Retronauts Episode 310 Preview: Silent Hill 2

Retronauts

Technology, Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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0:52.1	Maybe on the PC you could find games that approach this kind of storytelling,
0:57.5	but they really got away with something by couching this story and these themes in survival horror.
1:03.1	A genre that was about to die. Yeah, they were incredibly clever and bold to do any of this
1:11.3	basically and tackles so many gruesome topics with a lot of tack, especially for 2001, like
1:20.4	props for not making this a freak show. Like so many other games that deal with mental health and
1:27.7	all sorts of topics. Rape is brought up in this game in a very, very, very tasteful way, which is
1:33.6	shocking for the time it came out. And yeah, I think like I love games that kind of trick the gamer
1:41.9	to get into something that they don't expect. The Silent Hill 2 extremely does that, especially in
1:46.8	that there's multiple endings that it doesn't tell you when it's like monitoring, like what it
1:52.8	doesn't tell you what it's monitoring to get those endings. So I wish I could go back in time and
1:58.5	play this when it came out because I didn't play it until I want to say like 2003 or something because
2:05.1	I just didn't, it wasn't on my radar, it wasn't into survival horror yet. I was like 16 when I first
2:08.9	played it. But the the fact is that there's multiple endings and there's no obvious tell that there
2:17.8	is in the first place or what influences it must have been wild to experience the first time because
2:22.7	I bet there's people, there's kids playing this all over the place and just being like, oh, I got
2:27.0	this ending where the protagonist kills himself. So it's like, that's not what I didn't get that.
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