TRICK OR TREAT SPECIAL
82: The hamburger shop in the shopping mall is a Happy Burger, which also
appears in Silent Hill 2. It would seem that it's a chain store.
83: After starting an Extra New Game with data from Silent Hill 2, if one
investigates the mailbox in the apartment building, a "letter from a dead
wife" is...
84: If one investigates the counter in the bakery after getting the
"flamethrower" secret weapon, for some reason the lettering on the leaflet
has changed.
85: In the first game, an article about the American homicidal maniac Ed
Gein is used as a sample of a newspaper post in the town.
86: Posing as the names of shops, the names of gods are written in great
numbers on the doors in the hallway in the shopping mall where Heather
encounters Claudia.
(note: Three things in this hallway seem to be worth mentioning: The
back door of Cafe Paradise Noon reads "Cafe Tirn Aill" and two doors read
"Yggr-drasill," the name of the World Tree in Norse mythology. "Yggr" can
also be used to indicate the Norse god Odin. "Nornen" is written on the
door at the end of the hall, which would seem to refer to the Norns, three
sisters in Norse mythology who represent past, present and future and are
responsible for the lifespans of all mortals. Unless there are little-known
Norse gods called "Lumber Room" and "Office," it seems to be a bit of an
exaggeration to say that the names of gods are written in great numbers.)
87: A sign reads "floor 1" in the lobby of the otherworld's elementary
school in the first game. The source material for this is the movie 12
Monkeys.
88: Moore, Ranaldo, and Gordon are in the list of teachers in the
elementary school from the first game. The names originate from members
of Sonic Youth.
89: There is a store called "Li Jun Fan" on the map of the shopping
district in the first game. It seems that a fondness for Bruce Lee is
responsible for this.
(note: Li Jun Fan is Bruce Lee's original Chinese name, which means
"Li, the small dragon." If read in Japanese, the characters in his name
could be pronounced "Rishoryo.")
90: For some reason, there is quite a bit of fishing tackle in the bar
in the hotel from Silent Hill 2. This is because the person responsible,
having an aversion to alcohol, was unable to collect information on bars.
91: The paintings in the Western-style house from Restless Dreams include
processed pictures of random items, hotel panorama shots, and the like--
things that aren't actual paintings.
92: The names Midkiff and Crosby are in a memo in the hospital from
Silent Hill 3. They originate from the names of two actors from the movie
Pet Sematary.
93: Being able to get a handgun from a shopping cart in the apartment
building in Silent Hill 2 is a satire of guns in American society.
94: "Li Jun Fan" appears on the map of the shopping district in the first
game. Next to this is none other than a "Konami Burger."
95: During the interval space in the hospital, "What a wonderful world!"
is written on a wall. It's an homage to Exorcist 3.
96: With data from Silent Hill 2, if one investigates the toilet in the
bathroom in the otherside shopping mall...
97: There is a save point in the art gallery in the otherside office
building, but if one investigates the painting that is in this spot in the
"right side" art gallery...
98: In Silent Hill 2, James can ride in the hotel's service elevator even
while holding "Mary's picture" and "Mary's letter."
99: The truth is that the hair on the back of Douglas' head is thin; he
combs his hair straight back from his forehead to cover it. It seems that
this is a worry that his creator has.
(note: Does this mean Shingo Yuri is going bald? The word "tantousha"
simply means "person responsible," so it's tough to say whether this
indicates the character modeler or someone else responsible for the
character conceptualization.)
100: The following message appears only once in the makeshift morgue from
Silent Hill 2: "...Did that just move or was it only my imagination?"
101: In Silent Hill 2 the wall of the well can't be broken without the
kind of weapon that can be used to strike it, but it can be broken with
just the "hyper spray" secret weapon.
102: If left standing idle the character will go into a standby action,
and when James has the chainsaw equipped...
103: In the haunted house from Silent Hill 3, the clothes of the corpse
that hangs down in Danny's room are identical to those of the designer who
created them.
104: The drawing that became the foundation for the map of the church was
done by the daughter of a friend of the staff. What she drew was "France."
105: In a passageway and on an outer wall of the otherside church, a mural
is created from a drawing of Valtiel and Incubus centered around a female
figure.
106: There are only three dwarfs near Snow White in the amusement park.
If one searches the area, in the transparent floor panels the remaining four
figures are...
107: Next to the place where the complete works of Shakespeare fell off the
shelf, an image of Macbeth and the queen in an embrace can be seen on a book
binding.
108: The name of the next station in the subway is Bergen Street, which is
an homage to the movie Jacob's Ladder.
109: Although the beam saber is associated with a certain science fiction
epic, it seems that the true source material is the Space Sheriff series. The
proof is the way Heather readies the weapon.
110: In Silent Hill 2, a picture of what seems to be an assembly of the
development staff is on display in the Historical Society's exhibition room.
111: Although America is the setting for Silent Hill, the reference material
for creating the map was actually places in Japan like Towadako and Tazawako.
112: On a poster in the shopping mall, the words "Tirn Aill" are written,
which means "fairy world."
(note: in Celtic mythology, "otherworld" and "fairy world" are different
terms for the same realm. The Revolt of Tirn Aill is also the name of an art
gallery by an artist named Hiro Usuda, at least one of whose paintings appears
in Silent Hill 3.)
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