Silent Hill 3 - 10 Star Run (Extreme X Difficulty)

Описание: THAT'S DANNY.

I die once at The Church, that's where my continue is used.

00:00:00 Mall | Nightmare Mall
00:15:33 Subway
00:21:03 Underpass
00:31:20 Construction Site | Hilltop Center | Nightmare Center
00:50:40 Brookhaven Hospital
00:58:22 Grinding for Melee Kills (you can skip this)
01:22:42 Nightmare Hospital
01:34:27 Lakeside Amusement Park
01:45:56 The Church
01:59:36 final rank screen

This is a review of the more technical aspects of a 10 Star run in Silent Hill and my experience with the scoring system. For a quick review -- this is one of the best "survival horror" games on the market. Do yourself a favor and play it. It's almost perfect and one of the best games I've ever had the pleasure experiencing. It's a masterpiece, just like the first two games, and it's even more tense than they were, since you have a very small window of screw-ups that can just destroy any potential run. I played it so much, that I feel completely burned out on it, but you bet I'll be coming back in the future for replays.

I managed full 10 star run of Silent Hill 3 on the highest difficulty -- Extreme X. This game is interesting in that there's plenty of enemies for you to get every kill you need on the way to the end, but the fastest method is grinding for melee kills in the hospital. Shooting kills are easy to get, but melee kills are much harder, as Heather's kick is not an instant death, unlike with Harry and James in the previous two games.

This is easily the most difficult of the three Silent Hills, built for people who want an even more difficult challenge from the series. You have to play it on each difficulty as they unlock if you start out on Hard. So Extreme 1, Extreme 2, Extreme 3, all the way to Extreme X. They get more difficult as you progress as well. Enemies have better tracking and do more damage. The biggest obstacle, however, is the fact that there's several moments in this game where can just die immediately on Extreme X. Grabs from the Split Heads or Slurpers, getting knocked down by the Closers or Slurpers (if they are in groups, they can kill you on the ground), and the Borley Haunted Mansion hallway.

You also have similar requirements to Silent Hill 2. You need under 500 points of damage (technically under 450 points as you take some mandatory damage in the Underpass), 75 fighting kills, 75 shooting kills, at least 100 item pick-ups + the 5 special items, and new to Silent Hill 3, you need to kill each boss in under a certain time limit. There are also several places in the game that can be considered run killers on Extreme X, such as the Nightmare Hilltop Center, the Missionary boss, the Nightmare Hospital, Leonard's boss fight, and Borley Haunted Mansion hallway.

All this made for a very tense experience. I got a 10 Star run three separate times, and I must have played this game 30 - 40 times through the course of getting to Extreme X, including runs that were failures. I had a great time with it. It's the most action-packed of the first three titles, and it has some of the most interesting dungeons. While I prefer the first game, I think this is a very, very, very, very, very, very close second.

Good luck with the puzzles above Normal difficulty. On Hard, you have to be some sort of magic man to be able to solve them without some assistance. They are insane.

Thanks for watching.