With all the fanmods and remasters being made for the older games, maybe some dedicated fans might be able to mod some of this cut content back into the games. Even if you can't really do anything with it, it'd be cool to see.
@@dookcurruff9047 i said fanmods and remasters for the older games. As in older games in general, only SH mod i know of is the SH2 Enhanced Edition. But given how big/good at what they do the modding community is it'd be cool to see them take a whack at more SH games.
You missed something for Silent Hill 4. A bit obscure, but you can find concept art for the ghost enemies of Silent Hill 4 which, after examining closer, you will find is none other than James Sunderland as a ghost seemingly reaching out from a wall. Whether his model was just used as a point of reference for the enemy or if there was ever going to be some kind of James Sunderland boss battle (sounds a bit wacky for me tbh), we're not entirely sure. Still, it's interesting.
Considering his father is in this game too it's possible. In this canon James is basically dead too just never wrapped up of how why and whatever so yeah James might had some more story parts in this game.
5:40 I'm European and I've always felt that this article was quite important for the story of Alessa. Its absence in the US version of the game may explain why I stumbled upon so many Americans who seemed to be quite confused about what happened to her, basically missing information.
The reason the Closer has that animation was because, and this is something I've theorized for a long time, it was going to originally be the final melee enemy of SH2. The Closers are actually in that game in a lower-poly fashion as the Mandarins. They would use this animation to climb up from the fencing at your feet and attack you as they did in SH3. This is most likely why SH2 starts reusing the Abstract Daddy boss and Nurses so much after the Hospital level. I know there's no actual direct evidence of this besides some of the developers mentioning that they liked the model and finished it for SH3, but I think it's fairly self-evident to some extent; SH2 is ridiculously easy compared to SH1 and SH3 and I think the fact that the main enemies are all close-range, easy to outrun melee-enemies is an indication that these creatures were going to be the final melee monsters and were cut for polish-time.
Perhaps the frog is meant to represent a cut memory of Alessa where she dissects a frog for her science class? A lot of the monsters are her childhood fears that you can find in drawings in her room
From a game dev: We often use UI from previous games as placeholder in the early development phase. This way we can establish a ux before we have the respective art assets. We need to be able to click buttons etc and no matter the game, things like the main menu will always have similar content, so it's easy to recycle. The still image with the "coming soon" font is used as a placeholder for an animated cutscene, which is still in the making in another department (or even in another studio). I don't think it was necessarily used on a demo CD. Very cool video, loved watching it!
@@ugandahater I've worked on AAA and indie games alike and it's the same approach in all areas. 10 years in the industry, I think I know what I'm talking about but go off I guess 😘
Silent Archives: *Talking about a Japanese game made by a Japanese company run by Japanese people IN JAPAN* Silent archives: *Sees a plate of Japanese dish with a Japanese name* Silent Archives: "IT'S A HAWAIIAN DISH"
It can't be funny anymore after they said chickens are living dinosaurs lol btw chickens in real life are more scarier than silent hill and jurassic park after seeing a video of 🐔 fighting, cats,rats،dogs, and even bull , so what if there a chicken 43ft tall will do
Thank you for making this video. I don't think there has ever been a video of lost content for SH. More on the analysis of the game but never the removed content.
Man, that background music in the Silent Hill 4 section instantly gave me a wave of calm nostalgia. Even though SH4 is my least favorite of the series, it isn't by much, and the soundtrack is probably the best of the whole series. Akira Yamaoka absolutely nailed it with the calm and serene, but also melancholic and disturbing tone of a lot of the soundtrack, it's gone on to be a style of music that I really appreciate, where artists create a kind of paradoxical atmosphere in their music that blends both a horror/creepy aesthetic with something calm, serene and beautiful. Colin Stetson and a lot of Trent Reznor's work are great examples of what I'm talking about outside of Silent Hill. This channel's got me really wanting to replay 1-4 again chronologically, it's been a few years since I've done that. Cheers!
The tech for SH1 is based on the engine for International Track & Field. Toyama was part of that team and I think multiple other members of it would also go onto work on the Silent Hill series.
