Silent Hill 3 - You're Not Here | Reacting To Video Game Music!

[@BenjiroSensei]

"I'm curious what Silent Hill actually sounds like" *brings out dentist drill*

[@Torthrodhel]

Hahahaha. Warped Mind. Classic, love that track.

[@nodeberiaestaraqui93]

* industrial noises *

[@kapkant6197]

The reason why this song sounds so "unhorror" is because the protagonist Heather Mason is 17 at the time of Silent Hill 3, so the vocal tracks like this and the studio mix of "I Want Love" are written to sound like the kind of music a teenage girl like Heather would listen to in the early 2000s

[@satyakisil4289]

Also because Heather lacked the melancholy that James and Harry had when entering Silent Hill. For her it's liminal space and she had nothing to do with it prior to arriving. She was tired when she got there, but she wasn't broken.

[@tmc1404]

She's supposed to be the anti-darkness. Tough and rebellious female is what they were going for, and they sure nailed it

[@tmc1404]

@@NuiYabuko woman means adult female

[@Mrinsecure]

Silent Hill is a bit odd as a series. It's definitely a horror series, and most of its music is uncomfortable and atmospheric, intended to unsettle and discomfort. However, it also has a strong sense of melancholy and tragedy weaved throughout, as the characters are forced to deal with both the dark history of the titular town and their own personal demons (which are often strongly linked, if not one and the same). That sense of tragedy is best expressed through these more alt-rock style songs, like You're Not Here, Laura's Song, Hell Frozen Rain, and Room of Angel, which are overall more contemplative and moody than stressful.

[@polinttalu7102]

and they have a sick ass alt rock music for their endings

[@junfaa]

I've always found most of the music to be simultaneously unsettling and calming which is something very unique to this series.

[@Spookybluelights]

Akira Yamaoka originally asked Shirley Manson of Garbage to sing the vocals of the songs for this game, but I believe she turned it down due to scheduling conflicts so eventually the gig went to Mary Elizabeth McGlynn.

[@DmnHd81]

Oh Shirley would fit so well but Mary sounds so good in this too.

[@RockStar11021]

Hey requester here, I've always loved this song! Mary Elizabeth Mcglynn does the vocals and I'm pretty sure Akira Yamaoka plays one of the guitars in this one! Also yeah this is the intro song as I said lol. Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Masamatt90]

Mary Elizabeth Mcglynn doesnt miss with her music

[@Videodragon64]

Mary is also Mokoto in Ghost in the shell movies/animes, and I would play this song often on DDR (Dance Dance Revolution)

[@Kr1egsmesser]

You've got amazing recommendations thus far!

[@Weltallgaia]

She is heavily responsible for my love of silent hill music.

[@NicNico]

Akira Yamaoka plays all the instruments in this track. There is a live band, but all the studio tracks are his. Amazing talent.

[@Biosleeve]

The music in Silent Hill seems to be designed to make you uncomfortable and keep you on edge, and really adds to its terrifying atmosphere (the horror is far more psychological than Resident Evil). That being said, their intros are always genuinely enjoyable tracks, and I'd often find myself leaving the game idle on the title screen so that it'd play again

[@temporalwolf7054]

Silent Hill being confused with Resident Evil is honestly not that far off the mark. They both pioneered the Survival Horror genre on Playstation. Resident Evil more payed homage to classic horror like Dawn of the Dead and the like, while Silent Hill went in a more personal existential direction. The fascinating part to me is how the main musical themes reflect the main characters of their respective games. Silent Hill 1 and 2 focusing on guys in their 20's-30's had more dark sounding themes, but Silent Hill 3 focuses on Heather - the girl in the picture - coming into adulthood and all the stress and unwanted attention that brings, and the more punk inspired themes really kinda reflect that.

[@Xotchkass]

It's extremely off in every way except basic gameplay core. RE is trashy B-movie about killing zombies, SH - deep psychological thriller focused on exploration of human mind with maybe best art design in history of video games. It's not even apples and oranges, it's like comparing human and grass based on "they're both organic".

[@Nocturnewashere]

​@@Xotchkass No need to get so pretentious and uptight. The person above explained why they could be percieved as similar, due to both being probably the most popular survival horror franchises that had a chokehold on PlayStation specifically.

