Silent Hill Chat

[A Black Falcon]

To be clear, they don't "ignore" the world. The world is used as a tool to develop the main character. The whole world exists almost solely to develop the characters themselves. I gotta say, caring more about world building than character development is... unorthodox to say the least. These days such an attitude is almost unheard of, heck downright blasphemous, but it does go a long way towards explaining our differences in opinion on this.

"Blasphemous"? That sounds like quite an exaggeration, I'd think... but sure, sometimes I care about the characters in games, but yeah overall I care more about the world than the characters in specific.

(Oh, to be clear, if you want history, the "cult" of Silent Hill, when it's explored, dates back to the founding of the town, when settlers mixed their Christianity with Native American folklore. That said, that aspect took over way too much in later Silent Hill games, at the expense of character development.)

New England colonists, mixing with Native American folklore? Uhhh, yeah, no, that would not ever have happened. The American colonists were very unwilling to consider any significant mixing with Native Americans. This sounds quite implausible, but horror stories seem like they usually are that...