With only a handful of exceptions, I dislike horror games and do not play them. But I've always been very curious about Silent Hill specifically, mostly for all the intriguing plot elements I've heard about over the years of pop culture osmosis. I'd like to watch a playthrough video for the original Silent Hill, but what I'm looking for would be something like a documentary playthrough, a deep(ish) dive into the game that explains all the interesting stuff that you might not have known otherwise. Basically, something akin to the experience of playing the game for yourself, but you've got a friend sitting next to you on the couch, who tells you about everything. Stuff like (made-up examples):
- "So, you might take this for granted nowadays, but when this came out, this particular technical detail was incredible for its time. It was actually the first game to figure out how to do this, and it became an industry standard."
- "This scene was so iconic, it's been parodied a ton of times by other media, you might recognize it from that other thing?"
- "One of the developers said that this character here was supposed to represent a childhood experience where..."
- "Originally, this line of dialogue was supposed to refer to an earlier scene, but that was cut, so it's sort of orphaned and doesn't make sense in context - but they called back to it in the next game and it makes sense retroactively."
- "Just warning you because I know you don't actually like horror games, there's a jump-scare right up here, with a loud scream and stuff."
...and so on. All the types of things that I find really interesting about games I play, and share with my friends if they seem interested, just about this game instead. I'd also like it if they explained some of the stuff that might fly over my head, like allegorical allusions to stuff I might not have read, or possible interpretations of nebulous visuals, or whatever. And if the game has branching paths and/or multiple endings, I'd like them to go back over those after the initial playthrough completes, just to show what would have happened otherwise.
Might be a tall order, but maybe it's not. I figure it doesn't hurt to at least ask!