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Getting off the streets... Feeling rather shamed at how freaked out I got the night before, I decided that this time, I would try to tackle it in the middle of the day. Heading back down to the basement like a soldier marching into battle, I returned to the foggy town of Silent Hill... I open my little map and what do I find? A small area labelled 'Rosewater Park' in the corner of the map has been circled with red. My guess is that this is where I have to go. Noooooo troubles at all; I have a map! AFter fifteen minutes, I reopen my little map. Every single path leading to that friggin park has a little red line squiggled across it, meaning that it was impassable. Some things...I can understand like 'the bridge seems to have fallen down long time ago' and 'the door is locked, you cannot pass through here.' Stuff like that, sure, while VERY coincidental, I can understand. But why the hell can't I pass through an area blocked off by what seems to be police tape? Disgusted, I wander around some more to find an abandoned trailer where I find a map telling me to go to an alley where I find a key to the front door of the apartment buildings and this is how I ended up in those godforsaken apartment buildings... It's a lot darker inside the buildings than it was out on the fog encrusted streets. I can barely see 2 feet in front of me. Undaunted, I save my game and head upstairs. The hallways are cramped and narrow and combined with the darkness, somehow gave me a sense of feeling closed in. I keep hearing sounds as I make my way from door to door but I ignore em all cause the radio doesn't burst out with static. Entering a room, I see a light shining on some kind of mannequin used to show off clothes. I pluck the flashlight from the mannequin and put it in my front pocket so that the light illuminates the area in front of me thinking, "oh good, I can see." BLAM! Whacked in the face by some...mannequin made of legs that was standing RIGHT behind me that I didn't notice. I jump outta my chair for the second time and utter another profanity. Regaining control of my senses, I beat that sneaky piece of shit into the ground with my trusty board with a nail and continue on my way. I continue searching from room to room, beating down more mannequins and those demons from out on the streets. (Upon closer examination, I've come to the conclusion that they HAVE arms, they just can't use em cause they're wearing straitjackets) I have their number now, hit em three times and give em a few whacks while they're down to get em out of the running...piece of cake. Running around the apartments, getting little items, exchanging them at places for keys, opening more doors, the whole nine-yards as they would say. An upside? I found a handgun in a shopping cart in the middle of one of the rooms. Heh, don't ask why it was there, I have no clue but I HAVE A GUN!!! W00t XD. Met another NPC a little after that, some guy named Eddie who while throwing up into a toilet repeatedly claimed that he didn't kill the dead person in the kitchen...riiiiight...I'll be careful around him...but anyways, moving on... So now that I have a gun, I feel invincible. That's not to say I USE the damned thing, I've learned my lesson the hard way from countless survival/horror games that ammo must be conserved at all costs so long story short, I continued to beat down monsters I met with my board with a nail. There's...something more satisfying about getting in close and just smacking an enemy to death...almost therapeutic. So, feeling very confidant, I wander around feeling really good and not scared at all. I walk into another room and remember very vividly that Silent Hill is more known for being disturbing' than outright scary. Picture two small monsters made of two pairs of mannequin legs stacked end to end so that there are two waists joined at hip level and two legs to walk, and two legs waving in the air. Got it? Good, now picture a bigger monster, one that LOOKS basically human but seems to be wearing really dirty and ragged gray clothes holding a giant freaking knife that's coated with dried blood and drags on the ground making a HORRIBLE noise. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, instead of a head, he seems to have a dark colored...pyramid...thing...up there on his neck instead. Got that now? Okay, good. Now, picture Pyramid Head raping the two mannequin things. Take a moment and think about what's wrong with this scene. Got it in your head? Good. Now add sounds and picture me alone in a dark basement with the sounds turned up looking EXACTLY like this: O.o Unless you see it with your own eyes, alone in a dark room with the sound turned up, you will NEVER come near to my level of 'WTF-ness' at that moment. Traumatized, I decided to be a brave little man and soldier on, I mean, come ON!! There can't be anything worse than that god-awful demon rape scene right? So my character scares that Pyramid thing off by shooting a full ten rounds into it. Exiting the closet where I was hiding while that hideous love fest went on, I examine the bodies of the mannequin demons to find them dead...wow...this thing has like a...wang of...of...DEATH or something ^.^ Moving on, I've pretty much figured out that Pyramid Head will be the last boss right? I mean, C'MON!! So I move on through the apartment to the final locked room, a stairwell. Feeling thankful that I'll be out of the apartments, I unlock the door to get inside and...AWW FUCKING CHRIST NOT AGAIN!!! Yep, better believe it, Pyramid Head was at it again...and this time with one of those straitjacket demons...he finishes up, the demon drops dead to the floor and Pyramid Head turns to me, picked up his giant fucking cleaver and starts walking towards me. Right then, I knew what I had to do. I paused the game, said aloud to the empty basement, "Fuck this shit!" and turned off the game. I think I've had enough trauma and mind-scarring for one night... I hate hospitals... |