Funny Little Things....

[Shadedarkan]

I've noticed some odd things while running around. Figured I'd share and see what people think.

• All prisoners except Murphy and the Mexican have MN DOC as their prisoner numbers. Subsequently, the Mexican is the only prisoner we interact with after the crash who is still alive. His prisoner number DD Q1T.
• The same few prisoner models are used for all the dead prisoners we find in the game.
• Shores of Toluca Lake: This guy is seen here, in the Overlook Pen Otherworld right next to each other on the elevator down and in the hanging cell in the distance and the Devil's Pit Lower Terrace to name a few.
• Tram Car: Okay, we only see a hand streak down the window. Doesn't really count.
• Could all the dead prisoners be from the night of the riot?
• The prisoner strung up to the electrical box in the Devil's Pit is looking an awful lot like Murphy
• The thief in the apartment is the same guy as the hanging prisoner in the St. Maria courtyard and also the same guy as the C.O. in the background when Murphy is walking to the bus.
• The C.O. on the left of the line of prisoners walking to the bus has no name tag.
• The Overlook Pen, A3, Security Room shows images from the riot. One seems to depict someone who looks like Frank shooting a prisoner in the chest with a shotgun. The prisoner is laying against the wall in the same fashion as the one from "Telltale Heart" only the one in the image is holding the doorknob of the door he is up against.
• The radio comm says there are seven inmates on the bus, but I can only ever see six.
• The black things covering the Otherworld walls look a lot like neural networks
• The Devil's Pit, Lower Terrace has a vase with flowers in it and some odd glowing jars around it, but the candles are what aren't lit up.
• In Ending B when Anne asks what Murphy will do next he replies, "Somewhere I gotta be." Similar to when Murphy asks John to show him the train and John replies, "Sorry, somewhere I gotta be."
• Coming out of the apartment building to Howard standing there Murphy says, "Jesus! You scared the hell outta me!". Similar to when Patrick opened the shower room door to Murphy standing there and says, "Jesus! You scared the hell outta me!"
• After the Howard cut scene outside the apartment building Murphy randomly says, "Hello! Can anyone hear me? Hello!"
• The art gallery isn't an art gallery? The address on the stationary says it belongs on 210 Main St., where is that on my map?
• N. Laymond Ave. has a pickaxe stuck in the street just where the crack begins kind of making it look like someone made it. Bogeyman were here?
• Centennial Buil, Garage. The dog doesn't exist in the police cruiser unless you specifically click on the driver side, rear window.
• If Patrick was given a mandatory life-without-parole sentence then why does he have a preliminary parole board psych eval?
• Okay, the St. Maria Institute faces East and runs North-South on the map of Silent Hill. I assume North is up on that map. The nun says to meet her in the East wing morgue when you are ready, but the morgue is in the South of the building. In my experience a building wing is referenced by its actual cardinal direction.
• I just find it funny that a rhyme book has replaced the bible in the chapel.
• Overlook Penitentiary, Block B. The main hall has five small cells in it. Two of which aren't anything. I think it is interesting the last correspondence from Ricky can be picked up in any of the last three remaining cells. You can actually look into the cells before picking one up and see that there is a note and a noose in each cell.
• Centennial Building, Garage. If you pick up the ID from the wheelchair in the basement and run back upstairs fast you get to see the Weeping Bat kill the dog and a third Weeping Bat make a getaway to the entrance hall of the building where it vanishes just before reaching the door.
• Due to a glitch. The things in the cages we overturn during Void chases are the wall spitter monsters. Their flesh has been used to string them up and the middle bar of the cage has been bent through their abdomens.

[poorjack]

Nice list of little details. The details can make or break a SH installment, and I think all the little things really helped Downpour.

[xavier95]

If you notice, the bells Murphy rings in the St. Maria's (I think) Otherworld have three symbols on them. They are the symbols of the different sects of the cult. The circular symbol is also the one used as a save point in SH3.

Also, the house in the "Cinema Virite" side quest is Murphy's house. You can see the basketball hoop and the car with the open hood in quick flashbacks in the main story. Also, you wake up the backyard of this house when you go to fight the Bogeyman at the end of St. Maria's Otherworld.

The Devil's Pit flyer from the diner makes an SH2 reference at the bottom of the page when it says something like, "hey kids, is Silent Hill your special place? What would you name it?"

[Shadedarkan]

Also, the house in the "Cinema Virite" side quest is Murphy's house. You can see the basketball hoop and the car with the open hood in quick flashbacks in the main story. Also, you wake up the backyard of this house when you go to fight the Bogeyman at the end of St. Maria's Otherworld.

I think you mean to say that you wake up in the backyard of the house next door. In Cinema Verite, you go through Patrick's house and for the Bogeyman fight you are in Patrick's backyard.

[xavier95]

Also, the house in the "Cinema Virite" side quest is Murphy's house. You can see the basketball hoop and the car with the open hood in quick flashbacks in the main story. Also, you wake up the backyard of this house when you go to fight the Bogeyman at the end of St. Maria's Otherworld.

I think you mean to say that you wake up in the backyard of the house next door. In Cinema Verite, you go through Patrick's house and for the Bogeyman fight you are in Patrick's backyard.

Yeah, you're right. Forgot Napier was his neighbor.