Some musical inspiration for my Eden’s Verse 8 rewrite. The music is from Silent Hill but that just means it works on so many levels.

Sure.

I've been watching a bunch of video essays and analyses on older horror games which weren't popular in their time, mostly held back by being niche titles made by smaller studios and therefore a little "jank". But in honesty within that genre the jank kind of makes things better.

I'm never going to play most of these games so it's just nice to see someone with passion breakdown the themes and display genuine affection to something which was poorly reviewed in its time.

I got on the spree by revisiting Silent Hill: Shattered Memories after seeing Voidburger's takedown on Sam Barlow. I played Shattered Memories when it was new and have fondly recalled it as my favorite Silent Hill, even above 3 or 2, which I admit to being better. That's a whole other topic though, I'll double back.

The ones I've been learning about recently are the Clock Tower games, which are the pioneers of "stalker" subgenre of survival horror and the themes of disempowerment in gameplay that come from it. Clock Tower as a franchise is fairly standard but the games it inspired like Haunting Ground.

Much of the content has been focused on things like Silent Hill 3's take on unwanted pregnancy or Haunting Ground's exploration of objectification and Rule of Rose exploring how childhood bullying can be horribly psychological.

Shattered Memories spoilers:

I tend to enjoy this kind of thing in games, where the entire experience is the exploration of a theme. Running back to SH:SM, the reason I like it so much is that it's entirely about a child who lost their father to a car accident imagining that father as a savior figure who could save them from all the horrors they endured after the death and coming to terms with the fact that her father died and can never save her and that lost time will never come back and no one was going to rescue her.

Watching the narrative of that game from the lens of trauma is amazing, albeit haunting. We get a full picture of her life in high school, a drunken weekend at a cabin, her arrests, her explosive relationship with her mother and the bitter memories of the only time she remembers her parents together and happy-- a vacation at he lake, a theme park outing and when she was in hospital and both parents were too worried about her to fight.

All that told when the FACT that we are even exploring Cheryl's memories, or that Cheryl is a character at all, are a HUGE spoiler.

Anyway. I just like psychological horror and concept pieces. PS2 era had a lot of them. I'm sure not going to *play* them.

Sorry-- accidentally posted before finishing.

Most of the vids I have been watching are from Tangomushi https://youtube.com/@tangomushi

But I have been searching for other videos for each game as I visit or revisit.

Who never could take control of life

And all the missing we love

I hope the darkness they find will give them light

{ RP Memes: Music edition! }

{Alot of Mary Elizabeth Mcglynn’s music from the Silent Hill franchise soundtracks really puts me in mind of Safrona’s past. >.> This one is no exception. }