The Complete SILENT HILL Timeline Explained!
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- Опубликовано: 12 июн 2024
- The Silent Hill franchise has a long and dense timeline, which spans hundreds of years of dark history across 8 mainline games, and a handful of spin-offs. And to confuse matters even more, one of those 8 games actually splinters off into a completely different timeline.
With a remake of Silent Hill 2, a new mainline entry in the form of Silent Hill f, the streaming game Silent Hill Ascension, and anthology series, Silent Hill Townfall all on the horizon - this long dormant franchise has burst back to life. So what better time to dig back into the lore and timeline of Silent Hill.
This is the Silent Hill franchise fully explained.
From the origins of the towns of Silent Hill and Shepherds Glen in the 17th century through to the epic saga between the Mason family and the cult of Silent Hill, this video breaks down the long and dense timeline of the Silent Hill franchise.
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Timeline Playlist - • The Complete THE LAST ...
00:00 - INTRO
01:00 - THE PLACE OF THE SILENT SPIRITS - PRE-16TH CENTURY
02:02 - SILENT HILL’S HISTORY - 1607-1939
05:32 - SILENT HILL F - THE 1960S
06:11 - SILENT HILL: ORIGINS - LATE 1970S
09:46 - SILENT HILL - 1983
13:12 - SILENT HILL 2 - 1993
16:45 - SILENT HILL: THE ARCADE - 1993
18:09 - SILENT HILL 3 - 2000
20:55 - SILENT HILL 4: THE ROOM - 2003 (ish)
23:11 - SILENT HILL: DOWNPOUR (2004)
25:27 - SILENT HILL: HOMECOMING - 2007
28:09 - SILENT HILL: BOOK OF MEMORIES - 2010
29:38 - SILENT HILL: SHATTERED MEMORIES - 2008
31:15 - SILENT HILL: ORPHAN - ???
33:20 - SILENT HILL ASCENSION & TOWNFALL - ??? 
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Its crazy to me that canonically, the combined joke endings are less confusing than the actual story.
Because they had a pretty good main story but they preferred to milk the franchise with nonsense games
I’ll never forget playing as trucker Travis, fighting satan with a lamp post
Truly a Silent Hill moment of all times
I'm so early James and Mary are still happily married and one of them isn't suffering from an illness... yet.
I'm so late I've Ascended
What do you mean?
@@thehaloofthesun silent hill ascension is the next "silent hill"... "game"
@@vahnzero_3626 I know. I was there.
@@thehaloofthesun I'm sorry 😞
Thank you so much for explaining the whole Silent Hill franchise. This franchise is so terrifying for good reason. Not only is it psychological horror, it’s so hard to make sense of, which makes it even more terrifying.
You forget a massive ending from silent hill 2 called resurrection, so James takes Mary's body in a nearby island after you collect some strange items through the game so you perform a ritual and revive her!
I don't understand why he missed that one!
Funny cause that's the only time we've ever seen stuff from the cult in sh2
For a moment, I thought my kid brain made up that ending. Glad to know I didn't imagine it haha
I think the ending where James dies in SH2 is the canon ending since in SH4 Henry comments that the superintendent's son and daughter in law went missing in Silent Hill. And since the super is James' father we can be sure that James died and his father never saw him again.
Yeah someone on the silent hill team said that they think the in water ending is canon
Or maybe they are forever stuck in the fogworld (similar to the first movie's ending)
Sorry for the spoiler and talking about the movie
A crazy silent hill fan here SH part of my life specially SH2
Silent Hill F may complicate things. I wonder if it will be a stand alone story set in Japan or have some actual connection to the town of Silent Hill.
They've been trying to bring the cult into other places since SH4. Perhaps they can recreate the power of Silent Hill in other places
supposedly it’s supposed to be based on the other world of silent hill which was introduced in sh3 and talked about in sh2
I never realized Travis was the giving Alex a ride into silent hill you think 😂 Travis would tell Alex no to go into silent hill 😅
He was not giving a ride to Silent Hill, but to Shepherd's Glen
Yeah, dude could have warned him.
@@Sparagas they're right next to each other though
Travis is basically Charon, that's why. Its implied in Downpour that there are entities in SH that are stuck there, like The Mailman who is friendly. Same goes for Travis.
we need a vid of what the enemies represent. kids in 1, wheelchairs in 2, shopping bags in 3. etc
I love this franchise but I dont understand it sometimes... sometimes its a PHYCOLOGICAL SURVIVAL HORROR, then it turns into TEMPLE RUN...
