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Silent Hill (サイレントヒル, Sairento Hiru?) is a survival horror video game franchise developed and published by Konami. As of 2008, most installments have been created by Team Silent with the exception of two titles, Silent Hill: Origins by Climax Studios and Silent Hill: Homecoming by Double Helix games.

There are currently five main Silent Hill games (with a sixth under production), all of which were released to strong sales and critical acclaim.[citation needed] The success of these games has generated a series of comic books, a film adaptation (with a second under development), and novelizations.

Common features in the Silent Hill games include horror and action-adventure elements, detailed and disturbing environments, a chilling soundtrack provided by series composer Akira Yamaoka, and a complex storyline revealed through numerous cinematic cut scenes, in-game documents and in-game notes. Each game unfolds like a movie with several possible endings; the player’s choices during the game determine which ending is shown.

Silent Hill (2006)

Not to be confused with novelization of the film released the same year and under the same title
Novelization of the first game of the series by Sadamu Yamashita only released in Japanese. It is divided into three chapters: Fog, Darkness and Nightmare.

Silent Hill comic books

Main article: Silent Hill (comics)
A series of comic books written by Scott Ciencin with artwork by Ben Templesmith (Dying Inside #1 and 2), Aadi Salman (Dying Inside #3,4,5), Shaun Thomas (Paint It Black, Among The Damned) and Nick Stakal (Grinning Man, Dead/Alive #1 to 5) have been published by IDW Publishing. An earlier standalone graphic novel from defunct British publisher Com.X was completed in 2000 but never released.

Influences
The games’ developers have acknowledged that they are fans of the film Jacob’s Ladder and its technique of inducing fear through a more psychological level of perception.[23] The films of David Lynch are also acknowledged to be an influence on Silent Hill. The series also borrows elements from Stephen King’s novella The Mist and Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend. The movie “Session 9″ was also an influence and Silent Hill 3 features a homage to the movie