音時雨 ～Regentropfen～

Regardless having no guts to break into Hunk/Tofu episode, I eventually couldn't resist trying Biohazard 3 last night (I want to continue "Call of Cthulhu", but my body rejects it by giving me severe motion sickness). I've only watched someone's playing video quite a while ago, but because that guy was way too boring, I dropped barely after 10 minutes (right around the old man who lost his daughter locked himself inside a truck). So I can say Bio3 is completely new to me, and thus I'm excited (how far I can go by myself).

Being afraid to get spoiled, I didn't read anything about this game except its user manual, so the "choose a costume" was very mysterious--how could my fresh install grant them?! Anyway, I don't mind being spoiled in this aspect...

Jill simply fits the police cosplay S.T.A.R.S. uniform~

But comparing with Bio2, Bio3 was worse in terms of key controls. I spent much time adjusting keys, and while getting myself used to the system, I touched something interesting:

Does it mean Bio3 also has "B side"? Since I did learn that there's another main character in this game. By the way, Bio2 was currently my favorite one in Biohazard series (1-5), because its duo-side setting, like parallel worlds.

In Silent Hill, the thing on the ground is probably a pipe~

At first I thought he's Chris, but soon realised he's not.
--He's the guy who gave Bio2 players the key to the costume closet~

A simple lock.. I need Jill's key-pick. Understood!

And now it's our familiar R.P.D.~ (the only place I don't need a map~~ w)

Right after entering the R.P.D., here came the parallel world again. Bio3 is supposed to be before Bio2's story (since Brad was alive), but most areas in the R.P.D. building was sealed--who opened them in Bio2 then, and many statues were absent or with a completely different description. What's going on?! Well, guess I shouldn't be so picky..

Like Bio2's B-side story, a boss-ish gorilla showed up (and you have to choose a way to deal with him). Last night, I ran into the building but he appeared when I was about to leave. And.. he got me for all my 3 tries! Today, I chose to fight first, yet he still appeared. Fine, I get it, perhaps he's like Tyrant in Bio2 or the Pyramid Head in SH2 who can't be defeated until the last battle. Nice, Bio3 is not action, it's survival horror--You don't need to do too much but running away--like what I do in CoC (at least I don't have motion sickness and I have maps)!
--And there's no screen shots for him since I don't have chance to do it! xD

Yet different from Bio2, why the area to search is SO BIG!! °A°

I like horror games, but I never say my play skill is good enough to survive even under normal mode. So for a new game, I always start from easy mode (and in case of Silent Hill 2 it was beginner mode ^^;), and that's why I have almost endless ammo.
But what I want to say is what I just took:

火かき棒... reminds me SDK (Suda Kyouya from SIREN)!

Now, I'm trying to mess up my item box with this or that, especially herbs. Since it says for Lite Mode the grade won't be displayed, I decided to abuse all First Aid Spray first before touch these herbs, and see how many life supplies I'll have by the end--as a measurement of entering Normal Mode--just hope the arrangement of items are the same. But currently I think I'm lost in the downtown area. I spent ~8 hours for the first-time play of both Biohazard 1 and 2, let's see how long I'll need to finish Biohazard 3!

Bonus

The photo of S.T.A.R.S members. HD(?) version.
Front (left-right): ?, ?, Chris, Jill, Joseph(?)
Back (left-right): ?, ?, ?, ?, Wesker, Barry, Brad