The 2-D prerendered realistic backgrounds of Raccoon City were replaced by Silent Hill’s real-time 3-D environments. At the time, the technical and aesthetic progress was the first thing noticed. PlayStation Magazine stated on the cover of its issue of March 1999, SH1 was “more than just a Resident Evil Clone” (quoted in Davison 2001, 130). Given that Capcom’s big hit console series (1996) was introduced before Konami’s Silent Hill (1999), it was and still is the obligatory reference. Theravada Buddhist proverb The typical starting point for any discussion about Silent Hill is a comparison to Resident Evil. Wolf, Pierre Fontaine, Serge Cardinal, Serge Fortin, and Andréane Morin-Simard. Acknowledgments I would like to thank: Shantal Robert and Léa Elisabeth Perron who let me spend sleepless nights in Silent Hill throughout the years My parents, as always Matteo Bitanti and Costa Nolan who published an earlier version of this book in Italian in 2006 Thomas Dwyer and his team at the University of Michigan Press for their great support regarding this current version Shanly Dixon and Kelly Boudreau who have revised the manuscript with care and, above all, have helped me have clearer thoughts all along Clayton George Bailey for his initial and much appreciated literary advice Sébastien Babeux for his comments and great help through our constant nocturnal correspondence And everyone else that helped me in one way or another: François Lévesque, Lorenzo Bassanelli, Jean Châteauvert, Carl Therrien, Dan Birlew, Peter Nguyen, Mark J.

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