20-04-2021, 04:56 PM
Not long ago I picked the neon sign logo of a nightclub from a game called Silent Hill 2 as my avatar pic on Discord and got a shirt printed with the same logo. The nightclub in the game is called "Heaven's Night". I got a little backstory for why I did so...
Anyone familiar with the game's plot and characters are already taking educated guesses on what it is about, but for those of you who don't, I'll give some background to this. The player character is known as James Sunderland, he enters the town Silent Hill in a search for his late wife. Silent Hill works in a peculiar way, the town is like a nightmare or a personal hell which conjures up the player character's inner demons and works perhaps as a purgatory to atone for his sins or a personal hell to punish him for them. There's an character 'Maria' in game who's likely James' own creation as a ideal of what he would wish his presumed dead wife should have been like.
It is implied in the game several times that this creation of an ideal Maria is a dancer or an escort in the local nightclub. Specially in the follow up add on to the game in which Maria is the player character. The name of that add on is "Born From a Wish", as that's what Maria is all about. She's like a sexier version of James's wife Mary, blond, flirtatious and way better dressed to say at least.
This description does no service to the game itself which has fantastic story and well written characters. Go play it or watch some walk through video, its quite entertaining and well done. The game is a psychological horror game which can totally warp the mind. At the same time its beautiful and subtle, everything from music to pacing to story telling is well worth its reputation as a impeccable horror gaming classic.
Well now, that's one heck of a sales pitch. Anyway, I love the first three Silent Hill games, its a long time since I played them, but still hold those close to heart and the Heaven's Night logo is one of the tiny bits which has stuck in my mind for ages. Thought about getting a shirt with that made already years ago and now I finally did it.
Its weird to find a parallel between a story from a game and what's happening in my personal life... Just like the Maria character in the game is Born From a Wish, so is Larissa born from my wish to be able to be me... The prettier, sexier more real version of me that I've suppressed for so long.
It'll be fun to carry that logo on me. I wonder if some gamer will stop and ask about it some time. That logo is well known and iconic in the gaming scene. Would be so cool to get to tell this little story to someone.
Anyone familiar with the game's plot and characters are already taking educated guesses on what it is about, but for those of you who don't, I'll give some background to this. The player character is known as James Sunderland, he enters the town Silent Hill in a search for his late wife. Silent Hill works in a peculiar way, the town is like a nightmare or a personal hell which conjures up the player character's inner demons and works perhaps as a purgatory to atone for his sins or a personal hell to punish him for them. There's an character 'Maria' in game who's likely James' own creation as a ideal of what he would wish his presumed dead wife should have been like.
It is implied in the game several times that this creation of an ideal Maria is a dancer or an escort in the local nightclub. Specially in the follow up add on to the game in which Maria is the player character. The name of that add on is "Born From a Wish", as that's what Maria is all about. She's like a sexier version of James's wife Mary, blond, flirtatious and way better dressed to say at least.
This description does no service to the game itself which has fantastic story and well written characters. Go play it or watch some walk through video, its quite entertaining and well done. The game is a psychological horror game which can totally warp the mind. At the same time its beautiful and subtle, everything from music to pacing to story telling is well worth its reputation as a impeccable horror gaming classic.Well now, that's one heck of a sales pitch. Anyway, I love the first three Silent Hill games, its a long time since I played them, but still hold those close to heart and the Heaven's Night logo is one of the tiny bits which has stuck in my mind for ages. Thought about getting a shirt with that made already years ago and now I finally did it.
Its weird to find a parallel between a story from a game and what's happening in my personal life... Just like the Maria character in the game is Born From a Wish, so is Larissa born from my wish to be able to be me... The prettier, sexier more real version of me that I've suppressed for so long.
It'll be fun to carry that logo on me. I wonder if some gamer will stop and ask about it some time. That logo is well known and iconic in the gaming scene. Would be so cool to get to tell this little story to someone.