Hirayuki Owaku would go on to write the story for the game itself. The idea to adapt these themes to a Silent Hill game came after Takayoshi Sato, the CGI director of the first game, read the novel and pitched the gameвЂ™s rough outline to Team Silent a few months after the release of the first game. The novel deals with the manвЂ™s struggles with guilt and paranoia as he faces the consequences of his actions. The initial concepts for Silent Hill 2вЂ™s themes of punishment were inspired by Russian author Fyodor DostoevskyвЂ™s Crime and Punishment, the story of a man who kills and robs an innocent pawnbroker in an attempt to liberate himself from poverty. While the original game was definitely ahead of its time with fully voice-acted FMV sequences and early attempts at cinematic storytelling similar to Metal Gear Solid, Silent Hill 2 pushed things even further with a heavier emphasis on story, emergent use of symbolism, and visual metaphor. RELATED: How Resident Evil Village Successfully Executed One Important Formula From Silent HillДespite being developed within two years of the first gameвЂ™s release, Silent Hill 2 is a major step up from the PlayStation 1 original in terms of storytelling and game design. However even against such tough competition, Silent Hill 2 managed to become one of the yearвЂ™s best games. For many newer horror franchises, releasing in such a tumultuous year would leave them at a major disadvantage.

That's including KonamiвЂ™s own Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, which itself was also making huge strides in terms of pushing video games as a storytelling medium forward. Despite the seriesвЂ™ absence since 2014, the legacy of Silent Hill 2 has endured to the point where it is still considered one of the best horror games of all time.Д¬oming out in 2001, the first major year for the PlayStation 2 and one of the biggest years in gaming history, Silent Hill 2 had some major competition. When discussing the games that have had the biggest impact for pushing video game storytelling forward in the past two decades, itвЂ™s almost inevitable that Silent Hill 2 will be mentioned.

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