Silent Circus

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These References were from shattered memmories the video game , it was submitted by whitney who is the owner and coder of the official silent hill shattered memmories website:

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SHSM vs. SH1

Since Shattered Memories US Wii release fans and reviewers have complained that it is only like the original Silent Hill game in “names only.” Most believing that it would have been better game if Shattered Memories used completely new characters instead of claiming to be a “re-imagining” if it only has a vague connection to the original. So was it just a marketing ploy by Konami to generate sales from long time fans or can it really be categorized as a true original Silent Hill re-imagining?I’ve played both and as a big fan of the original I honestly believe Shattered Memories can be categorized a true re-imagining.

Many who disagree often cite the major difference between the core plots. In the original game Dahlia Gillespie’s abuse and exploitation of her daughter, Alessa, to birth the Silent Hill cult’s God is the catalyst for the darkness and creatures that consume the town during Harry’s ill fated visit. Harry’s journey for his Cheryl lead not only to understanding the dark history of Silent Hill but the genesis of his daughter as well.

In Shattered Memories this is not the case. The bizarre state of the town, the creatures and even Harry himself are instead only figments of Cheryl’s mind; part of her coping mechanism to deal with her parents divorce and Harry’s sudden death 18 years before. The journey through Silent Hill doesn’t reveal cult activity or any deep dark town secrets with focus on the tragic relationship deterioration within the Mason family and reasons behind Cheryl’s fantasy world.

With their reasons behind the state of the town and the truths revealed at the end of each game differing so much why do I believe Shattered Memories and the original Silent Hill have more in common? If you step back from their major plot inconsistencies one will see both games have so many other things in common including the same premise and overall journey to find out the truth. The places and characters in Shattered Memories may look different then the original but in the end they play the same roles as they did in the original. It’s the same game just with a “re-imagined” major plot!

Like the original the Shattered Memories premise involves writer Harry Mason’s search for his lost daughter, Cheryl, in Silent Hill after suffering a major car accident. The town is strangely vacant and having some bizarre snowy weather. In the original the weather was bizzarre because there was snowfall in April. Shattered Memories took this a step further by making an unusually severe blizzard the reason behind the town’s “closure.”

In both games Harry travels through three distinct areas in Silent Hill to find the truth and his daughter: a residential area, then he crosses a bridge into a business district and lastly ends up in the town’s tourist resort area.

I figured that best way show how the journey in Shattered Memories mirrors the original is to show a step by step comparison of each journey:

Arrival and Journey to Midwich (Silent Hill Residential Area)

Silent Hill		Shattered Memories
	• Harry and Cheryl arrive in Silent Hill late at night and are involved in a car accident. • Harry wakes to find his daughter missing from the car and ventures into a deserted town to find her.		• Harry and Cheryl are involved in a car accident in Silent Hill. • Harry wakes to find his daughter missing from the car and ventures into a deserted town to find her.
	• Harry spots Cheryl wandering ahead of him in the distance and chases her into a back alley and passes a gruesome scene of a dead dog. Air raid sirens pierce the air and Silent Hill shifts into a bloody and rusty Otherworld. Harry is attacked by creatures that appear from the darkness and succumbs to his injuries. • Harry wakes up inside Café 52 and meets Brahams cop Cybil Bennett.		• Harry wanders through several empty stores and goes through a back alley and passes a playground littered with “Dead Dog Posse Graffiti.” Depending on your profile you can meet Silent Hill Cop Cybil Bennett in the Diner 52. • Shortly there after Harry receives a phone call from Cheryl warning of impending danger, Silent Hill quickly shifts to the frozen Otherworld and creatures begin pursuing Harry through the streets.
	• Based on some notes from Cheryl’s drawing pad Harry travels through a home on Levin Street to reach Midwich Elementary.		• Harry escapes the first nightmare Otherworld and reaches his residence located on Levin Street based on the address on his driver’s license. • Harry doesn’t make it inside as a different family resides in his home. He makes a scene and the police are called and Harry and is picked up by Officer Bennett. • The journey to the police station is side tracked by harsh weather conditions, Cybil disappears leaving Harry to travel through the woods eventually making it to Midwich High School.
	• In Midwich Elementary doesn’t find Cheryl but experiences another Otherworld transition. • After surviving a boss fight in the boiler room Harry then leaves Midwich and heads towards church bells he hears ringing in the distance.		• Harry heads for the Midwich High School Gym in hopes of Cheryl being in the emergency shelter usually set up in there during very bad weather. • Harry doesn’t find Cheryl, instead a woman named Michelle who’s the only one to show up for a highschool reunion. Harry hacks the school records and learns that he and Cheryl now live on Simmons Street. He calls Simmons street address’ number and the school shifts into the Otherworld.

