Great Britain Is The Perfect Setting For Silent Hill
Picture the scene - you awaken on a miserable autumn morning. It’s quiet, like the entire world has remained trapped in slumber as you rise to greet the day. Dazed and confused, upon glancing outside it seems everything is trapped in a state of perpetual fog. All before you is far from inviting, but you walk forward into the unknown regardless.
The streets are almost silent, except muted pedestrians waltzing past you, a paranoid look in their eyes as they dither about their business. Small smatterings of children board buses while shopkeepers open up their stores for the day ahead. Something feels wrong, like at any moment an unknown terror will pounce forth from the fog and plant a knife in your gut. Nobody can be trusted, with powers outside our control whittling this place down to nothing but a shadow of what it used to be. This isn’t Silent Hill though, it’s Great Britain.
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A recent viral leak seemed to hint that a future title in the Silent Hill franchise will take place in Britain, made rather obvious by cringe-inducing Monty Python references and words like ‘minger’ being thrown around like the insult didn’t stop being relevant in 2007. These are the telltale signs of a game being developed by a studio who doesn’t reside in the country where its game takes place, and thus it pulls from popular culture in order to paint a picture that feels accurate and modern. Normally it ends up like ZombiU with far too many references to the royal family and accents so cockney they’d make Phil Mitchell blush.
Despite all the clichés that are bound to surface in situations like this, I’d be lying if I said Great Britain wasn’t an utterly perfect setting for
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