[@Uryen_Hirasakai]

Resident Evil brings a soft survival horror experience, Silent Hill brings a disturbing psychological survival horror experience, dont compare the two franchises because Silent Hill is on another level, Resident Evil is more famous because it had a stronger marketing, however Silent Hill was always better than Resident Evil in every aspect.

[@Tazrael]

I used this song as the opening theme to my college radio show. Still love it deeply.

[@mateus_snw]

Everything that Akira Yamaoka composes is pure gold, even more so when he is accompanied by Mary, one of the most recent is from the game The Medium, called Voices, I definitely recommend it!

[@anastasianuan1680]

Mary Elizabeth McGlynn is a prolific voice actor and voice director. She sings for alot of Akira Yamaoka's songs. Silent Hill was born from one of Yamaoka's musical experiments on how to make sounds that unnerve and berate you while playing. He's also a jammin ass musician.

[@smward87]

Unnerve is right. The entirety of the final boss theme of the first game (My Heaven) consisted of just two things: percussion, and the sound of a dentist's drill slowed down and reversed.

[@Spartan120]

8:12 "This is the last bit of happiness you're gonna get because it's about go downhill from here." Funny you mention that because that perfectly describes a similar song "End of Small Sanctuary" from Silent Hill 3's soundtrack, and used for that exact purpose. If you want the full on horror experience of Silent Hill's music, I highly recommend "Prayer" from Silent Hill 3.

[@macromadstyle5664]

The perfect way to start a very disturbing psychological horror game, with style!

[@Vulkans]

The good ol' 2000s videogame trope where they would do an attract mode style intro sequence, featuring a bunch of cutscenes from the game with some nice music playing in the background, all the while unintentionally spoiling a bunch of stuff. The music that plays during the actual intro where the main character is first introduced and gameplay begins, is much more subdued.

[@HageanFQ]

Early 2000’s? Yakuza still does this

[@Torthrodhel]

@@HageanFQ a thing can still be connected to an era in general, even if a specific series kept going with it while others dropped it. Yakuza sounds kinda interesting if it still does that, never played one before but I like it keeping up the trend!

[@HageanFQ]

@@Torthrodhel never say you’ve never played yakuza to a yakuza fan

[@HageanFQ]

They’ll tell you to play yakuza

[@Torthrodhel]

@@HageanFQ why not, is that like a meta thing in the game?

[@teamramrod27]

It’s from the opening cinematic! So that’s why if probably feels like it’s from a movie soundtrack

[@tek3576]

They did use it In one of the movies and even made a music video with the actor for Heather lip syncing it

[@striderm]

Basically just copypasta-ing from wikipedia but you may enjoy this: Yamaoka cites Trent Reznor as his main inspiration for both performing and in music style. Yamaoka has also cited other influences, such as: Angelo Badalamenti (best known for his soundtrack work with David Lynch), Metallica, and Depeche Mode.

[@gregbrown8881]

This is one of my favorite songs from a videogame, so I'm glad you got a chance to hear it. It's funny that you mentioned it being appropriate for a movie, because this song also plays during the closing credits for the first Silent Hill movie.

[@lucienthePhoenix]

Cool reaction dude, the music from Silent Hill is epic. Been a massive fan of the silent hill for over 20 years. They were truly awesome live also and manage to meet akira and rest of band which was awesome. Id deffo check out more of your reactions of music especially the Silent Hill music.

[@NoLifeQu33n]

i love the silent hill 3 ost, there's so much good atmospheric music on there as well as just other songs like this

[@VelvetAura]

God I love Akira Yamaoka. Everything he touches 👌

[@theblobconsumes4859]

Hope someone requests the more ambient and emotional tracks from this series too, and the horror-driven ones. And the jazzy ones. Oh, and how could I forget the trip-hop ones! Those ones especially. This series is psychological horror and some of the music makes it clear, while some of the other music does not, though they serve a purpose, as always.

