{"id":11311,"date":"2025-12-10T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=11311"},"modified":"2025-12-13T12:30:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T18:30:18","slug":"top-25-of-25-silent-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=11311","title":{"rendered":"Top 25 of &#8217;25: Silent Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is the last game on this list that was made before the year 2000, I swear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Release year: 1999<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Developer: Konami<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Platform: PlayStation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Top 25 of &#039;25: Silent Hill\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/70qCokt5b5M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Silent Hill<\/strong>. It&#8217;s iconic. Maybe less so than its sequel, but I&#8217;ve always preferred the original, myself. Yes, I&#8217;ve played it before. Just like <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=11292\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"11292\">Donkey Kong &#8217;94<\/a><\/strong>, I&#8217;ve played it many times. Maybe even dozens of times, as there was a point in my life where I was trying to speedrun it and get a perfect 10-star ending. And if you don&#8217;t really know what that means, don&#8217;t worry about it. It&#8217;s not relevant to normal people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think we all kinda know the broad strokes of the story here: Harry Mason and his daughter Cheryl are heading off on a vacation to the town of Silent Hill, when a ghostly figure suddenly appears from the fog, causing Harry to swerve and crash his car. When he comes to, Cheryl has disappeared, and he finds himself in a town that is mostly vacant, save for a handful of random oddball characters and a legion of monsters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I picked this one up again to play on Halloween night, and, uh&#8230; mostly made it all the way through in one go. It seems that in the few years since I had last played it, my memory of what to do and where to go had eroded a bit more than I&#8217;d expected. Most notably, I completely forgot where the rifle is picked up, missed it, and then realized that you&#8217;re unable to ever go back for it. Fortunately, it&#8217;s not really required to finish the game, but watching those rifle bullets stack up in my inventory, forever unused, really broke my heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The thing I like most about Silent Hill is how absolutely weird and mysterious it is. I did a lot of unnecessary exploring during this run, and noticed a lot of hidden details that I don&#8217;t remember ever seeing before, which helped to clarify a few parts of the story a little, but so much still remains up to the player&#8217;s imagination. I&#8217;ve spent the last twenty years of my life, if not more, researching the Silent Hill lore, and the fact that I still can&#8217;t explain everything about the game makes me happy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While it was a revisit of a well-worn classic, it was one that filled my heart. I only wish that Konami would port it to more machines, because the knockoff PS3 controller I used to play it is not great and caused great cramping in my thumb-parts. And even though a big-budget remake is right around the corner, even if Bloober Team completely nails it, I don&#8217;t think the janky ol&#8217; PS1 version will ever be dethroned as my very favourite Silent Hill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the last game on this list that was made before the year 2000, I swear. Silent Hill. It&#8217;s iconic. Maybe less so than its sequel, but I&#8217;ve always preferred the original, myself. Yes, I&#8217;ve played it before. Just like Donkey Kong &#8217;94, I&#8217;ve played it many times. Maybe even dozens of times, as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=11311\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Top 25 of &#8217;25: Silent Hill<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,27,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retro-gaming","category-spooky","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11311"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11341,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11311\/revisions\/11341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}