Silent Hill 1 Holds Up | Castle Super Beast Clips

[@planguy9575]

Man, I love Harry. He's just a dude looking for his kid, and I love his attitude to the weirdness of Silent Hill. "No, shut up. Where's my kid?"

[@li-limandragon9287]

Him and Ethan are my favourite Japanese survival horror dads.

[@zomboids2100]

*GIMME BACK MY SON!*

[@NobuxD]

@@zomboids2100 *GIMME THE MONEY!*

[@revelstatus2346]

It took the Shitstorm coming to an end for the Woolie to come out the cave and finally be haunted

[@li-limandragon9287]

They ragged on Woolie enough times for him to finally heed the call.

[@at0micl0bster]

​@@li-limandragon9287none of them would ever finish a Forbidden Siren game

[@li-limandragon9287]

Of course SH1 is still scary, it was foretold by Gyromancy.

[@brianmurray7821]

Dude I spit out my drink

[@grifferman]

"Gyromancy, get the fuck out of here"

[@li-limandragon9287]

@@grifferman Harry Mason: Fuck your gyromancy, fuck your town and fuck your big tie I want my daughter back Have you seen her? Short black hair, just turned 7 last month.

[@xlycius1321]

I’m out the loop here, what the hell is gyromancy?

[@rensato5027]

@@xlycius1321 It's the most retarded form of prognosticating where the person spins in circles like an asshole until falling down from disorientation and blabs bullshit that comes first to their mind.

[@Loffeleif]

Silent Hill 1-3 are timeless. The fact that 3 still has better character models and lighting than many modern games is ASTOUNDING.

[@li-limandragon9287]

SH4 is also solid, the characters, story and setting are fantastic. It’s only let down by the combat and enemies.

[@handzar6402]

@@li-limandragon9287 ....and the entire second half of the game.

[@thatgiambalvoguy]

@@li-limandragon9287 Well...Henry as a character does not hold up. The graphics and story hold up alright though

[@Maxim0M1]

@@thatgiambalvoguy True, but Walter and the lore does.

[@li-limandragon9287]

@@handzar6402 Yeah Escort Missions are annoying, but both RE4 and SH2 have em and won’t hear people rag on those games. At least the game makes you care about Eileen.

[@RipOffProductionsLLC]

That fun fact about the strat guide for Silent Hill having wrong puzzles is great. I love it.

[@GreedAndSelfishness]

Wait, what the fuck. Woolie started playing Silent Hill games now? I'm ALL IN, SON.

[@KeroKaminaX]

4:16 i can't wait for Woolie to start making Silent Hill 1 Combo MADs. especially when he gets THAT weapon

[@alphax-shroom6781]

How do you feel about Neros back forward?

[@BareBandSubscription]

Devil Sword Harry

[@LiterallyWhomstve]

There was a franchise here... It's gone now

[@JoseRS1186]

:(

[@li-limandragon9287]

Silent Hill isn’t dead, it continues to live on in the never ending stream of physiological horror games.

[@LiterallyWhomstve]

@@li-limandragon9287 Some exceptions non-withstanding, sometimes dead is better

[@GIZMONDO987]

HIT THE LEVER!

[@Maxim0M1]

Good. Better to see it dead than to see its corpse raped by devs that don't care nor understand Team Silent's work.

[@theqreem8587]

This was not the conversation I was expecting But I am absolutely here for it

[@vincemcmash]

I recommend anyone check out the pre release interviews. The Silent Hill team had great design ideas when dealing with the limited hardware outside of the fog and darkness effects.

[@li-limandragon9287]

That original team of underperformers in Konami were godsends to the gaming world. Nowadays they’d just get fired.

[@marcellosilva9286]

There are a few PS1 games where the low draw distance helped with the atmosphere, MediEvil and Nightmare Creatures are just two examples.

[@mikekazz5353]

Silent Hill 1, Castlevania SOTN and parasite Eve still holds up pretty well too.

[@li-limandragon9287]

OG RE2 and RE3 definitely hold up compared to RE1. I also played the hell out of original FF7 on Steam and love it, Popeye arms don’t detract.

