History YMMV / SilentHill1

** One that is usually overlooked but may be ''even worse'' than the music puzzle is the revolving gateway leading to the Otherworld school's boss. The two pairs of valves on either side determine which direction the gates turn and the degree of rotation, but it's very hard to visually determine and then mentally keep track of which valve affects which rotational pattern. This is the kind of puzzle you either solve in 30 seconds through dumb luck or --more likely-- you waste 30 minutes screwing around with before you finally, randomly spin them into the correct place with no idea how you actually did it.

** One that is usually overlooked but may be ''even worse'' than the music puzzle is the revolving gateway leading to the Otherworld school's boss. The two valves on either side determine which direction the gates turn and the degree of rotation, but it's very hard to visually determine and then mentally keep track of which valve affects which rotational pattern. This is the kind of puzzle you either solve in 30 seconds through dumb luck or --more likely-- you waste 30 minutes screwing around with before you finally, randomly spin them into the correct place with no idea how you actually did it.

* ThatOnePuzzle: The infamous piano song puzzle at the school, involving something about birds and shit. Players with a basic understanding of how to read sheet music can easily figure it out, while everyone else gets to brute-force it with the black/white plumage of the birds being their only obvious clue.

** The Puppet Doctors and Nurses are not particularly hard to deal with due to being slow and having short reach, but they're big enough to block your way through corridors and can take a lot of punishment before dying, so getting cornered by a bunch of them at once will easily deplete your ammo in no time.

* DemonicSpiders: The Rompers. Before their introduction in the overworld, you probably have only faced the comparatively slower and less accurate Groaners and Air Screamers, which are not a big danger if you simply avoid them. Then come those... things... that can ''outrun'' and pinpointly strike you down to the floor before the player even starts thinking about pulling up a weapon for self-defense, making it highly impractical to engage them head on. They're also incredibly persistent and can easily pursue the player through an ''entire area'' due to their superior speed, possibly even leading them into the path of other enemies, including ''more'' Rompers. It's no coincidence that the game undergoes a massive DifficultySpike in the Resort Area, their preferred location.

* DemonicSpiders: The Rompers. Until their introduction in the overworld, you probably have only faced the comparatively slower and less accurate Groaners and Air Screamers, which are not a big danger if you simply avoid them. Then come those... things... that can ''outrun'' and pinpointly strike you down to the floor before the player even starts thinking about pulling up a weapon for defense, making it highly impractical to engage them head on. They're also incredibly persistent and can easily keep chasing after the player throughout an entire area due to their superior speed, possibly even leading them into the path of other enemies, including ''more'' Rompers. It's no coincidence that the game undergoes a massive DifficultySpike in the Resort Area, their favorite habitat.

** The Puppet Doctors and Nurses are not particularly hard to deal with due to being slow and having short reach, but they can take a lot of punishment before dying, so getting cornered by a bunch of them at once can easily deplete your ammo in no time.

* DemonicSpiders: The Rompers. Until their introduction in the overworld, you probably have only faced the comparatively slower and less accurate Groaners and Air Screamers, which are not a big danger if you simply avoid them. Then come those... things... that can ''outrun'' and pinpointly strike you before the player even starts thinking about pulling up a weapon for defense, making it highly impractical to engage them head on. They're also incredibly persistent and can easily keep chasing after the player throughout an entire area due to their superior speed, possibly even leading them into the path of other enemies, including ''more'' Rompers. It's no coincidence that the game undergoes a massive DifficultySpike in the Resort Area, their favorite habitat.

* DemonicSpiders: The Rompers. Until their introduction in the overworld, you probably have only faced the comparatively slower and less accurate Groaners and Air Screamers, which are not a big danger if you simply avoid them. Then come those... things... that can ''outrun'' and pinpointly strike you before the player even starts thinking about pulling up a weapon for defense, making it highly impractical to engage them head on. They're also incredibly persistent and can keep chasing after the player throughout an entire area, possibly even leading them into the path of other enemies, including ''more'' Rompers. It's no coincidence that the game undergoes a massive DifficultySpike in the Resort Area, their favorite habitat.

* DemonicSpiders: The Rompers. Until their introduction in the overworld, you probably have only faced the comparatively slower and less accurate Groaners and Air Screamers, which are not a big danger if you simply avoid them. Then come those... things... that can ''outrun'' and pinpointly strike you before the player even starts thinking about pulling up a weapon for defense, making it highly impractical to engage them head on. They're also incredibly persistent and can keep chasing after the player throughout an entire area, possibly even leading them into the path of other enemies, including ''more'' Rompers. It's no coincidence that the game undergoes a massive DifficultySpike in the resort area, their favorite habitat.

* DemonicSpiders: The Rompers. Until your first meeting with them in the overworld, you probably have only faced the comparatively slower and less accurate Groaners and Air Screamers, which are not a big danger if you simply avoid them. Then come those... things... that can ''outrun'' and pinpointly strike you before the player even starts thinking about pulling up a weapon for defense, making it highly impractical to engage them head on. They're also incredibly persistent and can keep chasing after you throughout a whole area, possibly even leading the player into other enemies, including ''more'' Rompers. It's no coincidence that the game undergoes a massive DifficultySpike once you reach the resort area, where they first show up.

* DemonicSpiders: The Rompers. Until your first meeting with them in the overworld, you probably have only faced the comparatively slower and less accurate Groaners and Air Screamers. Then come those... things... that can ''outrun'' and pinpointly strike you before the player even starts thinking about pulling up a weapon for defense, making it highly impractical to engage them head on. They're also incredibly persistent and can keep chasing after you throughout a whole area, possibly even leading the player into other enemies, including ''more'' Rompers. It's no coincidence that the game undergoes a massive DifficultySpike once you reach the resort area, where they first show up.

