Poor Angela. First SH2, then this.

On the Lost Memories DVD, there is some concept art of this hallway. The grate is the ceiling, so this image is looking upwards, like if you were seeing it while lying down.

peronmls made an interesting observation:

Occasionally, if you go through the game discs, you can find stuff that didn’t make it to the final version.

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Blue Velvet, and David Lynch’s films in general, provided a lot of inspiration to the developers of the SH games. This is quite apparent with SH2 and Blue Velvet, but there are a lot of other examples, as well.

From Creator: I saw this movie when I was in high school and experienced terror psychologically for the first time. -Masahiro Ito Film-wise, we would say Jacob’s ladder has been a big influence, plus other works by Stanley Kubrick and David Lynch and the novels of Stephen King.-Owaku, on films that influenced the series Silent [...]

I know I’ve discussed it before, but the whole RPT/”rape” thing started off, as far as I can recall, with a debate on whether or not the RPT/mannequin scene and RPT/lying figure scene were sexual or not. Somehow, after that, everyone started talking about rape and discussing whether or not it’s literal, vagina-destroying rape or [...]

Hiroyuki Owaku is a writer and event programmer who worked on the first three Silent Hill games, and also contributed to Silent Hill 4. He was the event programmer in the first game. The first game’s scenario was created by Keiichiro Toyama, but Owaku was in charge of the riddles. For Silent Hill 2, he is credited as a scenario writer and drama programmer.

If you really hate everything after SH4, then why even bother getting online and bitching? It was released seven years ago! Are people that bored that they keep coming to forums and websites to bitch about something they’ve hated for seven years? If you don’t like the new games, don’t play them. If you think the series is dead and there is no hope left, I can’t understand why you would even be on Silent Hill sites and forums.