Silent Hill 4 The Room Analysis | Secrets of the Spiral Staircase
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Examining the Staircase in Silent Hill 4.
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Gimme that sweet sweet new silent hill 4 content yess girl yes
Silent hill 2 may be a masterpiece, but SH4 will always be the best one for me, perhaps the fact of the lore, and the way Henry's character is, it clicked with me and my terrible depressive teenage days.
I love these videos!
Couldn't agree more. Silent Hill 2 is an amazing game, but Silent Hill 4 is just the perfect masterpiece for me. I also discovered it at my beginning of adolescence, and I think the somewhat different vibe of this game from the rest of the series (the overall more urban setting), and the isolation of one in their own room spiraling into a deep hole of nightmares, speaks a lot for depressed teenagers and especially of the era in which the game was released. The atmosphere of it was something I had never experienced in a game before.
Silent Hill 4 doesn't get enough credit...its the story for me
Silent Hill 4 really hit home for me during quarantine, I used to think Henry was boring, but nowadays he’s the protagonist I can relate the most to
SH4 is what got me into the games. I owe it so much.
It was the first silent hill I played through completely. The ghosts made it for me.
Hearing them before you saw them and knowing they could reach you anywhere in a level made them so unsettling
I remember when I first bought sh4 and how many people told me it sucked. I was so fond of this game. Symbolism can be interpreted so many ways and I was just so entranced by the lore and even the philosophy.
For whatever reason YT stopped recommending your vids. Haven’t been here in awhile. Love hearing your breakdowns of Silent Hill.
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I just realized how often the halo of the sun is seen around a hole Henry crawls through, which eliminates the center of the symbol. It may not mean anything, or you may have already mentioned it, I'll have to check out your video on the symbol again.
Great video muse, I'm impressed you're still able to find new topics on the series even after so many videos!
I think the sheep is representative of young Walter, his tiny bit of innocence and goodness
The mannequin at 10:54 also reminds me a lot of one of the early concept drawings for Pyramid Head, from the Making of Silent Hill 2 documentary.
Thank you Muse for another great video!!
I love these videos!
This is a minor point but I noticed that the 'scissors' in one of the mannequin heads (5:01 and 6:32) looks a lot like surgical tongs/forceps (a holding/clamping rather than cutting instrument -still violently used tho!). If so this ties in more closely to the surgical/birth/mother motifs especially since the mannequin looks like it has a pregnant bump which it's cradling with its arms?
Can't wait for the next symbolism vid :)
Have you done a video on either the Memory of Alessa or One Truth boss fights? Those levels are jam packed with symbolism and atmosphere, and are probably two of the best moments in the entire series!
Love your videos! It helps me escape my reality for a moment.
I always thought that this game was something special, seeing your video now I realized how much this game care for their characters and backstory, and the whole staircase is proof of that!!!
I've always loved the atmosphere and look of the spiral staircase
It's like an amalgamation of outsider art
Amazing as always. I kinda wish we could see each room individually and talk about it, tbh.
Just one thing, Lucifer is a Christian, not Jewish myth. Jewish people often don't believe in a Satan, as it is usually a description rather than a name.
Christians created him out of pagan gods though. Judaism adapted the concept of "demons" later on, too.
The cage like mannequin is a reference to the ghosts in the picture "Misty Day, Remains of the Judgment", once again a hint that Walter indeed saw PH, like James did.
I think the SH4 content has been my favorite of your content. It's an underappreciated game, and I think a lot of people focus so much on the gameplay miss-steps and some of the lackluster monster designs, that they fail to recognize (or they dismiss) a lot of the nuance that went into other areas of SH4's design. In the case of the spiral staircase, I think most players just run through it without really stopping to look at the objects that decorate the staircase. Probably because most players think that everything in the staircase is just recycled assets from other parts of the game, even though (as you point out) they are almost all unique.
SH4 was so disturbing and I loved how dark the story got it’s crazy! I’m glad you broke the staircase down. I couldn’t see half of any of the terrifying rooms you showed us
I think you are absolutely right. They probably wanted to make a bigger game because the 3rd game felt so short but halfway through it, they decided to cut it short.
I've been a huge fan of SH series and 1-4 were my favorite. Each dark and twisted in their own way. I love how you break down the psyche of each game and what they represent.
The first time I saw that sheep, it actually really got to me.
Great video. Had no idea about the moth.
Amazing work compiling all the details, and great interpretation too.
Thank you for this video. Silent Hill 4 is one of my favorite games.
This was amazing!! I fancy this channel
I read in some place that 302 Room in fact is Joseph Screiber´s room.