Crossing the Bridge, Hospital and Mall (Silent Hill Business District)

Silent Hill		Shattered Memories
	• Harry follows the bells into Balkan Church Harry where he meets Dahlia Gillespie. The woman is very cryptic and seems to have information on Cheryl’s whereabouts. • Harry is hesitant to trust Dahlia but since he has no other leads or alternatives he decides to follow her instructions and heads for Alchemilla Hospital in search for Cheryl.		• After Harry survives the Otherworld he meets Michelle outside the school who offers to drive Harry to the Simmons Street addess with her boss’s SUV. The two head for Michelle’s place of employment The Balkan, “the hottest nigh club in town.” • When it’s time to go Harry is surprised to see a young woman named Dahlia in Michelle’s place. Harry is terribly confused about Michelle’s disappearance and how this cryptic young woman knows him and Cheryl. He’s hesitant to go with her at first but consents since she seems to know where Cheryl is and he really has no other options.
	• The road to Alchemilla Hospital is blocked by a raised drawbridge. Luckily Dahlia left Harry the bridge control tower key back at Balkan church and he’s able to lower the drawbridge to cross it.		• The drive to Simmon’s street is halted by the raised Dixon drawbridge. Dahlia urges Harry to go lower the bridge. • Halfway across the world freezes and the SUV plunges into the water. Harry barely makes it out of the car alive but is unable to help Dahlia. Harry makes it out of the water and passes out. • When he next wakes up Cybil is pushing him in a wheelchair inside Alchemilla Hospital.
	• Harry explores the hospital but doesn’t have any luck finding Cheryl. Instead he experiences another Otherworld transition. • Harry meets a distressed and pretty nurse named Lisa Garland who is as confused about the state of Silent Hill as Harry. He offers her protection but she won’t leave the hospital.		• The hospital shifts into the frozen Otherworld and Harry barely makes it out with his life. • On exiting the hospital Harry comes across a distressed and pretty nurse named Lisa who’s crashed her car or ambulance into the ER reception area. Though she has several wounds she’s determined to head home and take care of herself there. Harry offers to walk her there since it’s on his way to Simmons street. On reaching her apartments and checking the tenant mailboxes we find out her last name is Garland.
	• Harry travels down Simmons Street to the Green Lion Antique shop, meets Cybil and explores the “Other Church” • Harry and Cybil are separated and Silent Hill is once again in Otherworld mode. • Harry wanders into the Towncenter, Silent Hill’s downtown shopping mall, and sees a staticky and creepy movie starring Cheryl play on a big screen.		• After leaving Lisa with some medication and a bad headache. Harry heads over to the Toluca Mall to reach the Simmon’s Street residence. • Silent Hill turns into the frozen Otherworld and before exiting the mall Harry is treated to a staticky and creepy video containing either Cheryl (or himself) on a big screen inside a cinema. • Harry leaves the mall and reaches the Mason residence on Simmon’s street, an apartment above the Green Lion Pawn Shop.

Sewers to Lakeside (Silent Hill Tourist Area)

Silent Hill

Shattered Memories

• Harry travels through the sewers to reach the Silent Hill Lakeside Resort Area.

• In the Lakeside area it’s possible for Harry to save a side character from a monster attack in Annie’s Bar.

• Harry has converses with Cybil and Dahlia on a boat.

• Harry heads for the Silent Hill Lighthouse, some additional sewer trekking, arrives at Lakeside Amusement Park

• Enters Nowhere and the final area of the game.

• Inside the apartment Harry experiences another Otherworld Transition and goes through a “Nowhere”-like Otherworld.

