Astute observers have uncovered a few messages hidden in theSilent Hill Townfalltrailer shown at Konami’s showcase on October 19. During theSilent Hill Transmission a number of new projectsin the long-dormant franchise were unveiled, including the long-awaited and rumoredSilent Hill 2remake, another film, and two entirely new entries calledSilent Hill FandSilent Hill Townfall.The reveal ofSilent Hill Townfallwas one of the less enlightening of the broadcast, revealing very little about the upcoming title, not even the platforms it will release on. It is known that the game will be published by Annapurna Interactive and developed by No Code, theindie studio behindStories UntoldandObservation. However, as mysterious as the teaser might seem, No Code Creative Director Jon McKellan pointed out that “it might be worth watching that trailer again and seeing what you might have missed.”RELATED:Silent Hill: Townfall AnnouncedA number ofSilent Hillfans did just that and uncovered a few secret messages. The trailer centers on a CRTV pocket television with a voiceover seemingly speaking to the viewer. Interspersed throughout is static and dramatic music. Reddit user MilkManEX downloaded the trailer, extracted the audio to an MP3, and plugged it into Audacity, where they discovered that its spectrograph hides the text, “Whatever heart this town had has now stopped.”[EMBED_REDDIT]https://www.reddit.com/r/silenthill/comments/y95ei1/found_more_in_the_townfall_audio_hidden_up_in_the/[/EMBED_REDDIT]Other fans played the audio backward and uncovered a message that references Alessa, one of the primary characters of the firstSilent Hillgame who also appears in subsequent entries in the series. This, along with the game’s title and the retro feel of the trailer, has led some to theorize thatSilent Hill Townfallmay be an origin storyof some sort. Furthermore, some viewers analyzed the flickering images on that retro CRTV screen and noticed that one of them has the text “Thy Flesh is weak” along with three dots, three dashes, and three more dots, which is Morse code for S.O.S.
But the discoveries don’t stop there. On October 21, both Annapurna and No Code tweeted out staticky images of a house. Comparisons showed that the two pictures were very slightly different. Savvy Twitter user yApth0 subtracted the images from each other and uncovered another Morse coded message reading, “I don’t know how to leave.” No Code acknowledged the discovery with an “I’m really proud of you” meme.
That may not be all there is to uncover in theSilent Hill Townfallteaser trailer. A few people on Reddit think that, at timestamp 0:33, they can hear the words, “Is that really Alessa?” Either way, it seems thatTownfallmay be going back to the dark cult roots of the series, rather than revisiting the morepsychological horror ofSilent Hill 2.