One of the clue: when you start the game, you doesn´t recognize the photo in the table by your bed ´cause really is Joseph, instead of Henry, who the player control and that´s the explanation of first person camera.
Greets from Perú.
PD: sorry for my english, I am Peruvian.
I love SH 4 so much, i've only played on the PS2 and because the graphics you never can see the staircase good enough t, thanks to your video now i can see waaay better, thanks Muse :3
I never tire of the openings 🤤
Brilliant video. Keep up the good work 👌🏻
Been a while since a SH 4 video. Very worth the wait! Excellent one.
Really great video Muse.
It's really some deep stuff.
Thank you.
Great video as always muse!
My sweet sugar oh yes! another silent hill 4 symbolism
Great video!
Im enjoying your breakdowns of my favorite game series.. subbed!
SH4 always was the most interesting to me. The themes, atmosphere, and imagery are the best in the series. It just annoys me that the game is so irritating and frustrating to play. I played it a bit and never finished it.
It's insane how much detail is packed in this game. Back in 2004, these details went completely unnoticed thanks to the poor resolution of the era's televisions.
You could increase the resolution in the PC version of the game, and can also do so with emulators.
Loved this. Fascinating. X
This is the Silent Hill game that most fascinates me, probably because it was my first game in the series. I fucking love all of its symbolism, story and characters.
It's so crazy to think about how we humans put so much thought into things beyond us even though they have no weight on our physical existence. Gods, monsters, torture, and damnation are things that have no hold outside our grain of sand in time and space. Yet here we are, fantasizing and manifesting our own personalized hells that were made into existence only by our own kind. We are truly a fascinating and lovingly flawed species. x)
We're animals gifted or cursed with sentience depending on how you feel about it
A predatory species able to recognise empathy for the downtrodden and constantly struggle with accomadating both coexisting completely opposite natures and use our fevered imaginations to idolise and demonise both
We're creatures of opposites
Both demon and angel repulsed and attracted by our own secret desires
Love your content! When I'm in a better financial situation I will be donating for sure.
Thank u for these, i missed them
Another great video as always. I love the Silent Hill Symbolism series. If you don't mind, can I give a suggestion for the next episode? I was thinking about an episode about the Butcher from Silent Hill: Origins (I know he's kind of a Pyramid Head look-alike, but I still find him fascinating because unlike Pyramid Head he's a more visceral presence and down right mutilates monsters like Faceless Nurses or Two Backs) or the Holloway family from Silent Hill: Homecoming. Anyways, I wish you the best and I'm looking forward for more.
This is such a surreal moment in a video game that sometimes I forget I actually played it.
Thanks for uploading all the symbolism videos I have enjoyed them!
Wow this was really good! I never look that far into these things when I play them and always wonder why they leave such a strong lasting impression and memories long after I've played them. I think one of the elements that make the stairwell scary for me was, well for me when I played, Eileen would always make comments and talk the most in the stairwell, Usually you want to start running in the stairwell to get it over with but A SOON as you start running Eileen would say right away, "Don't go to far ahead..." or "Don't leave me alone". Eileen always seemed the most scared in the stairwell and didn't want you to run off or leave her alone there the most out of any level, and I SWEAR she gets possesed faster in the stairwell, It always made me uneasy and want to get through the stairs as fast as I could, actually when I think about it most of the stairwells and stairways in SH4 are scary 🤣 They all have such cool, dynamic, totally extra camera angles. And it really does contrast with how dangerous and violent and plain the water prison stairwell actually is with all the wall monster's and Andrew's ghost and scary music. 👍🏼👍🏼
Good job as usual. Definitely worth commissioning this
awesome, thanks for the interpretations
If you walk with Henry (in the staircase level) very slowly between from one door to the other door - once you stop, Henry will be exhausted as he was sprinting/running all the way down.
Probably a bug, but, who knows?
I discoveries this in the Xbox version
Btw, SH4 is one of my favorite games.
Omg did not expect to see frenchie from Grease
Awesome video, well made, opend my eyes. Some video gsmes are pur art. Its a masterpiece.
It is amazing to me that three mine fires in America ended up in the news because of how horrifice they were and so much pain came from them. This game was made because of these three fires. Every time we play them we remember the dead from these fires. I do feel they the ones who passed like this. "I have always said if people we care for die and we stop remembering them then that is when they truly die!"
---For their first real victim, I do not believe she (Alyssa) was. The cult has been in Silent Hill for many, many, Years. I feel she was the first one who ended up hating them for what they did to her and her mother!
Very interesting!! I never knew about that moth. I really wish the devs had gotten more time for this game. It is honestly the best one in the whole series for me.