[@Lunaria.Praesentia]

I really hope people requests more Silent Hill, it's such a journey, these 2 songs that you have reacted to, doesn't even scratch the surface, (obviously) it's really hard trying to give details about what makes Silent Hill and its music so special, so intriguing, mesmerizing, and of course horrifying, but beautiful and touching at the same time, unfortunately it's one of those legendary franchises that's no longer used or produced in videogame format in 10 years or so, instead......it shares Metal Gear's sad fate and humilliation, being Pachinko machines (japanese casino machines), there has been an unaccountable amount of rumors along the years that it might come back, just like Metal Gear, but only sadness and dissapointment remains, we yet still stand in foolish hope that someday it happens, a remake, a reboot, a completely new game, something, anything, perhaps there IS something in the works, maybe not, but the sure thing is.....the day that Konami actually announces the return of Silent Hill, will be something overwhelming and deeply moving for a whole lot of people, including myself, thank you for your reaction and analysis Jesse ❤️

[@wunclerlaufenbumcorneliusu7047]

Silent Hill definitely has atmospheric creepy tracks. Imagine Trent Reznor making haunted house tunes, but on steroids. Akira Yamaoka is a genius.

[@AshflowEX]

Ohh this is on my playlist for over 2 decades

[@dagonofthedepths]

Doesn't really feel like a song for a psychological horror game until you pay attention and realize how sad it is. Especially in context. Silent Hill does a lot with using character's issues and putting that into the town and monster designs. Like if a character had an abusive mother that'll manifest in a monster that's vaguely feminine and with huge clubbing arms. Which is messed up because concepts of birth and parenting feature a lot in this game. As a horror game though they really didn't have a lot of jump scares. It's mostly constant, unending dread which I think is a positive, but some people might not like that.

[@AshflowEX]

Akira Yamaoka my dude the heart and music of Silent Hill ❤️

[@Xalvador_Ysellian]

Silent Hill 3 is genuinely one of my favorite games of all time ❤️😭 thank you for reacting to this.

[@coheteos]

You could check out "My heaven" from the Silent Hill ost, is a rather unique sounding boss theme

[@botindeldiablo]

This theme is way off from the normal feeling of Silent HIll because mostly represent Heather (the lead character) pretty well. She is BY FAR the best "normal teenage girl" in vidya: she acts like a normal person would act in such a nightmarish reality so her theme is mostly in sync with a teenage vibe. You nail the foreshadowing, she is singing about her father who is the protagonist of Silent Hill 1.

[@Torthrodhel]

Always thought this picture of Heather was a little ill-fitting in that way. Doesn't seem like the sort of pose she'd be doing for any reason. She's definitely the best character by far for the little comments she makes about everything you examine as you go along. So much character is shown just in that. Like I love the moments where she's unkeen to loot a locker because that's someone's personal belongings, or she only takes one coin from a huge pile because that's all she needs for the vending machine and she doesn't think of herself as a thief. Even with the bit in the beginning where she just immediately knows what to do in the situation where a strange man isn't respecting her autonomy (go into a toilets and escape through the back)... when you consider what needs to happen to force someone to have such a tactic immediately-to-mind and just think nothing of it... it's so connectable. It actually hit really close to my own experiences, and I was already in love with the series after the first two games. Heather is just amazing, especially next to all the other female protagonists at the time who frequently looked like you stumbled across someone's softcore fluff material, and kept making you ask "how the hell is she even moving around in that". She was definitely a breath of fresh air - takes after her father in that respect (who was himself against-the-trend, being a single father represented as a genuine loving parent who'd do anything for his daughter... like, when did you ever see that back then?). James was much more conventional, but there was a storytelling reason for that. And Henry was super introverted, and that was kinda not done so much (it did take a while to realise what they were going for with him, though). I also like listing Maria as a Silent Hill protagonist because you can play as her in that bonus scenario, and that scenario revealing a hidden character of desperation and depression beneath all her elsewise-sass and cruelty, and especially the vibe that she had very little personal agency, was a thing I really connected with too, even if she was more conventionally sexualized for story purposes.

[@zionyeraaa]

I want love (studio mix) from silent hill 3 is a masterpiece

[@Pyramidtank]

It has that smokey earthy flavor and feel and a taste with a hints of pine It's really smooth hold up Wait! We talking about music or smoking?

[@schalla_ang]

You should definetly hear SH's 4 and 5 intros too!

[@DigitalHIFI09]

I like how he mentioned it sounds like it belongs at the beginning or end of a movie. This songs plays at the end of Silent Hill 2006 movie credits which was dope to hear

[@artistanthony1007]

The Silent Hill movie actually uses this theme for the credits.

