History VideoGame / SilentHills

** [[RuleOfThree Surprise! Creator/NormanReedus is in the game as well!]]

** [[RuleOfThree Surprise! Creator/NormanReedus is in the game as well!

* SchmuckBait: [[spoiler:Don't look behind you when the radio man tells you to or the witch will get you.]]

** Surprise! Creator/NormanReedus is in the game as well!
** [[RunningGag Surprise!]] It's a new ''Silent Hill'' game, rather than a new I.P.!

As of January 4, 2019, a [[https://radiusgordello.itch.io/unreal-pt new remastered version, Unreal PT]] from developer Radius Gordello was made available for PC and VR. Rebuilt from the ground up through the Unreal engine, it faithfully restores Silent Hills from beginning to end. [[note]] There's a minor few tweaks to the game's ending as stated by the developer himself "to make beating it more consistent".

As of January 4, 2019, [[https://radiusgordello.itch.io/unreal-pta new remastered version]] of from developer Radius Gordello was made available for PC and VR. Rebuilt from the ground up through the Unreal engine, it faithfully restores Silent Hills from beginning to end. [[note]] There's a minor few tweaks to the game's ending as stated by the developer himself "to make beating it more consistent".

As of January 4, 2019, a new remastered version of from developer Radius Gordello [[https://radiusgordello.itch.io/unreal-pt is available for PC and VR]]. Rebuilt from the ground up through the Unreal engine, it faithfully restores Silent Hills from beginning to end. [[note]] There's a minor few tweaks to the game's ending as stated by the developer himself "to make beating it more consistent".

As of January 4, 2019. A new remastered version of from developer Radius Gordello [[https://radiusgordello.itch.io/unreal-pt is available for PC and VR]]. Rebuilt from the ground up through the Unreal engine, it faithfully restores Silent Hills from beginning to end. [[note]] There's a minor few tweaks to the game's ending as stated by the developer himself "to make beating it more consistent".

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You can still watch the teasers for ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4kIbwlGxBg P.T.]]'' and ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcLXh44ci6o Silent Hills]]'', as well as tons of in-game footage of ''P.T.'', on YouTube. (For now.) A [[https://v6p9d9t4.ssl.hwcdn.net/html/786764/index.html playable, fan-made version of the demo as if it were a 1998 Playstation 1 game]] is also avaliable.

You can still watch the teasers for ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4kIbwlGxBg P.T.]]'' and ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcLXh44ci6o Silent Hills]]'', as well as tons of in-game footage of ''P.T.'', on YouTube. (For now.) A playable, fan-made version of the demo as if it were a 1998 Playstation 1 game was also made, but has since been taken down.

You can still watch the teasers for ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4kIbwlGxBg P.T.]]'' and ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcLXh44ci6o Silent Hills]]'', as well as tons of in-game footage of ''P.T.'', on YouTube. (For now.) A [[https://98demake.itch.io/pt98 playable, fan-made version of the demo as if it were a 1998 Playstation 1 game]] is also avaliable.

Thanks to the [[Trivia/MetalGear falling out]] between Creator/{{Konami}} and Hideo Kojima, distribution of ''P.T.'' ceased on April 29, 2015. Konami officially cancelled ''Silent Hills'' soon after, then rescinded all digital licenses worldwide for ''P.T.'', making the game impossible to re-download (and near-impossible to play) regardless of whether someone had previously downloaded it. Needless to say, [[InternetBackdraft fans got pissed]] -- and started [[https://www.change.org/p/kojima-productions-continue-working-on-silent-hills an online petition]] to convince Konami that it should [[DevelopmentHell put the game back into development]]. Kojima, Del Toro, and Reedus at least would re-partner for Kojima's first project after leaving Konami, ''VideoGame/DeathStranding''.

-->''[[ThisIsAWorkOfFiction This game is purely fictitious.]] [[DefiedTrope It cannot harm you]] [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial in any way, shape, or form.]]''

* GenreShift: The demo shifts from previous ''Silent Hill'' titles' third-person survival gameplay to first-person exploration similar to such segments from ''VideoGame/SilentHill4: The Room''.

