Game Making: The Latest Chapter Begins With Healing the Player

Depressed.

This is the biggest feeling that Zhang Yi and all players have when playing "Silent Hill".

It's not just pure fear, but more of a kind of spiritual depression besides fear.

If you really want to say it, is there any design in "Silent Hill" that makes people feel very scared?

Not really.

In the game, there are no monsters that suddenly appear at the slightest disagreement, nor do you see a ghostly face in front of you as soon as you turn your head and open the door.

Instead, there will be a special body shape. For example, when you first see Brother Triangle, the opponent will not immediately chase the player. When you see him for the second time, it will only be a cutscene, and in the subsequent levels where you are chased, all players will be chased. It won't be a sudden scary attack.

The same goes for the mobs in the game.

In "Silent Hill", it is more about shaping the atmosphere of the scene to create an atmosphere of depression and despair.

Such as heavy fog, a radio that prompts players to encounter monsters, and a world that becomes weird after leaving the hospital room.

And after Maria was killed by the Triangle Head, James learned about a term called the abyss by collecting some information.

Here, players need to go to the information library and jump off the black hole-like place again and again to find a way out.

The dark square hole looks pitch black and bottomless at first glance, but it requires the player to jump down like the Leap of Faith in Assassin's Creed.

Many players survived the heavy fog in the town, passed through the weird apartment, and chatted and laughed with the nurse sister, but they were really defeated when they were here.

Because when jumping into a black hole, the whole process was in darkness, and besides the sound of falling wind, there was no other sound at all.

The silence and the feeling of falling from high altitude are really unbearable.

Even many players would rather be frightened by the sudden appearance of a monster than experience that weird feeling.

And it’s not just hole jumping.

After jumping down a hole, you need to find the location of another exit.

The narrow labyrinth corridor, a strange world as dark as a square, and various mechanisms that make people fall straight down, can be said to be enough to make players feel crazy.

If the scene here is just weird and depressing, then combined with the plot of the entire game, it will make players feel even more confusing.

Because at this time James came to the prison of Silent Hill, and here he met Eddie again.

Unlike the fat guy who vomited into the toilet and ate pizza before, there was a corpse with his head shot near him at this time.

In the gloomy scene, Eddie acted like a psychopath. With a strange look on his face, he muttered that killing was not difficult, just point the gun to your head and bang.

But then he showed a panicked expression, tried his best to deny that he had killed the man, and ran away.

At the same time, in a cell in the prison, James also saw Maria who was imprisoned in it. Maria was supposed to be killed by Triangle Head when escaping through the elevator.

But at this time, Maria seemed to have no memory of her being killed by Triangle Head before. She even said that James and Mary had left a video tape while they were on vacation in the hotel.

James wanted to rescue Maria, but was unable to open the cell door, so he could only continue to go deep into the prison to find a way.

Deep in the prison maze, James also met Angela who was attacked by a monster. However, after saving Angela, the other party scolded him, saying that he actually did not want Mary to continue to be by his side and just wanted to find a new love.

Through communication and some hints, James learned some of Angela's stories, that is, she was violently assaulted by her alcoholic father, so in the end she stabbed her father to death with a knife and escaped.

After walking through the maze of the dungeon, James finally came to Maria's cell, but something strange happened. Maria, who was clearly still alive before, was actually dead on the bed in the cell.

After losing Maria, James had no choice but to move on.

After walking through the maze, we came to a freezer.

He encounters escaped Eddie again, with several bodies scattered around him.

Through the conversation, we learned that Eddie has been ridiculed and bullied for being fat since he was a child.

So one day he finally couldn't bear it anymore and shot and killed a football player's dog, injured the dog owner's knee and escaped.

Now he vows to kill everyone who mocks and bullies him.

And he told James that since both of them were summoned here by Silent Hill, they were the same kind of people.

After saying that, he immediately attacked James.

So James had to kill Eddie in self-defense. When he realized that he had killed someone, he also began to doubt whether Mary had really died three years ago.

Are the memories in his mind true?

Just like James in the game, all players who play here also have a lot of doubts.

What kind of place is Silent Hill?

Why are there so many scary monsters here?

And why the little girl Laura hates James so much.

And why do these people in the game come to Silent Hill.

Including before, when Maria was not dead in the cell, why did she repeatedly emphasize that if James wanted her to be Mary, then she would be Mary, and she also emphasized that she was a real person.

And Eddie said that they were all summoned by Silent Hill.

So is Mary's letter true?

Why does the whole world look different after coming out of the hospital room?

Which one is the real world?

Are people like Maria real?

Countless questions linger in the minds of players.

What kind of story "Silent Hill" tells has become a question mark in the minds of many players who have played it.

……………………

In the game, Zhang Yi has finished the prison level content.

He left the freezer and paddled a small boat to the Lakeview Hotel, the place James and Mary had agreed upon.

In front of the Lakeview Hotel, just like the town of Silent Hill, there was a thick white fog.

It was still a lifeless environment.

But what makes him more curious now is the truth behind all of Silent Hill.

There are also some hints from what happened to Eddie and Ahn'Qiraj before.

Zhang Yi also had a guess in his heart, that is, the people in Silent Hill all have some unbearable pasts.

Eddie came to Silent Hill because he killed a dog and broke the dog owner's leg, evading the police.

Angela came to Silent Hill to find her mother but killed her abusive father.

What about Laura, the naughty kid in the game, Maria, who looks exactly like Mary, and James?

Why did they come to Silent Hill?

What is the story between James and Mary, and why are there so many monsters in the small town of Silent Hill?

With curiosity, Zhang Yi controlled James and walked towards the Lake View Hotel, the final destination of the trip.

He had a hunch that he would be able to get the answer to all this here.