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How Silent Hill 2 Changed Horror Gaming For The 21st Century

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How Silent Hill 2 Changed Horror Gaming For The 21st Century
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To celebrate its 25th birthday, Anna Mahtani unravels how the total assault of Silent Hill 2 – and its roots in modernist literature, alternative music, progressive cinema and modern art – birthed a new era of psychological horror for gamers. Contains spoilers  
A gentle mist curled around the gravestones as I struggled to find my way out. It was 2021, and I was wandering along the seemingly endless stone wall which separates Cimetière du Père-Lachaise from the rest of Paris. The air resounded w

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