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Tuesday, August 2, 2005


   Silent Hill?
Hey everybody. How's it going?

Just an FYI to spread the word for a great artist, ElvesAteMyRamen will be posting her completed Fruits Basket portrait when she gets home today. The portrait will be the colored form of this line-art:

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Knowing Lindsey, it'll blow us away. ~_'

I've been watching and downloading A LOT of video game trailers lately. Mainly because I found a wonderful little site called www.GameTrailers.com, where you can watch and download many different trailers, reviews and game-play previews for free. :D
Sites like this one make the internet worth surfing. b^_^
Anyway, I've downloaded a total of 8 Resident Evil trailers (material for a VGMV perhaps?), a Devil May Cry 3 review, as well as 4 Silent Hill trailers (two from Silent Hill 3, and two from Silent Hill 4). Man oh man, and I thought Resident Evil was scary. @_@

I still prefer Resident Evil's game play and plot, but Silent Hill is definitely a nightmare inducing, crap-your-pants work of art. It's like a psychological thriller, playing on your instincts and thoughts to create absolute terror. The thing I like most about it is the idea of the monsters being incarnations of someone's fears or sins, and thus being a metaphor for them.

For instance, Silent Hill 2 centers around James Sunderland, whose wife was deathly ill and hospital-bound for more then a year, then finally died. This left James in a constant state of emotional turmoil and mourning. His emotions culminate and finally explode, and James wakes up trapped in a nightmare-ish delusion inside his own head. As he wanders around searching for a way out, he's constantly under attack by bizarre and twisted creatures. Unbeknownst to him, they represent different parts of his suffering and mentality. One such monster goes by the name of "Pyramid Head", and looks like this:
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Pyramid Head Stalks James, periodically trying to kill him. It is often seen beating some of the other monsters, and can even be seen trying to rape one of them. The raped monster is called a "Mannequin", which I don't have a picture for. But, Mannequins look like fashion dummies without heads and have legs where their arms should be (so that should give you an unpleasant mental picture).
Anyway, the kicker is that The Mannequins represent James's instincts and urges, while Pyramid Head represents the part of James that feels like he deserves to be punished. That is why Pyramid Head is so rough on the other monsters, and James himself. Pyramid Head also represents some of James's sexual frustration from the time his wife spent in the hospital (thus PH's compulsion to rape the monsters). Pretty trippy, huh?

If the idea behind Silent Hill interests you, I'd be happy to post some more of the deep ideas behind the series (but I won't do so if it would just be me talking your ear off about something you don't care about). Ghost Hunter actually has some similar qualities to Silent Hill, at least in the "Until It Sleeps" saga. But I'll tell you about that another day. ^_^

See ya' tomorrow!

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