[@mikekazz5353]

@@li-limandragon9287 can't argue with that a lot of jrpg still play and look great, FFIX is probably my favorite on PS1.

[@GIZMONDO987]

Woolie's hyena laughing during that one segment of the old Parasite Eve LP also holds up pretty terrifically.

[@GoldLight73]

That wasn’t even because of a segment. It was Pat downloading a game.

[@theangryfinger5795]

Im feeling hawt! Cause mitochondria

[@GreedAndSelfishness]

Silent Hill is my fav series. I love that Woolie is so open minded about games now. I know that originally he was all about just fighting games and more actiony stuff. But now he's gotten into fps and survival horror games.

[@li-limandragon9287]

One day he’ll kick ass at Perfect Dark.

[@zgSH4DOW]

800 parts of Dokapon Kingdom and Dark Souls derivatives is being open minded?

[@yoindianbro]

@@zgSH4DOW lol what? dude has been really branching out in terms of genres

[@mars___sumner]

One day maybe he plays the two System Shock games

[@tylerlackey1175]

@@zgSH4DOW for woolie yes. Remember it is literally impossible for him to understand video game logic or systems unless he's given a fighting game analogy. Even in this very clip, he uses the term footsies to describe tank control movement when around enemies. His brain is wired specifically for fighting games and nothing else. So the fact that he plays anything that isn't a FG is variation for him

[@apeaape]

Excited to see the LP

[@RadJordy]

Reminder that gryomancy is basically just running in a circle til you fall over and fall over on letters until you either form an intelliglble sentence or die. SH wiki: "Gyromancy is a method of divination in which a person spins around inside or walks the circumference of a circle drawn on the ground, the perimeter of which is marked with the letters of an alphabet. The divination is inferred from the letter at the position where the person either stumbles or falls across the circle's edge. The person would repeat the practice "...till he evolved an intelligible sentence, or till death or madness intervened". The dizziness brought on by spinning or circling is intended to introduce randomness or to facilitate an altered state of consciousness."

[@Daniel_Lancelin]

While that is goofy as hell, it kinda makes sense that it has a chance to actually work in the context of a sentient, dimension-warping town.

[@GreenC]

can't wait for Woolie to tackle Silent Hill 2

[@brianmurray7821]

3, although Heather has shortish hair.....

[@JoseRS1186]

Woolie's reaction to the bad ending was fantastic.

[@deeta000]

Thank you for starting with the first game.

[@deeta000]

@@KGhaleon I do too. But I’m also tired of the “just play 2” consensus.

[@MakiKuronami]

Woolie Versus a drainage key was hilarious.

[@zummone]

I don't know if someone mentioned it already on the streams, but this game had vibration feedback for the damage you took in the form of a heartbeat, the more damage you took, the stronger the heartbeat. This was the most accurate way you could assess actual damage (sadly the item screen doesn't do as good of a job). I was hoping you could play the next games on PS2 so you could experience that and more, plus those are kinda of the definitive versions and easier to run than on PC (but with the caveat of performance if you go the emulation route and the hardware can't handle it, Vinny played it fine though). Yes, the enhanced edition or whatever it's called is way better than vanilla PC, but it still has some issues, especially audio wise, and possibly some other post processing stuff.

[@ToastyRoyale]

The beans exchange was fantastic

[@rensato5027]

7:45 He actually did. As always, he gaslighted himself and everyone around him.

[@PolarPhantom]

Oh so it's the Omikron door all over again.

[@bplup6419]

I remember being about ten years old and getting Silent Hill and the guide for winning a wrestling tournament. I got to the piano puzzle in the school and the guide gave me the answer in keys and I'm like, "Which one is the C key?!" My dad came in and tried helping me thinking it was a dumb kids game and got stumped too. I finally figured it out and he ended up watching me play the rest of the game.

[@st.haborym]

Fun fact about SH1, you can strafe run. Something Woolie never figured out while playing.

