tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30077884.post3703563145043316831..comments2023-07-15T09:01:05.701-04:00Comments on blow in the game slot: Best Hook , Line and Sinker: Silent HillColette Bennetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01252795146028186930noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30077884.post-25556898806754666212007-06-10T06:48:00.000-04:002007-06-10T06:48:00.000-04:00Nicely put, now I want to play it.Nicely put, now I want to play it.Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14152066759491981547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30077884.post-63170941692497241892007-04-30T03:27:00.000-04:002007-04-30T03:27:00.000-04:00On my first play-through, the original Silent Hill...On my first play-through, the original Silent Hill struck me as being beyond the bounds of the normally accepted limits of horror games. I thought back on passages and couldn’t decide whether it was the game I remembered, or some weird dream evoked by the game. My brain simply wasn’t jiving with the concept of Silent Hill as “everyday videogame experience” and kept storing the memories in the wrong compartments.<BR/><BR/>Take the use of familiar locations in unsettling environments. You find yourself walking through an elementary school at night, past lockers and through classrooms. There’s an open courtyard, and it’s entirely empty. There were these long stretches where nothing would happen. And then a shape would come out of the fog and approach you, looking simultaneously like something you recognized and something altogether alien. That was the first time I got the notion of psychological horror as a genre. It wasn’t zombies jumping out at you. It was subtle cues seeping in, one layer at a time. <BR/><BR/>Like the bloodless faces of the characters you encounter in that town. All at once they looked both ill and unconventionally erotic. Like the nurses in their tattered uniforms stumbling through the dark… there was a tinge of elegant sexual perversity running all throughout that game.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com