Why Was The Silent Hill PTB Music Scrapped/Altered?
When DBD had its PTB for the Silent Hill Chapter, it had it's music composed (and/or approved) by Akira Yamaoka (which I remember was a huge deal at the time). So I decided to look back and noticed how the current music we have feels and sounds significantly different compared to the PTB.
PTB:
Current DBD:
But also when doing some digging (and Im not sure of the validity of this since finding sources was very difficult), but apparent Cheryl/other Silent Hill characters were suppose to receive lobby music similar to the Resident Evil characters. This was scrapped going into the live game.
Song below (again, not sure about the validity):
Why were these ever scrapped or changed? I really loved the original music (since I feel like they really gave off the Silent Hill vibe a lot more) and it's such a shame to not have these in the live game (especially the lobby music for Survivors). And while most people forgot about this, I still feel as if it is something worth bringing up from the lost potential of it, as this can happen with other licenses where we lose out on potential songs/soundtracks for what seems like no reason.
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Cheryl's survivor theme music is gorgeous. Akira is crazy talented. I had no idea about any of this until now.
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I mean what we got is more in line with what DBD usually goes for but I like the ptb version much more as it's more more unsettling. DBD tries too hard to be intense with it's music sometimes and it's to it's detriment, having something be disturbing and weird can make for good chase music as well.
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Why aren't they using this?? It's such a bop
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I had no idea. Why they changed it?
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Except this is completely false, Cheryl was never meant to have any lobby music, what you're listening to is one of the remix tracks for the exclusive bonus album that followed with the Japanese version of Dead by Daylight: Silent Hill Edition. (Of which you can listen to on youtube as well.)
They were never meant to be in the game itself.
The live chase music fits pyramid head more as it is more in line with Silent Hill 2's own music, where as the ptb chase music is more in line with that of Silent Hill 1.
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I stated "Im not sure about the validity of this" for a reason (mainly since I was not able to find many sources of this being in the actual game itself).
But even if, I do not see the harm in adding it at a later date, especially when considering the menu music for Survivors changed during Project W, and the potential for another Silent Hill chapter is still there seeing as there are many other characters who can join the fog.
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I still miss the Pyramid Head PTB chase music...
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Fair enough, while i personally don't think we should get another SH chapter, they absolutely should add custom lobby music for older licensed survivors, although i would say if we ever get silent hill lobby music, i think the best way to do it would be to make an entirely new song that's akin to the vocal songs from the Silent Hill games.
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I remember hoping that theyd put the PTB music as the killer POV music, similar to several other killers at the time
Then Twins came out, bugged all custom chase themes and they never bothered fixing the ones that had unique POV chase themes. Deadass the reason why I dropped Oni, that music was a banger
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