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I noticed that P.T. is excluded here. If I recall correctly, the in-game radio mentions events from "75 years ago" in 1938, which would set it in 2013/2014. 2014 is probably likely since that's when the game came out.
Maybe you don't want to include it because it was unlisted, though.
 
ThePMan said:
I noticed that P.T. is excluded here. If I recall correctly, the in-game radio mentions events from "75 years ago" in 1938, which would set it in 2013/2014. 2014 is probably likely since that's when the game came out.
Maybe you don't want to include it because it was unlisted, though.
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I mean, I didn't really think to include P.T. because of it being unlisted and all, but...
 
JudgeDreddpool said:
W-Wait, since 1987, but...
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N-No, that means, but Alex's Diary...

God f*cking damn it! Now that just means the Timeline needs reworking!
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I would probably just ignore this, it's a minor background asset that would probably just scanned from a real world texture. Maybe wait and see what answers the remake gives, otherwise I'd just keep the date established in Homecoming.
 
Pro Bot said:
I would still count it. I was also a little confused by it being excluded to be honest.
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Yeah, it's also a culturally significant piece of horror media that deserves to be remembered. Even though the story unfortunately won't be continued, that doesn't necessarily mean it should be discounted as non-canon.
That puts Silent Hills in a weird position, though... I'd say we put P.T. on the timeline and ignore the cancelled full game, since it wasn't officially released, but P.T. still technically was. Maybe we can assume that Norman Reedus gets too scared and decides to abort his mission after the game cuts to black.
 
I think you should also mention a few other pieces of media that aren't going to be covered here, such as Play Novel: Silent Hill and Silent Hill DX. Personally, I'd also exclude most of the early spinoff titles due to their own discrepancies with the primary canon and overall shoddiness, but I suppose there's nothing to really indicate that they're non-canon. My timeline, based on what I've gathered so far and my own personal thoughts, would go something like this:

1867: Silent Hill: Past Life
196X: Silent Hill f
1976: Silent Hill: Origins
1983: Silent Hill: Cage of Cradle
1983: Silent Hill
1993: Silent Hill 2
1996: Silent Hill: Townfall
2000: Silent Hill 3
2003: Silent Hill 4: The Room
2007 (?): Silent Hill: Double under Dusk
2007: Silent Hill: Homecoming
2008 (?): Silent Hill: Sinner's Reward
2011: Silent Hill: Downpour
2011: Silent Hill: Anne's Story
2022: Silent Hill: The Short Message
 
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ThePMan said:
I think you should also mention a few other pieces of media that aren't going to be covered here, such as Play Novel: Silent Hill and Silent Hill DX. Personally, I'd also exclude most of the early spinoff titles due to their own discrepancies with the primary canon and overall shoddiness, but I suppose there's nothing to really indicate that they're non-canon. My timeline, based on what I've gathered so far and my own personal thoughts, would go something like this:

1867: Silent Hill: Past Life
1960s: Silent Hill f
1976: Silent Hill: Origins
1983: Silent Hill: Cage of Cradle
1983: Silent Hill (Remake)
1993: Silent Hill 2: Born from a Wish
1993: Silent Hill 2 (Remake)
1996: Silent Hill: Townfall
2000: Silent Hill 3
2001: Silent Hill 4: The Room
2007: Silent Hill: Homecoming
2008 (?): Silent Hill: Sinner's Reward
2011: Silent Hill: Downpour
2011: Silent Hill: Anne's Story
2014: P.T.
2022: Silent Hill: The Short Message
2023 (?): Silent Hill: Ascension
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You left out the Silent Hill Arcade game.
 
JudgeDreddpool said:
You left out the Silent Hill Arcade game.
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That's also one of the ones I'd exclude. Again, it's just my personal timeline - I'm discounting the lower quality spin-off titles that can pretty easily be ignored. It's totally fine if you disagree. Think of it like the other comics you chose to exclude.
 
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ThePMan said:
That's also one of the ones I'd exclude. Again, it's just my personal timeline - I'm discounting the lower quality spin-off titles that can pretty easily be ignored. It's totally fine if you disagree. Think of it like the other comics you chose to exclude.
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In fairness, the excluded comics have massive continuity issues with the games that they can't really work together. The arcade game, meanwhile, doesn't contradict anything and could presumably be in continuity with the other stuff.
 
While we're at it, one change I would recommend is removing Silent Hill: The Escape (2008). Not only does it have an extremely basic plot, not only does it misuse familiar locations and enemies from previous titles, but the ending quite literally has the player abducted by aliens investigating Silent Hill.

That's not even a joke ending, that's just the ending of the game... Yeah, I don't really think it's canon.
 
I think the list of excluded media should be updated and expanded a little. From everything I've gathered so far, here's all the media we can definitively pinpoint as non-canon (including what you've already highlighted):

  • Play Novel: Silent Hill (2001), Silent Hill DX (2006) - Abridged adaptations of the original Silent Hill on more limited hardware.

  • Silent Hill (2006), Silent Hill: Revelation (2012), Return to Silent Hill (2026) - Film adaptations of the first three Silent Hill games, set within their own continuity.