The mentioned animals models also come from an "simulator" game from Konami. The mantaray comes from a ocean diving sim also made by Konami, I think those were only released in Japan and forgot what their actual title names were but do remember digging through the files decades ago and sure enough they match. The chicken model was used to feed some other animal probably a shark in the same game. They were probably used as basis and eventually scrapped but still remain in the build maybe some script was asking for that model to be present as placeholder and if you would delete it the entire build would crash. (this happened to me to multiple times before so yeah can be a thing) Sometimes these files are leftovers from the engine files from a previous dev team also not just one dev uses a development PC unit but others too, one day one person works on it then when the work wraps up a new team member is assigned to it. Things are being recycled to the fullest. I mean even in PS2 era when they made SH2 and SH3 you would think they would have more privilege BUT NOPE! Just look at the place they worked at, as presented in the making of videos, it was an open building floor with stacked desks next to each other, people all packed up like lifestock in a coop, they didn't had office spaces or even cubicles. They all worked on different games next to each other (softwares and whatever else projects Konami signed them to do). It was nuts ...
@@minmogrovingstrongandhealthy Huh, I thought it was to fill extra space on the disc. Like how, I believe it was the Shrek fighting game, is in one of the Tony Hawk Underground games for this very reason.
18:00 - I would have assumed it was because they originally wanted to put NPCs in the early cutscenes to give the impression of a bustling shopping mall, but decided to cut most of it out and just leave in a few little details the camera wasn't going to pick up anyway, kind of like the zombie head on the ceiling in _Resident Evil 2._
Also he forgot to mention > Silent Hill 1's demo disk has multiple placeholder and dev text screens, one of which is a NSFW options screen of naked japanese women, a placeholder picture of Fog and a continue screen of a guy on a stretcher. > A E3 prototype of Silent Hill Homecoming was dumped and shows slight differences. Visuals look a bit better, and the protagonist has paler skin and different hair. I have no idea what cut content is in the files though. > Harrys Memo in 3 has a alternate version.
I believe the buildings were changed in Silent Hill 2, because game developers often use real life storefronts as textures, they probably changed the fronts because they didn't have permission to use them in the game.
The unused Hesther animations are mostly used for motion blending with other animations. This is primarily used to help with things like the player controlling where Heather looks where it's not a animation that is played but rather the system determining where to point the model's body party depending on where the player is looking. This helps facilitate a smother animation verse unexpected results.
I dunno if I would call very slight differences in the elevator buttons, or slightly different lighting on the clock puzzle, and other EXTREMELY minor changes interesting cut content. I'm just saying.
The chicken monster was exit in myths before 500y ago like the snake chicken hybrid btw it's wired when some dinosaurs had hybrid look between chickens and reptiles
12:00 Best Game ever made! Playing it gives me a different feeling than anything else in this world.. Hope I can still play it one day in the afterlife! 💗
Angela is the other person in the restaurant at the very beginning of the game likely is that they used her face or the back of it to save on showing her whole body during different scenes
The "snake" monster was probably based on Tsuchinoko creatures. They're part of Japanese folklore and basically some kind of cryptids, as there's no actual confirmation of their existence, though some people claim to have seen them throughout the years. The shape of the monster strongly resembles that of what a Tsuchinoko is supposed to look like. Tsuchinokos are also "snake-like" creatures and can also jump (one of the animations this monster got in the game files seems to be of it "standing up" as if to jump or attack). The members of the now defunct Team Silent are all Japanese, so it's likely they'd heard about the Tsuchinoko and drew inspiration from that creature.
3:18 I'm pretty sure that's a tsuchinoko, a kind of snake from japanese folklore, it was probably removed because it was too japanese for their america-inspired game.
Bit surprised you didn’t briefly mention Downpour. One notable example is the “monocle man” seen at the end of the mine cart sequence was originally intended to be a boss (it has unused animations, and a trailer very briefly showed the boss fight). Also the prisoner enemies were originally going to be covered in clown makeup, maybe symbolizing Murphy or another character having a fear of clowns. Shattered Memories also started out as a wholly original concept before Climax went with the idea to have it be a complete reimagining of Silent Hill 1.
