† Silent Hill Play Novel †

Developer: Konami
Release date : March 21 2001
Platform: Game Boy Advance

Game Download
By downloading this file you can emule the Game Boy Advance and, maybe after a long study of Japanese language, you can also play SH Play Novel. Or, by going on silenthillheaven.com it is possible to play the beginning of the game with an English translation.

Features
A lot of people knows something about this game, but probably none of them had an original copy of it, just because it's only avaible in Japan. Who, anyway had the good chance, the will, the time and money, bought the game. Since the game is only in Japanese language, it's really hard for anyone that's not Japanese to play it ; by the way, this spin-off is clearly an important charter of Silent Hill series, that examines the story of the first chapter in a different way.

Graphic and Gameplay
Let's talk about the game:  first of all, forget about the survival horrors you used to play, this is a "choose-your-own-adventure-game", in witch, according to our choices, we go ahead in the adventure in a different way.
Sometimes, there's just one right choice. As in a "point and click" adventure, but with words on a static background, on witch will appear places and characters that Harry or Cybil will meet.

In the story, we found again our  Harry in search of Cheryl (we'll meet again Lisa, Kaufmann, Dahlia and Alessa), but here the player has the possibility to play the game with another point of view, Cybil's point of view (finishing the game once). There are hints, as in every Silent Hill chapter, but different hints than the ones we solved in the psx chapter, as different endings according to our choices.

Here we got static pictures without any animation, but it's also evident a best quality than the '99 Silent Hill, although Play Novel's for GBA. And so for the gameplay.
There's no action in Play Novel, there are only choices and hints solving, but in that way the player's going to focus his attention just on the plot of the game.

Secrets
For the lucky ones who can play this game, here some secrets:

Play as Cybil Bennet: Finish the game once, then select Cybil in the next game.

Play as a Survivor: Finish the game as Cybil, then connect with your Wap mobile to the GBA, so you can download the game by playing as a town's survivor, with his own story.

(thanks to Gamefaqs.com, Silent Hill Town Center, I can hear Sirens singing)

by Heaven