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- Silent Hill delves into taboo and dark topics like guilt, trauma, and repressed memories, and the trailer depicts it through symbolism.
- The trailer also showcases deep meanings, such as how the doll monster could represent our character’s desire to please the world.
- People have translated the Japanese text from the trailer, and they all complement the dark nature of the game.
Silent Hill f hasn’t been released, but its trailer has garnered massive attention from the gaming community. It is being highly praised, but judging from the trailer, it probably won’t be your average Silent Hill game.
How Is The Game Going To Be Different?
Unlike other games’ trailers, Silent Hill f’s trailer followed the format of well-made movie trailers, which throw in a few elements and leave the rest up to imagination. Almost every part of this 3-minute 40-second clip has underlying meanings.
Gender Discremination & Child Abuse
The game outright alerts players that there is gender discrimination and child abuse in this game. Konami made this bold move, especially considering our era, where it’s so easy for games to get cancelled for using these aspects in games.
Dark Undertone
You play as a teenage girl who is under the pressure of expectations from the people around her. This already sets the tone of the game, which is dark. With these settings, it is no wonder Australia banned it before its release.
Choice-Based Silent Hill
You will have to make beautiful yet terrifying choices. You can embrace beauty and elegance or lead your character into madness and horror. While the trailer doesn’t reveal these choices, they sure sound intriguing.
No Firearms
The ESRB rating shows that the Silent Hill f will skip firearms. Melee combat will be the game’s main focus, and we can also see this from multiple instances in the trailer.
Symbolism In The Trailer
This is where this trailer shines the most. Unlike other trailers, which showcase some elements and hide others and are largely self-explanatory, Silent Hill uses symbolism throughout its trailer.
Doll & Its Connection To Us
In one instance, we see a doll approaching our character. As this doll approaches us, it seems to be self-mutating and contorting. While the doll may seem like one of the monsters that will be our enemies, it could portray us.
You see, our character is also crushed by societal expectations, hence wanting to be like a doll who is always smiling, always kind, and always positive. Furthermore, our character is named Hinoko, and this name is written in two parts in Japanese.
The first part is pronounced as Hina, which is associated with a Japanese Doll, a Hina-ningyo. According to Japanese beliefs, this doll prays for a girl’s happiness.
Unaligned With Her Personality
Our character also seems unaligned with her own personality, acting like a doll at most times in public by presenting an image of being agreeable and upbeat. Lines in the trailer also highlight this.
In one instance, our character says, “It is weird too, not to have a grasp of yourself, to not understand your own feelings.” These lines depict how our character is almost confused about herself.
Japanese Translations
In one shot, we see our drawings of our character posted on a wall with blood all around it, and a letter that seems to be Shin Ne is written around these drawings. Now, these characters mean Die in Japanese.
Maybe our character has wronged people in her past or angered someone who holds a massive grudge against her. There’s a shot where our character chats with her schoolmates; one of her peers could be the person she wronged.
Is The Protagonist Dead?
Some scenes showcase a lot of fog, and our character seems to be stuck in ‘another world.’ Some suggest that our protagonist might be dead, while others say it’s just a space in between.
Flowers Aren’t Just For Beauty
The trailer is filled with instances where you see flowers either covering our character or just placed on the ground around us. One of the most prominent flowers in the bunch is the spider lilly.
In Japanese, Spider Lilly is translated to higanbana, the Flower of heaven or the afterlife. It also carries great cultural sentiment because the Japanese believe that its red petals guide the dead to reincarnation.
Verdict
This is just a scratch on the surface, and people have done even more in-depth analyses of the trailer. All in all, there’s a high chance this might be the creepiest Silent Hill game of all time.
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