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In Water Ending (Return to Silent Hill - Part 3)
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The author of this book was in a tough spot. I'll admit that right here. Still this is NOT going on my recommeded summer reading list.
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About the Book
In the latest Silent Hill film, based on the classic psychological horror video game Silent Hill 2, James must return to Silent Hill to rescue his soulmate. The town has been changed by an unknown malevolent force that makes James doubt his ability to survive. In my restless dreams, I see that town. SILENT HILL. RETURN TO SILENT HILL brings the iconic psychological horror franchise back to the big screen. When James receives a mysterious letter from his lost love Mary, he is drawn to Silent Hill—a once-familiar town now consumed by darkness. As he searches for her, James faces monstrous creatures and unravels a terrifying truth that will push him to the brink of survival.
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Transcript
Introduction and Welcome Back
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is worse in terms of sounds i believe if i'm if i'm doing that math correctly um but it's fine we're all fine here how are you you know who else is how are you no who's that
Silent Hill 2 Book Discussion
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Hey there, everybody. Welcome back to Pixel It. My name is Kevin. With me as always is Phil on today's show We are finishing up ah this book, ah Silent Hill 2, The Returning to Silent Hill.
00:00:36
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Uh, it's, it's, it's here, uh, the ending to this. And I bet you all are thinking, Hey, I know Silent Hill too. I know how this ends. Absolutely. assure you, you do not.
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Um, actually you probably do. It's, it's close. It's actually that off. might be able to guess. You can guess. You can guess the general broad strokes, but not how it actually happens because it's a lot dumber in a whole lot of ways.
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Yeah, yeah. So, um before we get into it, there's... Phil, i there's been ah but there's been something on my mind.
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Patreon.com slash PixelPlot do it today. I'm glad you brought that and Actually, i that's the first I've heard of that. That's the first I've heard of it. yeah I didn't know that we had that. It's the first I've heard of it. that's That's really how the emotional purgatory of Silent Hill works.
Health and Humor
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How about these wafer cookies that are just like...
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I don't know what brand this is, but they're wafer cookies. And I always enjoy a wafer cookie. I fucking love wafer cookies. There's the one brand that they do the really good sugar-free ones that i that I eat the shit out of. um Yeah. Oh, yeah. I freaking love them. And they you don't poop your pants anymore.
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ah you've We've worked up the tolerance to poop in your pants. i ah Yeah, yeah. I'm pooping them ah when i when I say so.
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When you say so. Yeah, yeah. I've gotten, I don't know what, because at the cafeteria at work, they sell those smart sweets. um Yeah.
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And I don't like all of them, but the ones that I like, I'm crazy for. And they have the, um, for those of you don't know what I'm talking about, they these these candies that are, the whole bag is like 110 calories and like three grams of sugar or less. And it comes from ah the material they make it out of it and sweeten it with, it which is like a wax almost. um And it's a natural, ah sweet has a natural sweetness to it and everything. But the side effect is that you will shit your pants because it is literally like 40% of your needed fiber for the day.
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Uh, so it, it, it will fuck you up. And they have ones that are basically, they're Starburst. They're trying to be Starburst. And I love those. They're literally only two flavors. They've got, they've got like a red one and a pink one. And, and they're both great.
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I love them. I love the texture. And I don't know what it is. it Is it red and pink flavored? I wish. I wish. No, i that would make more sense. it's like It's like fruit punch and like pink lemonade or something like that. And they're both good. And they use ah they use a lot of citric acid. And that's what I'm looking for. I like sour candy. I want i want some citric acid. That's what I'm here for.
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um And
Candy Preferences and Humor
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I don't know if my if they lowered the amount of fiber that goes into them or yeah if my body has just...
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understood Hey, this is going to be a part of our lives for a long time. So we better literally get our shit together. ah Literally. it Pack it. You got to pack that shit a little bit tighter because fiber is coming to town and it's going to sweep all that loose shit out.
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ah They're so good. They're so good. So yeah, those are those are good. They also got the really good um Sour Patch Kid ripoffs, which are are also really good.
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Nice. Nice. Yeah. um Now that's a brand deal. All right. what I would would love that one. The brand deal that you want is it. Yeah. Sour Patch Kids or The Sweet Smarts?
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I would do both. I think it would be a lot of fun, actually, to do like a Jekyll and Hyde style thing where every other episode I'm like, fuck diabetes. I want that real sugar. And I just pour like a bag and Sour Patch Kids down my gullet.
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Yeah, exactly. And then and then ah like on the second and fourth weeks of every month, I'm like, look at this. It's great. It's good for you. It's better for you and you can still enjoy it. You know what? It's woman owned.
Tech Troubles and Anecdotes
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It's a female owned brand. and And we love that here. And women.
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yeah Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I go from NPR to 90s advertising every week. Right. ah Like that. I think that would be fun. I'm going to have to talk to them, talk them into it. I feel like that would be worth it for everybody because that's honestly, yeah honestly, that is how I live my life.
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ah yeah That is i i i have I had my my most recent physical. I haven't had um even pre-diabetic sugar levels in three years now. oh Wow. what Yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah. No, it's great. Diabetes us like a champ. Well, and that's the thing. ah you know people When people say they've reversed their diabetes, technically you can't reverse it, but ah you can at the same time. it's it's It's its own thing, and that's where I'm at. ah ah Because if if you if you don't test for diabetic range A1C for 12 months, that technically is a – that's beating it according to a lot of people. And so I feel good about it, but I also don't – Yeah, I beat the beatus.
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ah but i I don't want to... Like, you know, i don't want to fuck that up. I don't want to ah get so comfortable with that, that i wreck my body all over again.
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So I have some sugar and stuff, but i but I'm, you know, I'm more careful with it. And so that's literally how I live my life. I'll be like, oh yeah, the sugar-free stuff. Hmm. That sounds good. Let's do that. I like some of this stuff. And then one day I'll see like a 10 pound bag of Sour Patch Kids and I will just go, yeah, daddy wants. And, and. Daddy wants.
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Daddy wants. When daddy wants, daddy gets. Exactly. And instead of eating that 10-pound bag all in one sitting like I used to do, I'll split it up over to, let's say, three days.
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ah And it's not nearly as bad. Yeah. it'ss Still pretty bad, though. And how many days are in an eight-hour period? It's 15, 16, I want to say. So I'm really...
