Like the original game, Silent Hill f sends players to an “abandoned” school during its protagonist’s attempts to escape the horrors of the fog. And similar to the original, the halls and classrooms of the school are adorned with everything you’d expect to find in an institution of learning: posters, calendars, lockers, bookshelves, cubbies; you name it, it’s there. That includes a bit of simple sheet music that many are likely to overlook as just part of the set dressing.
It turns out, however that this slice of music, if performed, will sound awfully familiar to fans of the original Silent Hill. And it’s kinda spooky once you hear it, especially if you’re willing to indulge in the perilous, though fun, art of headcanoning. (Maybe kids singing this in school was what brought the fog to Ebisugaoka?)
Streamer Frankielollia (h/t comrade Blake at IGN) took the bait of trying to figure out what melody was actually hidden in plain sight. And with the help of a viewer who played the melody on guitar, the sheet music revealed itself to be none other than the opening song to the original Silent Hill.
While I can read and write music, my sight reading skills suck, so I wasn’t sure what music was on the sheet when I first saw it. That said, it doesn’t surprise me to find this little nugget packed into the game. Silent Hill f’s environmental storytelling is really on point. And if you don’t speak Japanese, I highly recommend using a simple translation tool like Google’s auto-translate to find all sorts of interesting messages that speak to the various themes in Silent Hill f, be they on signs that encourage traditional subservient roles for women in society or other creepy posters in the school that suggest you’re being watched.
