The Vibes of Silent Hill 4

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Published on July 7, 2023 4:00:50 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVTmjxg7vFc

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Silent Hill 4: The Room (2004)

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I vibe check Team Silent's swan song, the contentious Silent Hill 4: The Room. This is not a review, but instead an analysis of the themes born from the atmosphere and subtext. Maybe we do some reaching, but that's half the fun of being a vibe scholar.

Silent Hill 4 is about a lot of things, but most importantly it's about the degradation of home and the anxiety that comes with the death of a safe space.

There will be spoilers.

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SH4 has always been considered the black sheep of Team Silent’s original run with the series. It breaks the mold in just about every way, a mold many didn’t think needed breaking. Some might even argue that it killed the series. Its priorities, I’d argue, were ahead of its time—especially for a PS2 game. Years before PT, before Resident Evil 7, before Signalis, Silent Hill 4 was a horror game where the terrors of the supernatural invade a detailed, lived-in space. Silent Hill 4 scaled itself back from the town-sprawling horror mysteries of the original trilogy, and tapped into more intimate horror. A smaller, haunting, more domestic horror.
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