Round Six: Soundtrack
I know. This one isn’t even a fair contest, is it?
Whilst RE’s score – particularly in the early days – offers an excellent fusion of tension and atmosphere, Silent Hill’s terrifying SFX and haunting melodies are infamous for a reason. The only thing to have affected me more than P.T.’s terrifying antagonist was, in that final reveal, hearing the opening mandolin chords of the original theme …
Composer Akira Yamaoka famously said that silence too is a sound … and never is that more apparent than when you gingerly push open a door and step into a prenaturally silent room.
No. We don’t want to go in there, either.
It’s a DRAW! Who’d have guessed it, eh?
