------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lost Memories "THE ART & MUSIC OF SILENT HILL" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright 2003 Duncan Bunce Version 1.00 ---------------------------- ---------------------------------- INTRODUCTION ---------------------------------- Welcome to a brief FAQ regarding the sought after Silent Hill DVD titled 'Lost Memories - The Art & Music of Silent Hill'. It has come to my attention that many questions have been asked regarding what this dvd actually is and what it consists of. I have received many emails regarding this, so in response (and to finally give everyone who wants to know an answer!), I have created this FAQ. Let's see what the DVD offers us Silent Hill fans....... Q) What region is the DVD? A) The DVD is region 2. It originates from Japan, but can also work in region 2 countries such as the UK, rest of Europe etc. Otherwise, you are going to have to buy some sort of device to allow you to play it in a non-region 2 country or get a chipped dvd player. If you're from the USA, sorry guys, you're region 1, but my advice just before still applies. Q) Is it a double disc presentation? A) No, just the one disc. Q) Is it all in Japanese? A) No, the title menus are all in English and navigation is easy. Even the trailers are all in English as you would expect to see them in the European game. No language barriers here folks. ---------------------------------------- What's on the DVD? ---------------------------------------- Here we go........ The DVD main title menu is split into the following section choices: Sound Trailers Pictures Creatures Production Material Art of Silent Hill Bonus (the cool background of the main menu if you're wondering, is a Otherworld picture of a carousel horse from Silent Hill 3). I'll deal section by section contents now..... ----------------------------------------- Sound ----------------------------------------- A) Silent Hill Original Soundtrack Tracks: Silent Hill All The Wait Until Death Over Devil's Lyric Rising Sun For All Follow The Leader Claw Finger Hear Nothing Children Kill Killed by Death Don't Cry The Bitter Season Moonchild Never Again Fear of the Dark Half Day Heaven Give Me Say Far I'll Kill You My Justice For You Devil's Lyric 2 Dead End Ain't Gonna Rain Nothing Else Alive Never Again Die Never End, Never End, Never End Down Time Kill Angels Only You Not Tomorrow 1 Not Tomorrow 2 My Heaven Tears Of.... Killing Time She Silent Hill (Other Side) B) Silent Hill 2 Original Soundtrack Theme of Laura White Noiz Forest A World of Madness Ordinary Vanity Promise (Reprise) Ahes and Ghost Null Moon Heaven's Night Alone In The Town The Darkness That Lurks In Our Mind Angel's Thanatos The Day of Night Block Mind Magdalene Fermata In Mistic Air Prisonic Fairytale Love Psalm Silent Heaven Noone Love You The Reverse Will Laura Plays The Piano Terror In The Depths Of The Fog True Betrayal Black Fairy Theme Of Laura (Reprise) Overdose Delusion Pianissimo Epilogue Promise C) Silent Hill 3 Original Soundtrack Lost Carol You're Not Here Float Up From Dream End Of Small Sanctuary Breeze - In Monochrome Night Sickness Unto Foolish Death Clockwork Little Happiness Please Love Me...Once More A Stray Child Innocent Moon Maternal Heart Letter - From The Lost Days Dance With Night Wind Never Forgive Me Never Forget You Prayer Walk On Vanity Ruins I Want Love Heads No.2 Memory Of The Waters Rain Of Blass Petals Flower Crown Of Poppy Sun Uneternal Sleep Hometown -------------------------------------- Trailers -------------------------------------- A) 4 Trailers from Silent Hill available: OPENING (the cool intro from the game, which is like a montage of the game and end with Harry crashing the Jeep. Has the now famous SH music.) E3 1998 (early showing of the game. Another montage, like a rolling demo of the game with spliced ingame footage and fmv. Shows the demon children which didn't make it into the final game, and a couple of seconds scene showing Cybil's motorcycle crashing over an embankment without her on it. Very cool video,and has some music running over the top which never made it into the game and sounds just awesome. Silent Hill trademark insignia not present). TGS 1998 AUTUMN (now has the SH music we all know and love, another montage of the game which is pretty close to the game's actual intro fmv. Mainly all fmv,with a few seconds of ingame