Posted at » 1:14:00 PM
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Yesterday, completed Silent Hill1... my goodness.
Since the final year of high school, I've always wanted to complete each of the Silent Hill series... Played SH2 during my army days, enjoyed it very much- simply sad, intriguing and emotional. After the army, I downloaded SH4 and completed it too- the design of the game is really good, creatures and monster design especially. But the whole effort was ruin by the storyline. It is totally incomparable to the SH2 and SH1.
My instinctive grading of SH1 is pretty straight forward: Shocking. Disturbing.
I've yet play any game that seriously made me feel so disturbed that probably want to make me finish it as quickly as I tried to do with SH1.
The graphics on the game ain't impressive yet, like Peter said "...the poor graphics allow your mind to fill in the gaps, and make it look even scarier..." Monsters are everywhere, packed up so much of a challenge that you rather not fight if you don't have to. Talking about scary moments with monsters, I doubt I can forget those moments of running without a map in the Alternate World, with creatures popping up in the darkness at every turn. That's impressive.
Storyline wise... Honestly, for some reasons, I don't seem to follow much about the plot- The live-action movie kinda filled alot of details in for me. Haha~ I can't believe it myself. But some moments in the story are seriously both intriguing and highly disturbing. 2 moments to be exact- 1st is the way Cybil died. 2nd is the way Lisa Garnet died. When I think of chicks in game, especially hot ones, they normally survive or die in a quick and non-graphical manner. Yet, in the world of Silent Hill, it seems to be a fair world for everyone.
Silent Hill 1 is probably one of the best horror game I've played so far, with it's clever camera angles, challenging monsters and DARINGLY-disturbing moments. Silent Hill 2 is also one of the best horror games around, a sick kind of romantic moment- really sad stuff...for a horror based love story.
Silent Hill 4 was quite a let down though... Now I am left with SH3 and SH5 to play... Looking forward to play SH3 coz SH5 is not developed by Team Silent. But as life is, I've got SH5 in my hands now` haha~ will probably start on it soon.
I like this picture- Very strong and striking.
Beside games, recently I've been very crazy about O.S.Ts of Ghost in the Shell series and Cowboy Bebop series.
Got my hands on them from Shitesh and Peter, been listening to them for 4 weeks straight already. They became favourite music when I study for my exams, although the only side effects is sometime , the track got stuck inside my head, constantly looping itself when I AM WRITING THE EXAMS!!! For example, the song Velveteen from the album, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex O.S.T...kept repeating and repeating.
Most of the music of the 2 anime are composed by 1 amazing lady , and her name is Yoko Kanno . She deserves my respect for her sense of music.
From rock to jazz to techno to funky classical to pop, she did it all.
I totally understand why Andrew(Shitesh's friend) only listen to her music and nothing else. If a person has some good appreciation for Music itself, they would understand totally.
Now, I am totally immersed in her world of music........................
/我
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