#EDDIE SILENT HILL 3 PROFESSIONAL#

вЂњIt wasnвЂ™t me! I didnвЂ™t do it,вЂќ he sputters, retching. Take when James first meets Eddie вЂ“ heвЂ™s hunched over a toilet in a ramshackle apartment, puking over the discovery of a nearby corpse. The voice work operates on that principal too reactions to events or dialogue are usually not what you expect. In Silent HillвЂ™s spaces and things, itвЂ™s never quite clear whatвЂ™s real and what isnвЂ™t.Д«y way of that example, what you often experience in SH2 is something that you canвЂ™t logically process. Things like metal bars and straitjackets, somehow covered in viscous brown skin. JamesвЂ™s journey through the town is a purgatory his progression from locales to locale is often non-linear, and he is tormented by hideous creatures, unsettling not because they follow horror archetypes, but in how their rough-hewn bodies are made up of a jumble of familiar parts - arms, mouths, torsos - melded together and twisted with things that donвЂ™t belong. The most significant aspect to this is probably the fact the script itself seems detached from reality, figuratively and otherwise. As with any weird dream, you can comprehend it, but even when you do, something is always just a little bit off, like dialogue in a David Lynch film. Watching the story unfold whenever one of the characters is speaking is like trying to push against some dense, unseen force that hinders making sense of whatвЂ™s happening. In one way or another, every character is something of a foil for James (especially Maria, a sexualized quasi-doppelgГ¤nger of Mary, whose shared scenes with him are some of SH2вЂ™s most otherworldly), even as they reflect various states of psychological trauma within themselves. Or how Angela alternates from talking about her вЂњMamaвЂќ the way a little girl would, to becoming a caustic woman, mistrustful of James both because of his sex and her ability to seemingly see his true nature. The way Eddie earnestly swears up and down that he hasnвЂ™t done anything wrong вЂ“ or that heвЂ™s not at fault вЂ“ despite not being accused of any crime, for example. SH2вЂ™s cast behave in erratic ways across its script, from the oddly childlike Angela, who you eventually learn is the victim of sexual assault by her father, to Eddie, an angry, obese man whose deep-seated insecurities belies a psychotic paranoid streak.Д®ach performance has its own tic. It would make sense that a game about a cursed town known for summoning people to confront (and exorcise) their inner demons through horrific psychological manifestations would lean heavily on surrealism whether itвЂ™s entirely intentional or not, every actor in SH2вЂ™s original cast plays off each other as if theyвЂ™re in a dream, often with disconnected or exaggerated inflection and timing.Д¬oupled with YamaokaвЂ™s trip-hoppy machine work soundscapes, its makes for a bizarre atmosphere. More to the point - especially for people who havenвЂ™t played SH2 before - the original vocals sync up with the town, and the themes of the series, remarkably well. As James, Baker never really stood a chance at fan acceptance, and it seems cynical that Konami would be so seemingly callous with their own series. Like any great actor, Baker can and often does change his voice to fit a performance, yet the original recordings for James - and the entire cast - are so indelible to their respective characters that hearing anyone elseвЂ™s pipes is immediately jarring. For starters, Konami cast Troy Baker, just on the cusp of becoming the most ubiquitous voice actor in gaming, to play James Sunderland, SH2вЂ™s tortured protagonist drawn to Silent Hill after receiving a letter from his dead wife, Mary.

#EDDIE SILENT HILL 3 PROFESSIONAL#

As might be expected, the new acting took what felt like a more professional tone, reflecting how far games had come in the eleven years since SH2вЂ™s first release.Д«ut it doesnвЂ™t work. Fans disagree the effectiveness of the voice work, however, with its strange pacing, pauses, and delivery, yet this is arguably just as integral to the experience.ДЇor whatever reason, when Konami decided to release the Silent Hill HD Collection in 2012, they chose to add new vocal performances for SH2, a measure that many found disrespectful to its original source material. Between Akira YamaokaвЂ™s sound work, psychological, adult subject matter and Masahiro ItoвЂ™s abstract monster designs (including his crowning achievement, Pyramid Head), itвЂ™s more than earned its status as a pioneer of the genre. ItвЂ™s unlikely there will ever be another game like Silent Hill 2.

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