[@Star-vk7sl]

I'm actually so happy that you're reacting to this song :)

[@ShiroNekoDen]

Another similar song in the same game is called "letter to my futureself". As for the song dating the game it was released 23rd of may 2003. Most of the other music is moody bgm. As for the genre it's survival horror.

[@vanconojl]

don't forget, lyrics written by Joe Romersa.

[@xD-ri5hn]

The music for the Silent Hill games are very, VERY varied. Please listen to some songs from Silent Hill 1, there you will find one of the most stressfully terrifying music in a game. Together with some beautifully slow emotional tracks. Some suggestions: Not Tomorrow Not Tomorrow 2 My Heaven Silent Hill (Main theme) Devil Lyric

[@nim4464]

Not Tomorrow is such a beautiful and sad song

Devil Lyric is jarring

[@umkirraqueen1192]

god i fucking love this song so much,,

[@GimmeTOKYO]

You mention it sounding like from a movie, they wound up using it for the ending credits of the first silent hill movie! (Which came out after SH3)

[@DmnHd81]

I think it's been said by others but the gameplay music in SH are more of the ambient sort while music like these play during cutscenes/trailers. This one plays during the intro cinematic. There's also a music video for this. Some more music from the series which are interesting is Letter From The Lost Days and Room Of Angel. Those has lyrics while pure music check Not Tomorrow and Promise. Also PT is not a good way to get a feel for the series as it's quite different from the rest. I recommend watching the movie as even though it's mangled plotwise it does the feel of the game right. Akira Yamaoka made some music for the movie too iirc.

[@ansemvriku]

Waiting for you/angels thanatos/room of angel/promise .silent hill has so many tracks you've gotta check out.

[@Vashy434]

Silent Hill is a horror game from Konami and while it is from the same Era as Resident Evil and has a similar control scheme the games could not be more different. Resi evil is more traditional zombie outbreak fare while Silent Hill is a psychological horror filled with body horror and psychosis. Its like comparing a Romero film to The Thing.

[@tek3576]

Love this song. The Silent Hill OST / anything by Akira Yamaoka is amazing

[@Survi_LeRoi]

My favorite song of all time!! Ty for listen to it

[@shadowfang1034]

This one is a certified hood classic

[@DayleDiamond]

I love this song!!! This used to be on my workout playlist.

[@LuLu-Sil]

"And what do YOU want?!" 9:15 "Me too kid."

[@JessesAuditorium]

Song mentioned in this video; The Cardigans - My Favorite Game (GT2) kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z2Wkp6GApKpmhNE

[@Shrek2boogaloo]

"Sounds like a movie" the game is definitely a Rollercoaster just like a movie.

[@KyokujiFGC]

The Cardigans is exactly what I was thinking. Sounds like something they would've put out in the late '90s or early 2000s.

[@stevematalavage3532]

A couple from SH2 that encompass the feel of all the games...Ashes and Ghost, Silent Heaven, Betrayal. Lots of the songs have an industrial sound to them because the Otherworlds in the games mainly revolve around metal, rust, fire, ruin, etc.

[@Ms._Crimson]

Silent Hill Music is so awesome.

[@AshflowEX]

Also a hype song after you survive the zombie apocalypse 😄 "Hey its up to us to take out umbrella" Resident Evil 2 OST - Credit Line of whole staff (2nd Credit Line)

[@arrgber]

You're half right about SH's gameplay music. Composer Akira Yamaoka stated before in interviews that to him even silence is sound and it is used a lot througout the games. Also, he did all sfx and noises, and those can get VERY creepy. And when music does appear in the gameplay expect it to be some of the creepiest pieces you've heard or a chill moment of respite. I can't stress enough how eery music gets in game. I recommend reacting to the likes of Black Fairy in SH2

[@TallicaMan1986]

I've been listening to this since Silent Hill 3 dropped. Soo, I think there are two thoughts on what Silent Hill is. For me. Silent Hill is a psychological horror. I'm a fan of 2, but I also like 1 and 3. For others who are fans of Silent Hill 1 and 3. They are of the other school. I guess because it delves into the occult and continues the story of Silent Hill 1. Silent Hill 4 The Room tried combining them all and include the Psychological aspect, but it doesn't hit as hard as 2 or 3.

