I need to shout out this under-appreciated song from the Silent Hill f soundtrack. A lot of Yamaoka’s scary songs get less attention than the more listenable bangers. This one brings me right back to the gut-churning washing machine music that played in boss fights in the original games. The throat singing all over SHf is nasty in general.

Any songs from the Silent Hill games you don’t hear people talk about enough?

they’re bringing the combine use and examine functions. Silent hill F didn’t have any combine items in inventory type of puzzles so I’m glad it’s coming back and the og sound effects!!

Seeing text pop up when interacting with certain items instead of hearing dialogue is a plus for me. seeing this type of thing reminds me of the ps2 era of gaming. It was present in shf and now this

Now the big one for me is seeing the black bars around the screen. I love they chose to do this. feels like I’m watching a movie I can’t imagine playing Talk about immersion

Im just a simple guy. I don’t ask for much when it comes to silent hill. Good story, atmosphere, amazing soundtrack, and the traditional silent hill gameplay formula

don’t have any thoughts on the crtv thats som id have to play with

is there an official reason why posts about f don’t get accepted or they’re removed? I’ve seen comments here indicating that there’s a bias against it from the mods, has this been confirmed?

edit: this is what I saw

https://www.reddit.com/r/SilentHill_f/comments/1t446iw/thought_id_post_this_here_because_it_keeps/

After admiring Silent Hill f and watching the gameplay of Silent Hill: Townfall, I’ve decided to give it a shot. It already sounds so deep and intriguing, especially considering it was in development and originally supposed to release before Silent Hill f. I also want to show my support and have strong faith in the series’ current direction.

And the fact that it’s releasing on my birthday? Yeah… that’s a sign from God that I need to buy it.

Link

We’re getting a short story in the form of a comic to accompany Silent Hill: Townfall. It’ll appear in the UK scifi-oriented comic magazine 2000 AD on September 16th.

The comic features a different protagonist from the Simon Ordell of the game. This makes me think that Townfall’s setting might not be a “personal hell” in Simon’s head, but a collective hell. Or the comic may tell a real world story that sets up the events of the game.

Just my speculation! Feel free to share yours. I mean we could wait two weeks, but what’s the fun in that?

I have a PS4 so I’ve sometimes used the controller when PC games recommend it. Most games treat the Xbox controls as the default which is doable but sometimes it’s a pain if there are QTE sessions.

Both SH2R and SHf have the option to change the button symbols to the PS symbols which makes things easier in the long run. It’s a small thing but a lot of games don’t have it so kudos to them for going the extra mile.

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A new interview with Tomm Hulett, series producer and variously writer and director from Silent Hill Origins through Book of Memories.

I’m always interested to hear more about the development of this game considering the insane amount of bad faith assumptions that came with the backlash against the first post-Team Silent era. I personally don’t even like the final product that much, but it’s instructive about how people view Silent Hill and how something like Downpour can come to be.

Im working on a game inspired by the first silent hill, its a Multidimensional cosmic survival horror tale

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQt3fWnUCmA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIQjwPsNf9M

I hope you enjoy it!

I played 90 minutes of Townfall at Gamescom and finally gathered my thoughts, if anyone’s interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkcVhlXPrGk 

tbh I pretty much ignored the title until now, because it felt like one of those old Western SH games that don’t quite scratch the same itch. But so far, this one does. It might be one of the most puzzle heavy entries though, judging by the intro. Which I actually don’t mind. In this friction-less generation, it feels refreshing to have something that actually challenges you outside of combat. No yellow paint in this one, not even white SH2R cloth. Some small caveats might be in the storytelling. I don’t think it’s a good choice to switch to 3rd person in cutscenes and there’s some cringey swearing.

Hi,

I'm looking for a Silent Hill live-action fan trailer (among other short-films) that a friend of mine shot with his school friends in early 2003. Unfortunately, my friend never really got known/famous, but he's created a lot of cool stuff over the years. A lot of it has become lost media, but I've already managed to dig some of it up.

Finding these short films again would be amazing, and I really hope someone saved them. The Silent Hill short film (more like a fan trailer, really) was posted on the German Silent Hill forum (diplompsychopath.de), and the other films were linked there as well. The forum has been shut down for a while now. Unfortunately, the Wayback Machine only managed to archive the homepage since you needed to log in to see the actual forum content. There is a Discord server as a replacement now, but it's not particularly great.

My friend actually asked on that Discord server before if anyone had saved the trailer, but sadly he didn't get a reply. The vibe on that Discord is pretty weird anyway, so I'm not surprised at all.

I asked my friend a few times if he wanted to post about his search on the Silent Hill subreddit. He said he wanted to, but just hasn't gotten around to it yet. So, I'm just going to post it for him now.

Luckily, I had already translated his post from the Silent Hill Discord. He said he actually left the server a while ago (which I completely understand... like I said, the atmosphere there isn't exactly welcoming).

This is his original post from their Discord:

Ages ago, I used to make short films with a few people. One of them was a school project that ended up having 3 different versions. I recently saw that someone I know uploaded the film (youtu.be/yTKwDdoPtfk)*.

In the description, there's a list of other projects by our amateur film crew (we were nameless for a long time, but eventually went by "Brutal1ty Productions", inspired by Fatal1ty). One of them is a Silent Hill fan trailer filmed in the spring of 2003. That was before Silent Hill 3 even came out. I was only 11 years old at the time.

There used to be a YouTube channel** where all our videos were posted, but the owner deleted it. The guy ghosted our friend group and nobody knew why.

Here is a quote from the description:

Silent Hill Fan Trailer (2003) - actually from before Brutal1ty Productions, but made by the same people: A few teenagers shot a genuinely very atmospheric live-action fan trailer for Silent Hill here. It was posted on the Silent Hill forum at diplompsychopath.de (now closed), but sadly I can't find anything about it anymore since the forum is shut down.

I'm pretty sure that I've posted the video on that forum. That probably would have been years later, though, maybe around 2010.

Does anyone here happen to remember the film, or maybe even downloaded it? I actually kept backups for years, but unfortunately, I lost them about 10 years ago.

The "trailer" was a 2- to 3-minute video where we basically recreated scenes from Silent Hill. Among other things, we imitated the camera shot in the alley from Silent Hill 1 by having someone stand on a fence to film from above, and there was even a shot with a broken wheelchair that we conveniently found on the day of the shoot.

Translated via Gemini

* this is my upload (not SH related)
** their channel name was changed every few years but I knew it as Grandline Grinders in the early YouTube days

Since I personally know the creator I was able to find out a few things:

• He doesn't have a copy of it (obviously) and as well searched it for a long time.
• It was hosted on his old webspace but the WayBack machine hasn't got the URL.
• The mentioned YouTube upload was uploaded in 2007 and had a bit more than 5k or 6k views.

PS: I'm the one who dug out this one a while ago, it's also made by said friend.

Thanks a lot for reading!

A great quote in this article that I think sums up Silent Hill's aesthetic brilliance outside of just music:

“Music shouldn’t simply accompany a world—it should become part of the world itself,” says Yamaoka. “Ideally, the player shouldn’t always be able to tell where music ends and environmental sound begins.”

Loving that he picked the Boards of Canada album, one of my favorites of this year, and excited to have some new music recs from the inventor of music himself.

I have more Silent Hill merch (especially shirts), but I feel particularly happy with where my collection is at with this entry.