Silent Hill: Origins
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Silent Hill: Origins


Developer(s) Konami Digital Entertainment
Climax Studios (PSP, PS2)
Publisher(s) Konami
Sony Computer Entertainment
Series Silent Hill
Platform(s) PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 2
Release date PlayStation Portable
JP December 6, 2007
NA November 6, 2007
EU November 16, 2007[1]
AUS November 29, 2007[1]
PlayStation 2:
March 4, 2008[2]
Genre(s) Survival horror
Psychological horror
Third Person Shooter
Action
Supernatural
Mode(s) Single-player
Rating(s) BBFC: 15
CERO: C
ESRB: Mature
OFLC: MA15+
PEGI: 18+

Media UMD, DVD
Input methods Handheld, DualShock 2
Silent Hill: Origins (known as Silent Hill Zero in Japan) is the fifth installment in the Silent Hill survival horror series, developed and published by Konami and Climax Studios for the Sony PlayStation Portable. It was first released in North America on November 6, 2007,[1][3] and was subsequently released on PlayStation 2 on March 4, 2008 (North America release date).[4] This game is a prequel, set 7 years before the first game, and intended to explain the series's eponymous town's backstory.

Contents [hide]
1 Plot
2 Gameplay
2.1 Graphics
2.2 Endings
3 Production History
3.1 PS2 Port
4 Music
5 Reception
6 References
7 External links



[edit] Plot
The protagonist of Silent Hill: Origins is Travis Grady, a seemingly ordinary trucker who suffers from haunting nightmares that seem oddly familiar to him. While out on a job one day near the town of Silent Hill, a figure suddenly steps out in front of his truck and collapses, forcing him to quickly stop and nearly crash in the process. He gets out to investigate, only to find that the figure has disappeared. As he's going to get back in his truck, he spots a girl behind him in the rear view mirror, only to find no one there when he turns. The enigmatic girl finally appears in front of the truck, but runs off into the fog without a word. Thinking she might be the figure he nearly hit earlier and could possibly be hurt, he runs after her and learns that the thick fog is actually smoke, coming from a burning house. A scream tells him that someone is still inside, and he courageously enters the blaze to try and save whoever it is. He pulls a young child from the fire, then collapses outside. An unknown amount of time later, he wakes up to find himself in Silent Hill. He then decides to head to the nearest hospital, Alchemilla Hospital, to find out what became of the child he rescued.

The hospital, much like the town, seems unnaturally deserted. Travis runs into a doctor by the name of Michael Kaufmann and asks him about the child, but he claims that no such patient exists and hurries off. Puzzled, Travis continues to search the hospital and stumbles upon a room with a large mirror that reflects a horrific, twisted version of the room. The girl who led him to the fire suddenly appears in the reflection and touches the mirror, prompting him to do the same and suddenly find himself within the "Otherworld". After fighting through a number of demonic entities, Travis finds a strange, triangular object with the word "Future" engraved in it. The strange little girl again shows up and he passes out, waking up in the waiting area of the hospital, with things seemingly back to normal. He meets the young intern Lisa Garland, who, after confirming he is all right and telling him the kid he rescued-Alessa Gillespie-didn't make it, leaves for the Cedar Grove Sanitarium to meet up with Dr. Kaufmann. Travis decides to head there himself.

In the sanitarium, Travis meets a strange woman named Dahlia Gillespie, who spouts a bunch of religious nonsense before informing him that the house and child swallowed by the fire were hers. This angers him, and he demands to know why she made no attempts to save her own daughter and simply left her to die, remembering her lurking around the scene of the fire. She ignores him and wanders off. He then discovers the files of a patient committed in 1960 who attempted to kill both herself and her son, and apparently lashes out at the child's father every time he visits, demanding to see her boy. Travis eventually learns that this woman is his mother-Helen Grady,-and he was the son she tried to kill, though he does not accept this fact, even after encountering-after a short, strange meeting with Lisa-and being forced to defeat a demonic, twisted form of her. He finds another strange triangle-this time with the word "Past" engraved on it-and is once again confronted by the strange little girl, whom he now suspects to be the supposedly-dead Alessa Gillespie, and faints.