The Grey Childen in Silent Hill: Pint-Sized Terrors

It's about time for another visit to Silent Hill, don't you think?  Today let's push through the fog and go back to the days of the Playstation 1, and the delightfully hideous town in Silent Hill 1.  The game starts off with the protagonist Harry searching for his adopted daughter in the strangely abandoned town, where his search eventually brings him to an equally abandoned elementary school.

Class is most definitely not in session.

It is in this school that we experience one of the signature events in the Silent Hill games: the transition into an alternate dimension, where the town is even more horrifying than before.  After this transition the most disturbing horrors come out to play, and Harry now finds the elementary school to be inhabited by monstrous, child-shaped beings called Grey Children.

Grey Children attacking a pipe-wielding Harry.

The Grey Children are about half as tall as Harry, and have featureless faces, with grotesque skin stretched over their tiny frames.  They each carry a knife as they patrol the halls of the elementary school.  Once they have Harry in their sights they will slowly stalk towards him, usually in small groups.  Like the nurses in Silent Hill 2, their walking animations are pretty disturbing.  There's just something unsettling about seeing child-sized monstrosities with knives slowly advancing to your location.

Once a Grey Child gets within attacking distance, it will slash at Harry with his knife.  If they get too close, they will lunge at him and cling onto Harry, attempting to pull him down.  It's worth mentioning that while they are attacking, they will occasionally spit out a creepy-sounding laugh, probably to damage your morale.  When Grey Children take damage, they emit disgusting croaking sounds.

And that about wraps up our look at these horrors of Silent Hill's elementary school.  This should be enough nightmare material for today.  What did you guys think of the Grey Children in Silent Hill?  Horrifying, or just a nuisance?

It's about time for another visit to Silent Hill, don't you think?  Today let's push through the fog and go back to the days of the Playstation 1, and the delightfully hideous town in Silent Hill 1.  The game starts off with the protagonist Harry searching for his adopted daughter in the strangely abandoned town, where his search eventually brings him to an equally abandoned elementary school.

Class is most definitely not in session.

It is in this school that we experience one of the signature events in the Silent Hill games: the transition into an alternate dimension, where the town is even more horrifying than before.  After this transition the most disturbing horrors come out to play, and Harry now finds the elementary school to be inhabited by monstrous, child-shaped beings called Grey Children.

Grey Children attacking a pipe-wielding Harry.

The Grey Children are about half as tall as Harry, and have featureless faces, with grotesque skin stretched over their tiny frames.  They each carry a knife as they patrol the halls of the elementary school.  Once they have Harry in their sights they will slowly stalk towards him, usually in small groups.  Like the nurses in Silent Hill 2, their walking animations are pretty disturbing.  There's just something unsettling about seeing child-sized monstrosities with knives slowly advancing to your location.

Once a Grey Child gets within attacking distance, it will slash at Harry with his knife.  If they get too close, they will lunge at him and cling onto Harry, attempting to pull him down.  It's worth mentioning that while they are attacking, they will occasionally spit out a creepy-sounding laugh, probably to damage your morale.  When Grey Children take damage, they emit disgusting croaking sounds.

And that about wraps up our look at these horrors of Silent Hill's elementary school.  This should be enough nightmare material for today.  What did you guys think of the Grey Children in Silent Hill?  Horrifying, or just a nuisance?

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The Horrific Nurses of Silent Hill 2

It's October once again, and that can only mean one thing: Halloween is in the air!  This month in Strange Moments in Gaming will be dedicated entirely to spooky gaming, so let's get started!  Today we'll be revisiting our favorite fog-and-monster infested town: Silent Hill.  More specifically, the nurse monsters in Silent Hill 2.

As you all know, each Silent Hill game custom tailors its monsters to reflect the psyche of the game's protagonist.  In the case of Silent Hill 2, we encounter hordes of monstrous nurses which are representative of protagonist James' terrible memories of his wife's fatal sickness.  These nurses have so many horrifying features that just remembering a play-through of this game is enough to give you the creeps.

When these terrors catch sight of James, they unleash a blood-curdling guttural scream, and begin shuffling towards him with their unnerving gait.  Seeing their heads lazily hanging down only adds to the disturbing appearance.  Speaking of heads and disturbing features, the nurses either have no face (just a faint outline where the face should be), or their face consists of a bloody mouth.  While you're taking in all this visual input, the nurses will swarm James and attempt to beat him to death using steel pipes (seems like an odd choice of weapon for a nurse, but whatever).

Now that you have all these wonderful images in your head, I think this is a good time to wrap up this first Halloween/spooky themed gaming article.  Did you guys play Silent Hill 2? If so, were you unnerved by the series' signature nurses?

It's October once again, and that can only mean one thing: Halloween is in the air!  This month in Strange Moments in Gaming will be dedicated entirely to spooky gaming, so let's get started!  Today we'll be revisiting our favorite fog-and-monster infested town: Silent Hill.  More specifically, the nurse monsters in Silent Hill 2.

As you all know, each Silent Hill game custom tailors its monsters to reflect the psyche of the game's protagonist.  In the case of Silent Hill 2, we encounter hordes of monstrous nurses which are representative of protagonist James' terrible memories of his wife's fatal sickness.  These nurses have so many horrifying features that just remembering a play-through of this game is enough to give you the creeps.

When these terrors catch sight of James, they unleash a blood-curdling guttural scream, and begin shuffling towards him with their unnerving gait.  Seeing their heads lazily hanging down only adds to the disturbing appearance.  Speaking of heads and disturbing features, the nurses either have no face (just a faint outline where the face should be), or their face consists of a bloody mouth.  While you're taking in all this visual input, the nurses will swarm James and attempt to beat him to death using steel pipes (seems like an odd choice of weapon for a nurse, but whatever).

Now that you have all these wonderful images in your head, I think this is a good time to wrap up this first Halloween/spooky themed gaming article.  Did you guys play Silent Hill 2? If so, were you unnerved by the series' signature nurses?

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