• He must make a trek through some sewers to reach the Lakeside (resort) area of town.

• Meets up with a side character in Annie’s Bar and goes on into Lakeside Amusement Park.

• Harry leaves the park and has a conversation with Dahlia on a boat and later another conversation with Cybil outside the lighthouse.

• Harry enters the lighthouse and the final area of the game.

Finds Cheryl and learns the truth

As you can see Shattered Memories Harry pretty much visits all the same major areas as the original. The order and how these places look might not exactly match up but the same overall journey is still present!

I have also seen the arguments that the characters in Shattered Memories have nothing in common with their counterparts besides their names. This really surprises me because I can see common personalities and traits between each. Sure the characters in Shattered Memories may look different but I think other things they share in common makes up for the differences. I figured another side by side comparison was the way to go:

Characters and their roles

Silent Hill		Shattered Memories
	Harry Mason Writer looking for missing (adopted) daughter in Silent Hill after a car accident.		Harry Mason Writer looking for missing daughter in Silent Hill after a car accident.
	Cheryl Mason Harry’s missing 7 year old (adopted) daughter		Cheryl Mason Harry’s missing 7 year old daughter
	Cybil Bennet A cop from Brahams the next town over. She meets Harry in Cafe 5to2 and tries to help him locate his daughter and the truth behind Silent Hill’s bizarre change.		Cybil Bennet a Silent Hill cop who meets Harry in Diner 52 (depends on your playthrough) and tries to help him locate daughter. At the same time she also attempts to figure out the truth behind Harry’s car accident and his bizarre behavior.
	Dahlia Gillespie A mysterious woman who Harry meets in the Balkan church and knows more than what she’s sharing with Harry. Turns out to be the leader of a cult in Silent Hill and the mother of Alessa/Cheryl, she also owns the Green Lion Antique shop.		Dahlia (Mason?) Coy and secretive this young woman knows more than she’s sharing with Harry. Turns out to not only be Cheryl’s mother but Harry’s wife as well. She also lives above and I assume owns the Green Lion Pawn Shop.
	Dr. Michael Kaufmann A middle aged, abrasive doctor and the Director of Alchemilla Hospital. Dahlia placed Alessa in his care shortly after burning her alive in the occult ritual. He’s also distributing the cult’s White Claudia drug supply to tourists and Silent Hill citizens.		Dr. Michael Kaufmann A middle aged, abrasive doctor (Psychologist) at the Lighthouse Clinic. Like Alessa in the original game Cheryl is under his care and I assume Dahlia was the one who convinced her seek help.
	Lisa Garland A frightened nurse Harry meets in Alchemilla hospital. Dr. Kaufmann placed her in charge of the comatose and severely burned Alessa Gillespie under threat of cutting off her White Claudia drug supply. Harry feels a protective of Lisa but in the end is helpless to save her from a tragic “death.”		Lisa Garland A distressed nurse the Harry meets in Alchemilla hospital who has suffered a car accident of her own. A concerned Harry walks her home when she refuses care inside the hospital. She’s overworked and the only thing keeping her going is the her self medication of prescription drugs….most likely meaning she has a drug problem. Like in the original Harry is unable to save her from death and she dies from the injuries suffered from her car accident. Depending on your playthrough a drug overdose may have also played a factor.
	Alessa Gillespie A mysterious woman Harry spots all over town who has a direct connection with Cheryl and her past.		Shadow Girl a silloutte of a girl Harry sees all of town who has a direct connection with Cheryl and her past.

The games share many similarities when you look beyond the lack of cults and rusty Otherworld. At it’s core Silent Hill is still a place you can’t really define but most certainly betrays expectations. Konami and Climax took the risk of turning our own expectations of Silent Hill against us with their reimagined cult free story. I believe it’s those expectations that prevent many from seeing how similar the core games are and in the end don’t give the Shattered Memories enough credit as a true re-imagining.

also this was also submitted by whitney in www.shshatteredmemories.com

Homages to SH Games

Visual & Audio Homages to the other Silent Hill games

Big fans the Silent Hill series Climax made sure to slip in many visual and audio nods to the previous titles as little Easter eggs for the longtime fans. Now I know the entire game is like huge nod to the original we see many familiar faces and revisit locations from the original but in this section I’m gathering the Silent Hill related references that are a little easier to overlook!

