Alright, I'm going to be honest, feel free to stop me if this has already been done (I only read about the first 6 pages of the forum, couldn't go through all 42 )
Something that I have seen no one really note about the SH games is the usage of the alternate worlds, or rather, the subtle change of alternate world usage. In SH1, Harry often felt the change of the world around him from misty Silent Hill to Nightmare Silent Hill, also accompanied by bloody rain. It happened often, and as soon as it began the gamer is immediately like CRAP.
In SH2, James rarely runs into this nightmare world, (I think he does only once, maybe twice, haven't played the game in a few months -- I know right after the hospital where ***SPOILER*** Maria is killed the first time by Pyramid Head, ***END SPOILER*** And I think in the hotel later. However, though these two are both kind of like SHAZAM! reality shifts, but it IS obvious that the world is gradually getting darker entirely towards the end (the prison, etc. etc.)Not only this, but I think he only actually experiences the change from misty Silent Hill to dark Silent Hill in the hospital.
IN SH3, in my opinion, everything was completely changed in regards to the dark world. Also, Heather/Cheryl/Alessa never experienced the reality shifts. It wasn't so much the entire realities changing, but more certain rooms were really dark and sketch, other ones weren't. The same thing applies to SH2 where the game more gradually goes into the dark reality in entirety...
SH4 I'm leaving out of this because it's a significantly different game for more reasons than just the reality shift, and I'm not saying the other games were the same; more just that SH1 had a gamer feeling one way while playing it, I guess a more suspenseful feel to the game, especially because the periods of nightmare silent hill lasted longer and longer as the game went on. SH2 and SH3 had a similar feeling in regards to the reality shifts.
It's honestly only the dark world in SH1 and the ones in SH2 that freak me out, otherwise they seemed kind of tame in comparison.
So what do you guys think? Agree, Disagree?
