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Преступление и наказание (Crime and Punishment) influenced Silent Hill
Added by Media Influence Map · 23 October 2026
The influence
Преступление и наказание Crime and Punishment
Book · 1866
The work it shaped
Silent Hill
Video Game · 2001
The evidence
Team Silent took Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment as the starting point for Silent Hill 2, a man's guilt over a killing he tries to justify by its motive, which James Sunderland's story reworks.
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