Below are screen and audio clips of ones I’ve seen in my multiple play-throughs! Please note that this page is still a work in progress as I am still gathering screens/audio for some of the references. If you know of some game reference I’ve missed that I haven’t already placed on my “coming soon” list at the end of the page, please let me know !

Silent Hill: Shattered Memories Homages in the order of appearance…

Cheryl’s bear seen in the front seat of Harry’s wrecked car and later by the broken bike in the playground wears a striped red tie around its neck. I like to think it’s a reference to the snazzy red striped tie Dahlia wore in the original game.

If you explore the men’s bathroom in the Fir Tree Garage there’s a bathroom stall with several different graffiti on it. Below the “Cammie Split Roasted” blurb is a small line stating “Today is your Birthday.” It’s a little hard to make out but I believe it’s a nod to the strange phone call Heather receives in Silent Hill 3. A creepy voice on the other ends tells Heather how today is her her birthday and sings Happy Birthday. Heather of course denies today being her birthday but the voice is quite certain.

In the playground you will see various graffiti by the “Dead Dog Posse.” The gang’s name seems to be a nod to two dead dog scenes in the original game. Either the bloody and mutilated dog corpse by the back alley he followed Cheryl into in the beginning of the game or the decapitated dog head found later in a basketball court near the near the Woodman Key.

Depending on your psych profile by this point of the game its possible you will meet meet the sexy version of Silent Hill cop Cybil Bennett in Diner 52. Her blonde hair, leather pants and short sleeve blue police shirt is very reminiscent of Cybil’s outfit in the original game.

Silent Hill Ring tone vs Silent Hill theme opening notes

If you set Harry’s smart phone to ring tone #4 the opening notes of the original Silent Hill theme will play!

Like in the original game we visit a home on Levin Street, except this time it’s supposedly Harry’s home. I was sad not to see a dog house with “no dogs around” but the fact Harry’s home is on Levin Street instead of another other random street makes me think its a nice nod to the original game. I’ve seen theories in which people claim the house number “1206″ is a possible reference to the repeated “206″ from Silent Hill Homecoming, which I believe could work but why have the extra 1? Others have mentioned that “1206″ was probably the original Levin Street home’s address but I couldn’t find any concrete evidence of such a number in the game, guides or novel (though I did see a “3″ but since I can’t read Japanese I have no idea what it’s in reference to!). These additional fan theories convinced me to add it to homages list the even though it isn’t as obvious as some of the others.

Ah, it truly wouldn’t be a re-imagining of Silent Hill without a piano puzzle, now would it? In Silent Hill the a bloodied piano in the Midwich music room with the a poem involving some birds stumped many players. Thankfully (or maybe not?) the bird related piano puzzle in Shattered Memories is much easier to solve…my guess it’s because Harry was only messing with a child’s toy this time around!

After exiting the woods Harry finds a memento of a pinned butterfly in the trunk of a red car. Later on in a conversation with Lisa Garland Harry mentions that Cheryl is the collector of pretty bugs and love butterflies. I like to think this a nod back to Alessa Gillespie’s own butterfly collection seen hanging in her bedroom in the original game.

During Harry’s trek to the other side of Midwich Highschool he passes through a restaurant called Wonderland that has an Alice in Wonderland theme to it’s mascots and decor. One might wonder why Climax didn’t go with “Konami Burger” that is seen in the original game but this Wonderland themed burger joint still has a strong connection to the original game. In Allchemilla Hospital Harry opens the Nurse’s Center door with four colored plates with different Alice in Wonderland characters: Red Queen, Turtle, Cheshire and the Mad Hatter. I like to think that this Wonderland restaurant is a nod to the Alice theme in the hospital door puzzle.

In the unnamed classroom 4-D in Midwich Highschool there’s a number written on a spare desk for a Mr. Gordon. The name should be familiar to those who’ve played the original game. After defeating the Split head in the school boiler room Harry picks up a key labeled “K. Gordon” which opens up the back door to K. Gordon’s house and allows him access to Balkan Church. Even though K. Gordon is only mentioned by name as being a teacher at Midwich elementary it’s cool that when a teacher name was needed in SHSM Climax went with one fan’s are already familiar with.

