User:SiL3NT KNiGHT 99



Hey, the name is Taki :D

Aside from being an arts/tech student, cinema aficionado, gamer, and part-time nut, I like to turn my OCD eye to analyses of movies and games, mostly just for kicks.

And holy barfbuckets does Silent Hill fit the bill!

I discovered the series when I was but an unassuming Wii owner. As any Wii owner knows, it's not often you come across very good games, and the shopping is more than restrictive. That's when I discovered Shattered Memories on the shelf, the cover with a bunch of awards on it. I thought what the heck, I have nothing better to buy. I had no idea how right I was. I had never seen anything like it. I had no idea anyone in the human race had the capacity to tell a story this well! And the music, OH the music... The game was an eye opener to say the least; granted, much of this effect was due to the fact that I was 15, with not a care in the world for storytelling or literary analysis at the time, but I can probably say that single work, more than anything, is what defined my taste in games, movies, and even music today. Needless to say I began to track all the games down. And what I found made Shattered Memories pale in comparison. No they're not all exactly alike and most of the time don't even make complete sense as a cohesive whole, but they don't necessarily need to. I say if you personally find that much fault with canonicity, treat it like a Twilight Zone deal: all converging in the same limbo-like plane, a multiverse where the rules vaguely apply to all but still never intersect most of the time.

Personally, my link is strictly thematic. I couldn't give a crap about the mythology or the town history or the Order; that's the unimportant surface layer to me. I like seeing what's underneath, watching the various minds unravel: the gradual revelations that form the fragmented and heartbreakingly damaged psychological profiles, correlation of the aesthetics with their respective mental states, and most notably the answering of the questions "who are you, where are you coming from, and where are you going?" questions that don't depend remotely on the inclusion of gods and cults, but on which mind is being taken apart.

Well, that's my two cents anyways.

My favorite pages

 * Full Circle, could have something to do with my writing it :P