If you’re not a gamer, you’d probably still have heard of Silent Hill the movie, and have probably seen the Cybil Bennett police officer character in it. Yeah, the one who spoiler spoiler spoiler spoiler. Cybil in the game is quite different.
Now I can’t tell you what her exact purpose in the game is (there are tons of theories out there if you felt like breaking your brain); but this is what I believe Cybil is not: male protagonist’s love/sex interest, cleavage, blonde bombshell, damsel in distress. She is just a female police officer who happened to be blonde, beautiful and very well-proportioned, like the rest of the young women in the whole of the game universe.
I was quite thrilled when I first read about Konami’s “reimagining” of the original Silent Hill game. Okay, so remakes have never been all that exciting; but this is Silent Hill. Silent Hill is Silent Hill, is Silent Hill, is Silent Hill. Or so I was chanting half in disbelief when I was looking at the screenshots of the now wearing glasses and looking 100 times more distraught Harry Mason (the protagonist).
It really wasn’t until I saw this one screenshot with Cybil… Let’s put the two Cybils side by side. On the left is the Cybil from the 1999 PlayStation days; on the right, Cybil in the upcoming Silent Hill: Shattered Memories.
She may still not be a damsel in distress; but poor, poor Cybil, who did you piss off at BPD, SHPD and/or Konami to deserve this?
I can actually already see why they named the reimagining “Shattered Memories” now.
Vickie Diablos is a postgraduate student in Health Informatics, a hardcore gamer geek and a socially awkward logic and science nerd. She thought keeping a "cool blog" would make her a cool person. Alas. 
Grax
16 Apr 2009
7:06 pm
Judging by the side-by-side pictures of Cybil I think the 1999 picture looks better because it’s a more realistic look for a police woman. All they would need to do with the Shattered Memories version is button up her shirt.
However I think it might be too late for the developers to button up her shirt.
Vickie
16 Apr 2009
9:40 pm
Her different, uh, buttoning style is what we see now. Who knows what else has been changed in this reimagining (as opposed to a remake)?
Vixx
16 Apr 2009
10:48 pm
I agree. I was pretty excited about the remake until I saw that very cap and then the doubts set in.
It was enough at what happened to poor Cybil in the movie. And now this?!
V xx
Katy
21 Apr 2009
4:53 am
Hahaha laughed at this entry! I just started playing Silent Hill: Homecoming on PS3 (well making boyfriend play while I helped him).