In the unnamed generic classroom in the Midwich High School, Room 4-d, it’s possible to see a variety of images projected in the front of the classroom which changes based on your pysch profile up to that point. One of possible images is a drawing that looks just like the Sabbatic Goat drawn by occult author Eliphas Lévi. This image is usually associated with Baphomet, a pagan deity, and figure of Satanism. It was also the design the Incubus in the original game was based on.

In the Art Studio there are three renditions of Harry Mason originally seen in the background of his health status in the original game in varying styles of modern art.

Dahlia playing Shot Down In Flames

After you receive your first picture message from Dahlia on heading towards the locked exit to the Midwich Gymnasium she is added to your contact list. Sometimes if you call right away you might hear part of Shot Down By Flames from the Silent Hill Origins soundtrack and Climax’s first Silent Hill game.

On one of the lockers by the Gymnasium exit is a graffiti of someone holding a gun. It lookfs similar to a promotional artwork of Silent Hill 3 protagonist Heather.

While hacking Principal Herman Fisher’s computer you may be asked what is “What is Shakespeare’s greatest play?” The answer Twelfth Night can be found if you looked at a row of brown Shakespeare books on his bookshelf. Fisher’s favorite is pulled out slightly from the others. I like to think that these books are a nod to the book puzzle Heather solves in Silent Hill 3 to get a door code. She finds several brown Shakespeare anthologies on the floor of “My Bestseller” bookstore. To open the locked back door in the store she must put the books back on the shelf in a certain order and reveal the door code written across the book spines.

After successfully hacking into the school records Cheryl Mason’s personal information is briefly shown before the computer freezes on Harry. Take a look at Ms. Mason’s full name, see anything familiar? If so you might recognize that her middle name, “Heather,” was also the pseudonym used by Harry and Cheryl while in hiding from the cult between Silent Hill and Silent Hill 3.

In Shattered Memories and Silent Hill 2 Harry and James both take a short breather in a public restroom to clear their hands and take a moment to stare at their reflections in wonder.

When you meet a distraught and injured Lisa in Shattered Memories she hugs Harry for a bit before realizing he’s not from the Hospital. This meeting is very reminiscent of their meeting in the original where Lisa crawls from beneath a desk and hugs Harry in out of relief on seeing another person.

Also if you meet a Lisa who doesn’t complain about how she “wasn’t supposed to be here” the cut scene will show show an over Harry’s shoulder shot of their embrace that’s very similar to the view used in the original game.

Like in the original Harry is unable to save the young and pretty nurse from death in Shattered Memories. What’s interesting about Lisa’s death scene in in this game is how she bleeds while dying. If you gave her the right pill and witness her last breath you will see blood begin to drip down from her left temple and with more blood flowing from her nose and mouth. The way and the order in which she’s bleeds mirrors the flow and the appearance of blood in her death scene in the original.

Cine-Fone Dancer Trailer

If you call Cine Fone and the movie The Dancer showing in Cine Real Snow Blind from the Silent Hill Origins soundtrack plays in the background of the trailer. It’s a nice nod to Climax’s first Silent Hill title.

Cine-Fone Dearest Mother Trailer

If you call Cine Fone and the movie Dearest Mother showing in Cine Real Don’t Abuse Me from the Silent Hill Origins soundtrack plays in the background of the trailer. It’s a nice nod to Climax’s first Silent Hill title.

In the last of the Nightmare worlds I like to refer to as Shattered Memories’ ‘Nowhere’ level Harry makes two leaps down into a dark abyss. Luckily for Harry he survives each long fall and continues his search for Cheryl. This leap of faith is very similar to the ones James’ takes in the prison level during Silent Hill 2 (and also similar to Henry’s daring jumps in Silent Hill 4). It didn’t matter that neither could see how long the drop really was, like Harry they had no where else to go so the most logicial conclusion to them was to jump dark the dark and scary looking hole…luckily for all of them Silent Hill is a pretty mysterious place and allowed them to all survive such a drop!

