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This is my favorite video game in the history of M-EFFING FOREVER. PLOT! VILLAINS! CHARACTERS! CONTROLS! MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC!
GAME: Silent Hill 2
PLATFORM / YEAR: Playstation 2 (later Xbox) / 2001
SAMPLE MUSIC: Love Psalm - Akira Yamaoka
GAME TRAILER: HIT IT!
FAVORITE CHARACTER: Gonna have to go with James. XD
WHY THIS GAME IS BADASS: I don't even know where to begin, dude. James Sunderland is kind of a doof and he gets a letter from his wife that's like, "HEY I'M IN OUR SPECIAL PLACE, IN SILENT HILL. YOU SHOULD COME MEET ME THERE OR SOME SHIT." And James is like, "wait, my wife died three years ago, what?" So he jumps in his car and goes to OUR FAVORITE TOWN!
What follows is a physical romp through a forest, a town, an apartment building, a strip club, a mental hospital, a town at night, a labyrinth and a hotel -- and a mental romp through two completely effed up men, one overly-bitchy/apologetic woman, a snarky little brat and a pretty skanky/sexy woman who looks like James' dead wife. ALSO. PYRAMID HEAD. HOT NURSES. SQUEAKING ROACHES. I KNOW THAT THING ISN'T TRYING TO EAT MY FACE!
I always have the weirdest urges while playing this game. Sometimes I want to stop and let Maria get stabbed by Pyramid Head. Sometimes I wish James would SAY SOMETHING in the strip club (LOL YOU WORK HERE, AMIRITE?), or Maria would TOUCH HIM more than through the prison cell bars (I mean, you think he would want it -- and could make her do it, right?)... Sorry Aeris Gainsborough (re: the end of Disc 1 of Final Fantasy VII), this whole game got more emotion out of my then you ever could. :P
But really, whereas most horror games (even the first Silent Hill, to a certain extent) contain fighting (ZOMBIE NINJA HORDES! LOOK OUT FOR THE MONSTERS! OH NOES!) fighting FIGHTING!!1, Silent Hill 2 was (and still is) the best psychological horror game. When you're playing it you kind of get this hollow pit in your stomach and by the end, once the whole tale unravels, you're kind of like, "DID I REALLY FIGHT ANYTHING AT ALL?" None of the endings are super overjoyous and HAPPILY EVER AFTER, but do you really expect them to be after a main character has been through so much shit?
MOST UNSETTLING MOMENT: James entering that apartment and seeing Pyramid Head for the first time in action -- when he goes and hides in the closet and Pyramid Head approaches it and just hovers, skafjl;sjdfakfjd. I think this ties with when James finds Maria in her prison cell in the labyrinth. Her face and that song. That part gives me effing nightmares. WAY TO RIDE THE FAILBOAT, JAMES.
MOST PRETTY DAMN GORGEOUS MOMENT: Like I've said a billion times, hands down, James Sunderland watching him and Mary's videotape from their trip to Silent Hill in Room 312 of the Lakeview Hotel. Everything about it, from the camera angles to the music to the utter and complete DEFEAT on James' face = BEAUTIFUL. ARE YOU HERE TO DELIVER SOME FAIL TO ME, MISTER FAILMAN?
This is my favorite video game in the history of M-EFFING FOREVER. PLOT! VILLAINS! CHARACTERS! CONTROLS! MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC!
GAME: Silent Hill 2
PLATFORM / YEAR: Playstation 2 (later Xbox) / 2001
SAMPLE MUSIC: Love Psalm - Akira Yamaoka
GAME TRAILER: HIT IT!
FAVORITE CHARACTER: Gonna have to go with James. XD
WHY THIS GAME IS BADASS: I don't even know where to begin, dude. James Sunderland is kind of a doof and he gets a letter from his wife that's like, "HEY I'M IN OUR SPECIAL PLACE, IN SILENT HILL. YOU SHOULD COME MEET ME THERE OR SOME SHIT." And James is like, "wait, my wife died three years ago, what?" So he jumps in his car and goes to OUR FAVORITE TOWN!
What follows is a physical romp through a forest, a town, an apartment building, a strip club, a mental hospital, a town at night, a labyrinth and a hotel -- and a mental romp through two completely effed up men, one overly-bitchy/apologetic woman, a snarky little brat and a pretty skanky/sexy woman who looks like James' dead wife. ALSO. PYRAMID HEAD. HOT NURSES. SQUEAKING ROACHES. I KNOW THAT THING ISN'T TRYING TO EAT MY FACE!
I always have the weirdest urges while playing this game. Sometimes I want to stop and let Maria get stabbed by Pyramid Head. Sometimes I wish James would SAY SOMETHING in the strip club (LOL YOU WORK HERE, AMIRITE?), or Maria would TOUCH HIM more than through the prison cell bars (I mean, you think he would want it -- and could make her do it, right?)... Sorry Aeris Gainsborough (re: the end of Disc 1 of Final Fantasy VII), this whole game got more emotion out of my then you ever could. :P
But really, whereas most horror games (even the first Silent Hill, to a certain extent) contain fighting (ZOMBIE NINJA HORDES! LOOK OUT FOR THE MONSTERS! OH NOES!) fighting FIGHTING!!1, Silent Hill 2 was (and still is) the best psychological horror game. When you're playing it you kind of get this hollow pit in your stomach and by the end, once the whole tale unravels, you're kind of like, "DID I REALLY FIGHT ANYTHING AT ALL?" None of the endings are super overjoyous and HAPPILY EVER AFTER, but do you really expect them to be after a main character has been through so much shit?
MOST UNSETTLING MOMENT: James entering that apartment and seeing Pyramid Head for the first time in action -- when he goes and hides in the closet and Pyramid Head approaches it and just hovers, skafjl;sjdfakfjd. I think this ties with when James finds Maria in her prison cell in the labyrinth. Her face and that song. That part gives me effing nightmares. WAY TO RIDE THE FAILBOAT, JAMES.
MOST PRETTY DAMN GORGEOUS MOMENT: Like I've said a billion times, hands down, James Sunderland watching him and Mary's videotape from their trip to Silent Hill in Room 312 of the Lakeview Hotel. Everything about it, from the camera angles to the music to the utter and complete DEFEAT on James' face = BEAUTIFUL. ARE YOU HERE TO DELIVER SOME FAIL TO ME, MISTER FAILMAN?
