The Silent Hill Gallery
Four games, two regions, two ideas of horror.
Across the four Team Silent games, Japan and America kept reaching opposite conclusions about what horror looks like on a shelf. Japan sold Silent Hill 2 with architecture, a rusted wall of red window panes, and the first game with a blood-red warning sign. America sold faces: Harry Mason in greyscale, Angela Orosco dissolving into green fog, Heather filling the frame.
Every cover below is a door. Behind it sits the game's history, how Team Silent made it and how its own era received it, and behind that, the questions its fans still ask. Start anywhere. The doors all open.
SILENT HILL
Konami · Team Silent · PlayStation · 1999
Japan · 1999
The Japanese release, shown as the complete package it shipped in: a blood-red splatter over a street-map grid, closer to a warning sign than a poster.
America · 1999
The American jewel case: Harry Mason's greyscale portrait laid over the foggy town, his daughter small in the mist behind him.
SILENT HILL 2
Konami · Team Silent · PlayStation 2 · 2001
Japan · 2001
The Japanese box, shown as the complete package it shipped in: red window panes over rust, no face at all.
America · 2001
The American box: Angela Orosco's face in green fog, the title torn through it.
The History
How Silent Hill 2 was made, and how it was received: Team Silent, Pyramid Head's design, the editions, and the scores.
The Japanese Edition
What is Silent Hill 2: Saigo no Uta? The expanded edition, and what its name actually promises buyers.
The Covers
Why do the Japanese Silent Hill covers look different from the American ones?