The borrowed SUV careens off the Dixon Bridge as the world freezes over. Harry barely makes it out of the water filled car with his life but watches helplessly as the unconscious and now thawed Dahlia continues to sink with the car deeper into the lake. But in Silent Hill death isn’t quite permanent as Harry thinks and he is surprised to not only hear from Dahlia via text messages after she dies but ends up meeting the real deal later on in a boat behind the amusement park.

Dahlia’s resurrection apparent no recollection of her demise I feel is a big nod to Maria and her multiple deaths and resurrections duringf Silent Hill 2. We saw Maria die in a variety of ways yet she continued to cross paths with James without a scratch and no recollection of dying in the first place!

When Harry begins crossing a frozen Toluca lake he receives a text and picture message from Officer Cybil Bennet of his “seven year old Cheryl.” Looks like “little” Cheryl has been in trouble with the law up in Portland. Within this mugshot we have two nods to Silent hill 3. Cheryl’s orange shirt, hoodie and blonde highlights bears a strong resemble to Heather’s character design in Silent Hill 3. The location of her arrest I believe is another homage and reference to the Harry’s murder in self defense of a Silent Hill cult member in the Portland area after the events of Silent Hill.

Harry runs across a frozen Toluca Lake towards a light in the distance in the direction of the Light House. The ice thaws and he continues swimming towards that same light. Crossing Toluca by following a distant light on the other side is is very similar to James’ row across the Toluca to reach the Lakeview Hotel. With the fog so thick he only had a bright light in the distance to guide him to the other side.

UFO Ending Nods

Shattered Memories UFO ending has several nods to the original Silent Hill and Silent Hill 2 (especially in that last shot!) so I’ve broken them all down below

In the beginning Dr. K rants about Cheryl’s original belief her father was abducted by aliens. Claiming it made “more sense when [she] talked about cults and demons.” In the original Silent Hill the entire plot centered around a cult’s attempt in Silent Hill to release their God (who looked like a demon) into the world. So it’s a very cute nod to the original plotline.

In the following scene the Flauros is clearly seen on the doctor’s shelves (it’s not the Triforce from the Legend of Zelda series!). In the original, Dahlia left Harry the Flauros and the drawbridge key in the Balkan church. The purpose of the Flauros was unknown but it proved useful later in sealing off Alessa’s powers which allowed Dahlia to swoop in and capture her.

When you see a wideshot of Dr. K’s…or should I say Alien’s office check out the note on the corner of the coffee table. It looks just like the Levin Street Dog House note scribbled on a page from Cheryl’s sketch pad that Harry finds on Matheson Street in the original.

When you see a wide shot of Dr. K’s…or should I say Alien’s office check out the side board in the back. Dr. K’s alcohol stash has now been replaced by three items essential to Harry’s survival in the original game: his yellow flashlight, trusty red radio and a health drink.

What makes the UFO ending so great are the cameos by Silent Hill 2 protagonist James Sunderland and Mira the dog from the hilarious Silent Hill 2 dog ending (she’s also in SH0’s UFO ending!). If you look hard enough in the last wide shot of the office you can also see a silhouette of the Mary Boss creature James fights hanging in the background.

Many more Silent Hill homages coming soon!
Everything listed below will be added to the list, I just need the screen caps!

Dinosaur Memento -> call back to Alessa
We, Ouroboros Memento -> Disk of Ourboros
Nowhere
Indian Runner (thought I would mention in my SHSM vs SH but never did..it didn’t play a big enough role so I’m going to stick it here )

SH0

Riverside Motel number
Cine-fone Good Poison “Hole in the Sky” track from OST
Mirrors

SH2

Lakeside Hotel number
Brookhaven Hospital number

Sadly you cannot hear the audio...it is my fault and i am very sorry but please give ALL of the credit to whitney and her website:

www.shshatteredmemories.com

It was all of her information here , i just copied and pasted it on here...it took her alot of time to code and write all of this so thank her not me , also please be sure to come back to check for new references which will develop in time!!!

Thank all of you for reading this and thank most of all to whitney and her website for submitting all of this information on the references.

Thanks!!!

-RedPyramid