* DemonicSpiders: The Rompers. Until your first meeting with them, you probably have only faced the comparatively slower and less accurate Groaners and Air Screamers. Then come those... things... that can ''outrun'' and pinpointly strike you before the player even starts thinking about pulling up a weapon for defense, making it highly impractical to engage them head on. They're also incredibly persistent and can keep chasing after you throughout a whole area, possibly even leading the player into other enemies, including ''more'' Rompers. It's no coincidence that the game undergoes a massive DifficultySpike once you reach the resort area, where they first show up.

* DemonicSpiders: The Rompers. Until your first meeting them, you probably have only faced the comparatively slower and less accurate Groaners and Air Screamers. Then come those... things... that can ''outrun'' and pinpointly strike you before the player even starts thinking about pulling up a weapon for defense, making it highly impractical to engage them head on. They're also incredibly persistent and can keep chasing after you throughout a whole area, possibly even leading the player into other enemies, including ''more'' Rompers. It's no coincidence that the game undergoes a massive DifficultySpike once you reach the resort area, where they first show up.

* DemonicSpiders: The Rompers. By the time you meet them, you probably have only faced the comparatively slower and less accurate Groaners and Air Screamers. Then come those... things... that can ''outrun'' and pinpointly strike you before the player even starts thinking about pulling up a weapon for defense, making it highly impractical to engage them head on. They're also incredibly persistent and can keep chasing after you throughout a whole area, possibly even leading the player into other enemies, including ''more'' Rompers. It's no coincidence that the game undergoes a massive DifficultySpike once you reach the resort area, where they first show up.

* DemonicSpiders: The Rompers. By the time you meet them, you probably have only faced the comparatively slower and less accurate Groaners and Air Screamers. Then come those... things... that can ''outrun'' and pinpointly strike you before the player even starts thinking about pulling up a weapon for defense, making it highly impractical to engage them head on. They're also incredibly persistent and can keep chasing after you throughout a whole area, possibly even leading the player into other enemies, including ''more'' Rompers. It's no coincidence that the game undergoes a DifficultySpike once you reach the resort area, where they first show up.

** Air Screamers have all the annoyances expected of your typical AirborneMook. Their stronger counterpart, the Night Flutter, are even worse and could be considered outright DemonicSpiders because of their tendency to patrol narrow pathways.

* DemonicSpiders: The Rompers. By the time you meet them, you probably have only faced the comparatively slower and less accurate Groaners and Air Screamers. Then come those... things... that can ''outrun'' and pinpointly strike you before the player even starts thinking about pulling up a weapon for defense, making it highly impractical to engage them head on. They're also incredibly persistent and can keep chasing after you throughout a whole area, possibly even leading you into other enemies, including ''more'' Rompers. It's no coincidence that the game undergoes a DifficultySpike once you reach the resort area, where they first show up.

** Air Screamers have all the annoyances expected of your typical AirbornMook. Their stronger counterpart, the Night Flutter, are even worse and could be considered outright DemonicSpiders because of their tendency to patrol narrow pathways.

* DemonicSpiders: The Rompers. By the time you meet them, you probably have only faced the comparatively slower and less accurate Groaners and Air Screamers. Then come those... things... that can ''outrun'' you and pinpointly strike before the player even starts thinking about pulling up a weapon for defense, making it highly impractical to engage them head on. They're also incredibly persistent and can keep chasing after you throughout a whole area, possibly even leading you into other enemies, including ''more'' Rompers. It's no coincidence that the game undergoes a DifficultySpike once you reach the resort area, where they first show up.

* DemonicSpiders: The Rompers. By the time you meet them around the town, you probably have only faced the comparatively slower and less accurate Groaners and Air Screamers. Then come those... things... that can ''outrun'' you and pinpointly strike before the player even starts thinking about pulling up a weapon for defense, making it highly impractical to engage them head on. They're also incredibly persistent and can keep chasing after you throughout a whole area, possibly even leading you into other enemies, including ''more'' Rompers.

* DemonicSpiders: The Rompers. By the time you meet them around the town, you probably have only faced the comparatively slowass Groaners and Air Screamers. Then come those... things... that can ''outrun'' you and strike before the player even starts thinking about pulling up a weapon for defense, making it highly impractical to engage them head on. They're also incredibly persistent and can keep chasing after you throughout a whole area, possibly even leading you into other enemies, including ''more'' Rompers.

* DemonicSpiders: The Rompers. By the time you meet them around the town, you probably have only faced the comparatively slowass Groaners and Air Screamers. Then come those... things... that can ''outrun'' you and strike before you even think about pulling a weapon, making it highly impractical to engage them head on. They're also incredibly persistent and can keep chasing after you throughout a whole area, possibly even leading you into other enemies, including ''more'' Rompers.

** Lisa, who was really a nice person caught up in a horrible situation. Made worse by ''VideoGame/SilentHillOrigins'', where it's more or less revealed that [[spoiler:Michael Kaufmann is raping her.]] As even that is not enough, [[spoiler: the WordOfGod on ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'' revealed that she ended up eternally tortured in Otherworld.]]

* ThatOnePuzzle: The infamous piano song puzzle at the school, involving something about birds and shit.

* ThatOnePuzzle: The infamous piano song puzzle at the school, involving shit about birds or something.