The Hot Horror Switcheroo - V2: Can Ellie escape from Silent Hill?

[Nonynho]

Very simple premise: You remember James Sunderland from Silent Hill 2? Ellie is the one there instead of him, following the same plot, though instead of killing Dina, Ellie's simply facing herself/her survivor's guilt and we're here to determine if she can or cannot escape the town alive and renewed, following more or less the endings of the game!

1. All monsters have speed equal to Ellie's
2. Ellie's loadout is maxed out with all possible resources
3. Ellie's wincon is specifically getting something akin to the "Leave" ending

The town keeps her there -

Ellie's able to play guitar peacefully near Jackson -

 

[Nonynho]

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[Apex_Predator_GX]

Ellie from would probably never escape
because the town doesn’t just test physical survival, it attacks a person psychologically.

The monsters and horrors in Silent Hill are usually tied to the victim’s mind, meaning Ellie would constantly be forced to relive her pain, especially everything involving Joel, Riley, and the people she lost. Fighting skill would not save her because Silent Hill is not something you can simply shoot your way out of.

 

[Nonynho]

Ellie from would probably never escape
because the town doesn’t just test physical survival, it attacks a person psychologically.

The monsters and horrors in Silent Hill are usually tied to the victim’s mind, meaning Ellie would constantly be forced to relive her pain, especially everything involving Joel, Riley, and the people she lost. Fighting skill would not save her because Silent Hill is not something you can simply shoot your way out of.

Ellie has shown in her journey that she can become better. Since this should be after TLoU 2, she learned a lesson that cost her family, but she should not be the same vengeance-hungry person we saw, so it's a matter of her being able to deal with her guilt.
If the town is made for the person to try learning their lessons to escape it (my interpretation), she can get out of it, because it's a huge trait of hers to be able to endure psychological damage, mostly self-inflicted, it'll just be really really hard

 

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[AThe1412]

Ellie has shown in her journey that she can become better. Since this should be after TLoU 2, she learned a lesson that cost her family, but she should not be the same vengeance-hungry person we saw, so it's a matter of her being able to deal with her guilt.
If the town is made for the person to try learning their lessons to escape it (my interpretation), she can get out of it, because it's a huge trait of hers to be able to endure psychological damage, mostly self-inflicted, it'll just be really really hard

Nah, she pretty much lost everything by the end of the game. To me, Ellie was done for the moment she chose to continue pursuing Abby. It also doesn't help that she took out many other people during her journey, including a pregnant woman (in self-defense and without knowing it until she was already dead), yet couldn't bring herself to actually end the one directly responsible for Joel's death when she finally came close to it. A pretty ironic thing is that if Ellie hadn't gone after her, Abby would've just died slowly and painfully on that pole.

 

[Hecky2222]

Honestly this is pretty good matchup and can go either way.

Ellie's whole mental state already advantage for Silent Hill, and we see in Silent Hill James Endiings how Town can affect it's victim. But if she can truly forgive herself let's say(Something realistically I don't believe even after TLOU 2 ending) she can escape town. Otherwise leaning towards for Silent Hill

 

[Nonynho]

Nah, she pretty much lost everything by the end of the game. To me, Ellie was done for the moment she chose to continue pursuing Abby.

Interesting enough, to me it seems like that caused her to learn, and IMO the only hope she'd have to actually escape the town (TLoU 1 Ellie would 100% not be able to learn a thing due to how much she suffers because of Riley alone), and because she was capable of learning that she can attempt to be different, maybe she can deal with her genocidal acts

including a pregnant woman (in self-defense and without knowing it until she was already dead)

Imagine the boss fight with a distorted version of her

Honestly this is pretty good matchup and can go either way.

I feel like i'm known for remarkably strange matchups, so thank you :>

But if she can truly forgive herself let's say(Something realistically I don't believe even after TLOU 2 ending) she can escape town. Otherwise leaning towards for Silent Hill

The thing is
Watching how all games unfold, it seems like even the ones not made by Keiichiro Toyama go out of their way to show that the town itself does not kill anyone, so it'll have to convince her to kill herself
Which i don't see happening after the 2nd games' end, since i believe very hard it won't make a convincing image of Joel and/or Riley saying they won't forgive her no matter what

 

[Nonynho]

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