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Post by ReyVGM on Jan 11, 2012 10:11:12 GMT -5
Saw this on Neogaf. Apparently the artists of Silent Hill used the movie Kindergarten Cop as their inspiration for the signs in the school area:       As for the last image, see the number in the bus. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2012 10:13:35 GMT -5
Oh my god, you just blew my mind. I'm a cop, you idiot! I'm Detective John Kimble!
Definitely going to have to add this to the SH article.
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Post by Ike on Jan 11, 2012 10:15:12 GMT -5
SH's school struck me as kind of a weird mix of a Japanese school with the architecture of a west coast US elementary school.
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Post by Warchief Onyx on Jan 11, 2012 10:53:59 GMT -5
Great, now I'm picturing a really creepy kid's voice echoing "Boys have penises, girls have vaginas." in Silent Hill's school.
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Post by jorpho on Jan 11, 2012 11:01:58 GMT -5
Whoa. For once, I cannot quite believe that this is a coincidence.
How exactly did someone notice this? Did the artists clue someone in?
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Post by KeeperBvK on Jan 11, 2012 11:12:36 GMT -5
I thought this was just some kind of really pathetic trolling upon reading the thread title without having seen who the OP was...and now I find my mind blown again by the good ol' Konami of the past. This is crazy.
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Post by Wildcat on Jan 11, 2012 11:33:27 GMT -5
That's bizarre. Huh. Never would have put those two together.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2012 11:40:45 GMT -5
Great, now I'm picturing a really creepy kid's voice echoing "Boys have penises, girls have vaginas." in Silent Hill's school. I was going to go for the "dynacologist" line but that too ;p. Awesome discovery. My goodness. |
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Post by The Great Klaid on Jan 11, 2012 12:21:09 GMT -5
Doesn't Konami have other weird "western" refrences in their games? In a way they remind me of a more subtle Working Designs.
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Post by Ike on Jan 11, 2012 12:25:43 GMT -5
Well, Silent Hill takes place in America. Ostensibly it takes place in Illinois, since there are Chicago newsletters in the school in the first game, and Illinois highway signs in the 2nd and 3rd games.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2012 12:31:08 GMT -5
I think Origins points to the game taking place in New England. Something about the license plates. A lot of the town in SH1 was actually based off of a city in California, though. San Mateo? I don't remember the exact one at the moment.
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Post by Ike on Jan 11, 2012 12:38:04 GMT -5
Yeah, it's not set up like a midwestern town. Nowhere outside of the west has those kind of garages.
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Post by TheGunheart on Jan 11, 2012 12:40:13 GMT -5
Man, that is awesome. Loved all those little easter eggs they put all throughout the game. Always found that "Dog Kill  " poster inexplicably creepy, though. |
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Post by ReyVGM on Jan 11, 2012 14:43:22 GMT -5
I don't think they are necessarily Easter eggs or references. I assume that designing exteriors, signs, posters, etc has to be incredibly tedious. So why create all that from scratch when you can "inspire" yourself from another source?
Granted, they could have at least changed the breed of dog or the position of the text in those flyers, but they probably didn't think anyone was going to make the connection. Back then, information on the Internet still wasn't easy to find, so they probably thought that even if someone noticed, the information would not have reached enough people to make an impact.
And it didn't.
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Post by Catalyst on Jan 11, 2012 15:27:21 GMT -5
Wow, fricking amazing. My friend says that he also noticed a while back that the receptionist desk look similar.
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" poster inexplicably creepy, though.