Both were classics. I loved Resident Evil when it came out and can't wait for the HD version of the Gamecube remake. Silent Hill...well, I own 1-3, but never completed any of them (too scary lol.)
New Year's Retro Weekend
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 On 12/29/2014 at 12:51 AM by KnightDriver See More From This User » |
I've decided to make every holiday a retro special occasion. I rolled a random genre with my Retro Game Encounter Table and got, Adventure. Then I chose Resident Evil and Silent Hill from the database. I was really happy to have a reason to break out my PS3 Super Slim and get me some PSOne Classics. It took some serious resistance on my part not to pick up Suikoden II and Grandia, amongst others. I get them later for sure though. No worries.
Resident Evil: The Director's Cut - Dual Shock ver.: This game was $9.99 on PSN. This version of RE has the original game plus two new modes: Beginner, where the enemies are easier and the ammo doubled; and Arranged, which scrambles item and enemy positions and gives you a more powerful handgun. There is supprt for the analog sticks and vibration and there is an auto-aim feature, which I had no idea about and is apparently not described in the controls. So you have to just figure it out. Wah?
At first I couldn't even attack anything because I couldn't figure out how to do that. The control layout page in the options said it was "U" (up?) and "D" (down?) for high attack and low attack. So I tried to move into an enemey to attack. That didn't work. Then I customized the controls and made "X" and "O" those functions. Nothing. Finally I looked online and discovered you have to hold down R2 to aim and X to fire or swipe (if you're using the knife). Finally I could play the game and got pretty far into the mansion before I ran out of health. I was playing on Beginner, but I couldn't find any more health, only ammo. Then I got pecked to death by crows. What a way to go! That's when I'd had enough.
What the dealio lady. You gonna heal me or what?
The movement in this game is very frustrating but I was getting used to it. Shooting was also getting easier, but I didn't know you could activate auto-aim, and there's no mention of it in the controls, so I took too many shots to get a kill and always got damaged. Then I couldn't find more health even though I came to a room with a shelf full of medicine and a girl with a medic cross. She didn't heal me, and I couldn't get anything off the shelf. You use "X" to interact with things, but nothing would happen with this shelf. I finally quit. I'll figure this game out one day. Maybe I should try the Arrange version with the gun that randomly gets headshots.
Silent Hill: This was next up. It was $5.99 on PSN. I gobbled it up. This game controls very similarly to RE, but the game tells you just which buttons do what. I got the hang of it right away. The movement in the game seemed slightly better than RE, but really it's very close to the same. Maybe I was used to it by the time I started this, but I found roaming the environment and shooting at enemies pretty easy. I also set this game to "Easy" difficulty and there was plenty of ammo and health - more than I needed, really.
Silent Hill is really creepy and atmospheric. You start in a town infused with a dense mist and everyone has disappeared. You're looking for your daughter. Along the way you have to solve some puzzles like find three keys for a door in the town area. I stayed with this game the rest of the night and got through the first major boss in the Academy. Some of the puzzles in the Academy were really crazy hard, and I finally gave up and got some hints online, especially for the one with the piano keys.
I got so close to figuring this puzzle out. I still don't get the solution though.
I'm really loving this game and will continue it tomorrow - I hope. My friend Mark is resolving his login issue on his PS3 and, if he fixes that, we might play some Pixel Junk Monsters co-op. I'm hoping he'll buy Akimi Village too because I need someone to share resources with to get my first Platinum.
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