Silent Hills Thread

[eliasfrost]

Wasn't all scares scripted in the first game?

Only the introduction scene.

The first Silent Hill game was scary for a number of reasons, but scripted scares was not one of them.

I don't remember there being any emergent scares though, they were all intentionally designed to be displayed at a certain area with a very specific pacing between them. The acted sort of like anchor points between areas and parts of the game, they broke up the pacing albeit in rather terrifying ways.

But yeah I agree, the game was scary mostly because of its atmosphere, dodgy camera angles and awkward combat. But I enjoyed the scripted scares nonetheless.