I've been watching silent hill videos for years, and now that some new games are finally in the oven, we don't even get trailers for Halloween 🎃😂. So inept
How dare you question the genius of Konami and the Pachinko empire 🤣
I could be wrong, but if you leave with Maria at the end of Silent Hill 2, it was always my understanding that she can't survive outside of Silent Hill, because she's a manifestation.
Really amazing job, well done. It's been a lot of years since the last time i played Silent Hill 1 to 4, so this video brought me back some memories.
How can Silent Hill 1 be set in 1983 if we find "since 1987" written on a sign in a downtown shop? It's clear that the first SH is set in the 90s (i.e. when the game came out), the backdating to the 80s was an invention of the Homecoming devs
That also wouldn't make sense, given SH2 mentions Sullivan, by name, whose killings were active in the early 2000s, so it being set in 1993 OR the mid 70s doesn't make sense either
@@SSD_Penumbra there is no mention of any dates on SH2 and 4, or have I missed something?
@@flosius2469The game devs basically imply they're supposed to be set at these dates, but they don't add up.
I just always assumed they were set in contemporary times, minus Origins for obvious reasons. Though it did always strike me as weird that James is wearing a jacket that was in use during the Korean War/Vietnam war
@@SSD_Penumbra the style of all SH characters is vintage, it must recall those films that the series is inspired by, so James's jacket does not imply that it is set in the 70s. In my opinion the mess is all to be attributed to Konami who after the dissolution of Team Silent necessarily wanted to impose a chronology, a detail that for the devs has never been important to the plot, the stories already have a classic style outside of a precise time
@@flosius2469I mean, Ito himself implied SH2 to be set in the 70s
His jacket is 100% a nod to Jacob's Ladder though, where Jacob in the movie is a vietnam vet.
Excellent journalism.
This is awesome :) well done 👍
29:47 Shattered Dimensions? Thinking of Spider-Man I see
Perhaps neither he nor the editor played Shattered Memories xD.
heather's looking a little odd in the thumbnail...
She always looked like that.
Thank you for the video
Thank you for this video
"Instead of calling maintenance"😂
You missed the rebirth ending for silent hill 2 which is The darkest and my favorite one when James collect all the items necessary to bring Mary back to life also in silent hill 4 theres a letter of the superintendent sunderland which seems to be James father and he mentioned that he had a son but he disappeared so James never escaped silent hill and makes the in water ending more cannon.
I think the superintendt is the father of Mary i remember (maybe i am wrong) that he says that he send a detective to sh, to find them and if i am not mistaken is the same detective Heather meets in sh3 and he says that he was once in sh because he was searching for a woman, or maybe i am remembering it wrong
That's James' dad. Mary may have been in the hospital in SH4 too.
Dude.... that hair! It's beautiful! I said the same thing to my grandmother when she came back from the salon a few weeks ago. Good, solid style for old ladies and guys named Adam Mason.
Fun fact: Silent Hill (Movie) is based off of an abandoned coal mining community in Pennsylvania. The entire town had a large underground mine that was set on fire, causing numerous explosions and deaths. The fire is still burning today, and it causes smoke to rise up from the ground (Like Silent Hill’s fog). It’s called Centralia.
The movie is based off that. Not the games.
@@nadeem3350 oh mb. Still kinda cool that the movie took inspiration from it
@jimmywarner7559 Try not to say things without doing a little research yourself. It can end up hurting the series when developers misinterpret the lore/otherworld because of fans that unintentionally spread false information. The original vision will get lost (Like how we see with ascension, i.e. ash instead of snow) if we dont carefully try to preserve it.
@@nadeem3350 my apologies. I edited the original comment to make it more accurate. I’m still relatively new to the series
What about the old gods ending of Silent Hill 2?
10:33 dat animation tho. 😆
this needs to be the next collection Konami should do,
except i would remaster the original games 1 - 4.
why the originals, because everyone knows how awful the Silent Hill HD collection was.
so what i would do is, remaster Silent Hill, 1, 2, 3, and 4.
since there remaking Silent Hill 2, why not bring all 4 of the original Team Silent games back.
