal route*). Heck, it could even make Cybil stronger/enraged in the worst case scenario.
c)He's in a state of panic. Let's be honest here, who would throw a bottle holding a weird substance to defend themselves while your life is hanging in the line, when you probably have a damn gun in your hands?
Unless Harry looked up on a guide on the Internet and learned about how to save Cybil, he shouldn't have used a random substance he just happened to find *by "chance"* on a woman that's shooting at him with a _gun_. Heck, not even us, the players, were able to get the "Good ending +" without replaying the game or looking up at some random guide on the internet (let's be honest here, please. *Chances for getting said ending without getting spoiled and playing for the first time is below 1%*). It's just outside of human's common sense, and illogical.
+lorenzo romano
"I always thought that "Good +" was an "extra" ending to reward those who replayed the game"
I would agree with that, yeah. And this is also what Toyama had in mind when he wrote the story. GOOD+ was supposed to be more like an extra (he called it "a game’s game") and thought it will be discovered within few weeks at least. To his surprise it was discovered immediately.
But still, it wasn't really made official what the actual canon ending is, even the Book of Lost Memories states that it's left up to the players imagination what happens to Cybil. And the fact that the writer itself said he changed his mind nowadays kinda contributes to that. So yeah, while in theory both endings would work, I guess if you want to be really technical and use logic while also considering the writer's personal idea (at the time the game was made!), GOOD makes more sense. I think it's still nice to have this bit of mystery when it comes to Cybil, making the player use his own mind without having something set it stone that wouldn't leave any room for imagination. It's even more effective in Silent Hill 2, where there is also no official canon ending and basically any ending would work.
symphony137 I wouldn't mind if "Good +" was the "canon" ending, it's just that, if we take it as canon, then the whole story falls apart, because Good + itself is a bloody mess for the previous point mentioned.
Some years ago, there was a discussion about the "canon" ending for the original Silent Hill in a Silent Hill forum (I believe it's called SH Heaven), which explained why Good + ending couldn't work in theory (and debunked the possibility of "time loops" in SH 1), and it should be considered (in my opinion) a "joke" ending like UFO.
I know I'm 8 years late but what the music's name in 1:48.
Edit : I found it , the track’s name is “Life” for anyone who was wondering like me before.
i like to remember konami when was making awesome games like this and no the disgusting shitty ass companie that is today
makes me sad we might never see gems like this one :(
This game was definitely not a gem :D Second SH can be called so - it is quite good. But the first game is not even good
@ya skirt. no lol
@ya skirt. gotcha. Tell me more, pls
They were a shitty company back then too lol
i read that as silent hill having 14 games
" lemme ask you "
What's with the UFO ending. It became a sci-fi awith that
Lisa was kinda spooky in the ending
I've aways wondered if cybil really escaped with Harry or Harry really killed her. Think about a whole game made about her after all this time. We need one bad.
I personally think she dead.
Can someone please tell me what theme is from 0:42? Thank you so much
Good goodbye 😢
What the song playing in the first ending? It sounds peaceful
Killing time silent hill
+Seth Stickler but I'm talking about the song when you meet the angel who gives you the baby
It doesn't have any official name because this song wasn't released on the soundtrack.
symphony137 oh ok
In bad+ Harry and the policer is safe...
This scene reminds me Father's Great Love.
The UFO was such a awful ending for him to have... I can't even imagine what kind of terrible life is waiting for him. Maybe they'll make him their s*xslave WTF xD
+Anime Lover I believe he appears somewhere in another UFO ending. I can't remember which game is it.
***** Them Konami really loves alien don't they?
+Anime Lover I think they make harry into an elite alien, judging by silent hill 2 and three
You missed the Good+ ending
It's obvious that the UFO ending is the real ending.
so in the bad+ ending Harry and Cybil basically die in that burning room?? I had the Good- ending so Harry got away, but from the looks of the bad+ they don't make it out
The worst ending is Harry basically died in the car crash. And it was all a dream that he never woke up from. It would be implied that Cybil dies too.
@@SephirothXValentine I know it's more than 1 year that you commented but it's never said that Harry died in the car crash
I know thats more than one year but, harry didn't died on the car crash, everything happened, but all in the another world, dimension, or limbo, or whatever the hell it is. He's not dead, he's alive and trapped in that world forever.
Lisa climbed out of thin air O_o
What I don't get about the Car crash ending is, why does doing certain actions mean if it was all a dream or if it was real, like wtf
Are you serious with that ufo ending?
There's only 5 endsings... What?
Nowadays, ufo ending would be troll ending
sagakill it already is wtf are you trying to say
Man whoever got the UFO ending i feel so fuckin bad for them 😂😂
I got the bad- ending :(
Because you killed Cybil and didn't save Kaufman.
Daddy thank you daddy you killed me so now gtfo this line was better