[@danhectic5629]

replayed it this year- original is still my fave. (especially the grimy music)

[@datanotfoundpleasetryagain3559]

Pat calls it the Evangelion effect, but it can be applied to a lot of other older franchises that inspired newer ones. I call it the John Carter effect since the Barsoom books is one of the progenitors of modern sci-fi. It inspired Star Wars, Star Trek, James Cameron’s Avatar, and Superman. So when you go back to the original material (or better yet, watch the 2012 film on Disney+), you’ll see these different tropes that have been used over and over again for other pieces of work. Shit’s mind-blowing, man.

[@PolarPhantom]

@@chooseyouhandle Weird way to write the Gilgamesh Conundrum /s.

[@SeruraRenge11]

Or hell, go back and read Dune from the first book to God Emperor, and then realize how much in science fiction was lifted from Dune.

[@Meitti]

Not surprising, while the graphics can be a bit blocky, the atmosphere was also heavily carried by general design and especially sound design that hasn't aged at all (except for VAs). More surprising is the fact that Woolie is finally willing to play horror games for real.

[@foo3268]

how's the LP going btw?

[@Fidion]

The lowpoly graphics help the atmosphere what are you even talking about

[@FightCain]

I find myself going backwards than looking forward for games. I really like the more subdued feel and the experimental designs. One of the games I have, Enemy Zero, is just Alien (the Movie) in FMVs with bits of real time first person "dungeon" crawling and all the enemies are invisible. All you have is this really loud beeping sound that gets more intense as you get closer to something. It's pretty simple but really effective at making you panick.

[@casanovafunkenstein5090]

If you have fond memories of that game I'd recommend looking into D and D2, also by WARP software and headed up by the same director, Kenji Eno. All three of the games are strange and creative horror experiences that push boundaries (though D is incredibly dated, so it may be a bit obtuse and difficult to get into now that the CG-rendered FMV graphics are no longer even slightly impressive) and share the same characters, though in unrelated situations with different relationships to one another. I would definitely welcome someone trying to make something with a similar vibe to E0 with a bit more refinement and some expanded mechanics

[@FightCain]

And for those really movie lovers, one of the version of the Soviet movie, “Man with a Movie Camera”, Michael Nyman (of GATTACA, the movie Woolie assumingly talked about), reused the soundtrack of E0.

[@mushihimesamas]

2:25 I KNEW HE WOULD BRING THAT UP LOL Let it GO Woolie!

[@kingofbel6499]

Oh cool, Woolie is playing SH. I will give it a watch. Been wanting forever to do a replay of the whole series.

[@jakejutras5420]

Holy shit! Haven't heard anyone mention Tips N Tricks the magazine in AGES. Used to love that mag not only for the articles but for the pages and pages of cheat codes at the back.

[@C24U_]

The one Silent Hill puzzle that I have to say has not aged well is the Shakespeare Hard Mode puzzle in Silent Hill 3. I did it for the first time a few months ago and that puzzle requires the player to have a fairly in depth knowledge of a number of Shakespeare’s more famous works and the game gives you no in game material to refer to in order to solve the puzzle. It’s a total contrast to say Silent Hill 2’s coin puzzle where all the clues are in the text of the puzzle.

[@navarroguard7911]

I hope you know shakespeare oh and theres also a math problem hidden in it!!!

[@shuri]

Shakespeare is comparatively well known to the Bird shit in the hospital. IDK how anyone ever got that outside of brute force

[@VergilHiltsLT]

The strafe left/strafe right buttons are mostly for the final boss (dodging its projectile attacks on Hard mode), but also useful for running around the first boss. It's mostly an overpowered dodge if used correctly, in conjunction with the left stick for rotation, of course.

[@NickMK]

It really does. And I actually enjoy the combat. It does exactly what it sets out to do

[@JumpinJoe]

Thank God woolie shortened the title card's intro

[@Maioly]

1:17 does it count as crazy talk? cuz a lot of the shit people credit as being inspired by EVA was around long before it, and its often a reference to those older series and such and not EVA... but people always credit it as EVA... Ideon did not destroy an entire universe just so its achievements in absolute horror could be overlooked damn it!

