Silent Hill

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Warning May Contain SpoilersThe game's opening cinematic depicts Harry Mason and his daughter, Cheryl, driving to the resort town of Silent Hill for a vacation, when Harry swerves to avoid a figure in the road. Regaining consciousness after the crash to find Cheryl missing, he sets off in search of her on the streets of Silent Hill, which are deserted, foggy, and where snow is falling out of season.[6][7] Having followed a figure that looks like his daughter,[8] he finds himself in an alleyway that transforms by the sound of an air-raid siren into a hellish version of the same world, covered in blood and rust. He is ambushed and overcome by strange monsters at the end of the alleyway, but wakes once more to find himself in a cafe, with the world returned to normal; here he talks to a police officer, Cybil Bennett, whose motorbike they saw on the side of the road before the crash.[9] Cybil hands him a gun and leaves to find help, while Harry sets out to continue his search.[10] A sketchbook in the now normal alleyway leads Harry to the local school,[11] where he contends with puzzles, monsters, and the school transforming to its "Otherworld" state, including a mark on the ground that he finds on the courtyard.[12] Though he does not find his daughter, he spots a girl who vanishes before his eyes;[13] hearing a church bell ringing, he sets out to find the source, and meets a woman named Dahlia Gillespie at the church, who gives him an unusual item, the Flauros, and cryptic warnings about what is to come.[14][15]

Departing, she tells Harry to visit Alchemilla Hospital,[14] where he encounters Dr Michael Kaufmann, a doctor who is as bewildered as Harry about their circumstances,[7] and later, finding himself in the nightmarish Otherworld hospital, also meets Lisa Garland, a terrified nurse.[16] Though she knows much about the town and its history, he is unable to get answers before he is transported back to the normal world, where Dahlia reappears and tells him the mark he has seen in various places must not be completed, lest the darkness devour the whole town.[15] Meeting up with Cybil, who has seen a girl out on the lake,[17] the pair find a hidden altar in an antiques store, but Harry disappears out of sight of Cybil, much to her confusion; Harry, meanwhile, finds himself back in the Otherworld with Lisa, who gives him directions to the lake, but also tells Harry she feels she's "not supposed to leave".[18] On the way to the lake, the player may determine Kaufmann's fate - and the game's ending - by choosing to assist him in the resort area; soon after, the Otherworld nightmare begins to take over the town completely.[19] Regrouping with Cybil and deciding to stop the mark's completion at Dahlia's suggestion, Harry heads to the lighthouse and Cybil to the amusement park.[20] As a cutscene shows Cybil attacked by an unknown assailant, Harry once more spies the apparition of the girl at the top of the lighthouse before heading to the amusement park himself.[21] Here, Cybil appears possessed, and the player may save or kill Cybil, once again affecting the game's ending. With the girl appearing once more, Harry unwittingly uses the Flauros to trap her; Dahlia appears, revealing that she manipulated him into trapping her as he was the only one who would be able to get close, and that the girl is in fact her daughter, Alessa.[22]

With Alessa's powers out of control, Harry awakens to find himself in a distorted world resembling the hospital, simply known as "Nowhere". Here he finds Lisa, who has come to realise she is in fact dead, and begins to transform in front of a horrified Harry, who flees;[23] her diary, left in the room, explains that she was the nurse who attended to Alessa. Continuing on, Harry views a flashback in Nowhere, and soon finds Dahlia, Cybil and Kaufmann, as well as a figure in a wheelchair, wrapped in bandages - Cheryl with Alessa kneeling nearby. Both the flashback and Dahlia's words explain that Dahlia sacrificed her daughter to fire seven years ago, in an attempt to nurture and bring about the birth of the cult's god that resides inside her.[24] In so doing, Alessa's soul was split in two, and the god could not be born, so a spell was cast by Dahlia that would ultimately draw the other half of the soul back to Alessa.[25] The other half of the soul manifested itself as Cheryl, whom Harry and his wife found and adopted in the form of a baby when they were on vacation in the area at that time.[26] In the present, Alessa, sensing Cheryl's return through an increase in her power, manifested herself in the town to place the marks Harry has seen in an attempt to keep the god at bay.[27] With Alessa's plan defeated and the two halves of her soul now back together, the god creature begins to manifest and kills Dahlia instantly, before turning its attention to Harry, who ultimately defeats it.

Four normal endings are available, depending on whether Harry saves Kaufmann and Cybil. The Bad ending is received if neither Kaufmann nor Cybil are saved, where Alessa births the god and appears as a young woman in white robes; after Harry kills her, Cheryl's voice thanks Harry for freeing her and says goodbye. Harry falls to his knees, and the game cuts to Harry's corpse lying dead in the crashed jeep. The Bad+ ending is similar, but sees Cybil run to him to convince him to flee the decaying Otherworld, which fails, and both are consumed. The Good ending finds Kaufmann alive; he throws Aglaophotis at Alessa to exorcise the god from her body, and it now appears as a giant, winged demon. After its defeat, Alessa transfers her soul into a new baby, giving it to Harry and opening a portal to escape. As he does so, Kaufmann tries to follow, but is dragged into the depths by Lisa. The Good+ sees Cybil escape with Harry and the new baby. Finally, the UFO ending is an Easter egg, accessible if an item is used at certain points in the game, and sees Harry abducted by a fleet of UFOs. This ending has been carried over to most of the games in the series, including Silent Hill 2, Silent Hill 3, Silent Hill: Origins and Silent Hill Homecoming. From: wikipedia

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I doubt it'll have the same affect on someone who grew up with the more modern generation of games that have more or less desensitized what is disturbing, but the game itself was a pioneer for survival horror and really pushed some boundaries at the time. It's still a demented and very scary game today. The story is enigmatic that unravels bit by bit but never fully explains itself or holds your hand. The score is so damn nerve racking and unique - adds a ton to the atmosphere. I'll go a far to say that even with the flaws in control it has it's probably one of the greatest games ever made. You'll never look at fog or hear a siren the same way again, seriously.