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Silent hill 3 pc xbox one12/15/2023 ![]() I think this is the biggest upgrade Team Silent brings to the table with this sequel. They’re now significantly bigger, more menacing, and also require more strategy. The boss encounters see some significant upgrades in this iteration. You’ll find the foes have much better attack patterns and actually implement the barest of minimum of strategy. The line-up of enemies here is significantly improved from the last outing, and they’re much more menacing here. Instead of abstract foes like mannequins (like in the last game) you’ll face off against undead dogs, carnivorous blobs, and other very inventive foes. For one thing there are more types of enemies with more distinct differences. There are several areas in which Silent Hill 3 has been upgraded. Most of the time it’ll make sense to keep them to use against boss characters, but some of the monsters here are on the ceiling or floor which makes melee attacks largely useless against them. Guns also return here, and with limited ammunition you’ll probably want to save your bullets for the encounters which prove to be a little more tricky. You also get more of them here than in the last game, and tools such as the katana are significantly better than the pipe and two by four. Aiming seems to be easier with wider swings of melee attacks. While it’s still pretty clunky the combat mechanics have been improved a fair deal here. The same goes for the puzzles, but at least you can select different difficulties for them. You’ll often need items to move forward, but sometimes the explanations for this are a little vague. The maps really help out once more, and again Heather fills them in as you find open ways forward as well as roadblocks. ![]() Like in the past two games you’ll find that you spend a significant amount of time exploring hallways full of doors and opening them by trial and error. Most of the areas you’ll explore are indoors. You guide Heather through a variety of different environments most of which are home to fleshy abominations and grotesque monsters. Anyone who has played a prior installment knows the drill here. Silent Hill 3 is a third person survival horror game with completely 3D environments. I just feel like Silent Hill 3 doesn’t add enough new things to the mythos. With that out of the way Heather is by far the most likable protagonist, and her story is interesting enough to keep you following. It’s a little disappointing that they decided to return to the plot threads of Alessa and the awakening of god (plus, who even cares about Harry Mason?) It’s an odd thing to return to because no one really cared and there’s so much more to Silent Hill as we learned in the previous installment. She’s the grown up version of the little girl he encounters at the end of the first story. Heather is the daughter of the original protagonist Harry Mason. I usually don’t like to spoil major plot threads but it’s kind of necessary in this case. It seems that she’s important to these grotesque creatures, and learns about an awakening of sorts in the process of beginning. Heather does battle with monsters and hazards, but manages to return to the real world. After evading him the environment twists and contorts into a nightmare version of this usually happy place. The plot begins with Heather awakening in a mall as she’s being tailed by a private detective claiming to have information about her birth. In the world of Silent Hill there are no coincidences, and she soon lives these nightmares. She’s suffering a rash of bad dreams the likes of bloodthirsty monsters in haunted amusement parks. This time the protagonist is a teenage girl named Heather Morris. ![]() I played it years ago, but decided to give it a modern look. Silent Hill 3 just didn’t re-define survival horror like its predecessor did. Silent Hill 3 released but not to nearly the same level of fanfare as its predecessor. Clearly they were gluttons for punishment as they hit the drawing board to do it all over again. Konami (specifically, Team Silent) faced an uphill battle in topping the second title with a new sequel. ![]() Silent Hill 2 was the birth of the actual game franchise.
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