>>719850297
Read my post again. That's exactly what I'm saying.

Japanese people (Team Silent) took Western tropes (alchemy and the heroes journey) mixed them with Japanese horror (survival over defeat, style over substance, subtlety & ambiguity, tragic and/or vengeful supernatural entities, folkloric roots, etc) and created a game world (Japanese-lens design) which makes the game an inherently Japanese game.

If Westerners had been the developers yet followed the exact aforementioned formula, the game would have still ended up looking completely different. And this is because by having both cultural and genetic differences, the way you perceive the world around you changes, the way you see Japanese and Western tropes changes, the way you design games changes.

Picrel. Think about how the games would have been if Team Silent developed the games at the bottom without any info about them except for the name and the synopsis. Now try the same exercise with Westerners who have never heard anything about Silent Hill before yet you give them the task to create the OG first 4 games with just the general idea. Spoiler alert: Completely different games.

>>713088683
Any Silent Hill game made by a western studio