[@Kleigen]

You should try another SiIlent Hill song called Waiting for You by Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, too. It's really good :)

[@TheHalloweenSpirit]

Hope you react to "I Want Love (Studio Version)", "Letter from the Lost Days" and "Hometown" from Silent Hill 3 🧡 And "Room of Angel", "Your Rain" and "Waiting for You" from Silent Hill 4: The Room 💜

[@ThisIsGlitch]

Silent hill always had this tragic theme woven into the game, and the music just brings all that together

[@THENAMEISQUICKMAN]

Bizzarely this song also crossed over to Dance Dance Revolution, with an *extremely* censored version of the opening cutscene as the background video lmao

[@Mitsu2040]

Mary Elizabeth Mcglynn is a legend!

[@milannesic5718]

RESIDENT EVIL the classic ones, all have the music almost throughout the whole game

[@aneyeforcapitalism6531]

There’s a lot of these more reverby, shoegazy style songs littered in Silent Hill, but it’s also got some crazy dark industrial noise as well, and there’s the in-between. Tracks that are more like “songs” but with a darker tone would be tracks like Overdose Delusion, Tender Sugar, and Rain of Brass Petals - Three Voices edit. Another one that’s very good but female-centric is Letter - From Lost Days. Yamaoka claimed influence from things like Metallica and Depeche Mode to Massive Attack and the theme to Twin Peaks. Very interesting places to pull from, and a lot to analyze. Looking forward to seeing more reactions. Try Room of Angel next, another very popular one, much darker.

[@nanajosh]

These games have very minimal music in them. Occasionally there's music but mostly in cut scenes. I think Silent hill 3 came out with some of the best music of the series.

[@Realag666]

The Composer of Silent Hill is a legend

[@grzegorzstrongowski9439]

Drums rock in this song

[@gavinflynn9345]

Silent Hill is sensible in its approach to horror. Some songs provide a measure of levity, so player don't become burnt out by too much horror. It's a valuable lesson in game and film production; too much of a good thing. You're right about this being in a film too. It plays during the credits in the first Silent Hill film

[@onionsssplays9095]

Akira Yamaoka is one of the GOAT horror soundtrack composers. His work has a a certain sound and this song screams it. I cant remember the female singers name. The song was used in the 2006 SIlent Hill movie credits. Originally it was the intro music along side the intro video to Silent Hill 3. Really good song by an collaboration of amazing people.

[@saitoshion3312]

Silent hill 4 room of angel please

[@jstraziante]

The guitar is so reminiscent of Edge from U2

[@JessesAuditorium]

yup

[@AshflowEX]

Team Silent the konami legends ❤️ this has been used in the first silent hill movie (at the credits)

[@LittleJohnnyBrown]

You actually got it right. This song is not how the game sounds like at all and that's the point. And the sound design in actual game is done by the same guy and it's crazy as fuck.

[@tavastian3288]

Silent Scream is amazing Silent Hill song, so heavy and beefy

[@RandomCollection04]

should react to Shattered Memories' Hell Frozen Rain

[@skalliedA]

you should round out the trilogy with a song from SH1. that's gonna be wholly different again! :D

[@Kyrrial]

Man, I'd love it if you reacted to more SH songs. In fact, just do all of them haha! ALL off the soundtracks are absolutely amazing (except maybe SH1; I own the album is it's like 30 tracks, with most being just, like, sound effects). SH2 is basically only just instrumental/ambience, but pretty much all of the other soundtracks have, like, at least 5 vocal tracks on it (minimum 3 I think), and all but 3 iirc are sung by Mary Elizabeth McGlynn (the singer on this track). 'Room of Angel' from SH4 is amazing, and 'Letter - from the Lost Days' from SH3 is a great song that is very story-rich in the lyrics. Actually, I think all the lyrics have basis in the story or themes, but still.

[@HereIam123]

Silent Hill and Resident Evil are vastly different series in tones. RE is more in-your-face action and corny writing, while SH is more about a sense of loss, dread, atmosphere and hidden horror.