[@GIZMONDO987]

Yeah it's kinda annoying, especially when it's blatant. Folks be watching something with some Ultraman nods/parodies and be all "YO WAS THAT A MOTHERFUCKING EVA REFERENCE?!!?11?!?!"

[@Maioly]

@@GIZMONDO987 Its specially bad with ultraman cuz eva fans LOVE to dismiss ultraman as unimportant and/or shit on it to prop up EVA.

[@PolarPhantom]

It's the problem of not being Japanese. Like, I imagine the Japanese fanbase see Eva as we see Star Wars because the stuff that inspired these franchises are more readily available to the respective cultures. Plus the creators wear their influences on their sleeves - Lucas never shied away from his love of Flash Gordon and Pulp adventure and Anno never said he didn't love Ultraman.

[@PolarPhantom]

I always thought that Harry got the goo from that broken bottle on the ground. That he gingerly poured it into the plastic bottle he found. In fact, doesn't the game heavily imply that? Woolie can't read once again confirmed. SPOILERS FOR SH 1 OK so yeah. This bit is meant to be obtuse because it's a second playthrough intended secret. You're supposed to look at the goo and think "...huh. This seems familiar. I wonder if I..."

[@walkaroundincircles]

"The Evangelion problem" No Pat that's called the "Ultraman, Godzilla, and Space Runaway Ideon" problem. So much of Evangelion is just Anno's Ultraman fanfic and how much he hates his dad. Like I remember when SSSS.Gridman was airing and weebs were embarrassing themselves by going "Oh Gridman has a timer for how long he can fight? Sounds just like an Eva!" as if OG Gridman didn't air BEFORE Eva did in the 1990s and as if Gridman wasn't made by the creators of Ultraman and AS IF Mecha anime like Patlabor that went for "real robot" didn't also have this for years.

[@punchsideiron7810]

Pat talking out of his ass? No way.

[@PolarPhantom]

OK calm down. Let's not get worked up over the nuances of what inspired what from Japan, especially stuff that wasn't localised or wasn't widely available. It's easy to talk about what inspired Star Wars without devaluing Star Wars because the stuff that inspired SW was and remains easily accessible, for a counter example. I bet most Japanese people treat Eva how we treat SW. Or how they treat Star Wars cause SW was heavily influenced by Akira Kurosawa. They've even done Kabuki adaptations of SW.

[@SeruraRenge11]

A lot of it comes down to "well those shows didn't make me FEEL THINGS like Eva did so those things don't count". People seem to forget just how much emotional attachment a lot of anime fans from a specific age group have to that show that just blinds them to a lot of things.

[@MichaelWasnotTaken]

Standing your ground on ghost kids.

[@Nerevar5me]

6:35 that’s the most awesome thing I’ve ever heard

[@god47398]

striking while the iron is frozen solid

[@cybergeek11235]

The door wasn't *that* obtuse, Woolie. ;)

[@navarroguard7911]

Silent hill 1 has the best gameplay and exploration out of the whole series

[@danhectic5629]

i especially love the feeling of finally unlocking those "locked from the other side" doors!

[@li-limandragon9287]

I think the atmosphere is a bit better in SH2 but SH1 has more organic exploration.

[@swampmiester7603]

Silent hill one does hold up. And thus I'm excited for slitter head because it's a new title from the dev of silent hills new game studio

[@nailwind]

they don't make gyromancy like this anymore

[@Abyss3223]

Glad Woolie is having a great time with Silent Hills puzzle bullshit, it's great.

[@penmustache283]

The shitstorm has finally escaped the Woolie Hole. Let the shittening begin.

[@theotherjared9824]

Never forget that Woolie shot a little white boy and Reggie laughed.

[@tymelthompson4182]

After his football game you mean?

[@alphax-shroom6781]

And his trigger happy havoc was then immediately justified by Rushdown Nurses.

[@dreamcatcherpone]

The time has come for woolie to be haunted for lile 3-4 months. Like the prophecies foretold.

