Silent Hill: The Arcade
| Silent Hill: The Arcade | |
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| Developer(s) | Konami Digital Entertainment |
| Publisher(s) | Konami Digital Entertainment |
| Director(s) | Hiroyuki Ashida Tatsumi Sugiura |
| Producer(s) | Shigenobu Matsuyama Kazuya Tominaga |
| Artist(s) | Tsutomu Kitazawa |
| Composer(s) | Akira Yamaoka Masayuki Maruyama Jun Ito |
| Series | Silent Hill |
| Platform(s) | Arcade |
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| Genre(s) | Rail shooter Horror game |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Silent Hill: The Arcade (サイレントヒル アーケード, Sairento Hiru Ākēdo) is an arcade game spin-off of the survival horror video game series Silent Hill developed and published by Konami Digital Entertainment. The Arcade was first revealed at the 2007 Japan Arcade Operator's Union trade show by Konami.[1][2]
Being a rail shooter, Silent Hill: The Arcade is a large departure from the normal survival horror mechanics of the main series.[3]
Gameplay
[edit]Silent Hill: The Arcade deals with two characters, Eric and Tina, who have entered the town of Silent Hill and must battle monsters while uncovering the mystery behind Eric's nightmares about a girl and a steamship.[4] The gameplay is similar to the House of the Dead series in which players use light guns to aim and shoot at enemies.[5] Shooting away from the screen reloads the player's gun.[6]
The Arcade has a multiplayer element, where each player can choose to play as either Eric or Tina.[5] A second player can join the game at any time as the other character.[6] Progress can be saved by using the e-Amusement pass.[5]
Plot
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Eric, Tina, Bill, Jessie, Ryan and George are members of their school's Occult Club in Portland. They enter Silent Hill to investigate the rumors circulating around the area. Eric's great-grandfather was the captain of a steamboat called Little Baroness. Both disappeared along with the crew and passengers on Toluca Lake seventy-five years ago. After stopping in a motel to rest for the night, Eric and Tina awake to find their friends missing and the town shrouded in fog, crawling with monsters such as Pyramid Head who relentlessly pursues them.[7]
While searching for their friends, they find Tina's 9-year-old pen-pal Emilie looking for her mother. The two are reunited until Emilie is thrown into Toluca Lake by a monstrous form of her mother, who was murdered in a home burglary a year ago. Eric and Tina dive in to save her. At the bottom of the lake they encounter Hanna, a sickly girl resembling Emilie and the one responsible for the disappearance of the Little Baroness after she was thrown overboard by her mother. Hanna mutates into a creature with only a head and tentacles until she is defeated.[7]
Endings vary depending on the player's actions during the game, including whether the player saves their friends and destroys Hanna's tentacles. One has Eric and Tina rescuing Emilie and freeing Hanna's spirit. Another depicts them trapped permanently in the town if Emilie dies and Hanna is not freed. A joke ending shows Eric and Tina in the Gradius video game which is being played by Robbie the Rabbit.
Reception
[edit]The game was given a negative review by Destructoid, who regarded it as "an extremely unnecessary spin on the classic survival horror series".[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "Next Silent Hill Coming To...Arcades?". Kotaku. February 16, 2007. Archived from the original on July 22, 2012. Retrieved August 31, 2010.
- ^ "Expo 2007". Konami. February 16, 2007. Archived from the original on April 10, 2007. Retrieved August 31, 2010.
- ^ Wilson, Mike (February 22, 2019). "Masahiro Ito: 'Silent Hill 3' Was Originally Planned as a Rail Shooter". Bloody Disgusting!. Retrieved February 17, 2021.
- ^ "Silent Hill: The Arcade Hands-On Impressions". Kotaku. Archived from the original on October 15, 2012. Retrieved August 31, 2010.
- ^ a b c Epperson, Justin (February 17, 2007). "Previews: Silent Hill: Arcade". 1UP.com. Retrieved August 22, 2007.
- ^ a b "SILENT HILL THE ARCADE Official WebSite". Archived from the original on October 23, 2010. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ a b "SILENT HILL THE ARCADE Official WebSite". Archived from the original on October 23, 2010. Retrieved November 10, 2014.
- ^ "Silent Hill Arcade is like playing vomit :: DESTRUCTOID :: Hardcore video game blog". Archived from the original on September 12, 2007.
External links
[edit]- Official website (archived) (in Japanese)
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