Game Making: Start By Healing the Player

repressed.

This is Zhang Yi's biggest feeling when playing "Silent Hill", including all players.

It is not pure fear, but more of a kind of spiritual depression than fear.

Seriously, are there any designs in Silent Hill that make people feel really scary?

Actually not.

In the game, there are no monsters that suddenly appear after a disagreement, and you won't see a grimace in front of you as soon as you turn your head and open the door.

Instead, there will be a special body shape. For example, when you first meet Brother Triangle, the other party will not immediately chase down the player. The second time you see it, it is just a cutscene, and in the levels that are chased afterward, all the players will be chased. Not a sudden and frightening attack.

Including the mobs in the game as well.

In "Silent Hill", it is more shaped by the atmosphere of the scene, creating an atmosphere of depression and despair.

Such as fog, radio that alerts players to strange encounters, and a world that becomes weird after leaving the hospital room.

And after Maria was killed by Triangle Head, James learned of a noun called Abyss by gathering some information.

Here, players need to go to the library and jump down to the black hole again and again to find a way out.

The dark square hole looks pitch black and bottomless at first glance, but it requires players to jump down like a leap of faith in Assassin's Creed.

Many players have survived the fog in the town, passed through the weird apartment, and chatted and laughed with the nurse sister, but they were really defeated when they were here.

Because when jumping into the black hole, the whole process is completely dark, and besides the falling wind, there is no other sound at all.

The silence and the feeling of falling from the sky is really unbearable.

Even many players would rather be startled by the sudden appearance of monsters than experience that weird feeling.

And it's not just jumping holes.

After jumping down a hole, you also need to find where the other exit is.

The narrow labyrinth corridor, a dark and weird world like a square, and various mechanisms that make people lose their SAN can be said to be enough to make players feel crazy.

If it's just the weirdness and depression in the scene here, then when combined with the plot of the entire game after that, it will make the player feel more confusing.

Because at this time James came to the prison in Silent Hill, and here he met Eddie again.

Unlike the little fat man who threw up on the toilet and ate pizza before, there was a headshot corpse nearby at this time.

In the dark scene, Eddie behaved like a psychopath, with a strange expression on his face, he whispered that it was not difficult to kill, as long as he pointed a gun to his head and slammed it.

But then he showed a flustered expression again, vehemently denying that the man killed himself, and fled.

At the same time, in a cell of the prison, James also saw Maria who was locked in it, who was supposed to be killed by Triangle Head while escaping through the elevator.

But at this time, Maria seemed to have no memory of her previous killing by Triangle Head, and she even said that James and Mary had dropped a video tape while they were on vacation at the hotel.

James wanted to rescue Maria, but he couldn't open the door of the cell, so he could only continue to go deep into the prison to find a way.

In the depths of the prison labyrinth, James also encountered Angela who was attacked by monsters, but after saving Angela, the other party scolded him, saying that he actually didn't want Mary to continue beside him and just wanted to find another love.

Through exchanges and some hints, James learned some of Angela's stories, that is, she had been violently assaulted by her own alcoholic family, so she finally stabbed her father with a knife and escaped.

After passing through the labyrinth of the dungeon and finally James came to Maria's cell, a strange thing happened, that is, Maria, who was still alive before, actually died on the bed of the cell at this time.

After losing Maria, James had to move on.

Go through the maze to a freezer.

He again encountered Eddie who escaped, and several corpses were scattered around him.

Through the dialogue, we learned that Eddie has been ridiculed and bullied because of his obesity since he was a child.

So one day he couldn't take it anymore, shot a football player's dog, wounded the owner's knee and escaped.

Now he vows to kill all those who mock and bully him.

And he told James that since they were both summoned here by Silent Hill, they were the same kind of people.

After speaking, he immediately attacked James.

So in self-defense James had to kill Eddie, and when he realized he had killed someone, he also began to wonder if Mary really died three years ago.

Are the memories in his mind real?

Just like James in the game, all players who play here also have many doubts.

What kind of place is Silent Hill?

Why are there so many scary monsters here?

And why little girl Laura hates James so much.

And why these people in the game came to Silent Hill.

Including when Maria hadn't died in the cell before, why she repeatedly emphasized that if James wanted her to be Mary, she was Mary, and also emphasized that she was a real person.

And Eddie said that they were all summoned by Silent Hill.

Is that letter from Mary real?

Why did the whole world change after coming out of the hospital room?

Which is the real world?

Are these people Maria real?

Countless questions haunt players' minds.

What kind of story "Silent Hill" tells, this has become a question mark in the hearts of many players who have played here.

………………

In the game, Zhang Yi has finished the content of the prison level.

After leaving the freezer and rowing a boat, he came to the Lake View Hotel, the place James and Mary had agreed on.

In front of the Lake View Hotel, just like the inside of Silent Hill, there is a thick white fog.

It was still a dead silence.

It's just that what makes him more curious now is the truth behind all this about Silent Hill.

From what happened to Eddie and Ahn'Qiraj before, there are also some hints.

Zhang Yi also has a guess in his heart, that is, people in Silent Hill have some unbearable pasts.

Eddie came to Silent Hill because he killed a dog and broke a leg of the dog owner, avoiding the police.

Angela came to Silent Hill in search of her mother, but killed her abusive father.

What about the bear child Laura in the game, Maria who looks exactly like Mary, and James?

Why did they come to Silent Hill?

What is the story of James and Mary, and why there are so many monsters in the small town of Silent Hill?

With curiosity, Zhang Yi controlled James to walk towards the Lake View Hotel, the final destination of the trip.

He had a hunch that he would be able to get the answers to all this here.