{"id":693,"date":"2006-10-10T07:45:29","date_gmt":"2006-10-10T12:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=693"},"modified":"2007-11-16T11:06:46","modified_gmt":"2007-11-16T16:06:46","slug":"dreamfall-spooky-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=693","title":{"rendered":"Dreamfall: Spooky Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early in the game I ran into this strange little girl:<\/p>\n<p><table width='512'  cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/dreamfall_girl.jpg' class='insetimage' width='512' alt='Dreamfall &#8211; Silent Hill Girl' title='Dreamfall &#8211; Silent Hill Girl'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>One thing that struck me is how &#8220;Silent Hill&#8221; this girl is.  Despite being a little girl, she&#8217;s very spooky and strange.  She seems to be some sort of ghost. (I&#8217;m sure her nature will become clear as the game proceeds.) She&#8217;s powerful.  Her dark hair hides her face.  Your character speaks to her, and she speaks back, but the conversation is pretty one-way; you can&#8217;t get her to respond to you. She&#8217;s also very pale and she seems to be &#8220;mildewing&#8221; on the bottom.  This is all stuff right out of the Silent Hill playbook.<\/p>\n<p>Ragnar Tornquist <a href=\"http:\/\/ragnartornquist.com\/?p=211\">mentions the Silent Hill games on his blog<\/a>, and it&#8217;s pretty clear he must have really gotten into the game at some point. I think it&#8217;s cool to see how that influenced Dreamfall. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early in the game I ran into this strange little girl: One thing that struck me is how &#8220;Silent Hill&#8221; this girl is. Despite being a little girl, she&#8217;s very spooky and strange. She seems to be some sort of ghost. (I&#8217;m sure her nature will become clear as the game proceeds.) She&#8217;s powerful. Her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[65,56],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-adventure-games","tag-dreamfall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}