Some references and easter-egg in Silent Hill 4: The Room (SH4)
by JonnSmithy (SlavaOzonov).
Also look for my savegames for SH4 (almost all of them)
on some of the same sites you are reading this.
Also see my Doom3 easter-eggs guide on the same site you are reading this.
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!Last update of 4 of october!
added references to "Memento!" movie.
added links to websites about movies mentioned.
update of 25 of september:
added overlooked words, added info on savegames.
It was posted on http://dlh.net and www.ign.com,
also www.neoseeker.com.
So they have some legal rights for this.
Note: It contains some slight spoilers to the game!
Note: do not mail me with anything about this, i won't answer!
SH1 means Silent Hill 1, SH2 means Silent Hill 2, and so on.
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Sites:
http://www.theringworld.com -- about "Ring" movies.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0178868/
-- about "The Ring" (japanese pronunciation "The Ringu", like your will say:
"Fuji" (mountain) instead of "Fudzi").
http://imdb.com/title/tt0209144/
-- about "Memento" (it's wordplay of meanings of latin word/phrase).
http://imdb.com/title/tt0386788/
-- about "Silent Hill 4: The Room".
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Future updates and additional information on
http://www.geocities.com/jonnsmithy2/sh.htm and
http://www.geocities.com/jonnsmithy/sh.htm
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The "Hospital world" starts in this room.
After intro you leave this room and it's behind you.
Enter it, to the left of you are two gas tanks.
They both contain japanese website url
("hospital.co.jp").
Though it seems there is no relation between the game and the website.
Only that it's "hospital" world.
The picture could be found here:
http://www.geocities.com/jonnsmithy/url.jpg
(if the page is down because of traffic limit, wait some time).
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It seems there are numerous references to japanese horror movie "The Ring"
(there was american remake):
The first thing (after intro with credits) you do in game (automatically)
is answering the phone;
The TV+VCR in the main room, which turns itself on even without power;
The woman with long black hair, which crawls after some damage
(in "Subway world").
The dark wells in "Forest World" (also the well is the first place in SH2,
where you get red save square).
^>From "Jasper's Burned memo": "I feel something from the well" ("Forest World").
At last (but not least) -- the red circle logo.
Maybe in SH2 (i haven't played SH1) there were references
to that japanese movie -- i don't remember the details, but the fog...
In SH4 the fog is not everywhere, but in some parts of the game there is fog.
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Also it seems there are some references to the "Memento!" movie
(Well, maybe authors of the game liked the movie and they wanted to show it):
Each time you return from any world, you start on your bed in Room;
Some of papers you get are from under the door -- somebody put them there;
Maybe they did it because they wanted the reference to movie to be more clear:
the first time you are in the Room -- when looking at any of his belongings,
Henry says that he don't remember some of the objects or don't remember when
the photos were done;
The room number in SH4 is 302, room number (one of two) in Memento is 304.
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The reference to SH3 bunnies from Amusement Park: rabbit in Eileen's room
and flying rabbit baloon (when you look through window).
Also after the chains are unlocked, they form something looking like a rabbit
(with shoes like a tail).
So either it's not true or the rabbits in SH4 and SH3
are the reference to something else.
The picture could be found here:
http://www.geocities.com/jonnsmithy/rabbit.jpg
(if the page is down because of traffic limit, wait some time).
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