stuff near the end. Demon children now gone. Insignia of title now shown). UFO END (shows the 'humourous' ending from the game which involved aliens. It's in the old 1950's style, comic book style with Japanese subtitles, but still English speaking. Bizarre retro alien theme tune as well a scredits roll Star Wars style). B) 5 Trailers from Silent Hill 2 available: OPENING (one of the best SH & SH2 FMV's in the series, this is the intro to the game, a montage of movie clips with the classic 'Theme of Laura'. Opens with the prison cell scene between Maria and James as he meets her again, then the music kicks in. Shows certain scenes not in the game, like Laura kicking Eddie who is resting beside a van, and James carrying the lifeless corpse of Maria through the shadowy prison. Merges Mary/Maria clips, sets the story and haunting ambience of SH2, introduces all the characters. Basically awesome 'best of' which end with Maria propositioning James in the prison). TGS 2000 AUTUMN (Japense subtitles break up the scenes. Opens on the misty lake and with lone and forlorn James rowing across in a boat. SH2 insignia opens. There's no music played, errie silence, like a humming. Shows James's first encounter with a monster and the radio. Then 'Theme of Laura' gently begins as James examines himself in the mirror at the roadside restroom. Broken up with clips of Pyramid Head molesting other demon monsters. Ends with a melancholy and haunting pan of the empty decaying restroom as credits come up, theme stops). TGS 2001 SPRING (Scene with Laura on the wall, James asking who she is. Theme of Laura (Reprise) begins which is more gentle in ambience, we see Mary talk about the town, Angela saying to James "Lost?", first meeting with Maria and then James asks "Is it dangerous?'. Music stops, monstrous screeching of Pyramid Head starts, dragging his BIG SWORD, metal scraping. We get a few of these disturbing flashes of monsters James will come across, a a silhouette scene of Pyramid Head molesting monsters in the Hotel [not in game]. Other music begins, and another montage of clips of James's experiences start and proper 'Theme of Laura' song kicks in, words of "she was waiting for you" flash on screen at the same time, later picture goes into black and white, last scene is Pyramid Head molestation scene and screen turns white, Laura says the Lord's Prayer). E3 2001 (another montage of clips, mainly movie once again. Nice trailer showing off the movement of the monsters in game and the genral musteries of the story). UFO END (the 'humourous' ending of the game. Aliens land once again, except Harry from the first game is with them. They zap James with their laser guns and take him away.) C) Six Trailers from Silent Hill 3 available: OPENING E3 2002 TGS 2002 AUTUMN GAMERS DAY E3 2003 YOU'RE NOT HERE (excellent video to the Melissa Williams SH OST classic. Has the main character of SH3 Heather, lip sync the vocals to the song as she walk around a white background, with the occassional movie clip from the game breaking it up). ------------------------------------------------ Pictures ------------------------------------------------ A) There are 20 pictures to choose from for Silent Hill B) There are 20 pictures to choose from for Silent Hill 2 C) There are 26 pictures to choose from for Silent Hill 3 ------------------------------------------------ Creatures ------------------------------------------------ A) There are 19 pictures to choose from for Silent Hill B) There are 20 pictures to choose from for Silent Hill 2 C) There are 20 pictures to choose from for Silent Hill 3 ------------------------------------------------ Production Material ------------------------------------------------ A) There are 11 pictures to choose from for Silent Hill B) There are 16 pictures to choose from for Silent Hill 2 C) There are 26 pictures to choose from for Silent Hill 3 ------------------------------------ Contact ------------------------------------ HellboundHeart3@aol.com or duncanbunce@aol.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The remaining part for this guide will detail as much as possible what pictures are available for the relevant sections. It will then finish the remaining two sections on the DVD (the weird and cool videos). Then I'll do a brief review of the DVD and where you can get it. I'll do some before Xmas, but it will probably be finished a little after. BYE