Radio in Room 302 saying "Police arrested a Mr. Suguru Murakoshi after he was discovered naked, urinating..."
Broadcast continues "...from the top of a utility pole in North Ashfield."
SH4 - There is a very low chance that in the radio in Room 302 there will be a joke broadcast about the game's director, Suguru Murakoshi, getting arrested for public indecency.
SH0 - In the walkway outside Riverside Motel's Room 316 (room with the wedding outfits and cake inside), the player can hear footsteps walking and running around the floor below.
Douglas' dead body in the Possessed ending. His eyes are partially open, so it's difficult to see his pupils.
Douglas' dead model with open eyes. His pupils are noticeably dilated.
Douglas' regular model while alive for comparison, when checking on him after meeting at Lakeside Amusement Park.
SH3 - Although it's almost impossible to see, Douglas' dead model from the Possessed ending has dilated pupils, a characteristic seen in recently dead bodies. The rest of his models use more constricted pupils for his eyes, so this was a conscious choice.
Map before meeting Sakuko at her house in the game's opening. Hinako has a drawing of Sakuko to mark her house.
Map after meeting Sakuko at her house. Hinako writes, below Sakuko's doodle, "500 yen".
SHf - Because Hinako updates her map as she goes along, there's a humorous (possibly unintentional) instance where, after meeting Sakuko and getting called a traitor at the start of the game, she immediately writes down on the map that Sakuko owes her 500 yen.
"Whatever heart this town had has stopped", written on a banner hung from the Heart of St. Amelia monument in the last trailer.
"Whatever heart this town had has now stopped" written and hidden in the 2022 teaser trailer audio, as seen in a spectrogram.
SHTF - The writing "Whatever heart this town had has stopped" was originally hidden in the audio of the 2022 teaser trailer for Townfall, and was revealed when fans ran the trailer through a spectrogram.
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Henry examining his bedroom desk in Room 302. He says: "There are scraps from magazine articles, books, and things like that, but nothing useful."
Henry examining the desk during the Forest World. He thinks: "There are scraps from magazine articles, but I don't remember why I cut them out."
Henry examining the desk during the Water Prison. He thinks "I can't remember what magazine I cut them out from."
Henry examining the desk during the Hospital World. He thinks "There are scraps from magazine articles, but..... I don't remember cutting them out...."
SH4 - Henry gradually forgets details and becomes unsure of his activities in the apartment as the game goes on. In this example, he first forgets why he was cutting scraps from magazines, then forgets what magazines he was working with, and finally forgets doing it altogether.
Jeffrey in 12 Monkeys. His eyes are mismatched similarly to Vincent.
Shingo Yuri based this trait on Brad Pitt's character Jeffrey in 12 Monkeys (1995).
Close up of Vincent's face. His right eye's default pose is looking forwards, while his left eye rests slightly down to the left.
SH3 - Vincent's eyes are mismatched. His left eye has a noticeably larger pupil than the right eye, and they look in different directions.
I never made that connection, but it fits so well.
Pyramid Head's reveal promo image for Return to Silent Hill, showing half of the new knife design.
The best view I could get of the great knife in the movie, before Pyramid Head puts it down to beat up the spider monster.
We arrive at the present. Return to Silent Hill, despite being based off Silent Hill 2, gives Pyramid Head a Great Knife heavily based on Homecoming's combat knife design, but with a similar handle to the past movies. It's more blunt than sharp, as well.
Pyramid Head preparing to chop the patients' arms in the asylum with the cleaver.
BTS photo of Pyramid Head in the asylum scene, wielding a giant cleaver.
Pyramid Head switches things up temporarily in Revelation 3D, wielding a giant cleaver instead in the asylum scenes. When he uses his knife again, it's largely the same design as the previous movie.
Rose and Cybil dodging the great knife in Midwich.
Promotional image of Pyramid Head holding the great knife.
Moving onto the films, the 2006 movie had a knife design still quite similar to SH2's, but without the scissors axis, the edge of the blade in the opposite side, and a different curve at the tip.
Japanese cover art of Book of Memories.
Low res image of the Book of Memories protagonist wielding the Great Knife.
Inventory icon for the Great Knife, using Homecoming's design.
Although the knife used in-game and Pyramid Head in the JP cover art both use the SH2 knife design, the inventory icon in-game is based off Homecoming's design.
Render of Homecoming's in-game knife design. Its handle is wrapped in tape.
In-game model of the Homecoming knife. It's very slightly different in shape and it lacks the handle tape.
