Anon10/19/25, 02:15No.723603383
Kubrick once described the appeal of The Shining by comparing it to a story about a poker player in a gunfight
>In it you quickly learn that the central character is a paranoid. He gets involved in a poker game, decides someone is cheating him, makes an accusation, starts a fight and gets killed. You think the point of the story is that his death was inevitable because a paranoid poker player would ultimately get involved in a fatal gunfight. But, in the end, you find out that the man he accused was actually cheating him. I think The Shining uses a similar kind of psychological misdirection to forestall the realization that the supernatural events are actually happening.
This, I think, is what Silent Hill F is going for. On your first go through you will assume the ending is that none of what you just saw actually happened, that it was all the delusions of a hysterical woman on hallucinogenic drugs. Only on playing it again do you realize that, while she was hallucinating, the Gods were real and everything she saw actually was happening