In all but Silent Hill 2, the monsters relate to the antagonists. But when you think about it, James is the bad guy so the monsters relating to his own psyche are not surprising.
Yeah it was a real bummer we didnt have the chance to fight monocle man. He still is in the game though, briefly making an appearance in the mine cart tunnel for a whoppin 5 seconds
@@vycanismajoris6871 yep he was a very late cut from the game that someone leaked the actual boss fight apparently it looked pretty dope but the developer lacked the time to fully realize it, let alone polish it. Also there was planned DLC for the game to release post launch to play as that Lady Cop that Murphy encountered throughout the campaign of Silent Hill Downpour where you play the game from her perspective and it got scrapped due to Downpour being a disappointment for Konami, the ideas for the DLC did make it into a comic of all things, so we technically got it.
For Downpour, there is also a sheet of unused concepts for the Boogeyman. If all of them had been included as separate monsters, they would have made for a much more interesting roster than the ones that the game ended up with.
I'd never seen that Origins prototype footage before, I had no idea they tried to make it an RE4 clone. I wonder if that was something Climax came up with on their own or if there was pressure from higher-ups at Konami, given how it seems like every post-Team Silent game has been massively screwed up in one way or another. Also, referring to Silent Hills as "a cancelled Silent Hill game" feels like a deliberate understatement meant to stir up a hornet's nest in the comments. 😝
My favorite thing about the series was the narrative or descriptive text when interacting with the environment and objects. I feel like newer games lack such story and character immersion. Playing a character with an inner voice or being able to interact with their surroundings makes me feel like I'm not just playing the character, but that I'm there with them. Another thing is the lack of descriptions and interactions makes me feel like the game is... "empty" or lifeless.
SH3 reuses assets from SH2 because of its rushed development (Heather's model also exists in SH2 game files). Alessa can ride one of the horses if you avoid her for a while.
I disagree strongly that the unused SH1 monsters "look too normal:" The enemies in the game are all equally "normal" animals: Dogs, apes, praying mantises, and sloths (plus a pterodactyl for some reason). Other animals, in varying degrees of distortion, like the (plucked, sickly looking) chicken or the manta ray fit the bill perfectly, and the extra-messed-up "frog" is like the late-game nightmare dogs: Scary, somewhat distorted or menacing versions of things a child would have seen and been very afraid of (or fascinated by).
I can only speak from my own personal development experience, but sometimes when you have texture files thatare really out of context for the intended target, it is usually because they are placeholders that fit the style they are going for in the end result. For example, the anime girls textures, could be for posters somewhere later on of a full face & so they grabbed whatever they had to hand. These files would likely have been missed when replacing. If you could dig into files from any game (even today's ones) you would find something in there that never got used.
It's crazy how no one notices that the head floating in the intro is indeed visible. At the bottom of the screen during the white shot of Heather. I'm pretty sure it's just to give a silhouette of someone else having breakfast. And to anyone who had seen Jacob's Ladder and the Team Silent Dev Logs. We all know what the looking Right, Left, Up and Down animation was for. Edit: Might only be visible in widescreen tho, I haven't played SH3 on my original Ps2 for years.
The "bellhawk"(?), I think is a soldier, since they were developing a action shooter, they needed an enemy that could fight back from a far or a representation of the sadistic and tortured nature of soldiers that are in love with their job of "fighting the enemy"
Hi Jayaru! Amazing Video as always! Out of curiousity, how did you get that SH1 Town model? Trying to find the source of it but not getting any leads. Would appreciate any help ^^
Hi there! I was using a free program called Silent Hill Level Viewer. It allows the user to freely explore every level in Silent Hill 1. You can find this on ModDB here: www.moddb.com/downloads/silent-hill-level-viewer-202
That floating Angela head in the Happy Burger was probably were the camera was placed, as the head has the same point of view the player has when Heather wakes up.
18:56 David Lynch had a huge influence on Team Silent, and this is a prime example of that. I can't see this without thinking about the end of the second season of Twin Peaks.
