This is a special one Silent Hill fans! I had the awesome opportunity to speak with the one and only Monica Taylor Horgan otherwise also known as the ORIGINAL voice actress for Mary/Maria in Silent Hill 2! In my opinion Monica was the best actor/actress in Silent Hill 2. She played two roles one of them being a very seductress and complex character the other is best know for the letter she reads at the end of the game. She was sexy, dramatic and heart warming all at the same time. She brought tears to some and undoubtedly moved everyone who played the game. Monica’s voice, just like all the other voice actors in Silent Hill 2, will never be replaced and will always be remembered by the characters they portrayed.

Speaking to Monica she gave me a little background of herself as well as her thoughts on the Konami and Guy Cihi fiasco and how she fits in the picture. Here is my discussion with Monica, enjoy!

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Horror games have some of the most compelling stories and we all know Silent Hill 2 is best known for its dramatic, romantic, bittersweet horror. God is a Geek placed Silent Hill 2 as number one on their top 5 horror video games next to Fatal Frame, Resident Evil, F.E.A.R. and Dead Space. I must say I couldn’t agree more with them. Here is what God is a Geek had to say about Silent Hill 2:

This has to be the scariest game I have ever played. The first Silent Hill was brilliant and, as we all know, sometimes sequels can be disappointing. However, this was not the case with Silent Hill 2. This was the first Silent Hill title to hit the PlayStation 2 and it was a great improvement on the already brilliant original. The dark corridors and rooms, force you to use a torch, but this in turn alerts the enemies to your presence. This mechanic was a stroke of genius, making you choose between being safe yet unable to see, or having a light which turns you into a walking target for enemies.

Further to this, the static from the radio increases when you approach the enemies, which adds to the fear. Then, when you venture outside, the thick fog gives you another problem. Is that figure coming towards you human or a contorted disfigured monster ready to rip your limbs off and beat you to death with them? Also, no-one who has played this game could ever forget Pyramid Head, the sword-wielding monster that stalks you relentlessly throughout the game. If that wasn’t enough, the whole world would sometimes morph into something resembling hell on Earth!

The storyline is both brilliant and intense, and it gives the player the feeling that every step they took to reach the final objective would take them further away from unraveling the mysteries of Silent Hill. To make the whole thing even more scary, the musical score was extremely strange, and assisted in shredding your nerves to pieces. The gameplay, although very similar to Resident Evil, is very easy to use, though when under pressure it made you panic and you’d end up juggling the controls like some kind of stupid clown act. All in all, I believe that this game was scarier than a mad drooling demon scooping the brains out of your head with a dessert spoon and using your tongue to paint the walls of hell with your blood.

Source: God is a Geek