Like what the title says, the second time of Silent Hill 3 is still scary -- the real feeling of Kenji Kawai's superb sound effect -- although I did know what I was supposed to do. Only the fresh first playing experience for horror games is impressive, or maybe I should say valuable. I indeed enjoyed being lost in a tunnel for 3 days or spending a week yet still failed to solve a riddle. I swear that I wasn't spoiled that much -- I did ask certain amount of help or I would give up playing.
Anyway, after the first time, replaying is nothing but a kind of entertainment, I don't deny the first time of playing is also counted as entertainment, but the thing is, at least to me, the reason to play changed. I just wanted to read the entire story and feel the kind of fear that doesn't occur in real life. I'm not a good survive game player, never. So I'm not that stupid to challenge the HARD action mode (NORMAL mode is already killing me and I believe HARD will make me smashing my keyboard). Since the second time, the aim has changed to collect other possible endings, even though they are probably available on youtube and/or nicovideo.
I've already started, so I'm sorta obligated to obtain all endings by my own. Which is what I think and what kept me playing for the second (third, fourth... in future) time.
Anyway, after the first time, replaying is nothing but a kind of entertainment, I don't deny the first time of playing is also counted as entertainment, but the thing is, at least to me, the reason to play changed. I just wanted to read the entire story and feel the kind of fear that doesn't occur in real life. I'm not a good survive game player, never. So I'm not that stupid to challenge the HARD action mode (NORMAL mode is already killing me and I believe HARD will make me smashing my keyboard). Since the second time, the aim has changed to collect other possible endings, even though they are probably available on youtube and/or nicovideo.
I've already started, so I'm sorta obligated to obtain all endings by my own. Which is what I think and what kept me playing for the second (third, fourth... in future) time.
...I'm not talking about Silent Hill and horror games for no reason.
I've just started playing Silent Hill 2 this afternoon.
This time, I'm 100% free of spoilers. With a little spoiler, I spent more than 9 hours and 40+ saves (game recorded only, the actual time was MUCH LONGER) in total, so hope I'm not spending 2x excess of time.
Last time for SH3, I started with EASY mode, because I've heard under easy mode, the boss barely move! Now, for SH2, I didn't, because I saw another option at the bottom: Beginner mode.
So, to give me some balance, the riddle mode was still hard. I do enjoy solving riddles, but I really hate fighting with ugly monsters (and then be killed for hunderd of times and then have to reload...).
I've just started playing Silent Hill 2 this afternoon.
This time, I'm 100% free of spoilers. With a little spoiler, I spent more than 9 hours and 40+ saves (game recorded only, the actual time was MUCH LONGER) in total, so hope I'm not spending 2x excess of time.
Last time for SH3, I started with EASY mode, because I've heard under easy mode, the boss barely move! Now, for SH2, I didn't, because I saw another option at the bottom: Beginner mode.
So, to give me some balance, the riddle mode was still hard. I do enjoy solving riddles, but I really hate fighting with ugly monsters (and then be killed for hunderd of times and then have to reload...).
Yet, before I fully entered into SH2 mode, I spent some more time to deal with their hardware issue--the movie scenes didn't load completely and the game couldn't end properly. To solve this, you have to run it on one core of the processor. Hmm, I still don't get the point. But it worked.
While being in SH2's world just a few minutes after, the first weapon I got was a real surprise.
Neither a knife nor a handgun,
A CHAINSAW!!!
-- not handy though. The plank I found later was MUCH easier to use (to me). However, in my opinion, a strong weapon like a chainsaw should appear much later, or after clear the game at least once. Which made me a bit excited (lost as well).
Guess I'd like to watch people playing under HARD action mode, if anyone records it, since I'll never touch it :3
Neither a knife nor a handgun,
A CHAINSAW!!!
-- not handy though. The plank I found later was MUCH easier to use (to me). However, in my opinion, a strong weapon like a chainsaw should appear much later, or after clear the game at least once. Which made me a bit excited (lost as well).
Guess I'd like to watch people playing under HARD action mode, if anyone records it, since I'll never touch it :3
Another thing. ALI PROJECT & Annabel's new singles are coming together again! This time, Rozen Maiden (looks like new anime series). I will definitely follow this series!
finally, GO, JAMES!! XDD