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I'm really, you know, strong willpower, you know? Yeah. That's what I'm known for. That's what love. What was that that that video where the guy was talking about how like he he's like he how how much more time he has in a day because of his schedule? He's like, yeah, at night.
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But that means at like 30, I'm years behind. I'm years ahead of you. At 40, I'm left you in the dust. I'm trying to remember what the fuck that's from. Not familiar. It's amazing. um Also, I'm just reminded of Jon Bernthal talking about naps.
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Have you seen this? No. the John Bernthal, who plays the Punisher, talking about naps. And he was like, oh, I don't want to tell you naps. i don't do i don't deal with that.
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I don't deal with that shit. You know, I don't deal with that shit.
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He's exactly the kind of guy i imagine saying something like that, too. My internet keeps fucking fucking up. Or is it your internet? I don't know. My internet's groovy. ever we got We got a firmware problem taken care of on our modem, which is why I was like, I lost all access to it for a while, and we've been we've been golden ever since.
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And it's like, at the same time, my headset, my headphones are dying, and I'm just like... It's like that's like sometimes cutting out in one ear and not in the other. it's it high Things are a mess over here. I just need to rearrange this whole setup. um I'm finally... You know what? i'm good this is in This has actually made me decide to... i'm My office is directly above where the internet comes into the house okay and the modem is.
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i'm I'm literally going to drill... an ethernet cable into the wall down yeah to the first floor and just connect it straight into the into the you've got that is that is the thing to do i was absolutely going to do that uh with my setup down here i was like if if this doesn't work i know exactly where the modem is up there and yeah i will drill a hole through the ceiling into the living room and connect uh fortunately it really hasn't been much of an issue but but i'll do it man don't fuck with me don't fuck with me i'll do it i'll do it i'm not afraid of shit no um anyway body in the marsh body in the marsh let's do it when i tell you to dump in the marsh
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You dumb
In-depth Silent Hill 2 Analysis
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in. All right. We left off. ah What's what happens? ah Fucking Maria got stabbed. ah We're in chapter 29. Maria is bleeding like a stuck doppelganger.
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ah And at this point, the book actually calls her Mary. I think that was unintentional. I think it was just a typo. I think so, too. Yeah. Yeah. so ah James gets them out of the elevator before the cable snaps and he takes Maria to a room with a bed where she can rest. He finds some medical supplies and patches her up and Maria points out that she clearly looks like Mary based on how James looks at her and makes him promise that if he can't find Mary that they will leave Silent Hill together.
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ah James is like, I promise... I'll be back quickly. And yeah James, you little fucker, I know what you're going to do later. You promised her and then you're going to set you up. When we get to it later, I'm going to have some choice words for you. He runs into Laura and her fetus baby and she toys with James a little bit, blaming James for leaving Mary all alone.
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ah Laura then leads James into a room that has a door that says authorized personnel only. Chapter 30. While in the room, James is attacked by the dangler thingies that hang from the ceiling. He fights his way through and he sees Laura at the end of the hallway, where it becomes clear to him that she's messing with him.
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She leads him up a floor to the toxicology unit and then gets then to a room numbered 318, which is the same room ah same number as the apartment that he had with Mary.
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He goes inside and then Laura locks him in the room from the other side. That doesn't make sense. Um, because the hallway side usually has the, the, the key, like the, the actual, like the key side and the interior side usually has the lock.
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Um, so But it's Silent Hill. You can't do it. Everything's all wibbly wobbly and different. wo like are stiff friend Including the keys. You can't you can't trust anything in Silent Hill. Can't trust anything.
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There's a munchkin. Hey! I see a shifting back there. Hello. Hey, kid. How you doing? Good.
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good What are you up to? I just came up here to get. I want some juice from mama because her throat is ready. OK, well, you should go get those last news then.
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All right.
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All business tonight. All business tonight. um but Okay, so ah anyway, he's locked in there. ah He tries to get out, but he's attacked by a a merry monster on the bed, ah which is on a bed on the ceiling.
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ah This merry monster creature bed grabs him and pulls him up towards it when he's blinded by a flash of light. oh Ooh, what's going to happen? Chapter 31, James wakes up in Silent Hill, the real version of Silent Hill, not the fog version and not the hell version, just plain Silent Hill. Just just garden variety Vanilla Hill.
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Vanilla Hill. We're not in an emotional purgatory anymore. We're just in Silent Hill from the brochure. Absolutely. He's just being tended to by a doctor, and he's also in Brookhaven Hospital. He's being tended to by a doctor, and his therapist, M, shows up and is like, ah James, yeah Mary's gone, you gotta get over it.
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um You just gotta get over it, buddy. um As a therapist, professional therapist, my professional ah way of handling you right now is is get the fuck over it, James. Just real good at her job, you know, like yeah just wow.
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I don't understand why she's called M. It's such an yes. And when you when you put that along with the imagery you get of her in the movie, she's treated like a goddamn secret agent.
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And it's really weird. It's really weird. Like what is going on with M? And she's like, she makes a call to ah to somebody to like pick up James because he's in Silent Hill or whatever.
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and and But why is she M? and it it doesn't it it never says why she's just called M. no Nobody ever refers to her by anything else.
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it it It feels like there should be some kind of reveal. ah yeah But obviously there isn't. Like we get deleted scenes in the book. that were clearly in the treatment for the movie that make make it into the book. But none of it actually includes letting us know why the therapist shares a letter, a single letter, M, that is also the name the first letter of the name of Mary and Mary's doppelganger, Maria. Yeah.
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Why? Yeah. Yeah. it's It's so dumb. I just... but It's such a weird fucking choice. It's weird is what it is. And it's distracting.
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Like, literally. Like, well we shouldn't be in your horror book. It's fucking distracting. Right. Right. It's right. it Like, we shouldn't be discussing this. Like, that should it but should just be...
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Dr. Maria or some goddamn thing. Like, this is not what we should be talking about. Yeah. ah And how was it?
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that how was it? God. han never The internet never forgets, Bale.
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ah And you're back there going, do-do-do-do-do. It's fucking distracting.
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I like you, ma but we are fucking finished. we are You're a nice guy. You're a nice guy. Un-fucking-professional. We're done. We're done, man. the o And I met that guy. havingvin
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The what? The DP. I met him. The one that got yelled at? The one that got yelled at. I met him. Was he a nice guy? He seemed fine. Okay. Okay, good. Good.