@forrrrestjohncave Yeah, it was the same way for me. Twin Peaks had been on my radar for years because of the influence it had on Silent Hill, but I didn't get around to watching it until a few years ago. I think about 2 years before the new episodes started airing. What I like about the way Team Silent used their influences was the light touch approach they had. It enhanced the material without taking away from Silent Hill's own identity. Too often you see creators leaning too hard on their influences to the point where they're outright trying to copy them. And with an artist like David Lynch whose vision is one of a kind that has led to people just making a mess of their own work.
It would be nice to see the file names for the animal monsters. And that moth, while similar to the boss, is different, in colour, shape, and patterns. "Due to a resulting in a texturing error" Dude please proof read your scripts.
I think the reason why the snake looks like that its because it's supposed to represent a snake that had its belly full with a animal that had been eaten.
It's pretty interesting to see SH Origins original gameplay mechanic, would've been third person here. Now in the upcoming SH2 Remake they'll use this exact gameplay mechanic they rejected years ago.
With all the fanmods and remasters being made for the older games, maybe some dedicated fans might be able to mod some of this cut content back into the games. Even if you can't really do anything with it, it'd be cool to see.
I wish! But modding the engine is really limited
Give me reverse engineered native pc ports of all the games and I'll be happy
what do you mean all? theres barely any mods
@@dookcurruff9047 i said fanmods and remasters for the older games. As in older games in general, only SH mod i know of is the SH2 Enhanced Edition. But given how big/good at what they do the modding community is it'd be cool to see them take a whack at more SH games.
@@natbatlightwood5288 They use AI generated upscaling which makes the fmvs look like trash, dont install it unless u like trashcans
That unused haunting animation of Eileen actually scared me… wasn’t expecting it.
bro same. i'm watching this at 1 am
You missed something for Silent Hill 4. A bit obscure, but you can find concept art for the ghost enemies of Silent Hill 4 which, after examining closer, you will find is none other than James Sunderland as a ghost seemingly reaching out from a wall. Whether his model was just used as a point of reference for the enemy or if there was ever going to be some kind of James Sunderland boss battle (sounds a bit wacky for me tbh), we're not entirely sure. Still, it's interesting.
Considering his father is in this game too it's possible. In this canon James is basically dead too just never wrapped up of how why and whatever so yeah James might had some more story parts in this game.
Given how Team Silent had a habit of reusing models for background or test characters, I wouldn't be surprised if James was just a test model here.
Taking a guess here, but "the snake" is probably taking inspiration from the tsuchinoko, which is essentially a fat and short snake in appearance.
5:40 I'm European and I've always felt that this article was quite important for the story of Alessa. Its absence in the US version of the game may explain why I stumbled upon so many Americans who seemed to be quite confused about what happened to her, basically missing information.
The reason the Closer has that animation was because, and this is something I've theorized for a long time, it was going to originally be the final melee enemy of SH2. The Closers are actually in that game in a lower-poly fashion as the Mandarins. They would use this animation to climb up from the fencing at your feet and attack you as they did in SH3. This is most likely why SH2 starts reusing the Abstract Daddy boss and Nurses so much after the Hospital level. I know there's no actual direct evidence of this besides some of the developers mentioning that they liked the model and finished it for SH3, but I think it's fairly self-evident to some extent; SH2 is ridiculously easy compared to SH1 and SH3 and I think the fact that the main enemies are all close-range, easy to outrun melee-enemies is an indication that these creatures were going to be the final melee monsters and were cut for polish-time.
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Perhaps the frog is meant to represent a cut memory of Alessa where she dissects a frog for her science class? A lot of the monsters are her childhood fears that you can find in drawings in her room
From a game dev: We often use UI from previous games as placeholder in the early development phase. This way we can establish a ux before we have the respective art assets. We need to be able to click buttons etc and no matter the game, things like the main menu will always have similar content, so it's easy to recycle.
The still image with the "coming soon" font is used as a placeholder for an animated cutscene, which is still in the making in another department (or even in another studio). I don't think it was necessarily used on a demo CD.
Very cool video, loved watching it!
Making indie pixel art games doesn't count
@@ugandahater I've worked on AAA and indie games alike and it's the same approach in all areas. 10 years in the industry, I think I know what I'm talking about but go off I guess 😘
Interesting facts there Chibi, what games have you worked on?
