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21.10.17

Silent Hill Halloween Hunt



It's that time of the year again!! Halloween fans, rejoice and have fun! This is also my favourite time of the year not in RL only, but in SL as well: there's a lot of events, scary places, haunted houses, creepy rides and spooky hunts :D
So I opened the search panel and looked for something nice (as of...my personal definition of nice which involves corpses, ghosts, blood and violence to the least..) and stumbled upon this nice place, which is temporary so run and have a look while it lasts!

The sim is totally unrelated, this is a Silent Hill-themed hunt which you gain access to by clicking on a teleport at ground level.
I won't spoil it too much by adding screenshots, just remember to have your headphones on  and switch off the lights :D 
It is not a themes-sim, just an homage, but it's damn well thought.
Have fun!


TAXI--  http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/FresH/91/70/1102

29.1.16

"Silent Hill Roleplay and Exploration sim"

Please, please notice the brackets.
Everytime I see (or someone points me in the direction, like this time) a potential new Silent Hill sim I'm so excited I fall miserably into depression because as soon as I step inside there's everything BUT Silent Hill.

Let's make an urban scene, stick some arcane SH symbol
on the wall and the trick is done!
Aaaand so you would think that after years and years of tries, someone finally managed to build something decent.. and.. no. You're wrong.

When, a lot of years ago, Toluca Lake sim (RIP) got closed, a very big hole was left in my memory and those of all the nice people that used to live there. As time passed, the Silent Hill sim became in order: a beach, an adult sim for sex games, a residential area, another beach park.. and finally got back into the hands of someone that was apparently willing to bring it back to the original vibe.
So wrong.
I'll let piccies speak for me.

Evverybody knows the PIZZA RESTAURANT in Silent Hill. It's a key location.

Apparently, adding some gore-oriented bidimensional ghost should create the perfect silenthillish atmosphere.

Oh god I'm scared. No, seriously, I'm bloody scared: just imagine how long a math interview could be if you had to fill those up. Ah, school days.. lol

The infamous clown of silen.... wait. what?!?!?! *facepalms*

Copyright police!!! I think we have a trouble down here! Someone let RE:Apocashit zombies loose on the set!

So the last thing I had to do was lifting away the only REALLY silenthillish thing that this sim has: windlight preset. And here we come: the same, old, boring, noobie urban-apocalyptic premade city.



Where has fantasy gone? Where has the will to create something unique gone? If you're just aiming to make money and popularity out of some famous franchise, please refrain. I know that the 90% of SL is now made of stupid barbies with more silicone in their heads than stars in the sky, but the few normal peoples left will cringe at the sight of things like this.

TAXI -- http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Silent%20Hill/195/91/26

10.8.10

Discesa all’inferno (?)

Ho sempre avuto particolare occhio di riguardo per i progetti nati dalla passione dei fan per qualcosa. Anche perchè spesso tale passione porta a risultati davvero notevoli.
Potete quindi immaginare la mia gioia quando una persona tempo fa mi fece sapere che era in lavorazione una nuova sim dedicata al mio caro Silent Hill, per rimpiazzare tutte quelle morte negli scorsi anni.
Trepidazione! Ho aspettato un paio di mesi e finalmente ieri ricevo notizie: è aperta, esiste, è visitabile.


Gioia ed eccitazione! Clikko sul "teleport" e attendo i pochi secondi di rito.

Al mio arrivo trovo ad accogliermi.. questo:

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ora mi dico... "mmm brutto segno ma magari avevano finito i prims.." così continuo.
Una strada asfaltata in stile fuga da LA mi porta ad un bivio. Sulla destra una sfilata di vendor sessosi e niubbissimi, sulla sinistra uno dei palazzi free targati Arcadia Asylum databili forse al 2006, di fronte a me un "Cafe".

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Entro.
Tavoloni in legno coperti dalla tovaglietta della nonna e banconi vuoti.
Esco.

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Seguo la strada. C'è una curva. Una pozza libera in cui l'amabile acqua Linden fluisce tranquilla fa da centro alla sim. Non c'è landscaping, non esistono attracchi, non ci sono declivi. Una serie di palazzi urban-niubbi incorniciano una delle sim più brutte che abbia mai visto in 4 anni di SL.
MA continuiamo.

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Il Brookhaven Hospital si è trasformato in "Silent Hill General Hospital" (ma cos'è, una soap opera di terza categoria?), la Midwich School è diventata una anonima "old school", in compenso sono comparsi tre o 4 emuli del Jack's Inn tutti rigorosamente senza nome (vuoi mai che la fantasia si esaurisca sul nascere), un tempio semivuoto dedito al culto della croce celtica rovesciata (che con Silent Hill mi dispiace dirvelo signori non c'entra niente) e...dulcis in fundo... una "House of Wax".
Stupore. Incredulità.

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Cosa c'entra la casa delle cere con quella che, a detta delle info, dovrebbe essere la Silent Hill del secondo capitolo videoludico?


Perchè compaiono pagliacci impiccati che defecano palline colorate, pessime imitazioni di edifici alla Wastelands, recuperati bellici della prima generazione di freebies secondlifeiana e nessuna *ripeto.. nessuna!* diretta referenza a Silent Hill?

Non sono mai stata così arrabbiata.

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Questo significa non avere abbastanza a cuore qualcosa. Con un minimo di tempo in più potrei trasformare la mia sim in una SH mille volte più realistica. Ma per il momento mi accontento di quello che ho (mi rendo conto di non averla recensita.. sarà fatto presto) e lascio ai posteri l'ardua sentenza.

Spero, davvero lo spero vivamente, di aver sbagliato landmark.

V.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sorento/110/244/22

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