As much as the entire series owes a debt of visual inspiration to Jacob’s Ladder, the 1990 movie starring Tim Robbins as a Vietnam vet dealing with PTSD back home, Silent Hill 3 perhaps wears that influence the proudest on its sleeve out of all of them. While some of it is campy, the game is no slouch when it comes to the horror department. The haunted house ends with Heather being chased down a hallway by red mist that will instantly kill her if she’s too slow. One amusing, almost-out-of-place sequence has Heather going through a narrated haunted house at the amusement park, with different exhibits offering jump scares and threats as the narrator blandly describes stories of murder and suicide. Both, like many important places in the series, are located on the other side of Toluca Lake, and naturally, the entrance to the chapel of a secret cult is through a theme park. However, she gets to explore more of the town not seen in the games yet, like the aforementioned Lakeside Amusement Park and the chapel where the Order resides. The foggy town, when it shows up later in the game, is essentially identical the one seen in Silent Hill, with Heather running past many familiar landmarks like Pete’s Bowl-o-rama, Heaven’s Night, and Texxon Gas, as well as returning to Brookhaven Hospital at one point. Heather leaves the mall for a subway clearly inspired by NYC, a cavernous underground sewer-like place and a dilapidated office building, each with a strange normal world and shadowy Otherworld form. While it’s strange for a Silent Hill game to largely begin outside of the titular town, the game makes it work. Along the way, Heather runs into Douglas, the private detective sent to find her, Claudia, the mysterious woman connected to the Order, Silent Hill’s cult, and Vincent, a bespectacled man also involved with the Order but with different ideas as to what direction it should go in. For a series that often uses women as props and motivations for its male protagonists, Heather is a breath of fresh air. She’s shown as resourceful, clever, and independent, despite the creepy and upsetting situation. At one point, after getting a key from the stomach of a roasted dog, she quips that there’s nothing to more to be worried about, except who would be sick enough to roast a dog. ![]() Heather is a normal teenage girl, sprinkling a dry sarcastic wit over her observations and dialog. As the game goes on, she discovers her connections to the town of Silent Hill.įor the first time in the series, Silent Hill 3 stars a woman. ![]() She wakes up from a nightmare in an eerie theme park in Silent Hill, after falling asleep while out running errands for her dad. The game revolves around Heather, a 17 year old girl from Portland. Right after the release of Silent Hill 2, Team Silent turned right around once more to start development on not one, but two, new titles, one of those being Silent Hill 3, released in summer 2003 on the PS2.
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