[@moonstrucktimberwolf534]

Yeah, your speculation is more or less on point: this sort of rock style is a staple of the Silent Hill intros, but the meat of the OSTs are a mix of jazzy ambience and really foreboding musique concrete

[@prisciomariani2763]

Late comment, but if you want to hear the spookier tracks from Silent Hill I recommend: "My Heaven" from Silent Hill, "Black Fairy" from Silent Hill 2, and "Prayer" from Silent Hill 3. there are many more but these sum up the vibes imo

[@FrenzVorstellen]

Resident Evil is Action/Horror Silent Hill is Physcological Horror there is action too in silent hill but clearly that's not the main theme of the game

[@ash_1419]

Early 2000s were the best man..

[@SomethingScotty]

A lot of the songs in silent hill sounds like a band playing a bunch of industrial pipes, but like every 3rd or 4th track on the OST's are more traditional songs. Should definitely check out "Tears Of" from Silent Hill 1's OST.

[@TheOdMan]

It's interesting seeing someone listenting tho these songs for the first time without any context at all from the games. For me the songs always made sense and never seemed out of place, they fit the game perfectly, but it's god damned impossible to describe why, you just have to play the games. Whenever I hear any Silent Hill music now I always think of how the games made me feel, they're definitely not your average horror experience(talking about Silent Hill 1 throught 3 here, 4 is a decent game, but not up to the standards of the previous 3) They're much more reliant of atmosphere and the anticipation of danger, and sometimes it can be downright opressive in it's visual, and especially audio design. The combat is very much in the background of things that are important, in that way it's quite different from the contemporary Resident Evil games, which are much harder in terms of conserving ammo and actual *SURVIVAL* Horror elements. I much prefer Silent Hill though, they had an impact on me that no other game series ever had, which is quite impressive seeing as how I was already 20 years old when the first game came out. Anyway, hope you get around to trying them out some day, but for the love of god avoid the "HD collection" like the plague, try to get your hands on the original versions, the HD collection actually ruins the games in many aspects, I have no clue how they messed it up so bad. Edit: Also you might want to give "Silent Hill 4 - Room of Angel" a listen, definitely the best part of the 4:th game :) And also check out the intro song from Silent Hill 1 if you feel like it, it's just called "Silent Hill" I think, my personal favourite from the entire series. Edit again: Oh yeah, there's playlists of Silent Hill 2 OST on youtube, you should put that on sometime and just give it a listen, no need to make a video about it, unless you really want to, but it could be interesting to see how you react to the entire OST played and see if you find yourself feeling one way or another, I always get emotional while listening to it, but that's because I have connected memories to the game, no clue how ppl with no previous experience would react to it.

[@leonflorence118]

Would be dope if you reacted to Waiting For You. I think it's the best SH song overall

[@MrAnonEMoss]

To me it sounds like this song wouldn't be out of place on U2's War album, especially with those closing guitar riffs

[@secretagenttau2233]

This song is SO GOOD. You rock btw. You should listen to Noosphere(warhammer 40k)

[@JessesAuditorium]

I'm going to hear it when I hit 40k subs. See what I did there?

[@secretagenttau2233]

@@JessesAuditorium .....damnit. I wanna be upset....but that was great lol

[@secretagenttau2233]

@@JessesAuditorium holy hell, just realized you are almost there

[@lunareclipse1882]

Its in the ending of the first silent hill movie

[@JiiWoon]

Checkout SH OST : waiting for you , Love your channel btw !

[@napalmsanctuaryx4129]

It doesn't play on the intro, it plays over the demo movie that runs if you're too slow clicking on anything in the start menu. You need to watch that. It'll give a whole other context for the song. Same with the silent hill 2 song you did last time.

[@CashewNuts0]

You should react to Room of Angel from Silent Hill 4

[@Torthrodhel]

