Konami
Silent Hill

"The cold, death, the eternal pain
The smell of blood, the ropes on the heart.
Still thinking now of that ancient wound
Sweating, I whisper my departure.
I confusedly recall the lost daughter
In front of my eyes, a gray-haired woman.
Listen to the lament for a few minutes
The story of how I lost the future..."
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_{SILENT HILL}

I, Harry Mason, ended up there by mistake one winter evening many years ago, I thought it was a dream... I wandered alone, in the dark, for 36 hours. It was there that I met the planetary angels.

    ARATRON: "The noise, the crash, yellow-blue lights, pain in the back... Cheryl, where are you? Fog, ice, still air... Cheryl, where are you going? Is it raining? What is it? Blood!!!! Blood! Blood! Blood, it's falling from that window!"

    BETOR: "Who is she? How did I get into an accident? Have you seen my daughter? Dark eyes, black hair, petite, seven years old... What do you mean it’s better not to go outside?"

    HAGITH: "A siren howls louder and louder!!! What is it? Darkness, darkness, darkness!!! I'm scared! Huge birds circle high in the sky, dogs too thin, no one on the streets... Darkness, fog, and darkness. Running, I stop to look around. I'm panting, fog! Walking, I'm looking for something to defend myself... A stick, a pipe. Vultures, eagles, dogs... What the hell of a city is this? I'm awake. How did I get to this school? Headache.... First floor classrooms, all okay. This radio doesn't tune, what do I need it for?... Fear, scream no it's not me it's the siren! Again? Noooooo!"

    OCH: "Darkness, flayed walls, where am I??? Cheryl where are you?? Children laughing over there in that classroom, I try to open the door, locked, locked! Locked!!!  I push, search for a key, everything is locked... The bathrooms are open, I vomit! A flayed man, tied up!!! I find a key, vomit again, but I'm sure I wasn't on this floor! I stop and look around... The radio doesn't tune, it keeps crackling, no, now everything is alright. Outside, still fog, dogs, and huge birds, I run, run, run, run, run... A church....."

    OPHIEL: "Lit candelabras, someone is there, Dhalia. This woman is crazy, she looks like a witch searching for her daughter, like me. Alessa, Alessa, Alessa, Cheryl! Cheryl! Cheryl! Cheeeeeryyyylllll!!!! To the hospital, I need to see if they've taken her to the hospital, I'm always chased by dogs, I run. Wheelchairs, a phone book, the phone is silent! No one is there, everything is empty. The whole city is empty!!!  A shot! A confused nurse is Lisa, she seems almost unreal, I can't waste time with her, I must find Cheryl and Alessa. I must find Cheryl and Alessa, Cheryl and Alessa!!! Headache, siren, radio noooooooo! Again!"

    PHALEG: "Like at the school, flayed walls, worms on the walls, terror. Nurses, nuns, doctors all seem crazy, I am the crazy one, I run, kick, scream: Cheryl!!! Away, away I must escape from here. A shopping center, Cheryl on TV? How? Where is she?? Cheryl??? Giant rats, sewers, rocking horses, pink bunnies... The lake everything will be resolved at the lake..."

    PUHL: "I row gently, everything seems calm, no monstrous dogs, murderous nurses. I sleep a bit. It's been thirty-six hours that I've been nailed to this nightmare. Alessa I must find Alessa, she is the key to finding Cheryl. Where am I? I can't be at the hospital again! Where am I?! Everything is confused, memories blend, the accident, the school, the hospital, the blood. Blood drips from the ceiling. The cage has a child inside, another wheelchair. The siren howls, screeches, the radio crackles... As always, I run, run down this endless staircase"

    SAMAEL: "Panting, I need to rest. Demons, angels swirling in the sky. Cheryl it looks like her, what’s happening? What’s happening!!!? Alessa is Alessa and Cheryl!! Cheryl is Alessa. A dream it’s all a dream... Maybe"


NOT SO!!!
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Creeps in the dark a damned silence / I abandon the saved ones that listened to me.

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The masterpiece survival horror of Konami will not be remembered for its graphics nor for its playability. And not even for the story, which although valid, is difficult to follow throughout the game (a problem that will be solved in the second chapter). The core of Silent Hill is the atmosphere that the mountain town of Silent Hill is able to evoke. A rusty atmosphere of death inherited from a Hollywood nightmare (perverse hallucination) and transformed into fear, by the splendid notes of the soundtrack by Akira Yamaoka.
The solitude of a man in a ghost town where what seems to be is not, and what is does not seem to be. Universes intertwining in the hellish attempt to sacrifice your daughter for the coming of evil.

Never again such a terrifying adventure, Never again.