@@LeneChibi
Not that it's relevant, but anybody could say that.
MKY reminds me of a sloth
Silent Archives: *Talking about a Japanese game made by a Japanese company run by Japanese people IN JAPAN*
Silent archives: *Sees a plate of Japanese dish with a Japanese name*
Silent Archives: "IT'S A HAWAIIAN DISH"
18:04 In the opening cutscene you see someones head. I think its just there to show the palyer the mall is still populated at this time.
I was gonna comment the same thing
Nice video,that chicken enemy was so unexpected and funny,i also liked Maria blue outfit.
It can't be funny anymore after they said chickens are living dinosaurs lol btw chickens in real life are more scarier than silent hill and jurassic park after seeing a video of 🐔 fighting, cats,rats،dogs, and even bull , so what if there a chicken 43ft tall will do
It's a moth, not a butterfly
Interesting that the Carrion from SH Origins and Lisa's uniform in Shattered Memories seems to be inspired by some of the cut content
Hawaiian dish... Chicken katsu... What?? It's Japanese lol
I was wondering the same thing! 😮
Thank you for making this video. I don't think there has ever been a video of lost content for SH. More on the analysis of the game but never the removed content.
You're wrong dude. You're 10 years late
Man, that background music in the Silent Hill 4 section instantly gave me a wave of calm nostalgia. Even though SH4 is my least favorite of the series, it isn't by much, and the soundtrack is probably the best of the whole series. Akira Yamaoka absolutely nailed it with the calm and serene, but also melancholic and disturbing tone of a lot of the soundtrack, it's gone on to be a style of music that I really appreciate, where artists create a kind of paradoxical atmosphere in their music that blends both a horror/creepy aesthetic with something calm, serene and beautiful. Colin Stetson and a lot of Trent Reznor's work are great examples of what I'm talking about outside of Silent Hill.
This channel's got me really wanting to replay 1-4 again chronologically, it's been a few years since I've done that. Cheers!
"to be continued" is used for the demo version. we have a demo disc back then before this game was released
i was thinking about cut content from silent hill the other day…right on time! thanks so much!!
The tech for SH1 is based on the engine for International Track & Field. Toyama was part of that team and I think multiple other members of it would also go onto work on the Silent Hill series.
The mentioned animals models also come from an "simulator" game from Konami. The mantaray comes from a ocean diving sim also made by Konami, I think those were only released in Japan and forgot what their actual title names were but do remember digging through the files decades ago and sure enough they match. The chicken model was used to feed some other animal probably a shark in the same game.
They were probably used as basis and eventually scrapped but still remain in the build maybe some script was asking for that model to be present as placeholder and if you would delete it the entire build would crash. (this happened to me to multiple times before so yeah can be a thing)
Sometimes these files are leftovers from the engine files from a previous dev team also not just one dev uses a development PC unit but others too, one day one person works on it then when the work wraps up a new team member is assigned to it. Things are being recycled to the fullest.
I mean even in PS2 era when they made SH2 and SH3 you would think they would have more privilege BUT NOPE!
Just look at the place they worked at, as presented in the making of videos, it was an open building floor with stacked desks next to each other, people all packed up like lifestock in a coop, they didn't had office spaces or even cubicles. They all worked on different games next to each other (softwares and whatever else projects Konami signed them to do). It was nuts ...
@@minmogrovingstrongandhealthy that's Konami for you.
@@minmogrovingstrongandhealthy Huh, I thought it was to fill extra space on the disc. Like how, I believe it was the Shrek fighting game, is in one of the Tony Hawk Underground games for this very reason.
18:00 - I would have assumed it was because they originally wanted to put NPCs in the early cutscenes to give the impression of a bustling shopping mall, but decided to cut most of it out and just leave in a few little details the camera wasn't going to pick up anyway, kind of like the zombie head on the ceiling in _Resident Evil 2._
20:34 Wow!!! When I thought I had seen all of the unused content of SH4, I have never seen this before! Thanks for pointing these 2 images out!
