It permanently and fundamentally altered the shape of video game horror. And the sound design? Oh, shit, the sound design! Few games are flawless, but Silent Hill 2’s seminal impact can still be felt today.
There are endless staircases and doors on the floor and a woman who keeps dying in front of your eyes over and over again, only to pop up later – inexplicably unhurt – in your story. There are creatures with extra legs where a face should be, and others trapped in skin-like straightjackets. Here was creature design straight out of the fires of hell: Monsters and worlds slick with symbolism and hidden meanings, dark, broken places where Francis Bacon-esque things shuffle in the shadows. Silent Hill 2 did for me what Guillermo Del Toro later did for others with films like Pan’s Labyrinth. The graphics, while stellar at the time, haven’t aged that well. I have no doubt that to the uninitiated it’s pretty irritating, particularly if you’ve watched a Let’s Play – maybe even played it yourself, perhaps, when the unmitigated travesty that was the “HD Collection” was released last-gen – and figured it was nothing special. I know there’s a gaggle of gamers around my age all of whom bang on about the early Silent Hill games. READ MORE: What happened at the Sony PlayStation 5 reveal event: games, trailers and more highlights.But at the top of the list is Silent Hill’s sequel, Silent Hill 2, which wasn’t just modern and sophisticated it made me cry.
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Metal Gear Solid was the first game that revealed itself to be thoughtful and compelling, as mature and cinematic as anything playing in the movie theatre down the road. Konami’s other flagship franchise, Metal Gear, had a similar effect on me. The kind of game that’s somehow greater than its disparate parts. We all have one that game that hits you in the guts in a way you simply weren’t expecting, a game that echoes in your mind for days, weeks, decades after you played it.
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