Silent Hill: Play Novel is an adaptation of the original Silent Hill for Game Boy Advance in the form of visual novel. A visual novel is an interactive fiction game featuring mostly static graphics with text. At certain moments the game asks a player to make a choice between two or more possible variants which affect the following walkthrough. Such kind of games is very popular in Japan, however totally unpopular in the west, therefore Silent Hill: Play Novel was never released outside this country. The game offered two scenarios: for Harry and Cybil (available after completing Harry's Scenario). Also there were four additional scenarios available for download, the main hero of which was the boy named Andy. However Konami ended the download service after a short time. Besides the narration the game features a couple of puzzles and multiple endings. After reaching the ending a player is awarded with Digital Trading Cards - 32 in total for all scenarios.
Japanese study overview
Play Novel: Silent Hill is a Japanese visual novel of 98,248 characters, with 5,170 unique words and 1,408 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.8 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 5,170 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
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Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 私I×1,043
- 彼女she×207
- 中inside×136
- 街town×133
- 少女girl (usu. between 7 and 17)×121
- 扉door×116
- 部屋room×92
- 言うto say×82
- 向かうto face×75
- 待つto wait×65
- 化け物goblin×65
- 思うto think×64
- 印章stamp×13
- 骨董屋antique store×13
- 稼動operation (of a machine)×9
- 捕われるto be caught×9
- 侵蝕encroachment×9
- 時計台clock tower×8
- 回転木馬merry-go-round×7
- 深い霧thick fog×7