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did Did he know that you knew that he was that guy? um So that's the thing. Because he's a cinematographer, on his day-to-day life, most people, he could introduce himself, and 99% of people will not know that he is the guy that Christian Bale is yelling at.
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But meeting at NAB... meeting him at n a b ah which is like the the National Association of Broadcasters Conference, which is where all like the new film and television gear is debuted.
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So I think it was at NAB that I that i met him. ah yeah It is, ah yeah I think he had to know that most most a lot of the people there that weekend would know that he is the guy who is being fucking distracting.
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but For events like that he needs that, he needs to make a t-shirt that just says fucking distracting on it. that would be yeah I think that would be pretty good. I wanted to shout out to him. And how was it?
00:19:27
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Oh, yeah. Of course. Of course. But you can't do that. Like, you just you're just... not ah Not at a conference like that. That's just all the wrong people to do that in front of. Yeah.
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ah And bonus points, if you remember the movie that this was... in that this is from. it was ah It was a Terminator movie, right? It sure was. it was a Terminator movie with Christian Bale ah and...
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Is it, uh, the fucking guy from, um, was it the guy from Avatar? Was, was that? oh I have no idea. ah Terminator, is it Terminator Genesis?
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Terminator. i no yet ah Salvation. Yeah. Sam Burlington. The guy. Yeah. Yeah. The guy from the guy who is, like who was the main character in Avatar,
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ah Oh, an Anton Yelchin. RIP. Oh, yeah. Damn. Yeah.
Terminator Movie Digression
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i ah ah it must be It must suck, though, to have made a ah a Terminator movie like of that from that fucking franchise. And years later, the only thing anyone talks about regarding that one is is the incident.
00:20:53
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Yep. And it's not even the incident was that big of a deal. It's just that forgettable of a movie. Yeah. Oh, and Bryce Dallas Howard was in it too. Oh, God.
00:21:03
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Yeah. Good. Good. Yeah. Good. Good. Good. Bryce Dallas Howard. Anything she said, I'm there. You're there for it.
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And, you know, I know what you're there for. I know what kind of you are. That's a woman is what I'm saying. That's just, that's a woman. Yeah.
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ah What book are we talking
Silent Hill 2 Book Critique
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about? I think we are. i think it's Resident Evil 6. Yeah, I think we're there. ah Your Elgato is ah proving once again that we should be absolutely getting a brand deal with them.
00:21:41
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Oh, God. and Reconnect it.
00:21:45
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Thanks, Elgato. Ding! Thanks, Elgato. It's repeating. There it is. and I'm just going to lean into it one of these days and just yeah wear an Elgato face mask or something like that. That'll be the ah the thumbnail for it.
00:22:03
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Yeah. it'll just yeah just Instead of my head, it'll be the Elgato ah logo. Because they just really want their logo in it. That's the thing is is they want their logo.
00:22:14
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That's essentially it. That really is it. so And I get it. I get it. Who could blame them? Who could blame them? With it with a lovely... ah the company name like The Cat.
00:22:27
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Oh, yeah. going to treat myself to a... To a wafer? Oh, okay. A wafer. Delicious wafer. Yeah, okay.
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I'll go little more firmness.
00:22:43
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Oh, it's like falling apart on you. No, like I like the chocolate layer to be like a little... Like a little little little... Oh, I see what you mean. Okay. yeah and it's ah It's like a soft chocolate instead of ah a... Anyway.
00:23:01
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We really don't want to talk about this book. ah So, it's chapter 31 and see, the next note I had and some such some such other bullshit.
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She leaves James to rest and he sits in the room waiting for daylight. Chapter 32, we're in the past again, and James is at Mary's apartment. He confronts her over the weird blood ceremony, and they get into a huge shouting match, and she says she won't go with him when he's like this. And instead of scary, because he's acting a little like an abuser, she says that he's scared. He's scared. It feels like she's she's like, what are you, pussy? like that's That's what it felt like to me we're not leaving We're not leaving until you stop being a pussy. Yeah, we're not leaving until you sack up.
00:23:50
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Sack up, man up, motherfucker. um It's such a weird moment, both in the movie and the book. Like, what? Just go with him. What are we doing here? Yeah. him him It doesn't make sense. it's like like It's valid that he's scared.
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she just He just watched people drink blood out of you. Right. rights He's got – I know that you were raised in this, but not everyone was.
00:24:19
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And you're just going to have to accept that. Hey, not everyone was raised Catholic, you know? yeah They drink a lot of blood and body. What can I say? We do drink a lot of blood in Catholicism. I think that – that And not to get off topic again, but that's the thing, that's the reason why Catholicism kind of ends up being the most metal of the Christian denominations is because of the transubstantiation.
00:24:48
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um The belief of transubstantiation is the belief that the the the body and blood of Christ is being transubstantiated during the course of the Mass. The wafer is his flesh.
00:25:03
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hu and the wine is his literal blood. Yeah, not a metaphor. It's not a metaphor. this is This is part of the Catholic Mass, is that you are drinking his blood and tasting his flesh.
00:25:19
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Yeah. That is some Warhammer 40K shit right there. That's metal as fuck. I mean, that really is. Metal as fuck. so So now, like, expanding that...
00:25:31
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J.D. Vance might want to really think about his fucking catechism before he steps up to Pope Leo again. this guy, if this guy...
00:25:43
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if if he had just pulled a Kamala Harris and kept his goddamn mouth shut and just hit himself in the background and, and, and get marched out there for special events like the good China and Thanksgiving, then he yeah might, he might have been able to,
00:26:02
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you know, pull off a win on the presidency by being like, yeah, you remember I, I was there with Trump, but I wasn't like liking Trump. I was just, I was trying to keep him in control, you know, and because that's what they're going to be looking for next.
00:26:18
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But that motherfucker just can't keep his mouth shut to save his fucking life. I'm not up upset about it. If anything, I'm thrilled. ah Right. But what the fuck?
00:26:31
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What the fuck, JD? um you you Yeah. Stolen fucking hillbilly valor, JD Vance. Oh, the stolenest. Yeah, yeah.
00:26:43
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JD Vance puts his cast iron skillet in the dishwasher. hu Fucking faker. Fucking tourist. Do you think he even knows how to season it?
