Silent Hill: Heavenly Night

As this whole Silent Hill 'revival' thing comes together and turns out to be just as disappointing as we all expected it would be, I've been thinking more and more of what I would actually want from a new Silent Hill game.

I've been building on this idea in my head when I daydream of better Silent Hills and I kind of love the concept. So I guess this would be considered my fanfiction on an imaginary Silent Hill game called:

Silent Hill: Heavenly Night

Our protagonist is an unnamed woman in her mid-late 40s. She lives in the town of Silent Hill, but the town is populated and vibrant.

When the game starts the player is let loose in an open world level of the Silent Hill town filled with people and no threats whatsoever (No Fog). The player can choose to explore the town at their own pace and start to piece together that there is a scandal regarding a cult that had been recently stopped and there is a small forest fire outside of town and a warning has been issued for people to not leave. This forest fire has caused a lot of birds to migrate into the town, and many doves can be found all over the map.

The player can meet a few key characters that the player will later visit a lot in a quest style progression system, of these key characters we have: the Matron of the floral shoppe, Heaven's Night, which is your day job, A mid 20s woman named Heather who is constantly badgering you about what you know of the dead doves showing up around the town, and Claudia Wolf who is alive, seemingly avoided suspicion of any cult relation and has an apparently friendly relationship with the player.

Something the player will notice is that there is something odd going on with time, newspapers will reference totally different years, clocks around the map have wildly different times, etc.

The game runs on a day-night cycle, and as night approaches the player will have to make their way home. When the player finally gets home they are immediately attacked by a dog enemy. The player cannot exit their home and must run through the house and to the master bedroom where there is a save-slot. After saving the player wakes up to the next day and the dog is gone. Two things to note about the home, One it is an apartment on the second floor, two it is a two bedroom apartment where the second bedroon is locked, chained shunned a-la silent hill 4. Peeping through the peep hole will show a teenagers bedroom with a grotesque monsterified bed that seems to be snoring. When the player exits their home the town is a little less populated and there is a very thin film of fog. Hidden amongst the normal people of the town are the occasional monster but no other resident reacts or interacts with the monsters in any way.

Welcome to the primary gameplay loop: Each day is a level. The player is given multiple different quests by the various npcs of the town and exploring certain routes (or all routes) leads to various different endings. As we get into later days the fog gets thicker, the monsters more populace and the town's residents less populace. If the player does not get to a savespot before night, the town will transition to the other-world where all humans are gone and the monsters are much more dangerous, and the terrain itself becomes hazardous. The player may have to purposefully stay up for the other-world to complete certain quests. The other-world in this game has a distinctly more fleshy tone to it on top of the heavy industrial imagery (a more biopunk interpretation of the town).

But how does the player save? This is a major aspect of the game. There are very few save spots in the open world game and any save spot outside of your home can only be used once between each save at home. The dog enemy in your house will have inconsistent behaviour, sometimes he will be there, sometimes he won't, sometimes he will attack you, sometimes he won't.

One of the new monster types in the town are small non-hostile angelic creatures, part-bird part woman. These creatures will slowly approach the player so long as they do not make any abrupt movements but if they do the angels will fly away. The player can kill these angels and this will be both a source of healing for the player (by eating the angels) as well as a form of bait (particularly useful for distracting the dog enemy at home).

Every day Claudia will have a quest for you, as she has a plan to revive Samael and wants your help for it, though as you progress it will become increasingly clear that Claudia herself is not the leader of the supposed remnants of the cult.

Every day the Heaven's Night floral shoppe owner will have a quest involving an assasination in the town, these quests will be near mandatory as it will be the majority source of resources like ammo, weapons, and such. Interestingly, you only need to fight the monster, winning and killing it is only optional and sometimes impossible.

The only quests related to Heather are on ways to avoid or distract her, and she is best avoided. Heather is a wandering npc and if she catches you with dead angels in your inventory, you will lose them all (and make progress toward a particular ending).

As the game progresses, the news about the forest fire outside of town gets worst as the fire gets bigger, and it becomes clear that the fog in the town is caused by the smoke of this fire.

The quests in the penultimate level will force the player to stay out until night and for the other-world to come. At this point the forest fire has finally arrived and engulfed the town, everything is on fire. The player will return to their home, they must go up the burning flights of stairs to their apartment. When you enter the apartment, the dog is not there and the chains to the second bedroom had fallen off.

When you enter the second bedroom it is a massive chamber, walls made of flesh, giant steel cyllinders line the walls pumping in and out of them. In a corner of the room is the living bed, now awoken and grappling with a nineteen year old girl who has been set aflame, "No, Daddy! Please, don't!" she yells. In between you and the girl is the dog enemy that has been in your home the whole game.

The dog is the final boss, when you kill it, so too does the living bed. Depending on which quests you performed and how well you performed, multiple endings can occur:

Cult ending: If you help Claudia in trying to summon Samael, after defeating the dog and killing the bed you will run to the burning girl, "Mama! Mama!" she cries as the player drops down and hugs the girl, tears streaming down the players eyes. The player too will be set on fire, the fire will burn to a scolding white heat and stretch out like white wings of flame over the mother and daughter. The two will burn to ash, and the steam caused will rise up and form clouds which will then rain and douse the fires in the town. The scene cuts to a man and a woman wandering through the ash when they hear the cry of a baby. The man reaches down and pulls out from the ash a newborn baby and we pan to his face to see that it is Harry Mason.

Dove ending: If you kill a lot of angels throughout the game and get caught by Heather with them, then as the player is hugging the nineteen year old girl on fire, Heather appears and rips the player off of her. Heather throws a white vest over the girl to pat out the fire saving the girl. Heather runs out of the building with the girl under her arms and the burning building collapses on top of the player killing them.

The End.

Obviously there is a lot of metaphor and a bit of canonical heresy going on throughout this 'game' but I would rather extrapolate on that in the comment sections if anyone wants to know the intention rather than posting it here and ruining personal interpretation.