Silent Hill playlog pt. 5
May. 22nd, 2012 04:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
indigozealSo I went to the hospital, which went a bit easier than the school: more ammo, fewer enemies roaming in packs. The possessed nurses do take more shots to put down, so I did run low on ammo, but I picked up a sweet emergency hammer that packed a killer punch. Shortly afterward, though, the game got the brilliant idea to drop me in an unfamiliar area in complete darkness with no visibility packed with dogs and pterodactyls that take several more hits each to kill than usual. That's the Silent Hill I know and am ambivalent towards.
One issue: I'm starting to run across loose ends in my investigations. A empty bird cage in the hospital the camera gives a significant CG glamour shot; a conspicuous plaque bearing a "Grim Reaper's List" of passed-away patients with puzzle-ready numbers by their names; a broken vial of unidentified red liquid in the hospital director's office that I gathered up with an empty bottle from the kitchen; a rock drill on a bridge that needs gasoline; notes on the (abandoned) police station blackboard about a drug trafficking ring; a grandfather clock in an antique shop suspiciously spotlighted. I'm playing on normal, so I don't know if these're leftover elements that get addressed only on hard, or if I'm missing problems that I'm supposed to solve and am headed for a bad ending as a result. I don't see any way these puzzle pieces fit together, though. I was told just before exiting the hospital that a pagan sigil in the school courtyard was part of a seal of a dark god that "could not be allowed to be completed," so I got the idea that, hey, ha ha, maybe the red liquid is a powerful cleanser, and so I ran across two town maps all the way back to the school to discover that Harry wouldn't go in: "no need to investigate the school any more." Also, a creepy woman who's obviously a cult leader left behind a Key Item pyramid bearing the name of "Flauros" that I realized shortly after picking up that I really shouldn't have picked up (and there's no "drop" command). Then I looked up its name - "Flauros" - and found that it belonged to a duke of hell, so. I should've known; pyramids have such an illustrious history in this franchise.
A bit of omega speculation before closing. So Alessa's Cheryl, right? I know through internet osmosis that Harry's story about Cheryl isn't entirely kosher. The Doctor Harry met when he first entered the hospital looks a lot like an older version of himself, and Lisa greeted Harry with suspicious warmth (even for his possible-last-man-on-earth-or-at-least-in-town status); is Lisa Harry's wife? And Harry and Lisa are memories or "ghosts" of their younger selves walking around the dark world, unaware that they actually died long ago or whatever? (Both Lisa and Harry have blackout problems, and Lisa appears only in the dark world; our protagonist, of course, can walk between both, but we don't really know how he appears to Cybill, do we? He could look like a thicker, balding doctor to her, for all we know.) I note that Dahlia Gillespie has a son that died in a car crash, and we have a male protagonist that woke up after an auto accident, so hm. My theories are contradictory, but whatever.
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One issue: I'm starting to run across loose ends in my investigations. A empty bird cage in the hospital the camera gives a significant CG glamour shot; a conspicuous plaque bearing a "Grim Reaper's List" of passed-away patients with puzzle-ready numbers by their names; a broken vial of unidentified red liquid in the hospital director's office that I gathered up with an empty bottle from the kitchen; a rock drill on a bridge that needs gasoline; notes on the (abandoned) police station blackboard about a drug trafficking ring; a grandfather clock in an antique shop suspiciously spotlighted. I'm playing on normal, so I don't know if these're leftover elements that get addressed only on hard, or if I'm missing problems that I'm supposed to solve and am headed for a bad ending as a result. I don't see any way these puzzle pieces fit together, though. I was told just before exiting the hospital that a pagan sigil in the school courtyard was part of a seal of a dark god that "could not be allowed to be completed," so I got the idea that, hey, ha ha, maybe the red liquid is a powerful cleanser, and so I ran across two town maps all the way back to the school to discover that Harry wouldn't go in: "no need to investigate the school any more." Also, a creepy woman who's obviously a cult leader left behind a Key Item pyramid bearing the name of "Flauros" that I realized shortly after picking up that I really shouldn't have picked up (and there's no "drop" command). Then I looked up its name - "Flauros" - and found that it belonged to a duke of hell, so. I should've known; pyramids have such an illustrious history in this franchise.
A bit of omega speculation before closing. So Alessa's Cheryl, right? I know through internet osmosis that Harry's story about Cheryl isn't entirely kosher. The Doctor Harry met when he first entered the hospital looks a lot like an older version of himself, and Lisa greeted Harry with suspicious warmth (even for his possible-last-man-on-earth-or-at-least-in-town status); is Lisa Harry's wife? And Harry and Lisa are memories or "ghosts" of their younger selves walking around the dark world, unaware that they actually died long ago or whatever? (Both Lisa and Harry have blackout problems, and Lisa appears only in the dark world; our protagonist, of course, can walk between both, but we don't really know how he appears to Cybill, do we? He could look like a thicker, balding doctor to her, for all we know.) I note that Dahlia Gillespie has a son that died in a car crash, and we have a male protagonist that woke up after an auto accident, so hm. My theories are contradictory, but whatever.
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