00:26:56
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Oh, no. That guy doesn't cook. He don't cook. He don't clean. He's got no people. um None. None.
00:27:07
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None. ah So Mary then mentions that that on the day that he destroyed her luggage that she was planning on leaving.
00:27:18
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And James is like, why didn't you just tell me? And she said she didn't want to be judged. We've all been there. Oh, sure. Then James leaves and gets into his car and is startled by two pairs of eyes in the back seat.
00:27:33
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Chapter 33, it's G and Mia, the twins. They're in the backseat. And apparently Mary gave them a copy of James's car keys, um which is weird.
00:27:46
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ah And also, I feel like cart car keys aren't supposed to be copied. Are are they the one of the Things that you're allowed to i don't know if they're... Are you allowed to copy car keys? I think so, but just just you just can't do it at like a Lowe's or some goddamn thing. Like, you gotta go to the dealership and shit. ah Right.
00:28:03
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But... Yeah. That might just be the complexity of them anyway, so... Yeah. ah the Twins give a classic exposition dump about Mary's parents and her dad's plans and how Mary was always destined for this stuff and et cetera, et cetera. Just in case we didn't pick up any of this from the context clues in every other fucking scene in the flashbacks.
00:28:25
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It's just like recapping everything that we kind of knew already. Anyway, they leave. Yeah. ah Chapter 34, James is hanging out in his hospital room and in the hallway, M is asking a doctor how he's doing and she gives a bit more info about how long she's been treating him and for what. She mentions that Mary died after his breakup with her and he's just kind of been spiraling ever since.
00:28:51
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Time passes, m comes in to tell him that he can come back home soon and he thinks he thanks her for all the work she's done with him. The next day, he sees a couple being lovey-dovey, but then the black moths show up, and suddenly, whoops, he's back in Silent Hill, but the bad version. And then he goes to find Maria, because time hasn't passed in the bad Silent Hill.
00:29:13
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Right. So... I'm not sure. Is he just imagining being in the real world or is he magically teleported to the to the bad world?
00:29:25
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Right. It's not addressed um and in any way. No, no. it's it's it's It's a problem with this book in general where – it over shares on stuff that you want to keep close to your chest.
00:29:44
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Uh, like ah honestly, a lot of the cult stuff and like, there's just too much explanation and too much, too many of the T's are crossed and the eyes are dotted. There's like no mystery involved in it. And then there's stuff like this where they've learned from video games that if you don't explain things, uh, it will be mysterious and cool. Uh, and it doesn't work because they're not, uh,
00:30:08
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it's It's just a problem. It's a problem. And um it's actually part of my critique of Nick Cutter's The Deep. Now, at this point of the show, I am going to recap Nick Cutter's The Deep in glorious detail and do a point-by-point critique of why the book didn't land for me.
00:30:29
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So in chapter one... yeah yeah Strap in, people. This is the episode you really wanted. This is an episode within an episode. And then I'll come back up a level and how that all ties back into Silent Hill. the Right.
00:30:44
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Yeah. But it's going to be a three and a half hour episode. You just have to accept It's three and a half hour episode. We're going to pause the episode. I'm going to do a video essay. yeah You guys are going to have to type in this ah type in this ah web but website. We're going to letter for a letter, read it out to you.
00:31:04
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Yeah. Yep, exactly. HTTP. So, but yeah, but it is actually a critique I had. I just read Nick Cutter's The Deep. And one of the things that does my issue with the book is that it over explains so many things. And then at at a certain moment towards the very end, it's like, but it just like cuts the tap off. Yeah.
00:31:31
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It's like it does. It like doesn't explain something at the end. And I'm like, what the fuck?
00:31:40
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it's It's always so much worse with a book because you've spent so much time to get to that point. Yeah. And I'm like, I guess fine, whatever. Yeah.
00:31:53
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two and a half stars out of five. I'll do a i'll do a full write-up on the Patreon. Yeah, Kevin's going to put a review in in ah in our weekly reviews. So that's, yeah you gotta get in on the paid shit for that.
00:32:09
Speaker
Yeah, $1 to read our to tweet our the weekly book reviews, which up until this point is entirely entirely Phil because Phil reads ah like he's running out of time.
00:32:21
Speaker
Because I'm kind of convinced that I am.
00:32:30
Speaker
He's not going to throw away his away his shot. and um No, no. No. ah uh who's your Aaron Burr continuing on oh god damn it all right yeah let's let's go i am gonna have to think about that though god damn it all right who is my Um, so it goes to find Maria and in chapter 35, James has to fight his way through mannequin enemies to finally get back to where Maria is. She asks if, uh, he found Mary. He says, no, she says, then great, we can leave. And he's like, no I never promised that. And she's like, what the fuck? And this is coming back around earlier. The way James says it, um,
00:33:14
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ah is i won't take long period. I promise. As in she just asked him to promise her something and he responds using the word promise.
00:33:26
Speaker
And he then tries to weasel out of it saying, well, no, I promised that I wouldn't take long. Not that I would leave with you. And I'm like, okay, okay. Silent Hill can swallow this man whole.
00:33:39
Speaker
I don't give a shit.
Horror Elements in Silent Hill 2
00:33:40
Speaker
it's it it is It is the most like fuck boy ah attitude where it's like you are in hell. You are in a literal version of your own hell and you're still playing mind games with the women in your life. like Fucking just just get swallowed. Just do it. Just get swallowed, motherfucker.
00:34:01
Speaker
I'm done. Done with you. um and Done with this guy. ah So she's like, well, I can be your Mary. And then he nearly gives into her, but decides, no, he isn't going to do that.
00:34:15
Speaker
And he says he's going to go down into the basement. And she's like, well, I'm coming with you. But also, why are you going down in the basement? There's nothing down there for you. And as they go down, Maria yells at him that he could have been free of all this and that he shouldn't have come back.
00:34:28
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um And then he steps off the elevator into the void that is the the super sub-basement. And then chapter 36, Maria keeps begging James to go back and he ignores her. And then he says that she's not real.
00:34:43
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And he says goodbye to her. And then Pyramid Head comes by and he stabs the crap out of her. ah James regrets being so douchey, but then he turns around and sees Pyramid Head through the mask and finds that below the mask is his own eye.
00:35:03
Speaker
I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards. What a twist. What a twist. He runs away and things start changing around him.