You forgot to mention that the landlord in SH4 is possibly James Sunderland’s dad a they share the same last name.
In a way I see SH2 as a really early soft reboot(stand alone title)
true that, they may even go back in time and reboot or recreate part 1 to etc...
Im so confused on silent hill alone, is it a place that has many monsters activited from Alyssa or is it a place that attracts mentally ill people and manifests monsters based on their ill????ive recently started playing the series and finished silent hill 2 and 3. Please SOMEBODY explain
9:06 they use them quite a lot.
Can’t wait for bloober teams making of SH2.
I'm wearing james Sunderland outfit this Halloween
Better catch up dude
I have always been enamored with the lore of Silent Hill since the original on the PS1. excited for a new to me take!
Edit; also obsessed with Centralia Pennsylvania, and am learning about similar places around the world.Also Roanoke.
Does anyone know the bakcground music that was for the silent hill 3?
Silent hill 2 is set in the 70's
Where did anyone come up or find the history of the town?
There were some comic books that went over the early history
Could you share more about them? 😁
I thought Silent Hill was set in 1986 since Origins is 1979 if Cheryl is 7 that take it to 1986, also I think SH3 is 2003 since its 17 years after 1986.
the only date that appears in the saga is the sign of a shop in SH1 that says "since 1987", so it cannot be set in 1983 or 1986. probably the most likely date is that of the game's release, i.e. second half of the 90s
In my restless dreams I see that town...............SILENT HILL
I love Shattered Memories
I don’t think ascension can be called a game but maybe technically….sort of.
When did the 1993 arcade shooter actually come out though? Is that what's currently in Konami arcades?
I like that, not a elit soldiers, return soldiers or any retired elit special forces that know how to handle dangerous situation, it just a normal lorry driver who tried to survive
Don't you dare call that POS Accession a "Silent Hill" game.
SH homecoming was the first silent hill game I beat ❤
You are gonna name your son Harry tho right?
It's an elementary school, not a high school.
I respect your opinion on fnaf
It is a mistake to set specific dates on the Silent Hill timeline, there's no evidence of years in Silient Hill 1 to 4.
What's the name of the intro song in the beginning?
Overdose Delusion - Akira Yamaoka
Can you all just marvel at my name?! I've never played these games, but I get fans of these games commenting on my name 😂😂
Your only beauty flaw on this vid is, that you didnt explain all endings in all games, with more detail, like what are the concrete circumstances to obtain certain end, but on the other hand, this video would be more than 1h long. Anyway, thanks for the analysis, good job.
Bank robber storyline boo yah!
I’m missing my brother watching this one 💗
No wonder I like this game so much lol I’m Native American
Kitty!
I will FOREVER hate that they changed the subtitle in development from Original Sin, to Origins, one of THE most overdone subtitles there is.
Totally frothing over this. Die hard fan and I think Bloober might have actually not only remade it well, but better than the original.
Wait those where joke ending
Bruh.!
I always wanted that skeleton baby tattooed on my stomach
I'm aorry but I wouldn't consider Silent Hill Origins as canon because it doesn't make sense at all. There are mentions from SH 1, but... It's very messy... Team Silent knew how to pull the strings of the story and how to make the plot make sense, but no telling you in the face "hey, this is what happend".
Silent Hill is not horror... it's an Alien game
I see.
Silent hill 2 was a sequel to both SH 1 and 3. This timeline is fked
Silent hill 1-4 most accurate true to self identity.
There’s never a specific date in the “Japanese” made games (purposefully) Do not trust whatever other creators make or even the old SH guides
Origins and homecoming don’t even bother with those.
Silent hill shattered memories, great reimagining. But terrible gameplay
Downpour, good story honestly
Travis had the worst upbringing ever
ITS TRAUMA!!!!!!!!!
Apart from SH2, the series seems actually pretty bad.
On the contrary the classic tetralogy is quite good, despite 4 being the black sheep it is still an amazing experience. The western developed games are a mixed bag.
As juan said 1-4 are pretty good. They are the only games made my the original team. 2 is my favorite
Why don't you actually play them and find out for yourself? Also, 2 just has a massive following for the "symbolism" more than anything. So you know which audience that will bring. Hint, the pretentious overthinkers.
you said shattered dimensions.
Its crazy to me that canonically, the combined joke endings are less confusing than the actual story.