However, Pyramid Head uses a completely different knife in-game. It now has a serrated edge continuous to the handle, and it ends in a sharper, curved point, which makes it similar to a combat knife.
Promotional Homecoming artwork. Pyramid Head drags a nurse and holds a redesigned great knife.
Unused cover art for Homecoming's Japanese release, featuring Pyramid Head holding the redesigned knife.
Homecoming's promotional artwork shows a different design derived from the classic SH2 look. In these, the knife doesn't show a scissors axis, featuring a rough wooden handle instead. The edge of the blade is also moved to the opposite side.
The Great Knife on the floor in SH2 Remake.
Pyramid Head in The Arcade, holding the SH2 style knife.
James would've gotten the other half of the scissors, but that design wasn't modeled differently and it was scrapped.
In the remake, the design is largely the same. This knife is also used in The Arcade and the pachislot based off SH2.
Side view of Pyramid Head holding the great knife in SH2.
Image from Masahiro Ito pointing out the scissors axis in the knife's handle.
A look at Pyramid Head's various Great Knives throughout the series.
In SH2, the edge of the blade is continuous with the handle. It was designed with the intention of being one half of a pair of scissors, as can be seen in the axis at the end of the handle.
I've updated the Ultimate Silent Hill characters and monsters tier lists with Return to Silent Hill.
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I've updated the Ultimate Silent Hill characters and monsters tier lists with Return to Silent Hill.
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Top view of a Creeper in SH1.
A SH1 Creeper attacking, showing its mouth appendage.
Top view of a Creeper in SH2.
Bottom view of a Creeper in SH2.
The Creepers were redesigned between Silent Hill 1 and 2. Their antennas and both front and hind legs were shortened, they lost two of their four middle legs, became hairier and more "compact", and lost their mouth appendage in their underside, replaced with a worm clutter-like texture.
Top view of a Creeper in SH1.
A SH1 Creeper attacking, showing its mouth appendage.
Top view of a Creeper in SH2.
Bottom view of a Creeper in SH2.
The Creepers were redesigned between Silent Hill 1 and 2. Their antennas and both front and hind legs were shortened, they lost two of their four middle legs, became hairier and more "compact", and lost their mouth appendage in their underside, replaced with a worm clutter-like texture.
I don't think this joke landed- fine, I did force it
Murphy in the empty cinema watching one of the "movies" in the big screen.
Murphy splicing the reels together in the editing room.
Murphy getting the golden gun.
SHD - One of the sidequests involves Murphy going into an empty movie theater, where he can enter three "films" that he proceeds to assemble into one long reel. The product is loose scenes in locations already seen in cutscenes with no context, and ends when Murphy gets a gun from the attic.
Promotional wallpaper for Return to Silent Hill, showing a tourist map in the observation deck. The whole Toluca Lake area is portrayed in it.
Let's dissect the new map shown for the movie universe's iteration of Silent Hill.
The new map for the film, using a palette of light pink, whites and greens.
Shattered Memories' full city map.
In a more personal note, I find this new map to take a lot of inspiration from Shattered Memories' GPS map, from the color palette used to the style and layout of the newly added neighborhood between Old Silent Hill and the docks.
jam6i's full Silent Hill map, including Shepherd's Glen north of Pleasant River.
The map for the movie's Silent Hill.
The island east of Central SH in the new map, with a landmark for a forest. To the east of the map, there's a large expansion of land housing another forest, which replaces Shepherd's Glen from jam6i's map.
This official map appears to be a very modified version of a fanmade map by jam6i. This is a very popular map for "what Silent Hill looks like" put together. This is evident from the island east of Central SH (an original creation by jam6i) and the land for Shepherd's Glen.
South side of the map. There's a red dot where James is at the Observation Deck.
Now onto some curious things. Because South Vale doesn't exist, the whole southwest/central side is purely nature, with some paths leading away from the road. The Wish House grounds are not featured; instead, there's a place named "South Community Park."
South Hill in the movie map.
Pleasant River map in Silent Hill Downpour.
To the southeast, where Pleasant River would be, there's a small neighborhood named "South Hill", seemingly taking the role of South Vale. This district is completely different to Pleasant River. The Overlook Penitentiary island is there, but empty.
Interestingly, locations from neither the first movie (the church, Midwich, Brookhaven Hospital, Grand Hotel) nor Revelation (Lakeside Amusement Park, Brookhaven Asylum) are marked in these maps.