00:35:13
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Chapter 37, flashback to James painting self-portrait before he gets sad boy and then he paints a pyramid cage over his head. Chapter 38, James floats through water after running for a bit.
00:35:27
Speaker
Blah, blah, blah. Those are my literal notes there. ah Chapter 39, James wakes up on the shore of Toluca Lake and now he's he's near the Lakeview Hotel and he assumes that he somehow got there by running through the tunnels, which then exited out from underneath the hospital into the lake and that he kind of floated onto the shore.
00:35:48
Speaker
ah Thanks. The hotel is on fire-ish, contained to the upper floors. He goes in the lobby, and ah Laura messes with him a little bit by playing hide-and-seek while asking if he's ready to face, quote-unquote, us. James asked why she is doing this to him, and she says that he needs to remember, quote, our full name. And I'm like, no, please no. James then remembers standing over Mary's grave, and her full name was on the grave, Mary, Angela, Laura, Crane.
00:36:24
Speaker
What a terrible name, by the way. Terrible name. it It just doesn't flow. it's just a terrible name when you put all of them together. none none of the None of those names by themselves are terrible, but you put them together and it's like, it feels like you're just making up girls' names as you go.
00:36:44
Speaker
Yeah. ah ah Angela, Laura. i yeah I would never do a, ah you know, that's it's a mistake. Yeah, that does not flow right.
00:36:56
Speaker
um Anyway, my note was, which is so dumb? ah god
00:37:06
Speaker
Anyway, sure Laura is clearly young Mary. Laura tells him he needs to forget how to lie. And then he continues on into a cold room where he fights Eddie. It's kind of like the game, but it's quick and it fucking sucks. And he puts a meat cleaver into Eddie's head kills his ability to lie to himself, which Eddie quote clearly represents unquote, uh, I guess question mark. Um, yeah, when Eddie came back there, I was like, you're still here. All right, great. You're still here. Okay.
00:37:38
Speaker
um He carries on through the place and then runs into Angela, who warms him about it getting too close. Chapter 40. This part is kind of gross in the worst way possible, so I'm going to skip going into too much detail and say we get shown some Big Daddy and Angela sexual assault right here, and then we get a... It's really awful.
00:38:00
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um It's like... It's awful in... I'm like, buddy... We didn't need this kind of detail. No, no, no.
00:38:10
Speaker
i know you're I know you're trying to fill a quota here for word count, but Jesus Christ. Yeah. We got a James. You always denied this part of her line from Angela and Angela and Mary switch back, ah switch places back and forth as big daddy is doing his thing.
00:38:29
Speaker
ah And then she shoots flames out of her mouth. And lights the Big Daddy on fire. And ah ah afterwards, james this happens after James apologizes to her. And Big Daddy is is dead. And this is all happening in the room with the pistons in the walls. And all and the flesh room with the pistons in the walls. um
00:38:54
Speaker
So this chapter is actually very long. It's just a lot of gratuitous description of what he's doing to Angela slash Mary.
00:39:05
Speaker
um What Big Daddy Jonathan Crane is doing. They actually don't use the phrase Big Daddy. That's just what the the what he's called in the game. Yeah. Would have been better if they did.
00:39:17
Speaker
Yes. ah Chapter 41. He leaves the room and he sees Mary and he follows her to the roof of the hotel, which is now fully engulfed in flame. ah he walks through the flames carefully and he sees a hospital bed on the roof. Chapter 42, we get a flashback scene to James coming back to see Mary on her deathbed. And she's dying because of the stuff they kept making her drink and the drugs that made her hemorrhage.
00:39:43
Speaker
They talk about their regrets and then Mary's like, hey, no regrets. And she talks about her father's... Yeah, YOLO. um She talks about her father's plans for creating a heightened consciousness and all the people that were in the cult ended up dying off one by one once they realized that Mary had a terminal diagnosis.
00:40:06
Speaker
um yeah James wishes he could have hit. Yeah, go ahead. They all kill themselves. And I wonder if ah if they talked to each other beforehand to make sure that nobody was going to repeat ah the ways that they could. Because everyone goes about it a different way.
00:40:23
Speaker
And it just feels like that someone would have been like, and so, so, so, and so, and so, and so all did the whole you know min monoxide thing with the car in the garage. ah yeah But no, nothing it's only one person.
00:40:36
Speaker
one death per, you're like one person got pancreatic cancer, one person hung themselves, one person, whatever. um James wishes he could have helped her in the past and she's like, well, you can help me now. And she's like, uh-huh.
00:40:51
Speaker
And he's like, what? And he points over to a towel on the ground and she's like, uh-huh. And he's like, okay. And then she's like, ah you know what I want.
00:41:02
Speaker
And he's like, oh, I know what you want. And then he suffocates her with the towel. um The book couldn't even get the one fucking thing right. and The the mo book and movie couldn't even get one the one fucking thing right. He suffocates her in the game with a pillow.
00:41:20
Speaker
It's just it's just ah it is a trope. But at the same time, it's it's an image. It's it's ah but a better image than a towel. It's a, yeah, a towel. It's like, I feel like you can breathe too easily through a towel.
00:41:32
Speaker
ah It just feels like it would be more trouble. Like it would be tougher to do. Yeah. Um, yeah, he suffocates her with a pillow. Um, and it's, it's towel is just like, and in the movie, it just looks so dumb.
00:41:50
Speaker
It's like, it's like, um, um It's like, i don't even know if you're covering her nose. since i think You're just covering her mouth. After a while, i I feel like she's like, oh, he's doing so badly. I'm just going to pretend to be dead ah so he doesn't feel stupid. You know, I'm going to just fake it.
00:42:09
Speaker
yeah And then maybe it'll happen for real. Who knows? Yeah. If I'm lucky. Chapter 43, the roof is getting worse and worse and the bed is floating above the roof and James starts to float above the roof too. And he comes face to face with corpse moth version of Mary.
00:42:26
Speaker
And he's like, I can't live without you. And then he has a flashback of of moths when they were on like picnic and then the moths swirl around them in present day and suddenly the fire is gone and everything's fine.
00:42:40
Speaker
But he has Mary's body. And he takes it to his car and he puts it in the lake, in the in the car, and he drives the car into the lake. And we get the in-water ending. So that achievement is unlocked.
