Renowned Silent Hill composer Akira Yamaoka has been showcasing his incredible talent for spinning up creepy, spidery music for the series since 1999, but what makes the 2001 Silent Hill 2 soundtrack so remarkable is apparently the attention Yamaoka gave to unmusical matters – like the game's undoubtedly noxious stench.
"With the previous title, the first game, I had set myself the mission of creating something that hadn't existed in game sound or audio until then," Yamaoka explains in a new interview with IGN, according to a translation. "For Silent Hill 2, [...] I also tried to depict things with sound that couldn't be conveyed visually in the game – things like temperature in the game, smells, or the sensation of wind brushing against the character."
