Comment on How Silent Hill 2 Changed Horror Gaming For The 21st Century
ourselves@slrpnk.net 1 day agoMaybe it didn’t get glowing reviews from IGN and similar websites back then but I remember it being extremely popular when I first played it as a kid 20 years ago. I actually rented it through GameFly after I saw it in a list of the best video games ever made.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 1 day ago
People, especially the Japanese players, wanted a sequel that continued the story of Harry Mason. That’s why Konami forced Team Silent to change Silent Hill 3 in order to incorporate all the elements to force a connection to Silent Hill 1. Silent Hill 2 had so many complaints about not being connected to Silent Hill 1 that it permanently disfigured Silent Hill 3.
I guess back then we didn’t fully understand the concept of a sequel with a 2 in the title not directly continuing the story from the original. Whatever the case, the fact remains that Silent Hill 1 was immensely more popular than Silent Hill 2 for a good long while. It wasn’t until recently (maybe within the last 10 years or so) that Silent Hill 2 came into the spotlight.
ourselves@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Ahhh, I was still a bit too young to remember much about the first game. Mostly just memories of my father playing it. I do remember watching a video explaining that Silent Hill 2 did kinda fuck up the lore between all the games. Since it was so self contained and specific to James’ experience, any reference to Silent Hill 2 in the later games didnt make any sense. If Pyramid Head was created by James’ guilty conscience, he shouldn’t have appeared in later games.