

The player receives few explanations for anything that happens, and the story often glosses over (or completely ignores) key events as it offers up intense imagery and deeply psychological horror to the player. The story revolves around one man's personal struggle to find his daughter, his role as a pawn in a cosmic battle between two powerful entities over the power of a god, arcane occult rituals, reincarnation, possession, drug addiction, and alternative realities. we can't really spoil much of the plot beyond that point, because the game's story rarely explains itself to players. What awaits Harry within this hellish otherworld? On his desperate search for Cheryl, Harry meets several other lone strangers: Cybil Bennett, a policewoman from a neighboring town investigating Silent Hill Dahlia Gillespie, an elderly antiques dealer who offers to help Harry Michael Kaufmann, a mysterious doctor who only seems intent on survival Lisa Garland, a terrified nurse who implores Harry to protect her and Alessa, a strange teenage girl who always seems to show up wherever Harry goes.Īnd when an air-raid siren goes off in the distance, Silent Hill undergoes a dark and sinister transformation. Stumbling into Silent Hill, Harry discovers a town devoid of human life and choked in a perpetual fog, whose roads are blocked off by massive fissures in the ground and patrolled by skinless monsters. When he regains consciousness, Harry realizes he has crashed on the outskirts of Silent Hill, and that Cheryl has left the car. Suddenly, Harry swerves to avoid a girl standing in the road and crashes his car. Single father Harry Mason and his young daughter Cheryl are driving to the resort town of Silent Hill for a holiday vacation. Konami jumped on the Survival Horror bandwagon (created by the success of Resident Evil) with 1999's Silent Hill, the first game of Konami's Silent Hill franchise and a far more psychological take on the Survival Horror genre.
