A prequel released for the handheld PSP and later ported to the Playstation 2, Origins is a retelling of the events that happened seven years before ''SilentHill1''. It stars a trucker named Travis Grady, whose attempts to take a shortcut through Silent Hill get sidetracked by a figure running onto the road and a house on fire. After bailing a mysterious (and very, very crispy) girl out of her house, he passes out and awakes in the completely deserted streets of Silent Hill. His attempts to find out what exactly happened to the girl lead him all over the town and eventually get him embroiled in mysterious cult activity, as well as the [[DarkAndTroubledPast troubled past]] of his that appears to be a prerequisite for ''Silent Hill'' protagonists.

Although Origins faithfully sticks to the Silent Hill formula for creepy atmospheres, nightmare worlds, and baffling puzzles, it introduces BreakableWeapons and being able to switch over to the [[DarkWorld Otherworld]] via mirrors--in practice, this just means twice as meany areas (of which half are just a grimdark version of themselves) to explore.

Characters in Origins, with the exception of Travis himself, are all younger versions of the characters found in Silent Hill 1 -- Dahlia, Lisa, and Kaufmann. They wear different clothes and have slightly different personalities, but are ultimately the same. [[spoiler:(Except for the possibility that Lisa is sixteen -- if you take Origins to have taken place literally seven years before the events of SilentHill1 -- and you can walk in on her and Kaufmann having sex. ''Awkward.'')]]

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A prequel released for the handheld PSP and later ported to the Playstation 2, ''Origins'' is a retelling of the events that happened seven years before ''SilentHill1''. It stars a trucker named Travis Grady, whose attempts to take a shortcut through Silent Hill get sidetracked by a figure running onto the road and a house on fire. After bailing a mysterious (and very, very crispy) girl out of her house, he passes out and awakes in the completely deserted streets of Silent Hill. His attempts to find out what exactly happened to the girl lead him all over the town and eventually get him embroiled in mysterious cult activity, as well as the [[DarkAndTroubledPast troubled past]] of his that appears to be a prerequisite for ''Silent Hill'' protagonists.

Although ''Origins'' faithfully sticks to the ''Silent Hill'' formula for creepy atmospheres, nightmare worlds, and baffling puzzles, it introduces BreakableWeapons and being able to switch over to the [[DarkWorld Otherworld]] via mirrors--in practice, this just means twice as meany areas (of which half are just a grimdark version of themselves) to explore.

Characters in ''Origins'', with the exception of Travis himself, are all younger versions of the characters found in ''SilentHill1'' -- Dahlia, Lisa, and Kaufmann. They wear different clothes and have slightly different personalities, but are ultimately the same. [[spoiler:(Except for the fact that Lisa is a real person.)]]

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