Silent Hill: Homecoming

[FrighT MasteR]

I feel you a little, but I'm enjoying it a bit more, despite a lot of its toughness. I do wish they offered more health, as I too am always hurting and currently have no extra health on me right now. As I said above, I've already wasted 3 syringes on accident and didn't want to have to go through a crapload of baddies again, so I chose to keep going instead of restarting.

Even if they didn't increase the health bottles or what-not, they should have at least made it so it saves automatically during each checkpoint, so we wouldn't have to constantly do the same thing over and over again. However, by doing so it would have ruined the tough SH aspect to it, since I remember having to go back and forth a lot with the first game.

I do wish they'd let you skip a lot of the lame talking scenes before you get to a baddy. I kept dying with the last boss I fought and each time I had to sit through the same-old convo. But am I enjoying it? Yes, to an extent. It's hard at times, but that just means I won't beat it in three days like I normally do with games.

[slimeisacharacter]

Definately would enjoy more health bottles. That and increased ammo... had to leave a few boxes of pistol and shotgun shells cause of the low ammo limit.

[FrighT MasteR]

Definately would enjoy more health bottles. That and increased ammo... had to leave a few boxes of pistol and shotgun shells cause of the low ammo limit.

I have like no ammo at all anymore, because I foolishly wasted it on the last boss

[LgOr]

im enjoying the game so far. Ive avoided fighting a few times, im usually saving my ammo and using the pipe or axe by dodging and countering. Im probably still early in the game, I just saved on the Hell Descent, creepy and scary fucking atmosphere. The dogs are pissing me off, before the Hell Descent I got attacked by dog after dog

[FrighT MasteR]

Those F'n nurses are tough as hell!!

[LgOr]

pipe takes em out easy :nod:

[FrighT MasteR]

I just barely got the pipe :2far:

[LgOr]

isn't that the first weapon or second you get

[FrighT MasteR]

I got the knife first, then the axe, then the pistol, then shotgun, then the pipe. Unless I missed it earlier in the game, I barely got it in the Hell stage.

[LgOr]

i got it early. hows did you like hell descent? I think Im almost done at the save point. kickass level man.

[FrighT MasteR]

It was interesting. Kinda reminded me of the dream levels in the Max Payne series for some reason.

[GruesomeDuece]

Game was way better than critics said. The story was metaphorically strong and went very well with the SH cannon in general.

The reason ammo is scarce is because they wanted more emphasis to be put on the new melee combat system. But this is where the problem arises. They felt that a re-done combat system meant they could make the enemies much harder, but it didn't work out so well.


The game was pretty artistic, and I believe a lot of things were well thought out (just not the puzzles, which were easy as hell). Such as the cool things I noticed about the bosses:

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The bosses are the children that were sacrificed by the families of Shepherd's Glenn. And they inhibit their favorite things in their lives.

The mayor's son was a tree/plant boss, and he was buried alive. And he loved treehouses.

Scarlett was dismembered, and killed her father the same way. You kill her by basically dismembering her porcelin "shell." And she was doll-like and loved dolls.

Asphyixia is self-explanatory. Nora was strangled and she liked books (Alice in Wonderland) Her "form" looks like the bug/caterpillar from that book.

Amnion is Josh, who drowned (he spews water). He liked spiders (bugs) and his form reflects that.

Anyway, fans of SH should def check it.

[slimeisacharacter]

Try using your knife on the nurses/dogs. Fast attack critters demand a fast attack weapon. I like the pipe over the axe for other baddies because they are similar in damage (axe is a bit more), but pipe is faster which leaves less chance for baddies to strike. Only baddie I really favored the axe on would be those blade-headed schims (spelling?). They are fairly easy to get behind after dodging one of their charge attacks, great for heavy axe swings.

[GruesomeDuece]

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Get UFO ending (let mom live, don't forgive dad, save wheeler) and when you restart the game you can get the laser pistol in your bedroom in the upstairs of your house. Infinite ammo, single shot like the pistol but does as much dmg as the rifle. Makes it easy to get the "Beat the game on hard" achievement. Plus, you can beat the game in like 3-4 hours.

[FrighT MasteR]

[LgOr]

anyone know how to reset the puzzle in the attic of your house?

[slimeisacharacter]

anyone know how to reset the puzzle in the attic of your house?

No resets possible, far as I can tell. Tried to reload that area a few times to reset that pesky thing, never worked. Sucks...

[FrighT MasteR]

That attic puzzle is super annoying

[FrighT MasteR]

Is there a best or preferred ending for the game?

[slimeisacharacter]

Is there a best or preferred ending for the game?

There are quite a few endings, depending on the combination of the fate of the mom, dad, and wheeler. Some give more story, some are just funny (UFO), ect. Best is a manner of opinion.

The "good ending"; caused by shooting mom, forgiving dad, and saving wheeler leads to everyone leaving alive and relatively happy. (chain saw weapon unlock too, but I dont really like it.)

The best, imo, would be the UFO ending; dont shoot mom, tell dad to go screw himself, and save wheeler. Reason for that is the unlocked weapon pretty much puts you in God mode in future run throughs, making seeing all the other endings a snap.

My favorite ending is the 'bad ending'; dont shoot mom, dont forgive dad, let wheeler die. It features everyone's favorite metal-headed badguy

Hope that helps.