I agree with everything said here. If you have a really good imagination and actually place yourself in Silent Hill for a moment, you would know that you will probably freeze at the first unsettling sound in the mist...if not at the first monster that you encounter. It's the way the human mind works...we need some time to process new things, and the living nightmares happening in Silent Hill are simply too much to process, let alone react to in time.
However, I do believe there is a power that can get every normal person here further than he/she is supposed to survive in Silent Hill on normal occasions. Obviously you're not going there to have fun or to pursue happiness...you are going there in search of a loved one. If you really love someone and really focus on this thought and feeling hard enough, you can make the next step in the mist after hearing that creepy sounds that would drive you away normally...hell, you will even pull the trigger when you have to, even though you've never held a gun before, let alone fired one. Probably you will lose your mind in the end, but you will get far...
That is what I would like to believe, I'm not stating it as a fact. I see myself entering Silent Hill and really freezing in place on the path down to the lake through the mist, when you start hearing sounds. However, when I place myself in the same spot, but this time with the thought of someone I love very much, I can actually make one more step...and then one more and one more again. None of us is Rambo, none of us is the Terminator, but when we tell our loved ones that we would do anything for them, some of us actually mean it. It's simply what I like to believe...
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kairi_13
15 years ago
It's hard to say. I'd like to think that my adhrenaline would kick in and I'd survive just as long as James or Harry. If I were searching for a loved one too, probably the thought of them would keep me going.
But saying that, I don't know how I'd react to using guns and all the weird noises would severly creep me out. So most likely I'd end up freezing, going mad and eventually turning the gun on myself
Let's just hope I never have to find out...
About 2 months ago....there was this "incident"...involving zombies...in a mansion...
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ja_demko
15 years ago
I would almost certainly survive James' nightmares. Not to say I wouldn't be scared, but the majority of the monsters just aren't all that dangerous. Pyramid Head, of course, is the exception. While I am no gunslinger, I do have training with guns and I practice enough to maintain competency. I wouldn't have too much trouble shooting the nurses, manequins, and other "low level" creatures. They don't move very fast and they always come right to you.
The blindly jumping into holes? I don't see myself doing that. I dabble in UrbEx, so the prospect of visiting a place like Silent Hill is intriguing, but even a rabidly enthusiastic UrbExer wouldn't do something as stupid as James does.
Now, should Silent Hill provide me with my own nightmares, I doubt I'd fare so well. The nature of things that scare you is, after all, that they scare you. If I wasn't afraid of my innermost fears, then they wouldn't be my innermost fears, would they?
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chris-goode90-1
15 years ago
I would persuade pyramid head to join me in return for a bent needle and some hair, PH would be a good ally. he might accept it but more likely PH would kill me pretty quickly!
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