22 Facts About Silent Hill

Silent Hill is a horror anthology media franchise centered on a series of survival horror video games, created by Keiichiro Toyama, developed and published by Konami.

The Silent Hill franchise has expanded to include various print pieces, two feature films, and spin-off video games.

Silent Hill is set in the series' eponymous fictional American town.

Second installment in the series follows James Sunderland searching for his deceased wife in Silent Hill after having received a letter from her informing him that she is waiting for him there.

Silent Hill 3 is a direct sequel to the first installment in the series.

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Gameplay takes place in two parts: a framing, first-person psychotherapy session with an unseen patient, and an over-the-shoulder perspective of Harry's journey through Silent Hill, periodically interrupted by the occurrence of an environmental shift where he is pursued by monsters.

Play Novel: Silent Hill is a visual novel adaptation of the original Silent Hill, released exclusively for the Game Boy Advance in Japan on March 21,2001.

Silent Hill: The Escape is a mobile phone spin-off title for the Silent Hill franchise.

Silent Hill 2 features both the main scenario and the Born from a Wish sub-scenario for Maria seen in later re-releases, namely the Director's Cut.

The planned story of Silent Hill 5 was to focus on a damaged human being summoned to Silent Hill for a certain reason.

Silent Hill later reiterated this in an interview with JeuxActu, and elaborated that the third film project is to be part of what will be a "relaunch" of the Silent Hill brand, accompanied by new video games.

All the plots of the installments in the Silent Hill series, except Shattered Memories and The Room, share a common setting: the foggy rural American town of Silent Hill, which is a fictional location set in the northeastern United States: some games specifically reference the town as being located in Maine, whereas in the film the town is set in West Virginia.

Silent Hill is depicted in Shattered Memories as a heavily snow-covered town in the midst of a blizzard, while the events of The Room primarily occur in the fictional neighboring city of South Ashfield, with the player venturing forth to smaller locales around Silent Hill.

Installments in the Silent Hill series utilize a third-person view, with occasional fixed camera angles.

Player characters of every Silent Hill game have access to a variety of melee weapons and firearms, with Origins and Downpour featuring rudimentary hand-to-hand combat.

Development of the Silent Hill series started in September 1996 with the beginning of the development of its first installment, Silent Hill.

The story of the second installment, Silent Hill 2, was conceived by CGI director Takayoshi Sato, who based it on the novel Crime and Punishment, with individual members of the team collaborating on the game's actual scenario; the main writing was done by Hiroyuki Owaku and Sato.

The town of Silent Hill is a small rural American town imagined by the creative team.

Certain religious items appearing in the series were conceived by the team and for some others various religions were used as a basis: the evil spirit-dispelling substance Aglaophotis, which appears in the first installment and Silent Hill 3, is based on a herb of similar name and nature in the Kabbalah ; the name of the talisman called "Seal of Metatron" references the angel Metatron.

Silent Hill series has been praised for their graphics, atmosphere, and narratives.

Silent Hill 2 is widely considered to be the best installment in the Silent Hill game series and is considered by many to be a modern-day horror masterpiece.

Silent Hill 3 was well received by critics, especially in its presentation, including its environments, graphics and audio, as well as the overall horror elements and themes that are continued from past installments.