It always seemed odd that Harry Mason was such a badass. The protagonist of the original Silent Hill was a novelist searching for his missing daughter, and yet over the course of the game he managed to accrue a handgun, a shotgun, a rifle, and multiple melee weapons, which he confidently used to defeat a giant caterpillar, a split-headed lizard, Mothra, and also God.
Meanwhile, badass cop Cybil Bennett was just kind of there. Silent Hill implies that she's off having her own awful adventure at the same time, but we only see glimpses of it. Apparently the original plan was to have two playable characters. When you played Harry you'd get a version of Silent Hill that was puzzle-focused, and when you played Cybil you'd see a more action-oriented version of the game.