  • Silent Hill (novel, 2012), Silent Hill: Revelation (novel, 2012), Return to Silent Hill (novel, 2026) - Novelizations of the Silent Hills films.

  • Silent Hill: The Novel (2006), Silent Hill 2: The Novel (2006), Silent Hill 3: The Novel (2007) - Novelizations of the original Silent Hill games. These contain some additional plot details and illustrations by Masahiro Ito, so they could be argued as loose canon, but the games should hold precedent over them.

  • Silent Hill: The Escape (2008) - Very likely to be non-canon due to the reasons I outlined above.

  • Silent Hill: Shattered Memories (2009) - Non-canon reimagining of Silent Hill set in an alternate universe.

  • Silent Hill (pachislot game, 2015), Silent Hill: Return (2019), Silent Hill: Escape (2019) - Silent Hill 2, 3, and Downpour adapted into terrible pachislot games.

  • Silent Hill f (novel, 2025), Silent Hill f (manga, 2026) - Literary adaptations of Silent Hill f. The original game should take precedent, whether or not these should be considered as loose-canon.

  • Most of the Silent Hill comics that you mentioned (2004-2014).

  • All Silent Hill-themed crossovers in other games, such as Dead By Daylight. The DBD one has some new lore information, but we can't safely call it canon.
Obviously, this would also exclude media without any story, such as the Book of Lost Memories (2003), though information gained from it is definitely canon.
 
I found something else. There's a 6-page comic written and illustrated by Masahiro Ito, which came packaged with the Japanese Silent Hill: Origins soundtrack in 2008, called White Hunter. I don't know anything about it, but it's the last piece of media you haven't mentioned here (aside from everything I just outlined). It might be worth looking into.
https://silenthill.fandom.com/wiki/Белый_охотник
 
Apparently, Cage of Cradle doesn't fit with Origins' changes to the canon in regards to Lisa Garland. I think we can approach this one of two ways:

  • Remove Cage of Cradle from the canon, keep Origins and Homecoming in (Homecoming is connected to Origins since Travis Grady shows up there). This would favour those games rather than the original creators' intent for the series, however.
  • Remove Origins and Homecoming from the canon. This would fix a lot of the discrepancies with prior games and fit with Team Silent/Masahiro Ito's original intentions, but it would remove two mainline games from the continuity.
 
ThePMan said:
I found something else. There's a 6-page comic written and illustrated by Masahiro Ito, which came packaged with the Japanese Silent Hill: Origins soundtrack in 2008, called White Hunter. I don't know anything about it, but it's the last piece of media you haven't mentioned here (aside from everything I just outlined). It might be worth looking into.
https://silenthill.fandom.com/wiki/Белый_охотник
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For this one, I'm thinking we could tentatively place it in 1993 to coincide with Silent Hill 2's events, since this comic was created by Masahiro Ito, and thus the Pyramid Head depicted is probably the one part of James Sunderland's mind, rather than the "Boogeyman" in the spinoffs. Since Maria and presumably all of the monsters in the game were manifested when James entered the town, and Pyramid Head died when James finally accepted the truth, that would put it around the beginning of SH2's events, as Pyramid Head manifests and starts to question his purpose (like Maria).

Though, we could just ignore it. It seems like it might just be an alternate universe comic, and I don't think it's meant to have much of a tangible plot anyway. It's an artistic piece. Your decision, though.
 
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I think you should also add a link to a full playthrough of P.T., since it's pretty hard to come by nowadays. Here's one recording of the original game, not a remake, on the PS4:
 
ThePMan said:
For this one, I'm thinking we could tentatively place it in 1993 to coincide with Silent Hill 2's events, since this comic was created by Masahiro Ito, and thus the Pyramid Head depicted is probably the one part of James Sunderland's mind, rather than the "Boogeyman" in the spinoffs. Since Maria and presumably all of the monsters in the game were manifested when James entered the town, and Pyramid Head died when James finally accepted the truth, that would put it around the beginning of SH2's events, as Pyramid Head manifests and starts to question his purpose (like Maria).

Though, we could just ignore it. It seems like it might just be an alternate universe comic, and I don't think it's meant to have much of a tangible plot anyway. It's an artistic piece. Your decision, though.
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Never mind! Turns out it is indeed a non-canon alternate universe story. This was confirmed by Masahiro Ito (his quotes are linked below). White Hunter should be put into the list of media excluded.
 
beyondrain2 said:
This seems right
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Once again, none of this provides any concrete evidence for year placements. Two background assets may not necessarily reflect the developers' intentions. We should keep the current dates and wait until the Silent Hill remake, which I'm fairly confident will give us some answers.
 
ThePMan said:
I'd recommend you guys check out this video, it's pretty interesting.
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One thing it specifically highlights is the period of time between SH3 and SH4. I don't know where @JudgeDreddpool got the 2001 date from, but going off of what we have now, 2003 seems like a more likely date for SH4. Aside from that, his timeline at the very end of the video exactly matches what we already have here.
 

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