Silent Hill

Silent Hill opens with a flashback, showing Harry Mason and his wife finding an abandoned child in a casket. The scene then shifts to Harry driving to the town of Silent Hill with his adopted daughter, Cheryl, for a vacation. Along the way, he notices a police officer driving toward the town, whose bike he later sees crashed on the side of the road. At the town's edge, he swerves to avoid hitting a girl on the road, which causes him to crash and lose consciousness.

Upon waking up in town, Harry discovers that Cheryl is missing, and he sets out to look for her. Silent Hill is deserted and foggy, with snow falling out of season. He follows Cheryl through the fog and into an alley, where the environment suddenly darkens and he begins to discover gruesome remains. Harry goes deeper into the alley as reality shifts to a metallic, rusty environment and is eventually surrounded and seemingly killed by hostile creatures.

He then wakes up inside a diner where he meets Cybil Bennett, the same police officer he saw earlier, who has come from a neighboring town to investigate the mysterious occurrences. She gives Harry a gun before leaving. Harry finds a clue that Cheryl is at the local school. While investigating, he is transported back to the "Otherworld" and has to defeat a creature before returning to the normal world.

As Harry leaves the school, he hears bells ringing and follows the sound to an old church. There, he meets Dahlia Gillespie, a cultist, who gives him the Flauros, a charm she claims can counteract the darkness spreading through the town. Harry leaves the church and investigates the hospital, where he encounters its director, Dr. Michael Kaufmann, who is bewildered by the sudden changes in the town.

Harry also discovers a frightened, amnesiac nurse named Lisa Garland hiding in one of the rooms. While investigating the hospital, Harry begins to question his own existence, wondering whether he is already dead and everything is happening in his mind. Harry asks Lisa to come with him, but she feels she must stay in the hospital. Harry meets Cybil again and comes to believe that a darkness is transforming the town into someone's nightmare, causing the inhabitants to disappear.

Cybil suspects that Dahlia might be under the influence of drugs. Dahlia urges Harry to stop "the demon" responsible—the girl on the road who appears sporadically—or Cheryl will die. Continuing his search, Harry is drawn into a confrontation with Cybil, who has become host to a supernatural parasite; if the player collected the "unknown liquid" in the hospital, she can be saved, but otherwise Harry must kill her to proceed. The next time Harry sees the girl, the Flauros automatically activates and neutralizes her telekinetic powers.

Dahlia appears and reveals that she manipulated Harry into capturing the girl—an apparition of her daughter, Alessa. Harry passes out. He awakens in the hospital, next to Lisa. " She pleads with Harry to save her and desperately grabs him, causing Harry to instinctively push her away as blood starts to run down her face; horrified, he flees.

Blocking the door outside, he hears Lisa crying, prompting him to re-enter the room. Her diary is all that remains, revealing that she nursed Alessa during a secret, forced hospitalization. Alessa's never-healing wounds terrified her, and she fell deeper into a drug addiction fueled by Kaufmann. Finding Dahlia with Alessa's defeated apparition and charred body, Harry demands to know Cheryl's whereabouts.

He learns that seven years earlier, Dahlia conducted a rite to force Alessa to birth the cult's deity. Alessa survived being immolated because her status as a vessel rendered her immortal, while her mental resistance to the rite caused her soul to be bisected, preventing the birth. One half manifested as the infant Cheryl, whom Harry and his wife adopted. Dahlia cast a spell to lure Cheryl back, while Alessa was imprisoned in the hospital, enduring unceasing agony from her injuries.

With Alessa's plan thwarted and her soul rejoined, the deity is revived and possesses her. Endings Five different endings are available, depending on the player's previous actions: In the "Bad" ending, the player has allowed Cybil to die while not following Kaufmann via side-quest , leaving his fate unclear. The deity merges with Alessa and electrocutes Dahlia before attacking Harry. He defeats it, and Cheryl's voice thanks him but then says goodbye.

Overcome by grief, Harry collapses to his knees and the screen fades to black. The next scene shows his corpse in his wrecked car, implying that the entire game was a dying dream. In the "Bad +" ending, the player has saved Cybil, but not followed Kaufmann. It is largely similar to the "Bad" ending, except instead of ending after Harry collapses, Cybil approaches him and slaps him back to his senses, telling him to flee.

The two stand in silence as fire falls from the sky. In the "Good" ending, the player has followed Kaufmann, but not saved Cybil. To complete the side-quest, the player must go to the bar to meet Kaufmann, where Harry rescues him from getting killed by a monster. The player then explores the Resort Area, where they discover the evidence of Kaufmann's involvement in local drug trafficking, and find his hidden bottle of aglaophotis , a supernatural liquid that can exorcise demons.

After completing the side-quest, Kaufmann, feeling betrayed by Dahlia, demands that she restore the town to normal and uses aglaophotis to exorcise the deity from Alessa. Harry defeats the deity, and Alessa gives him an infant, the reincarnation of herself and Cheryl . She helps him escape from her nightmare realm before dying. In this ending, Harry is still carrying the infant at midnight, leaving without Cybil.

In the "Good +" ending, the player has followed Kaufmann and saved Cybil.