It’s not the setting, it’s the posters.

Long before Silent Hill was retroactively built into a gorgeous and unique story, (and long, long before they took that story and shit all over it) – the original was simply a well-made nod to Western horror by a Japanese team about a town trapped in a power struggle between a satan-worshipping cult and a psychic child.

To that end, pretty much every fucking thing in the game is an homage to something American – the streets and stores look like Koontz’s California, but it takes place in King’s Maine – posters, names, faces – everything’s an inside joke.