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The big bads of Silent Hill: Homecoming

7:44 PM on 09.16.2008, Nick Chester 15 comments

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This afternoon, I braved the foggy streets of New York City today, making my way down to the W Hotel on the 39th Street to attend Konami's holiday media event. One of the games on hand was the final build of the Xbox 360 version of Silent Hill: Homecoming, set to ship later this month.

I spent about forty minutes with the game's opening area, what essentially played out like a tutorial level in a worn down hospital. I'll be posting some hands-on information and impressions tomorrow, but in the meantime, I wanted to pass along these screens Konami gave us of Homecoming's big baddies.

News to me: outside of Pyramid Head (the obvious one) these bosses actually have names. Spoiler alert? Maybe -- half of the surprise and fright will probably come from encountering these monsters for the first time. Or you're just scared seeing them will give you nightmares. 

Names to go with the faces after the jump.

Pyramid Head

Asphyxia

Scarlet

Sepulcher

Siam


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Justin Villasenor's Avatar
Justin Villasenor at 09/16/2008 20:08
That Siam thing looks like an Umber Hulk.
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Puppy Licks at 09/16/2008 20:14
Wasn't Siam from Silent Hill 3? It looks kinda familiar.
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Rational_Jesus at 09/16/2008 20:50
Doesn't it bother anyone that Pyramid Head is a construct of James Sunderland's psyche manifest through guilt and has no place in this game (or the movie for that matter.) Unless this is a direct sequel to Two, this shit doesn't make sense.
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Wexx at 09/16/2008 21:06
Rational_Jesus: We know, we know.

I'm still sceptical about this game.
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Paroxysm at 09/16/2008 21:17
Yay boos fights! Sounds like they're really nailed the whole silent hill concept! I hope there's online deathmatch or at least boss rush mode with online leaderboards! Oh and gonorrhoea! I hope the game gives me gonorrhoea!
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nintendoll at 09/16/2008 22:00
Pyramid Head is shameless fan service and the only one that kind of freaks me out a bit is Aspyxia.

I'll just keep playing the original I guess ;_;
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Reeper at 09/17/2008 01:16
Meh. Let me look again...


Yeah...meh.
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El Baneto at 09/17/2008 03:21
looks to much like SH2. meh
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Murumasa123 at 09/17/2008 03:43
If Pyramid Head is shameless fan service they certainyl dropped the ball as any even partial fan knows of of specific to SH2 Phyramid Head is.

From the previews it looked a little clunky but ll give ita go. Hell not much else till Saints Row in terms of games anyway.
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Aziel13 at 09/17/2008 04:00
major E-boner
@Nintendoll not really shameless fan service, but it can actually prove that P.H. comes in many shape and sizes and was not limited to James O.G. P.H.(P.H. short for Pyramid Head((for those of you say P.H. WTF???)), or Travis' wanna be P.H. known as The butcher
P.H. is not limited to only one person, as many claim P.H.come to you out of the persons own pyche
also a big differrence and somewhat proof that my claim can be true look at old P.H. compared to new P.H.
old P.H.'s great knife looks like a huge scalpel
while new P.H.'s looks alot like a huge army survival knife


@Robofart no dice your talking about Leonard Wolf almost similar to Siam but like I said no dice
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hjd uk at 09/17/2008 04:46
They've rehashed previous 'iconic' monsters and shoved em into this new game, no thoughts gone into it. All of the previous games protagonists created the Silent Hill they were in, I thought that was 'the point'. Looks like the main reference for this game was the film - which was in it self a poor mashing up of SH 1 and 2.
Seems the artistic and creative edginess that marked SH and SH2 out from the crowd has been lost on the new US devs/publishers.
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