00:42:53
Speaker
And then chapter 44, for those of you who enjoy the time loop idea of Silent Hill, ah James then wakes up in the past to...
00:43:05
Speaker
on his way to Silent Hill the very first time, accidentally runs over Mary's luggage. But instead of like taking her to Silent Hill, he's like, nah, let's get the fuck out here.
00:43:17
Speaker
Let's hit the bricks, kid. And they leave and they they have a happy ending.
00:43:24
Speaker
The end. see Is that ending the way they did it in the movie? I feel like I already forgot. I just don't remember it being. it's okay That's exactly how it happens in the movie. Yeah. Okay.
00:43:36
Speaker
Okay. Yeah. They get yeah a do-over. Isn't that awesome? They get a do-over because time travel? um Yeah, because redemption? Question mark? I don't know.
00:43:51
Speaker
Yeah. So here's the thing. All right. There's a time loop theory that in, in the silent hill. So silent, there's the remake to silent hill too. And some people view the silent hill to remake as potentially a, um, a meta sequel, uh, sort of like how the final fantasy seven remake is not really a remake. It's actually, uh,
00:44:18
Speaker
it's It's kind of like a retelling. ah it's it's It's a meta sequel in that like it acknowledges that Final Fantasy VII happened the way it happened in the game in one version of like the the loop of time.
00:44:36
Speaker
And then now there is in the, in this, in Final Fantasy seven ah remake and rebirth and all that. It's like, all right, well things, things, something happened and it's causing things to happen differently than it did.
00:44:51
Speaker
The first time around. And that's the idea some people have with the Silent Hill 2 remake is that the dead bodies that you find in the Silent Hill 2 remake are James's dead bodies.
00:45:04
Speaker
They're all James. Like James has been stuck in that. So that Silent Hill 2, the original version might have happened the way it happens. But then now the Silent Hill 2 remake, you're in another loop.
00:45:19
Speaker
basically of James going through this emotional purgatory, so to speak. um So the idea of James going back in time is not that far-fetched in the context of theories about the game, ah particularly the remake.
00:45:40
Speaker
That being said, in this version of the story, it comes out of nowhere, um And the i there's this book, well, the book and the film clearly straddle the line between things are really happening versus it's all in James's head.
Final Thoughts on Silent Hill
00:46:02
Speaker
ah and it doesn't know how to balance the idea of there are real characters here. Or these are all just projections that James is trying to deal with.
00:46:14
Speaker
And I don't like if James wakes up in chapter 43 from his series of flashbacks and he wakes up and he's on the roof of the hotel and Mary's body is there, but the fog is gone and the fire is gone.
00:46:34
Speaker
then how what why is Mary's body there? Mary was buried a year ago. um Where are we? What are we doing?
00:46:44
Speaker
um And we're playing with the idea, it's set up narratively, that there's three layers to Silent Hill. There's... Silent Hill as it exists in the real world, Silent Hill in the fog, and then Silent Hill's hell version, which is just the fog but rusted. Right.
00:47:07
Speaker
um And none of it's fleshed out. None of it is. It's like you've got more but less. Yeah, you're getting more. a Yeah, it's definitely a more is less situation. Absolutely. Absolutely.
00:47:22
Speaker
with this adaptation. And obviously i don't fault the writer of the book. I do fault him for the way the big daddy scene is written. And I think that scene was written in a way that was gratuitous and unnecessary. Right. um It, it was, it was uncomfortable in a way that was unexpected from the way the rest of, like, here's what I'll say is I, I am not again, I,
00:47:51
Speaker
I am fine with ah some extreme horror stuff and some of that some of that ah uncomfortable writing and visuals and all that stuff. I'm i'm fine in in like taking it in.
00:48:06
Speaker
But we weren't primed for that kind of scene necessarily in the way the rest of the book plays out. um there's like some you know There's some like gore and what have, but gore is on a different trajectory trajectory from sexual assault.
00:48:23
Speaker
That is like a different thing. Um, and I'm not sure how else to like explain that, but they, they hit different. That's a different bucket of horror. yeah Yes. It doesn't, it doesn't match.
00:48:38
Speaker
Um, yeah, there's room for just about anything in your horror. If you, uh, If you know what you're doing and you put it in properly, and I don't mean that, and I'm not trying to say in a sense like. sorry, abstract daddy. It's called abstract daddy, not big daddy. Abstract daddy.
00:48:56
Speaker
You were thinking of a big daddy's. The Adam Sandler movie. oh No, Big Daddy's from bio Bioshock. Yeah. Yeah. yeah That's suddenly I was going to say the name and suddenly it left my brain because I was thinking about him Sandler. um Yeah, it doesn't it doesn't match.
00:49:16
Speaker
And that makes it and that makes it a tall order when you just kind of throw something like that in there. It doesn't Right. It's not that it's like, oh, I can't handle this. it's It's this came out of fucking nowhere and it doesn't match the rest of what you've created here. And it feels weird. It felt it it did it did feel really weird and out of left field and unnecessary.
00:49:46
Speaker
Now, in the name, the so then the reason why the name finally came to me is that in the game, The abstract daddy is designed in a way to give you an idea of what it represents without being kind of over the top of what it is.
00:50:08
Speaker
Like you get the idea um without literallyter Angela literally being sucked into the big daddy. You know what I mean? That's you are fighting it away to get it away from her.
00:50:22
Speaker
in the in the game, whereas in the book, in the movie, it's like, oh, no, she's just right up in there. She's part of it. Yeah. And it's like, ah, that's different.
00:50:37
Speaker
and And you have to wonder what the hell it's all for. um Yeah. That's my overall impression of this book. It was just like, and the and the movie for that matter, because I'm with you. I don't blame the author here for, because he's it's working with source material.
00:50:57
Speaker
He's got right word counts to fit. So there are a lot of places where it gets a little clumsy or or feels kind of tacked on. And it's like, you probably needed to hit a word count. And and it just, I do the same thing with this kind of property. You're not going improve it.
00:51:15
Speaker
going make it better. um Right. ah But, You know, the guy who made this film and wrote the screenplay that this was based on made the first Silent Hill movie, which also was not, had took, you know, a lot of changes from the original source material, but actually did something really good with it. It's not great. It's not a masterpiece, but it is absolutely one of the better characters
00:51:49
Speaker
video game ah movies out there and certainly one of the best horror video game movies out there. Right. So, so following it up with this, I'm at a loss. I don't know why. i don't know. This is so much weaker ah than what's come before it.