The comparison with RE doesn't make much sense from a game-feel perspective, but makes a ton of sense when you know the history and circumstances. It was actually commissioned as a Resident Evil clone to cash in on the trend - that's what they asked the team to do. It's just not what the team ended up making, since they wanted something a bit better than just a pretender... they were a bunch of people collected together because the company didn't know what else to do with them, and they were figuring it out as they went along (often the best way art gets made). The idea of fog being so prevolent was initially just a creative solution to the PS1's poor 3D draw distance; while Resident Evil cleverly made use of 2D pictures put behind invisible 3D rigs that mimicked their construction, so as to achieve a then-impossible graphical background fidelity (if it were done all in 3D), the SH team wanted to distinguish their game by just going full 3D. The result is a worse graphical fidelity and the need for cover-ups such as fog or darkness to hide draw distance, BUT you can also have what now would be thought of as "normal camera", allowing for some wide environments to walk around in, AND they made the game's signiature strange camera angles (inspired by RE's) but they could actually move around with you, which was unheard of then (and is rare enough now, too - watch someone play through the early-game "alleyway" sequence of the first game and tell me you see that sort of camerawork nowadays, it's a real show-off of exactly what I'm talking about). I adore that and sadly it's largely been lost as the series has gone on (teams on each game always changed around a bit, but a noticeable drop in quality occurs when they start outsourcing the teams entirely). SHs 1, 2 and 3 were at the very peak of graphical fidelity for the time, too. They really kept pushing the envelope in their horror niche. 4 wasn't as impressive in this way (mostly because it was made alongside 3, which looks better in some respects, and only completed afterwards). "5" (Homecoming, which was when they stopped numbering them) looked significantly worse than 3 and even somewhat worse than 2, despite being on the then-next-gen PS3/XB360. They never really did catch up after that to the technical excellence they pioneered in the early days. Lighting is very worth mentioning. Each game until 4 had a pocket flashlight that lit up wherever you were going. It seems really basic now, but was damn beautiful back then especially in the first game on PS1. 4 made a lot of changes to try and innovate, and unfortunately most of them didn't end up being better than the 'traditional' formula... but it still has a good story and atmosphere that feel in-line with the original bunch. The games also made use of background tracks fading between one-another. High tech for the time, and while very far from the first to try it (and other games had even done more sophisticated versions), it really did fit well. I particularly appreciate a small piece of music in SH2, that plays during a descent down a corridor. It's very effective in a way I'll explain now. It's made of a simple unnerving sound (sounds like kinda a cross between a hunting horn and a monster voice). You've gone into a Historical Society building, and are about to find yourself impossibly and spookily travelling into pieces of actual history (buildings that are no longer there, etc). This is where the geography of the world begins to get screwy (having been fairly consistent before at least in terms of general measurements). You find a hole in a wall, and this corridor is stupidly long before reaching a door into escalating geographical shenanigans. Nobody would for any reason build this. The sound in the music plays at particular pulses in the background. As you go along the corridor remains graphically uniform, as if to wonder if it will ever end, and instead of your progress being marked by the look of your surroundings, it's marked by the frequency of the sound pulsing subtly increasing. It's slightly randomized, too. So by the time you finally do reach the end of it, it's pulsing about twice as often as when you started, and very nearly overlapping itself. Then didn't have to do this, they could've just had a track playing. But... that's the sort of love they put into these games. You'd often come across the kind of added detail where if you were thinking outside the game you'd say to yourself "they didn't need to do that" but it all added up to help keep you immersed and away from thinking in that sort of mode. With those sorts of refinements, you could experience the excellent story, atmosphere and characters... and largely ignore how basic and repetitive the combat, exploration and inventory systems were. They really knew where they wanted the focus to be and what they could excel at.

[@pumpdump4274]

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[@Darksetmusic]

Bro I hope you jump into these games they do consume your soul lol and the songs definatley paint a different picture , there is a song called end of small sanctuary in game right before your decent into hell and it's really the last bit of peace you get until the end

[@MarcinP2]

Parts of lyrics are foreshadowing the plot, if you ignore their context. Also this is the mood of the game.

[@nim4464]

YESS

[@AshflowEX]

I wanna see Jesse react/listen to Dragon Ball FighterZ - Bardock theme

[@NicNico]

There is a music video to this. It's good. (Not the singer though- Mary Elizabeth McGlynn) kzbin.info/www/bejne/iWmscmanhLOjbsU

[@gamehog231]

U look like gene hoglan 🥺

[@Avatariuz]

They used this in the 2nd Silent Hill movie, which was great end title music but the mivie was horrible.

[@artistanthony1007]

It was the first, the one with a female singer you're probably thinking of is Silent Scream, honestly I mainly love the Manniquen Monster in it and the Credits sequence show how threatening it is.

[@editedtwice5811]

👍. ???

[@TrynePlague]

After SH3, the games got worse and worse. The best OST is SH4 though imo. Close call with SH3.