Perhaps the most unfairly overlooked Silent Hill game, Silent Hill: Shattered Memories speaks power to the idea that, on some level, all our recollections of our fathers are selective.
Konami’s series trades in queasy uncertainty over buckets of blood or pop scares. It’s one of the reasons why love for the franchise has persisted through a series lull that just hit one decade in October. Yet when people talk about Silent Hill, it’s usually doublespeak. The Silent Hill most people remember are the first few entries. They’ve cast a long shadow on each subsequent entry, with fans of the initial quartet quietly ignoring or dismissing anything else that came out after.
The big twist? These sections are actually from a grown up Cheryl’s perspective, now 25 and haunted by vague recollections of her father. Harry’s trip through Silent Hill is a Tommy Westphall situation. He’s a construction of Cheryl’s traumatized mind, which cast her father as a noble hero coming to save her. In reality, he died in a car crash in 1999, after a messy divorce that put a dark tinge on his daughter’s adolescence.
My mom forgave him. He was going to get sentenced for child endangerment, and spent some time in jail. But I found this year—from her—that when it came time to testify against him, mom refused. So he got off, and moved back in with us. We moved around a while—from Las Vegas to Albuquerque to Winder—before settling back into Atlanta in 2005. Both parents began to spiral in tandem, but I saw it most from my dad’s end. He homeschooled me until I was 14, so we used to be a lot closer.
Still, the struggle remains. I don’t know how I remember my dad.
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