** You need to say "JACK" in the [=PS4=] controller to end the ''P.T.'' demo.

* IronicHell: One interpretation of PT: you're playing as one of the fathers who murdered his own family, trapped forever in the house where you killed them.
** This is reinforced by the fact that [[spoiler: during the red-hall speed-run loop, after reliving the murder, the voice on the radio is revealed to be ''the fetus in the sink'', who mentions that the main character's wife had gotten a job at the grocery store 10 months back, and only because the manager there liked how she looked in a skirt.]] So the odds are even higher that in ''that'' case of PaterFamilicide, it was because [[spoiler: the man's wife had gotten pregnant from an affair with said manager, and the fetus in the sink was the manager's rather than the husband's.]]

* JumpScare:
** Lisa (the hostile ghost in the playable teaser) contributes almost all of the game's jumpscares.
*** She will often appear behind you to attack you.
*** If you fail to do a step in the final puzzle correctly, you'll see Lisa standing and convulsing at the back of the hall. If you get close to her, she'll suddenly walk through and past you.
*** If you try opening one of the corridor's doors, she'll pop up from inside and shut the door.
** The large decoration that comes loose and falls onto the ground suddenly with the loud noise of glass smashing.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: The final dialogue in the demo almost seems to be the ''Silent Hill'' franchise itself talking, discussing "boredom of [[TakeThat doing the same thing over and over]]" and "coming back with new toys". Doubles as a TakeThat to the developers of the entries who have attempted to "re-capture" the magic of earlier entries, particularly ''VideoGame/SilentHill2''.
** Or it could be a direct allusion to the internal turmoil that Kojima faced with the [[ExecutiveMeddling corporate bosses]] who wound up getting the game canned in the first place. In this case, [[FridgeBrilliance the murdered son is Kojima, the father who killed everyone is Konami, and the wife/fetus represents Silent Hills itself.]] This gets even crazier once you realize that Konami's official statement was that Silent Hills was in an "embryonic state" of development when it was canceled, which makes the fetus allusion [[MindScrew even more blatant.]]
* LeftHanging: We'll never know exactly what significance any of this has, as the game has been all but confirmed cancelled.

** The demo ends with a phone call on a black screen, identically to every ''Franchise/MetalGear'' game Kojima has developed since ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' in 1998.
** The use of radio as a means of communicating to the player is a staple of the ''Metal Gear'' series.
*** Doubly fitting since a radio to indicate the presence of monsters is a ''Franchise/SilentHill'' staple.

* VillainProtagonist: Hinted at first, revealed in the end.
** PaterFamilicide: The radio broadcast mentions two different men who both murder their families.
*** AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Your wife, son, and unborn child]] have a good reason to haunt you. Amazingly, [[spoiler:your daughter doesn't seem to hold a grudge.]]
** ...unless of course, you ''aren't'' actually the father. In which case, everything above (except PaterFamilicide) is a SubvertedTrope. We don't (and may never) know for sure.

* GuideDangIt[=/=]MoonLogicPuzzle: The final puzzle requires you to do a number of odd things. The only clues to these are 5 different messages that flash on the screen in Italian, German, Portuguese, Japanese and English whenever you collect a photo fragment:

* StylisticSuck: One of the weirdest ever -- in a [[https://twitter.com/HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN/status/499833281886420992 tweet]], Kojima explains that he intentionally capped the framerate for ''P.T.'' at 30fps to make it seem like an independent game.

** Surprise! Creator/JunjiIto is leading the art design!

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* OminousMundanity: The same hallway of the unassuming-looking suburban house
becomes an EpiphanicPurgatory.

You can still watch the teasers for ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4kIbwlGxBg P.T.]]'' and ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcLXh44ci6o Silent Hills]]'', as well as tons of in-game footage of ''P.T.'', on YouTube. (For now.)

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Thanks to the [[Trivia/MetalGear falling out] between Creator/{{Konami}} and Hideo Kojima, distribution of ''P.T.'' ceased on April 29, 2015. Konami officially cancelled ''Silent Hills'' soon after, then rescinded all digital licenses worldwide for ''P.T.'', making the game impossible to re-download (and near-impossible to play) regardless of whether someone had previously downloaded it. Needless to say, [[InternetBackdraft fans got pissed]] -- and started [[https://www.change.org/p/kojima-productions-continue-working-on-silent-hills an online petition]] to convince Konami that it should [[DevelopmentHell put the game back into development]]. Kojima, Del Toro, and Reedus at least would re-partner for Kojima's first project after leaving Konami, ''VideoGame/DeathStranding''.

