Silent Hill 5 pitch

Dramatis Personae:

Mark Kellinger: The main protagonist. ~23 y/o. Caucasian male. Born in a poor, post-industrial fallout Pennsylvania town. As a child he witnessed a drug epidemic sweep through his town, ultimately consuming his father’s life. This is the beginning of his trauma but not the whole of it. Mark would eventually overcome his poverty to be accepted to Ashfield University, about 22 miles southwest of Silent Hill, Maine. However, dreams of his father choking on his own vomit would terrorize him, eventually leading him to abuse drugs, including White Claudia, on his own. His girlfriend, Laura, would be dragged in to his toxic behaviors, and Mark wakes up after one particularly intense drug use session to discover that Laura has also overdosed, and is in the process of dying. Still high, Mark is delusional and begins to laugh as she suffocates. When Mark awakes again, he is sober and discovers that he has been in the same room as Laura’s corpse for several days. Devastated, he seeks treatment, where his therapist uses hypnosis to bury his memories and ease his trauma. Several days into treatment, Mark has largely had his traumatic memories buried, when he receives a letter from a woman named Laura, asking him to come visit her at Ashfield University. Unable to recognize the name, but compelled by some distant memory, Mark sets off to discover the truth and returns to Ashfield University.

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In “Graduation,” the reason Mark arrives on campus is revealed to be absolute: his therapist decides to use hypnosis to quell his dreams and bury his trauma. Mark receives a letter from a woman named “Laura,” asking him to come visit her at Ashfield University. He does not recognize the name as a result of the hypnosis, but it sounds so familiar that he is compelled to go. The ending shows him several years after his experience, graduating from Ashfield University. He sees the ghosts of George, Marsha, Bill and Laura in the distance, applauding him.

In “The Patient,” the same series of events results in Mark seeking treatment, but being unable to confront his demons he decides to attempt suicide via overdose. The ending of the game sees him awaken, the doctors having been successful in stabilizing him. It is implied that his experiences were the result of drug-induced hallucination and a guilty conscience attempting to do battle with his inner demons. This ending has him overcome his demons, and shows Mark leaving the hospital to a bright day and brighter future.

In “Time to Go,” the events of “The Patient” are revisited, showing a rainy, foggy day as Mark leaves the hospital. Mark is unable to forgive himself, and walks into traffic.

In “The Cycle,” Mark briefly awakens in the same dorm room, now filthy and reminiscent of his Other World, where Laura died. He has a needle in his arm, and vials of a mysterious drug surrounding him. He pulls the needle out, tops it off from one of the vials, and injects himself yet again. It is implied that he is trapped in Hell, and spends his days injecting himself with drugs.

“Mandatory UFO ending,” I have no idea, probably some weird ass shit.