The reveal of Silent Hill Townfall was one of the less enlightening of the broadcast, revealing very little about the upcoming title, not even the platforms it will release on. It is known that the game will be published by Annapurna Interactive and developed by No Code, the indie studio behind Stories Untold and Observation. However, as mysterious as the teaser might seem, No Code Creative Director Jon McKellan pointed out that “it might be worth watching that trailer again and seeing what you might have missed.”
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A number of Silent Hill fans did just that and uncovered a few secret messages. The trailer centers on a CRTV pocket television with a voiceover seemingly speaking to the viewer. Interspersed throughout is static and dramatic music. Reddit user MilkManEX downloaded the trailer, extracted the audio to an MP3, and plugged it into Audacity, where they discovered that its spectrograph hides the text, “Whatever heart this town had has now stopped.”
Other fans played the audio backward and uncovered a message that references Alessa, one of the primary characters of the first Silent Hill game who also appears in subsequent entries in the series. This, along with the game’s title and the retro feel of the trailer, has led some to theorize that Silent Hill Townfall may be an origin story of some sort. Furthermore, some viewers analyzed the flickering images on that retro CRTV screen and noticed that one of them has the text “Thy Flesh is weak” along with three dots, three dashes, and three more dots, which is Morse code for S.O.S.
But the discoveries don’t stop there. On October 21, both Annapurna and No Code tweeted out staticky images of a house. Comparisons showed that the two pictures were very slightly different. Savvy Twitter user yApth0 subtracted the images from each other and uncovered another Morse coded message reading, “I don’t know how to leave.” No Code acknowledged the discovery with an “I’m really proud of you” meme.
That may not be all there is to uncover in the Silent Hill Townfall teaser trailer. A few people on Reddit think that, at timestamp 0:33, they can hear the words, “Is that really Alessa?” Either way, it seems that Townfall may be going back to the dark cult roots of the series, rather than revisiting the more psychological horror of Silent Hill 2.
Silent Hill Townfall is currently in development.
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Sources: PC Gamer, Silent Hill Forum
