You know, I don’t have particularly strong feelings about any particular ending.

I’ve read some people who didn’t think the joke endings should have been in any of the games at all, and others who don’t think a game should call itself Silent Hill without them. I’ve also seen very strong sentiments saying that it’s terrible how in the ‘In Water’ ending of Silent Hill 2 you get all the way through the game, and then end up killing yourself anyway.
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Shamefully absent from the Original Game Soundtrack album is the DOG Ending music.

The great thing about it is that over the top of the rather silly jovial melody is dog barking to the same tune, interspersed with a little growling – mostly at Eddie.

All the while are silly clips and stills from the game playing.

The song ends with a risqué still of Maria and an “Ooh” sound.

Check out some of the images behind the cut.
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Silent Hill: Revelation 3D is the name of the film. It lacks a ’2′ and a ‘The Revenge’ subtitle, and has 3D in the title.

The death knell may well have already rang out.
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I think the movie was neither terrible, nor wonderful. There are certainly things I really like about it, it’s very pretty. And I’m not saying that to bend over backwards to say the one good thing about the movie that I think is awful.
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Cynthia is the woman whom you meet at the beginning of Silent Hill 4: The Room, in fact, it’s almost the first thing you do after the opening of the game – go and visit Cynthia in the subway world. She believes herself to be in her own dream and therefore is rather flirtatious with our character, Henry. Quite a bit later on, after losing and regaining Cynthia – rescuing her from ‘him’ we then discover Cynthia laying in a pool of blood inside a room spattered with it.

Cynthia, obviously dying at this point, talks about how it’s just a dream, and she must have gotten too drunk. She cries out that it feels like she’s dying. Continue reading →

Another tough one, but I think, that whilst it was close, Silent Hill 2′s long corridor speech wins out, although the scene with Lisa was very, very close – as was the moment when, in Silent Hill 2, James reveals the game’s big secret to Laura.

The way Mary is actually quite mean and tries to reject James’ help and push him away to not see her deterioration is selfless – and heartbreaking, as is her final cry for help before James leaves. Truly one of the highlights of gaming, let alone Silent Hill. Continue reading →

I’m once again going to pick two. For two very different types of scare.

The first is the part in Silent Hill 2 in the Prison area. There are cell blocks. Inside these cell blocks are some nasty, dirty, cells. Water slowly drips into the block, which is presumably coming in from Toluca Lake above you. Your radio starts going off indicating the presence of a monster, a new one presumably, because it makes the most awful noises.
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Silent Hill 3′s Leonard is an interesting boss and my overall favourite.

I really like the way you have no idea he’s actually going to be a boss, your first real interaction with him is a telephone call where he insists on confusing you with Claudia. He sounds like a guy. Perhaps a little strange, but there’s nothing obviously wrong with him. You have a conversation where you eventually convince him that you’re not who he thought you were. He tells you where you can find him.
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Why pick a favourite? Unlike the games themselves, all of the soundtracks are unparalleled excellence.

The newest game, Downpour, isn’t an Akira Yamaoka thing though, but on the other hand, Daniel Licht actually did quite well. There’s a rather out of place Korn* track. I don’t actually mind the track itself, but it doesn’t work as the game’s theme, being only appropriate for a trailer. All of Licht’s work is quite good if not quite on par with Yamaoka’s. The first Silent Hill’s soundtrack is very different from everything after it too, being almost entirely ambient industrial noise. Still very good, but perhaps not as enjoyable as a soundtrack for separate listening purposes.
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Another easy one for me.

The track is Betrayal. It sounds like the Silent Hill otherworld in music form, with the clattering and clanging of rusted machinery, but the odd thing about the track is that it’s actually quite an uplifting tune with the main melody that plays being like a demented yet joyful pipe organ from hell.

Preview on the link. Have a listen.