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...and I've never played it until now. I always thought I could tough through horror games unscathed. After all, the only game that ever scarred me at all was PT. ...until now. Even when going up against the shitty PSX graphics of '99, I'm still a huge wuss. I mean, yeah, the occasional jump scare gets me, but what hits me the hardest is the ambience. I could easily just turn it off and everything would be just fine. But no. I have to love doing this to myself. Also, they really nail it with the level-design. Like, if the whole game just took place in that hellish other-world filled with bloody corpses, it wouldn't be so bad. But they juxtapose that setting with what it is in this world. I mean, you're looking around at night inside a small elementary school. Yeah, it's creepy af, butit's just an elementary school filled with crayon-drawings, desks, blood-splattered textbooks, chalkboards, and other typical 5th-grade stuff. BUT THEN you get warped to some weird alternate universe where it's the same floor plan and same building as the school, but there's blood caked all over the walls and corpses chained to the walls and it all just looks like a huge medieval torture facility. Combine that with the staticky, screechy background music and the weird moaning of the monsters (they all sound like they're orgasming or something), and it's just multiple layers of unsettling discomfort. ...and I love it. I finally get why people love it. It's one of the few (two or three) legitimately frightening games I've ever played. Most horror games are just action in a horror setting, but Silent Hill...it gets you legitimately scared. Not just surprised like FNaF, or just tense like Amnesia, but full-throttle psychological uneasiness to the bone. ...whatever that means.