![]() Much wandering and map reading typically leads to a puzzle or a locked door barring your way. She takes refuge in the toilets, but when she emerges Heather finds the mall has turned into a trans-dimensional vision of hell, populated by a menagerie of bizarre mutants. ![]() After waking up from an horrendous nightmare, a man harasses her in the local mall. This time out the lead character is Heather, an everyday skinny teenage girl in obligatory short skirt and high boots (this is a Japanese game, after all). But, somewhat disappointingly, neither will it surprise with its near-identical gameplay and slightly uninspired approach to puzzle solving. And this latest offering, migrating over from the PS2, will not disappoint in the 'that sure is some crazy shit’ stakes. ![]() So when Silent Hill 3 takes this frightening scenario and throws in hideous gibbering demons, wall-to-wall blood and grime, and a nightmarish caterwauling din piping through the Tannoy, you can imagine it’s not pretty.īut such twisting of familiar situations into grotesque parodies of their earthly selves will be nothing new to fans of the Silent Hill series, quite probably the most gloriously deranged of all survival horror games. Coffee shops full of people acting like they’re in Friends, faceless fastfood joints, the words 'have a nice day’ ringing in your ears. Dreary American shopping malls are ungodly hellholes at the best of times.
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