* MeaningfulName: The "s" in the fictitious 7780s Studio supposedly stands for "Shizuoka", or what ''Silent Hill'' is referred to as in Japan. Googling "7780" results in the area for the actual Shizuoka, which is 7780 square kilometers.

* NothingIsScarier: Much of the PT demo is walking through an empty hallway, not knowing who or what might ambush you.

* RedHerring: Not all of the things you experience in PT affect your ability to progress. For instance, your flashlight will glow different colors just to mess with you, or the ghost will start to appear at midnight in random locations.

* SelfContainedDemo: ''PT'' was meant to be this to a new ''Silent Hill'' game. However the game ended up being cancelled and eventually ''PT'' itself was pulled from the Playstation Store.

** There are a few references to [[Creator/JunjiIto Junji Ito's]] work, [[spoiler:including the spiralling eyeball paintings]]. Ito is, unsurprisingly, a friend of Hideo Kojima. It was eventually revealed that Ito had been one of the game's principal artists.
** There's references to the historical ''War of The Worlds'' broadcast in a radio message, although everything you hear is in Swedish.

* StringyHairedGhostGirl: The teaser has you being hunted by Lisa, a stringy haired female ghost that haunts various areas of a house.

Thanks to the {{Trivia/MetalGear falling out}} between Creator/{{Konami}} and Hideo Kojima, distribution of ''P.T.'' ceased on April 29, 2015. Konami officially cancelled ''Silent Hills'' soon after, then rescinded all digital licenses worldwide for ''P.T.'', making the game impossible to re-download (and near-impossible to play) regardless of whether someone had previously downloaded it. Needless to say, [[InternetBackdraft fans got pissed]] -- and started [[https://www.change.org/p/kojima-productions-continue-working-on-silent-hills an online petition]] to convince Konami that it should [[DevelopmentHell put the game back into development]]. Kojima, Del Toro, and Reedus at least would re-partner for Kojima's first project after leaving Konami, ''VideoGame/DeathStranding''.

''Silent Hills'' was a short-lived horror-themed video game collaboration between Creator/HideoKojima and Creator/GuillermoDelToro, featuring an unnamed protagonist voiced by (and modeled after) Creator/NormanReedus. The game was developed by Kojima Productions.

''Silent Hills'' was originally announced at Gamescom 2014 as a new {{Horror}} IP called ''P.T.'', made by a new developer called 7780s Studio, with a demo made available on the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 directly after the announcement. Players who completed the demo got to watch a cinematic teaser for ''Silent Hills'', which revealed ''P.T.'' to be a "'''P'''layable '''T'''easer" for a long-rumored new game in the ''Franchise/SilentHill'' series.

Thanks to the falling out between Creator/{{Konami}} and Kojima Productions, distribution of ''P.T.'' ceased on April 29, 2015. Konami officially cancelled ''Silent Hills'' soon after, then rescinded all digital licenses worldwide for ''P.T.'', making the game impossible to re-download (and near-impossible to play) regardless of whether someone had previously downloaded it. Needless to say, [[InternetBackdraft fans got pissed]] -- and started [[https://www.change.org/p/kojima-productions-continue-working-on-silent-hills an online petition]] to convince Konami that it should [[DevelopmentHell put the game back into development]]. Kojima, Del Toro and Reedus at least would re-partner for Kojima's first project after leaving Konami, ''VideoGame/DeathStranding''.

** The horrifying location the PT teaser is set? An ordinary-looking suburban home.

* WhamShot: Creator/NormanReedus' face reveal at the very end.

** Fear of a loved one being sexually harassed at their workplace.

''Silent Hills'', also known as ''P.T.'', was a short-lived horror-themed video game collaboration between Creator/HideoKojima and Creator/GuillermoDelToro, featuring an unnamed protagonist voiced by (and modeled after) Creator/NormanReedus. The game was developed by Kojima Productions.

*** Doubly fitting since a radio to indicate the presence of monsters is a ''Franchise/SilentHill'' staple