Lisa Garland's original design looks a little bit like Cameron Diaz
Also he forgot to mention
> Silent Hill 1's demo disk has multiple placeholder and dev text screens, one of which is a NSFW options screen of naked japanese women, a placeholder picture of Fog and a continue screen of a guy on a stretcher.
> A E3 prototype of Silent Hill Homecoming was dumped and shows slight differences. Visuals look a bit better, and the protagonist has paler skin and different hair. I have no idea what cut content is in the files though.
> Harrys Memo in 3 has a alternate version.
I believe the buildings were changed in Silent Hill 2, because game developers often use real life storefronts as textures, they probably changed the fronts because they didn't have permission to use them in the game.
The unused Hesther animations are mostly used for motion blending with other animations. This is primarily used to help with things like the player controlling where Heather looks where it's not a animation that is played but rather the system determining where to point the model's body party depending on where the player is looking. This helps facilitate a smother animation verse unexpected results.
Awesome video man.
I dunno if I would call very slight differences in the elevator buttons, or slightly different lighting on the clock puzzle, and other EXTREMELY minor changes interesting cut content.
I'm just saying.
I remember seeing that model of James somewhere years ago.
Chicken katsu is Hawaiian dish? I thought it came from Japan hence being called chicken katsu in the first place.
It’s probably not even chicken katsu it’s most likely tonkatsu which is made with pork, chicken katsu is a less common alternative in Japan
The chicken monster was exit in myths before 500y ago like the snake chicken hybrid btw it's wired when some dinosaurs had hybrid look between chickens and reptiles
"there was a memory a memory issue"
~MGS2 "the ice melts realistically with time"
Amazing video keep up the fantastic content looking forward to the next
12:00 Best Game ever made! Playing it gives me a different feeling than anything else in this world.. Hope I can still play it one day in the afterlife! 💗
Preach it homie
Your style of narrating feels really depressing. A nice touch actually. 👍
You are very good at your craft, incredible video!❤
Angela is the other person in the restaurant at the very beginning of the game likely is that they used her face or the back of it to save on showing her whole body during different scenes
Many of the Silent Hill's monsters look kinda "meaty". I wonder if they were tasty if BBQ'd.
What a weird thing to say
Now i have to BBQ an Abstract Daddy
i wanna bbq the pterodactyls 🤤
2:40 Yeah we got that Chupacabra finished animal in RDR UN lol
The "snake" monster was probably based on Tsuchinoko creatures. They're part of Japanese folklore and basically some kind of cryptids, as there's no actual confirmation of their existence, though some people claim to have seen them throughout the years. The shape of the monster strongly resembles that of what a Tsuchinoko is supposed to look like. Tsuchinokos are also "snake-like" creatures and can also jump (one of the animations this monster got in the game files seems to be of it "standing up" as if to jump or attack). The members of the now defunct Team Silent are all Japanese, so it's likely they'd heard about the Tsuchinoko and drew inspiration from that creature.
3:18 I'm pretty sure that's a tsuchinoko, a kind of snake from japanese folklore, it was probably removed because it was too japanese for their america-inspired game.
The snake looks an awful lot like a rat
Surprised not to see any mention of the demo version of Silent Hill 2, in which Pyramid Head is a wandering monster in the apartment buildings.
Theory time: Alessa went on a school trip to a petting zoo and got bit by an chicken, hence the chicken monster!
Silent Hill is like an onion more you peel more you cry
Bit surprised you didn’t briefly mention Downpour. One notable example is the “monocle man” seen at the end of the mine cart sequence was originally intended to be a boss (it has unused animations, and a trailer very briefly showed the boss fight). Also the prisoner enemies were originally going to be covered in clown makeup, maybe symbolizing Murphy or another character having a fear of clowns.
Shattered Memories also started out as a wholly original concept before Climax went with the idea to have it be a complete reimagining of Silent Hill 1.
In all but Silent Hill 2, the monsters relate to the antagonists. But when you think about it, James is the bad guy so the monsters relating to his own psyche are not surprising.
