I didn't know what picture to head this page with, so I just put my copy of Silent Hill 2 on the cat.
Hello! You can call me Riona. I played Silent Hill 2 a few years after it came out, when I was sixteen years old, and haven't been normal since.
I actually developed a weird obsession with Silent Hill 2 months before I played it myself. I was reading the game script; I was reading symbolism analysis; I was reading fanfiction. I was extremely bad with horror, so I was reluctant to actually play it, but eventually I gave in and bought a copy.
This game permanently redefined my taste in fictional characters and themes. I love characters who make terrible mistakes and are overcome by self-loathing, characters trying to atone for things that can't ever be undone, characters who undergo horrible experiences they'll never recover from or be believed about, characters experiencing intense isolation, characters who can't trust their own perception of reality. And I follow all those threads back, wondering when I first developed these preferences, and they all take me to James Sunderland, all-time champion of the World's Worst Husband competition.
I've also played the original Silent Hill, Silent Hill 3 and a little of Silent Hill 4, so those games might get mentioned here and there! But Silent Hill 2 is my favourite, so that's very much going to be the focus of this website.
I haven't yet played the 2024 remake of Silent Hill 2, but I'm definitely planning to give it a try! I'll probably talk about it on this site when I do.
Be aware that this website contains full Silent Hill 2 spoilers and, like Silent Hill 2 itself, probably isn't suitable for audiences under the age of fifteen. All the writing is by me, but in some cases I've previously posted it elsewhere on the Internet (e.g. Livejournal, Dreamwidth, Reddit, AO3), so some parts might sound familiar if we've already crossed paths online.
This is the second weird little mazelike website I've created to talk about my videogame obsessions. If you're a fan of Final Fantasy VIII, you might like to check out my other site, Balamb Garden.