Silenthill 4 was my first Silenthil and it still disturb me even now. Amazing series! Hope someone would make another. Can someone recommend me something similar to Silenthill? More disturbing rather than "Saw-like" horror?
Allan Diamada I've been searching for similar movies or games to SH as well. I haven't found much tho. SH is definitely a rare gem. I did see a movie not too long ago called Session 9, that was quite good I thought
Siren blood curse
Forbidden siren
I just thought up another SH location you should do a video on the symbolism behind. The Hell Gas Station (which is technically called Shell after the real life gas station chain but made to look like it's called Hell) in the first SH game near Balkan Church. That would be something interesting probably.
I guess my theory is wrong...
I thought of it as a kind of Yggdrasil. The cylindrical shape is like a tree trunk, and it connects to the other worlds, like Yggdrasil connects the nine worlds.
I just threw my theory together while playing. Your christian interpretation makes way more sense.
I don't think Walter got in any contact of northern mythology. meanwhile the cult hid behind christianity.
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Like I said, I threw my theory together while playing, and therefore didn't really think it through... my mind was elsewhere.
Also the rooms with the weird imagery... like I said, I didn't think it through, and I was young and dumb at the time... I just thought "Silent Hill will do that, because it's Silent Hill, and that's what it does." I didn't consider the christian influence.
I love these symbolism video's. More please
Wow. Just wow!
You have such a relaxing voice
Goooood. ❤️
Nothing more to said
Those aren't scissors, they're surgical tongs.
He loves his mother yet hates her he wants to be with female but hates enough that his killing feelings take over he knows the church has been gudie him but he hates them for fact that they are always watching him so the end add all this together he is one of worst monster in the game and mirrors a lot of traits that come form killers in real life.
Go on and say it: He’s a tragic monster, and he’s been conflicted, abused, manipulated and traumatized his entire life. It’s hard not to feel sorry for him, but when you cross his path (either directly or indirectly as his 19 other victims were), you have no other alternative but to put him down, PERMANENTLY. It’s natural self-defense against a serial killer like him, but at the same time, based on the info you read on him and his broken childhood, it’s somewhat altruistic that you‘re putting the poor man out of his misery, relieving him of his many sorrows and whatever guilt he had.
@@williamcolon4070 your right
Jacobs ladder is also the central metaphor for initiation, learning and self betterment in freemasonry.
Those looked more like Forceps than Scissors.
Forceps are used during childbirth, one of their uses. They're more like medical tongs or clamps than cutting tools.
(Edit) Seems others have pointed this out too.
Whoa, what's a sheep doing there? Sheep is god! 4:31
Yaaaaaasssssss!! 😍
Funny. "Spiral Staircase" is one of the key terms for DIO and Pucci to attain " Heaven"
P.S. Your video analyses rock.
There are valtiel models in the stairwell as well, not sure if it means anyting tho🤔
Well I am pretty sure he learned about him from the cult and also secretly Walter is a tool to bring back "God".
great
What a game :')
What was the music intro you using?
I just finished this game... I hated it and it was an absolute chore to play but I think a big part of the reason I trudged on was cause I wanted to understand your videos on it. Ya didn't disappoint.
I'm sorry, I lost it after I realized this scene was from Grease. XD
0:48
Cmon Muse how can you not see it? The medical imagery, the birth, the violent sexuality, the scissors, the blood?? PRIME evidence of the circumcision theory!
When will the masses wake up, we are facing an epidemic of... Male genital mutilation
@@MrIcecolddd men lose their balls when they down the BLUE pill
I hate this so much lmao
More like a botched abortion.
This is based a pretty sudden realization on my part, seems outta the blue, but... am I the only one, who thinks that Walter Sullivan looks kinda look like the younger Brendan Fraser?
And why do I kind of want to see what it would’ve looked like if younger Brendan Fraser portrayed him in some kind of live action version of Walter Sullivan?
Can you do one on Doug from silent hill 3?
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So is the sheep having Walter nightmares too?
Tool band thought me well of Spiral.
Man and I just walked past this
I didn't even noticed any of that when I played it.
So, er, what's with the sheep?
Edit: reached that section now but still weird.
From what I've found in my studies months are a symbol of sexuality.
Moths are a symbol..stupid autocorrect.
You are the real monster in silent hill
In this game Henry is truly victim of the wrong place and the wrong time.
But I often found it strange how he looks similar to the boy and Walter.
The staircase in SH4 actually represents Walter's neverending anguish over his circumcision.
Ha
Im kinda offended that you didnt talked about how walter's circumcision drastically changed his personality making him the psychopath he is now......
All jokes aside great video