Playing Paranormal: Pyramid Head
Playing Paranormal is the latest feature here at Paranoid Gamer. The idea is simple: to profile all of our favorite video game monsters/creatures and the creative minds behind them. For our inaugural episode we’re profiling one of the greats, one of the most iconic creatures from gaming’s past: Pyramid Head. Pyramid Head makes its first appearance in the 2001 horror classic Silent Hill 2, and has become something of a trademark of the series ever since. His imposing stature and large bladed death-dealing instrument allude to the series’ titular town and its dark past as a grounds for execution. The very iconic pyramid shaped head piece was designed to obscure the monster’s face, adding mystery and dread to his various on screen appearances. Silent Hill, has always been a series built around psychological horror. The town itself, being the true antagonist of the franchise time and again, lures victims in, draws from their psyche and warps their troubled thoughts into real manifestations of terror. Pyramid Head is no exception, representing