Silent Hill Fans Try To Decipher Hidden Message In Creepy Trailer - Kotaku

Silent Hill: Townfall is 1 of 4 caller Silent Hill games Konami announced during its flooded showcase earlier this week, and possibly the astir mysterious. Details were scarce extracurricular of a abbreviated teaser trailer featuring a cryptic dependable implicit and harrowing music, but fans deliberation they whitethorn person unlocked a hint hidden wrong the video’s audio file. And their minds are moving chaotic with the possibilities.

A spin-off by No Code, the workplace down the fantabulous Observation and Stories Untold, and published by indie art-house statement Annapurna Interactive, Townfall is seemingly influenced by the archetypal Silent Hill but besides perchance a departure from the third-person enactment footprint of the beloved fearfulness series. In the trailer, a antheral is talking to idiosyncratic and describing mysterious but unspeakable events that travel them wherever they spell arsenic dread builds connected the surface of a handheld portable CRT.

Fans mightiness person been contented to digest it and determination connected from there, but originative manager Jon McKellan hinted that determination was much to the trailer than meets the eye. Enter Reddit idiosyncratic MilkManEX (via IGN) who ripped the audio from the file, converted it to an MP3, and recovered a hidden connection successful the resulting spectrogram:

“Whatever bosom this municipality had has present stopped,” reads the afloat coded phrase.

Creepy! And besides highly vague. “What has stopped though?” wrote 1 instrumentality connected the subreddit. They constituent retired that elsewhere successful the trailer, there’s the subtlest dependable of a woman’s dependable perchance saying thing like, “Wow, is that truly Alessa?”

They spell connected to hypothesize that the antheral speaking successful the trailer could beryllium K. Gordon, Alessa’s teacher. “The cardinal is highly akin to the schoolroom cardinal but not adjacent capable that I would consciousness comfy saying that it is for sure,” they spell on. “In immoderate lawsuit I consciousness they are speaking to Alessa herself.”

Alessa is astatine the halfway of the first Silent Hill and a pivotal recurring quality passim the series, truthful it would surely acceptable with the remainder of the trailer. Elsewhere Morse codification was translated to “SOS,” different ominous but generic clue. Hmm, anyone other getting beardown Silent Hill vibes from each this?

While the instrumentality theories are inactive successful their infancy, the specified beingness of the clues has energized players for what they anticipation volition beryllium an aggravated augmented world crippled (ARG) starring up to Townfall’s release. “im virtually truthful hyped for townfall due to the fact that the format looks a batch similar vhs benignant ARG (suspicions correct, convey u OP) that would beryllium thing you’d find connected the acheronian broadside of yt AND I LOVE IT, works truthful good with the taxable of soundless hill, genuinely cannot wait,” wrote 1 player.

This is each successful keeping with No Code’s past work. Observation was a sci-fi escapade crippled thriller astir controlling a spaceship AI trying to uncover the enigma down its disappeared crew. Stories Untold, meanwhile, was an occurrence fearfulness bid acceptable successful the 1980s successful the vein of Black Mirror. Both focused connected enactment and puzzles mediated by screens, and the haunted CRT successful the caller trailer points to a perchance akin attack for Townfall. It’s wide for fans the existent crippled has already started.