{"id":147,"date":"2025-03-02T17:14:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T22:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/?p=147"},"modified":"2025-03-02T17:14:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T22:14:18","slug":"snowuary-2025-silent-hill-shattered-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/snowuary-2025-silent-hill-shattered-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowuary 2025 &#8211; Silent Hill: Shattered Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\">(Autumn, from the Ranged Touch Discord, encouraged people to play snowy games in January and February and write about them. I used this opportunity to motivate my return to <em>Silent Hill: Shattered Memories<\/em> a game whose snowy town and chases have stuck with me for 15+ years. Also, I wanted to play it again before I played _Immortality_).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">M<a href=\"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/snowuary-2025-mafia-ii\/\">y first Snowuary, on Mafia II<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">three types of sections<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">psychologist office &#8211; Mean therapist<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">exploration &#8211; no threats &#8211; but it builds tension via aesthetic modes other than the threat to the PC and the threat to the player&#8217;s progress: audio and visual<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">the chases &#8211; completely lose any sense of space except for the next door or ledge or light that guides you along a path. Feel like maybe you&#8217;ve gotten turned around but just <em>keep going<\/em>. Then everything twists back to normal and you check your map and there&#8217;s no real sense of how you got to here from where you were. During there is a waypoint you are headed toward and the path you&#8217;ve gone is on your phone&#8217;s GPS but who has time to check that when there are now, finally, monsters chasing you?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">it&#8217;s called Midwich High School! founded by John Wyndham!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">sorry this one&#8217;s just some notes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Autumn, from the Ranged Touch Discord, encouraged people to play snowy games in January and February and write about them. I used this opportunity to motivate my return to Silent Hill: Shattered Memories a game whose snowy town and chases have stuck with me for 15+ years. Also, I wanted to play it again before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","tag-snowuary-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148,"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}