00:52:08
Speaker
And there was no need.
00:52:11
Speaker
Right. oh ah Sorry, I'm allergic to bad adaptations. Hey-o! Sure, sure. How do survive this show? it' Honestly, I just have an EpiPen in my thigh at all times. old That's smart.
00:52:29
Speaker
Just just hook you out hook yourself up to an IV. Yeah, just little adrenaline goes a long way. um yeah. but So, like...
00:52:41
Speaker
yeah so to me like There's a few things that are like the bowl of red M&M's moments. And i feel like I feel like him suffocating Mary with a rolled up towel...
00:52:57
Speaker
is one of them. Yeah. but You know what I mean? is It's like, it's like if there's no red M&Ms in, in the the dressing room, then you shouldn't go on stage that night because they clearly didn't pay, they clearly didn't pay attention.
00:53:12
Speaker
They didn't, they didn't read the writer. They didn't read the writer. And I have a feeling, i I don't know. It just feels like they didn't read the writer ah on on this one.
00:53:24
Speaker
yeah. so yeah that's That's all I got to say about that. Yeah, that's it for me.
Recent Games Played
00:53:30
Speaker
Yeah. Phil? m We got a question, though.
00:53:35
Speaker
Okay.
00:53:37
Speaker
What are you planning? oh I'm really just leaning into the strong bad of it. now yeah yeah's I think that makes sense. We could so see now if we could get if we could get the Brothers Chaps to do some voices for us since since what's his name? Resident Evil. We we couldn't. ah this This would be the next best thing.
00:53:55
Speaker
um yeah i am I just finished up ah the dark Dark Rites of Arkham, which was the Lovecraft point and click game I talked about last week. um Really satisfying game.
00:54:08
Speaker
ah I thought it did a great job um evoking the old school feel of those games. Sure. Of like the LucasArts era games. it The writing, ah the reaction to...
00:54:26
Speaker
you know, trying different because in those games, you're clicking on everything, trying different combinations, all that shit. um And even the little the little dialogue reactions to when things don't work and stuff, it all really reminded me of those old games.
00:54:42
Speaker
Those old games. They clearly had a lot of love for them. Right. And and it's it's satisfying. It gets dark ah where, it it you know, that's were just talking about tones. And it it it it manages to have both that serious, scary, cosmic horror tone um while also having a certain level of humor to it.
00:55:09
Speaker
And... ah just adventure game sensibilities. Uh, and I just really enjoyed it. Uh, I ran into very few moments. The puzzles were fun and challenging without, uh, leaving me frustrated or stumped.
00:55:26
Speaker
Um, it was just right there in the middle, which I liked. I, I only once had to like look up, uh, uh, a guide to figure out what I was missing. And when I did, I felt really, really stupid. Uh, because it was, it's always the way that it's always the way. And it it was an object I walked by a hundred times and didn't realize you could pick up. That's really all it came down to.
00:55:49
Speaker
Um, so that has been a lot of fun. I really have enjoyed that one. I i think that that's a, a solid contender for game of the year.
00:56:00
Speaker
Excuse me. God. Even if just because there's nothing particularly extraordinary about it, it just felt good to play. And it was just nice and satisfying. It was a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with a nice handful of potato chips. It was just like, that sounds that sounds like a perfect, ah perfect lunch.
00:56:22
Speaker
yeah it It is. It is. as In my opinion, it is just the best. ah the past I think I think you would really enjoy this. It's it's I'm going to check it out.
00:56:33
Speaker
I'm going to check it out. um yeah I bought ah the full version of Final Sentence, another game where I played the demo earlier this year. ah It is a ah battle royale game, but it's a typing game as opposed to, ah you know, action and shooter style stuff that we're usually getting.
00:56:53
Speaker
You are one of dozens of people in this room ah trying to type these random, sometimes there's there's usually a theme to it, but sometimes ah it's purposely misspelled. Sometimes it has a lot of special characters in it. They're trying to trip you up.
00:57:12
Speaker
And right. Every three mistakes you make, an attendant with a gun loads a single bullet into ah the gun, spins the barrel and fires at you and plays Russian roulette with you. And every three times you fuck up, they add another bullet. So your probability of making it through goes further and further down.
00:57:35
Speaker
And in the end... ah Only the one person ah who makes it, ah the person who lasts the longest, basically, ah wins. Everyone else gets shot. It's very bleak and dark. It's got that it's got that good, modern, dark horror, satire kind of sensibility. Sure.
00:57:55
Speaker
Um, the thing I said before, when I played the demo was that they needed to add some more incentives into it to keep you playing. The game is fun, but, uh, it needed like unlockables and things that you could, uh, points that you could, you know, invest in different things. And those items are not there yet, but they are coming.
00:58:20
Speaker
which I'm not thrilled that it's at that point, but I'll take it. And so apparently you're going to be able to get like desk toppers and different desks and different little things that are in front of you, different typewriters, stuff like that. You can customize your desk essentially. And that sounds like a lot of fun.
00:58:39
Speaker
all Right. It's a very simple premise and and it's ah pretty effectively done. And someone reviewed it saying, finally, they made a battle royale where millennials can beat up Gen Z kids. And I think that's exactly what this is. It's to a T. ah So i'm I'm really enjoying it. It's a clever idea.
00:59:03
Speaker
it's It's very well done. I like it. So, ah Kevin, what are you playing?
Introduction to People of Note RPG
00:59:10
Speaker
Okie dokie. All right. So I am playing um People of Note, um which is a RPG designed very much ah by people who loved Final Fantasy seven, eight, nine um It is, it is a basically it's set in a world where everything is, is based around music and you're playing.
00:59:41
Speaker
You are a character who is trying to get her, she's trying to get onto the, into this like big singing competition, ah to compete against the boy band that is, has been winning the competition for the past seven years. um So, ah yeah, it's you have these you have battles that have rhythm elements to it because, obviously, it it's music-based RPG, and ah it's very much... It's it's so inspired by so Final Fantasy VII, VIII, and IX. So you have these, like, song gem things, I forget what they're called, where you basically... um
01:00:26
Speaker
you in so You use them kind of like Materia ah from Final Fantasy VII. um And you know you're acquiring party members and different party members do different types of of music. um I'm not very far into it, but it's it's i think it's ah it's supposed to be a like a game.