Yeah it was a real bummer we didnt have the chance to fight monocle man. He still is in the game though, briefly making an appearance in the mine cart tunnel for a whoppin 5 seconds
@@vycanismajoris6871 yep he was a very late cut from the game that someone leaked the actual boss fight apparently it looked pretty dope but the developer lacked the time to fully realize it, let alone polish it. Also there was planned DLC for the game to release post launch to play as that Lady Cop that Murphy encountered throughout the campaign of Silent Hill Downpour where you play the game from her perspective and it got scrapped due to Downpour being a disappointment for Konami, the ideas for the DLC did make it into a comic of all things, so we technically got it.
For Downpour, there is also a sheet of unused concepts for the Boogeyman. If all of them had been included as separate monsters, they would have made for a much more interesting roster than the ones that the game ended up with.
I'd never seen that Origins prototype footage before, I had no idea they tried to make it an RE4 clone. I wonder if that was something Climax came up with on their own or if there was pressure from higher-ups at Konami, given how it seems like every post-Team Silent game has been massively screwed up in one way or another.
Also, referring to Silent Hills as "a cancelled Silent Hill game" feels like a deliberate understatement meant to stir up a hornet's nest in the comments. 😝
My favorite thing about the series was the narrative or descriptive text when interacting with the environment and objects. I feel like newer games lack such story and character immersion. Playing a character with an inner voice or being able to interact with their surroundings makes me feel like I'm not just playing the character, but that I'm there with them. Another thing is the lack of descriptions and interactions makes me feel like the game is... "empty" or lifeless.
SH3 reuses assets from SH2 because of its rushed development (Heather's model also exists in SH2 game files). Alessa can ride one of the horses if you avoid her for a while.
U have very nice voice, you could narrate some horror stories lol
👀
Jamea Sunderland if he was light skin
Neely not Nelly.
It's a.i. voice
I disagree strongly that the unused SH1 monsters "look too normal:" The enemies in the game are all equally "normal" animals: Dogs, apes, praying mantises, and sloths (plus a pterodactyl for some reason). Other animals, in varying degrees of distortion, like the (plucked, sickly looking) chicken or the manta ray fit the bill perfectly, and the extra-messed-up "frog" is like the late-game nightmare dogs: Scary, somewhat distorted or menacing versions of things a child would have seen and been very afraid of (or fascinated by).
Cool video. By the way, what happened to your Clock Tower video?
I could've worn you had one.
Love cut content, great video!
How did you achieve the shots flying through the town in each game?
great content but the way you speak makes it hard to listen to
16:41 i wish you actually did show these differences side by side
❤ some cool stuff in yhis video. So exciting :)
It’s NEELY not NELLY. AI confirmed.
Mr. Twilight is so f*cking rad
I can only speak from my own personal development experience, but sometimes when you have texture files thatare really out of context for the intended target, it is usually because they are placeholders that fit the style they are going for in the end result. For example, the anime girls textures, could be for posters somewhere later on of a full face & so they grabbed whatever they had to hand. These files would likely have been missed when replacing. If you could dig into files from any game (even today's ones) you would find something in there that never got used.
thank you！ thats amazing ❤️🩹
Could you do Video for Resident Evil 1 (1996) about all content was in Original cut for Resident Evil 1 (2002).
Could you do Video for Resident Evil 2 (1998) about all content was in Original cut for Resident Evil 2 (2019).
Could you do Video for Resident Evil 3 (1999) about all content was in Original cut for Resident Evil 3 (2020).
Could you do Video for Resident Evil 4 (2005) about all content was in Original cut for Resident Evil 4 (2023).
Btw there’s a bunch of other scrapped content for origins you forgot to add in
It's crazy how no one notices that the head floating in the intro is indeed visible. At the bottom of the screen during the white shot of Heather.
I'm pretty sure it's just to give a silhouette of someone else having breakfast.
And to anyone who had seen Jacob's Ladder and the Team Silent Dev Logs. We all know what the looking Right, Left, Up and Down animation was for.
Edit: Might only be visible in widescreen tho, I haven't played SH3 on my original Ps2 for years.
HOLD ON A SECOND! this video didnt mentioned cut coop for silent hill 4 ,like there is even weapons for neighbour girl that you can check for yourself
18:10 I think the head was used for first person view or camera angle purposes. The cutscene could be played from Angelas head point of view.
