Sometimes the music can sound like a small humming noise, like a faraway breeze. The ambience of Silent Hill is, with only a few exceptions, entirely electronic. When I say "dark ambient" I don't mean the strings and piano-segments of Psycho or Resident Evil. The instrumentation is simple: guitar, bass and drums but it still manages to create a feeling of upcoming danger and anxious anticipation. These are played during the intro movie and the various endings, and are, as many people already have noticed, very similar in style to Angelo Badalamenti's excellent music for the TV series "Twin Peaks". Yamaoka uses two genres of music that are far more capable of producing fear: industrial and dark ambient. There are no grand orchestral themes (like in Resident Evil), and there is no use of strings or piano, or other "conventional" horror sounds as most people know them from movies and games. Therefore the Silent Hill OST is very different from other "survival horror" music. The composer strived to create an atmosphere that would fit the game like a glove. The music for Silent Hill, composed by Akira Yamaoka, is not exactly mainstream VG music.
I think that it has a lot to do with not only the game play or the extreme, disturbing scenery, but also the music.
Ever since "Silent Hill" was released, it has been a cult game maybe not as big a success as series like Final Fantasy or Resident Evil, but the game has its loyal supporters.
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