[@lastgengamers1137]

Woolie: incase I missed a door Ah Omikron taught you well woolie

[@dispnin]

Can't wait for the Anime

[@SeruraRenge11]

Pat the only people who think Evangelion was doing something new were westerners who weren't watching the 20 years of anime that existed before Evangelion in Anno's life because the show really is a mishmash of things from other shows that he likes. If anything instead of watching newer shows and recognizing things from Eva, go watch older shows and see how many things Eva took from them.

[@edfreak9001]

Is that thing about SH1's review code having unique puzzles true? And has that copy ever been put out?

[@MCG55555]

So Woolie, what did you think of the gyromancy?

[@BulldozerBilly]

Are him and Reggie playing SH1!?

[@BlackLynx4607a]

Hell ye

[@BulldozerBilly]

@@BlackLynx4607a after finishing this video, I'm stoked! A while back the channel asked for future LP ideas and I mentioned more horror games. I prolly specifically called out Silent Hill. I haven't watched a full LP in a while but if they play through SH1-3 I'm strapped in.

[@BulldozerBilly]

Also, I love Woolies fresh take on a series that's been so dear to me.

[@BulldozerBilly]

@@KGhaleon Ah, did they do it on twitch?

[@brianmurray7821]

I hope he posts it. Favorite game as a kid.

[@jakejutras5420]

Katamari Damaci is the BEST game to just look at old poly models of household objects.

[@hacman8732]

Did you know Eva is really just the 90s edgy version of space runaway Ideon tho?

[@Comkill117]

This’ll be cool to see.

[@viewtiful1doubleokamihand253]

Quility never, and mean *never* , gets worse.

[@arbyw.1889]

And water is wet

[@gachahell6897]

White Girl Jumpscare

[@NobuxD]

Oh... I thought they'd be playing together...

[@kovulion7777]

Matt and Pat play horror games in Shitstorm Netflix Remake Woolie and Reggie Play Horror Games

[@habadasheryjones]

It sucks that people nonchalantly sleep on 1 and skip to 2 & 3 in most cases. This has been solidified by Konami since 1 was left off of that collection, as bad the collection itself was, it indicates that 1 wasn't a money maker worthy of even a shoddy remaster to Konami. And before you say "Well its hard for people to get a hold of a copy of Silent Hill 1 specifically these days of course they wouldn't play it" know that this statement is complete nonsense. Other than SH1 being a very emulatable game on pc, its also still available, as of April 2024, on the ps3 psn for 6 bucks as a ps1 classic. If you got a ps3 you can nab this game for cheaper than it is to buy lunch. There is no excuse to not play the og. I honestly think most people are just averse to older media like when you'd hear a classroom of dumb kids sigh when a movie is in black and white.

[@locke2517]

Oh cool! Does this mean woolie will play 2 and 3 also?

[@horomaru1]

no FF6 LP?

[@alphax-shroom6781]

Waiting for the pixel remaster in Feb.

[@bloodyroses4664]

What pat calls the Eva problem is also known as the Seinfeld problem. People not liking Seinfeld cause it's too generic a sitcom, even tho it's only generic cause it was copied

[@rahjeel]

Wait, WOOLIE PLAYED SILENT HILL?!

[@saratoga6427]

Silent hill 4 is good.

[@li-limandragon9287]

Yes story, characters and setting are all fantastic in some ways better than 3. The gameplay and annoying ghosts shit up the show tho.

[@VextonHersteller]

Ga Huh

[@Tuikkal]

Silent Hill has the most BS puzzles.

[@6packproductions710]

Woolie? Waste multiple episodes of a let’s play on bs? Go on…

[@touchingisjustthefirststep]

I thought title said Silent Hill 2

[@FelineRed]

Cool hemorrhoid pad.

[@SaberRexZealot]

Silent Hill bad? What a weird hill to die on. A silent hill, if you will.

[@Prlwy-T]

Except nobody here said it's bad...?

[@SaberRexZealot]

@@Prlwy-T I think I was trying to make a shitty pun