# Scary Video Games.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-video-games/231835>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 1, 2004, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-video-games/231835 "2004-03-01T02:39:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Pixiesnix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-video-games/231835/61 "2004-03-02T23:25:17Z")

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> They call this a door monster, but I’ve always considered it a bed monster. If you can find some good screenshots of this thing, there’s a sexual assault being played out on its back.

Whoa, I never noticed that. Good spotting.

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> I wonder this, too. One of the things that I’ve not quite felt like I have an answer about is whether there is a real Silent Hill town with normal people there the whole time these events take place. One of the horrifying things about 1 was that, for me, I was never quite sure whether Harry was in a school killing normal children (killing real nurses, etc), or whether the characters we see in the games “cross over” to a different, but spatially identical, town. After playing through 3 I’m inclined to believe the latter.

I’ve had trouble with that, too. When SH1 came out, I thought the town had been abandoned due to the supernatural activity, and the demon children, nurses, etc. were ghosts/zombies/transformed monsters of the victims that had been killed before the townspeople left. But now I’m not sure. I’m leaning more toward your interpretation of there being an everyday and populated Silent Hill, a foggy and deserted Silent Hill, and an alternate/nightmare Silent Hill. It all depends on the psyche/guilt of the person in the town. Or in the case of SH1, Alessa’s projecting it onto Harry and Cybil.

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**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-video-games/231835/62 "2004-03-03T02:45:08Z")

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There’s an excellent plot guide for Silent Hill (and 2 &3) at [gamefaqs.com](http://gamefaqs.com), written by President Evil.

Warning: The guide for 1 has spoilers for Jacob’s Ladder.

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