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It feels like people conflate classic SH with classic Resident Evil which takes resource management and picking your battles a lot more seriously. Or they just know the basic concepts of Survival Horror and think that every game in it follows them to an extreme.

Play with the mechanics a bit and she can go hit for hit with a lot of enemies in the game. Or kill them without getting hit. Most encounters in the game are less about resources or health, and more about if it's worth the time commitment to kill them when you can just go to the next door instead.

Then you have SH3, the most action oriented of the originals. This is where monsters start to get hard to deal with due to their size and strength. That said Heather gets armor, one of the best weapons with the katana, and a pretty strong block ability.

Silent Hill 2 is just straight up the easiest classic survival horror games. James can solve all monster problems with the plank and then pipe. Aside from Pyramid Head there's no need to run from enemies. Difficult combat, and resource management was simply not the point of the game.

Also a note on SH1, you can parry the dogs when they do the jump attack. Time a knife swing well to hit it in the air, and you'll knock it out of its attack.

Silent Hill 1 has flying enemies that are actually difficult to deal with. You'll be doing plenty of running when outside, sure. Inside though you can just kill everything that gets in the way of your puzzle solving. Also Harry gets the strongest melee weapon in the game. All praise the hammer.

It amazes me how people downplay how much fighting there was in the original Silent Hill games. You see plenty of posts about how you're supposed to run a lot, but that was not even close to my experience playing SH 2 and 3 on the PS2 back in the day. Or SH 1 more recently

#SilentHill #Horror #Game

It's an amazing experience inside of a game that comes up short in many ways, imo. To me it's a 7/10. I'm glad I played through it (mostly) two times for the story stuff, but the actual game part of the game just never really won me over.

Finally there's the combat. I don't hate the mechanics but there's just so god damn much of it at times. Until a recent update there were several mandatory gauntlets. It was a slog at times.

Cons Cont.

Needing to beat it at least three times for the whole story and best ending. The game is 90% the same each time so my second run through just ran out of steam closer to the end. Something like Automata in comparison had playing as different characters and different mechanics.

Cons Continued:

Breakable weapons. I found a way around this with a nice build, but as a whole Silent Hill has never been heavy on resource management so I don't understand trying to force it into the most action heavy entry of the series.

Cons:

Lack of variety in locations. Some locations are done extremely well, like Hinako's House, but there's just way too many backstreets and corridors that make things look very same-y. Also the Dark Shrine as the only "nightmare" world got kinda boring eventually.

Pros:
The sound design is amazing and the art direction is great (sometimes).

Some of the monsters are great (particularly the dolls and scarecrows).

The story and character writing is amazing, and fully lives up to what you'd expect from Higurashi creator Ryukishi07.

The bosses were pretty good.

So I'm done with Silent Hill F for now. Finished a first playthrough and got to the final area on NG+ when I decided to stop. My opinion is kinda divided on it.

#SilentHill #SilentHillF #Horror #Game

Hinako is not to f'd with. #SilentHillf

Yuppie Psycho

Survival Horror where you're in a corporate dystopia acting as a substitute witch hunter. Your job is to stop the magic corruption in the office building as things continue to get worse. Has some interesting world building, an amazing style, and some damn cool monsters.

Evil Tonight

2D Survival horror in a style similar to the Mana series. Art style, and character personalities are similar to 90s anime. Basically you're an exorcist having to deal with ghosts in the spirit world version of an old mansion.

This is coming a bit late, and I've been away from here for longer than expected, but I do want to give a shout out to a couple really good, lesser known horror games.

Hornet standing on a wooden platform, covered in bilewater juice and maggots, surrounded by flying bugs

Silktober day 4 - Bilewater
I hate it here!!!
#art #silksong #silksongart #hollowknight

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the 7th episode of Dirty Pair, "愛こそすべて命賭けます逃避行!!" or "Love Is Everything, Betting Their Lives on Elopement", one of the most overtly trans-positive episodes of anime of its era. This was the future they predicted for us in 1985. We can still get there.

Collective Shout, except you and you, oh and you. A short story about a little known collective in so-called Australia convincing international major payment providers to think twice about providing payment services to anyone creating or platforming ...

New post on Collective Shout and increasing footprint of conservative christians online.

This article doesn't exist without @acvalens.net original reporting and advocacy on this issue. Please contact a payment provider today and go support LGBTQI+ creators!

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Somehow, Bubsy returned
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WHY? On July 2025, Steam, a popular storefront to purchase games on PC, and itch.io, a storefront that sells games, comics, tools, resources and much more, have recently delisted several NSFW games, after the group Collective Shout published an open letter to payment processors such as Visa, MasterCard, PayPal, and more. As a result of this letter, payment processors have strongarmed Valve and itch.io into enforcing restrictive new TOS policies on what kind of content their platforms can host and sell. Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and Paypal have been censoring free speech and legal business on the internet for TOO LONG. Their most recent targets are Steam and Itch.io, but they have also been pressuring websites like Pixiv, Patreon, Fansly, Onlyfans and MORE for years, applying draconian standards for what kind of adult/pornographic content platiorms and their users can host and sell. If we as consumers and creators want to regain ground on this issue, we have to make our voice heard. HOW? BOMBARD THEM WITH PHONE CALLS Collective Shout, the organization that lobbied to have Steam and Itch.io change their TOS, did so with only around 1000 phone calls. Visa and MC have backed down from pressuring Onlyians to remove adult content entirely due to public backlash. Clogging their phone lines for an extended perlou, over a mont at the absolute least, will almost gudrantee that these compantes will at least have to pay attention to the backlash. this list is not exhaustive. but some contact points for the 4 targets are: 1. VISA: (US + Can): +1 [8001-847-2911 US option selection for operator: 1-1-2 or 1-1-3 2. MASTERCARD: (US): +1 (8001-307-7309 US option selection for operator: 1-1-2-2-2-1 Phone (outside US): 1-636-722-7111 3. STRIPE: (Headquarters): +118881 963-8955 (France): +33 805-11-19-67 Stripe: complaints@stripe.com 4. PAYPAL: (US): +1 (888)-221-1161 (outside US): 1-402-935-2050 Customer Service: +1 (877)-569-1116

Cheat Sheet v.2

nothing from the prior version is incorrect, but ive made it a little easier to read, plus included a bit more helpful information

imgur link: imgur.com/a/wWaLY2i

more comprehensive info can be found here:
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8-Bit Adventures 2 is 30% Off in the Steam Summer Sale + on the American Switch eShop!

This is a story-driven adventure for anyone who loves classic JRPGs - now running even better on Nintendo #Switch2! 😊

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Tiny Chef announces his show has been cancelled at Nickelodeon after 2 seasons and 41 episodes.

chucking glass bottles with USB sticks into the ocean, so some downtrodden stranger might get a free episode of Azumanga Daioh in these trying times .

Apocalypse Hotel is a series that I really want to recommend to anyone that enjoys animation. Genuinely one of a kinda anime original that combines absurd moments and somber character stories seamlessly. It's a series that really feels like passion for the medium went into every scene.

#Anime

i've been trying to read more this year, at least a book a month, but i just keep thinking of this clip