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Unique as in, they are brand new designs, not originating from the Silent Hill series.

The 1st is called Awakened Order and appears to be an AU where Cheryl joined the cult. The 2nd and 3rd are meant to be Cheryl after the events of SH3.

This is one of their behaviors when they are out of combat. I’ve seen it on occasion at several points in the game, and it seems to be random, as this is the first time I’ve seen it from the creature outside the convenience store.

Posted this before on the main Silent Hill sub.

The katana in SH1 is found in a Japanese themed room. Both the scared sword and the katana have visually identical hilts, and both are acquired on NG+ in their respective games. The katana also propels Harry forward whenever he swings it. The heavy attack for the sacred sword does a similar thing for Hinako.

Considering how much inspiration f seems to have taken from SH1, along with having the direct connections of White Claudia and Aglaophotis, I can’t help but wonder if this was also an intentional connection. At the very least, the similarity of both weapons propelling the characters forward make me believe there is an intentional homage. There IS at least a 20-year gap in the time frame between the events of the games, so there is certainly plenty of time for the sword to have found its way to the town somehow.

I’ve always noticed this detail and found it unsettling. Every other monster in SH1 can be encountered in both the Fog and Otherworld. Some monsters might have variants like the otherworld air screamers and groaners in SH1 or the otherworld bubblehead nurses in SH2, but you still encounter some version of those creatures in both parts of the town.

This is not the case with the puppet nurses and doctors in SH1. You never once see them in the normal part of the town. Only in the nightmare version. This also applies to Cybil, with how she gets attacked and infected only once she’s finally in the otherworld.

This Alessa model appears several times as memories in Nowhere, and it seems to confirm that Cheryl and Alessa are supposed to be visually identical.

This camera mode also becomes unlockable after beating the game and gaining access to the secret options menu. You can switch between it and the regular camera view by pressing L2, or you can even change it to allow you to play the entire game with this view.

Thinking about it, this was actually a real clever way to set the tone. It basically tells you right off the bat that no place is safe. The game never does this again afterwards, but still.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps/198641-silent-hill/faqs/4180

Birlew wrote a number of popular plot guides on Gamefaqs under the alias President Evil, before he became a writer at BradyGames. His guide for SH1 was written shortly after the game released and I believe contains the first proposal of a time loop theory. Basically, he proposed that NG+ skipping the opening alley sequence and instead starting with Harry waking up
in the cafe was due to him being stuck in a time loop.

His guide contains a lot of theories that were invalidated by the later entries and developer interviews, but it’s still kind of interesting to read.

The contrast between the in-game PS1 model and Ito’s art is a primary reason why I am interested to see them more than any other monster once we finally get footage of the remake, since I really have no clue what appearance Bloober will go with. That, and the fact that they are one of the monsters that was not actually designed by Ito (they were instead designed by Naoko Sato, with Ito later doing his own art of them).

Personally, I feel like they could do both. Maybe have the nurses and doctors encounterd in the hospital look mostly normal aside from the parasites on their backs, while the ones later encountered in Nowhere look much more monstrous and with larger parasites like in Ito’s art.

Harry taking Cheryl on a vacation to the town results in the first game occurring, and the events of the first game are what caused the town to become the way it is for the rest of the series. If he had just taken her to Disneyland or somewhere else, both their lives and the lives of many others might be very different.

Probably the most interesting thing from the Play Novel, in my opinion. Cybil was semi-conscious and alternated between feeling nothing to feeling like her body was on fire.