The "bellhawk"(?), I think is a soldier, since they were developing a action shooter, they needed an enemy that could fight back from a far or a representation of the sadistic and tortured nature of soldiers that are in love with their job of "fighting the enemy"
I recently played Silent Hill 1 to 4 again and found your vids, I really love how you talk and how you explain things properly😊
Idk why but the ostrich makes me extremely uncomfortable. But they already make me uncomfortable in real life
Hi Jayaru!
Amazing Video as always!
Out of curiousity, how did you get that SH1 Town model? Trying to find the source of it but not getting any leads.
Would appreciate any help ^^
Hi there! I was using a free program called Silent Hill Level Viewer. It allows the user to freely explore every level in Silent Hill 1. You can find this on ModDB here: www.moddb.com/downloads/silent-hill-level-viewer-202
@@silenthillarchives Thank you so much mate! Really appreciate it!
I think there is a possibility that Bloober Team will use some of the cut content in their upcoming Silent Hill 2 remake...
21:08
Maybe originally the hole in Henry's wall would "lead to glory". Eileen's animation kinda makes sense then. 😏
Guessing it could mirror the eye movement of the giant Eileen head later on in that nightmare world room
I think it's a nod to Junji Ito's "A Town Without Streets".
18:13 you can see the back of the head in the cutscene as heather is leaving to show it wasnt empty.
some really fascinating things that we could of had, but didn't
That unused Eileen footage is far creepier than the Eileen Head in the hospital. That twitching is scary as hell!
In silent hill 4 randomizer mod they actually get 2 unused items from stopping the possesion of Ellen
That floating Angela head in the Happy Burger was probably were the camera was placed, as the head has the same point of view the player has when Heather wakes up.
18:09 scary
The cut monsters from SH1 were theorised to be from the earlier version of the game before they redesigned the game full psychological
Some of the SH4 concept art looks like some of the unused assets from SH1.
The unused chicken enemy in SH1 cracked me up - I'm sure Diogenes would've had a field day with that one.
18:56 David Lynch had a huge influence on Team Silent, and this is a prime example of that. I can't see this without thinking about the end of the second season of Twin Peaks.
I fell in love with Twin Peaks a couple of years ago because I knew it was an inspiration for those games.
@forrrrestjohncave Yeah, it was the same way for me. Twin Peaks had been on my radar for years because of the influence it had on Silent Hill, but I didn't get around to watching it until a few years ago. I think about 2 years before the new episodes started airing. What I like about the way Team Silent used their influences was the light touch approach they had.
It enhanced the material without taking away from Silent Hill's own identity. Too often you see creators leaning too hard on their influences to the point where they're outright trying to copy them. And with an artist like David Lynch whose vision is one of a kind that has led to people just making a mess of their own work.
Sh 1 animations from pro evolution soccer games on ps1
The chicken was not ise because it's similar to parasyte eve game
Jeez that was so cool man
It would be nice to see the file names for the animal monsters. And that moth, while similar to the boss, is different, in colour, shape, and patterns.
"Due to a resulting in a texturing error"
Dude please proof read your scripts.
Whatta constant streak of great content, thank you!
I think the reason why the snake looks like that its because it's supposed to represent a snake that had its belly full with a animal that had been eaten.
Aw, I wish they didn't cut the manta.
Thanks man, cool video 🙂
Thank you for making this video ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
You reminded so much of BlameittoJorge
You forgot unused ost from sh 3
It's pretty interesting to see SH Origins original gameplay mechanic, would've been third person here. Now in the upcoming SH2 Remake they'll use this exact gameplay mechanic they rejected years ago.
nothing compares to OG silent hill
Let's goooo! Plus I was gonna watch that compilation too. -Faye ⚓
What is the music used? I love the guitar arpeggios!! Haunting!
All music used is linked in the descreption of the video.
@@silenthillarchives Thanks!
Broo the jumpscare 😭😭
What’s the song at the very beginning called again ??
All music used is linked in the descreption of the video.
the voice talking sounds AI generated
Your generic comment sounds AI generated.
What if we're all AI generated?
we’re all AI generated
Ending AI: Generated
He's just bored of living, not really an ai