01:00:48
Speaker
Um, and it's, and it's an indie. So it it looks amazing. And also it has all, it has like straight up, you know, music video cut scenes, ah um, with the characters, uh, performing. Um, so it's really cool. So people of note, I think it's, it's wishlisted, you know, check it out when you get a chance. Uh,
01:01:10
Speaker
And the only screenshot I've taken so far in the game is of ah the character, your character. um can't remember her name. ah Cadence. She goes by Cade ah ah in the game.
01:01:25
Speaker
um I have a screenshot of her petting the Accordian. It's a corgi that is part accordion. love it.
01:01:39
Speaker
Yeah. Accorgian. That's beautiful. The Accorgian. Oh, man.
01:01:46
Speaker
That's good. It's good. Yeah. um So, yeah people of note, check it out. um Otherwise,
Fear and Hunger 2 Termina Reflection
01:01:55
Speaker
let's see. I have ah been... So, Super Eyepatch Wolf's ah video on Fear and Hunger 2 Termina ah came out. i've been watching that yeah, it's it's a good video. It inspired me to go back and and start playing Fear and Hunger 2 again. Um, and I just forgot.
01:02:19
Speaker
It's one of those games where you're like, oh yeah, this game is fucking hard. It is a constant knowledge check in terms of like knowing how to deal with things. Most of the time it's like just avoiding, um,
01:02:39
Speaker
just trying to avoid things as much as possible. But yeah, I'm i'm having fun ah booting that back up. I've died a few times. i've I've had a few runs ended prematurely. um So my favorite way to die, though, was the guy. ah So there's eight player characters that you can choose from. One of them is this guy named Osa.
01:03:04
Speaker
ah who is a yellow mage. he has every character has their own like character introduction. And through their character introductions, you answer questions and that determines what skills and abilities they have and what items they start the game with. So Bella who I've, I've used before, um she can start the game with, uh, an ability called short circuit, which lets her open electric locks and, um, weapon crafting, which lets her make weapons out of spare parts and things like that. Uh, or, ah trap crafting, like she can make traps instead of weapons and, And you can like leave those traps behind to that. So enemies can step on them.
01:03:53
Speaker
um So and that just it's like depends on how you answer the questions and their character intro. Osa has text based adventure inside of his character intro.
01:04:10
Speaker
Oh, that's fun. So because at one point he visits the dungeon, the dungeon, the, uh, from of fear and hunger from the first game ah and in his past, right? So before the game starts, he had visited the, the original dungeon. And when it's basically and'd be like you arrive at the dungeon, do you search the tents?
01:04:37
Speaker
Do you go left down the stairs or do you go up through the middle, the middle door? And it's like, oh ah you basically just are going through and ah i i I'm like trying to play from memory, of course, like and um and the the the dungeon ah changes shapes every time you play, like some of the rooms get rearranged. Um, they're, they all have a basic layout, but, um, so when you're going through this text-based adventure, I'm like, well, it's obviously I can't die, right? Because he's, I see him, he's sitting right there in the train. I'm just figuring out what he experienced. And then I died in the text-based adventure.
01:05:19
Speaker
I got killed ah by by a ghoul. ah And ah it was like, well, your adventure was over before it even started. And it cut to the title card. And that's, that oh my God, that's fucking cruel. Holy shit. I was like, that is hilarious. Like, I'm not even angry that they killed me before the game started.
01:05:48
Speaker
in a text-based adventure for this one character who does that. He is the only character that has this and you can die in the text-based adventure before the game starts.
01:06:00
Speaker
That's fucking hilarious. I love that. Like they're having so much fun with that shit. Oh my God. So, yeah, I figured I'd get fired up and I would play with it more. I know that any day now, the version 2.0 of the game is supposed to drop and it it's it's going to make ah really huge changes to the game itself.
Conclusion and Sign-off
01:06:24
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Oh, wow.
01:06:25
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Yeah, it's been like three years since it they've been working on it. um So, ah ah you know, i so I'm just like familiarizing myself with with what it was when it was first released to what it'll be when version 2.0 finally comes out. And it finally has, what from what I imagine, everything that the developer intended for the game.
01:06:52
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um So i'm i'm ah I'm i interested to see what happens with that. um Nice. Yeah. that That game has such a ah ah fucking um ah atmosphere around it. You know, just to just the... Just go and listen to the opening score, opening song of Fear and Hunger 2 Termina.
01:07:19
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um And if you're watching the Super Eyepatch Wolf video, I think he's he uses it at one point. Yeah, sure he But it's just this really lonely... Like, I'm not even sure which string instrument instrument it is. it might be a guitar um or might be a bass.
01:07:37
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ah And it's it's got this real melancholy ah ah feel to it. So give that a listen. It's it's it's wild.
01:07:48
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And the so and the this song starts with these sounds that it's like, it sounds like, um They're like, they're almost like shepherd tones, like different shepherd tones being played. And if if those of you at home don't know what a shepherd tone is, it's a tone that's, that is designed, um,
01:08:09
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It can trigger anxiety in that it makes the mind feel like time is running out. um And they're used specifically in one of our favorite games, ah which was the um Amnesia, the bunker, ah uses a Shepard tone ah for the generator.
01:08:35
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The sound, when the generator is running, it uses a Shepard tone to make to make you feel like you're running out of time while this generator is... So, yeah.
01:08:50
Speaker
I just want to go back and play that game. Yeah, go back and play... It's this tight... You know, it's only like four or five hours, right? Four or five hours. To get through it. Six. Six, if you're really... If you're having a bad time. If you're having a bad time, ah six. Yeah. But it's one of those games where you could kind of like the way it if I recall correctly, you could kind of speed run it if you know what you're doing.
01:09:15
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um Even though some of the elements are randomized, you can kind of like, you you know how to handle the thing, the stalker. Yeah. If you've played Alien Isolation, you can handle it.
01:09:29
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Yes. Yeah. It's ah it's like just a a micro version of Alien Isolation. Pretty much. Yeah. Anyway, that'll do it for tonight's episode. Thank you all for listening, watching, ah leaving comments, coming into our Discord,
01:09:47
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um mowing our lawn, ah watering our gardens. So... ah
01:10:00
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Bye.