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Artifacts, items based on important trinkets from the series, are found throughout the dungeons, and offer stat boosts with some extra if they are equipped in the right inventory slot. However, just like the genre, the class you start with determines your stats, and a charm, chosen out of eight, provides a permanent boost to one stat, as well. The classes, rather than the typical D&D-type roles of the genre, are modeled after Western high school stereotypes, like goths, jocks, and bookworms. It’s not very complex, being limited to gender, skin color, hair, head, costume, and class. Without a set protagonist, the game invites you to insert yourself into Silent Hill and its lore. Starting a new game confronts you with a series first, a character creator. Another dungeon centers around stealing your high school crush back, with a later one featuring the lover they spurned to be with you. The first one focuses on a person who squeezed you out of a promotion at work.

Each dungeon tells the story of a person whose life is changed by your meddling with the past. Much to your surprise, the rewrites take hold in reality, at the cost of battling through nightmare dungeons full of monsters and loot when you sleep. When confronted with a tome that looks suspiciously like the Necronomicon, naturally, you take a pen to the paper and start rewriting the parts you don’t like. The titular book arrives at your door one day with a return address of Silent Hill on it, and you find that it contains your whole life written down in it. And then sometimes there’s a game like Silent Hill: Book of Memories, from Wayforward in 2012 for the PS Vita, bringing together the two tastes of ‘psychological survival horror’ and ‘dungeon crawler’ like everybody always wanted. Just like in cooking, it’s a matter of how you do it and what you’re mixing together. A classic like Actraiser fused a city builder with a side scrolling action game to great success. Video games have their fair share of this phenomena, as well, and sometimes it works. It’s inexplicable, but some people seem to like it, even as it turns some others off. Pineapple and ham are both perfectly fine ingredients in most situations, just not on pizza, yet people put them together, on pizza. There are just some flavors that don’t go together.