Everyone Has a Silent Hill in Their Heart

If he had a choice, Zhang Yi really did not want to play through Silent Hill a second or even third time.

That oppressive feeling was truly unpleasant, but he had never expected Old Song to be far more ruthless than him.

Not only had he cleared the game himself, but he had also followed guides to unlock the other endings.

As for why he was so certain that Song Ren had used guides, a quick look at the trigger conditions for the other endings made it clear to him that Old Song's intellect probably was not enough to support discovering those branching points on his own.

In fact, that was true for most players. Without exchanging information with others and testing things bit by bit,

the trigger conditions for Silent Hill's other endings could simply be called outrageous.

In Silent Hill from his previous life, there had originally been six endings in total.

However, only three of those endings were related to the actual plot of the game.

Of the other three, two were joke endings, while one was an Easter egg ending connected to the first game.

So during development, Chen Xu had not included those three endings, since they were not particularly relevant to the game's plot.

As for the three normal endings, each had entirely different trigger conditions.

Unlike traditional RPGs, which had multiple dialogue choices and branching options, Silent Hill determined which ending players reached based on their habits.

It could be said that when players knew nothing at all, the ending they triggered in their first playthrough was definitely the Silent Hill in their own hearts.

The first ending, where James left Silent Hill with Lara, was actually the easiest one to achieve. Old Zhang and the vast majority of players had triggered this