Silent Hill: The Arcade

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Published on October 31, 2022 7:05:11 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmUO0ggSC54

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Silent Hill: The Arcade (2007)

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Toluca Lake is Silent Hill's main tourist attraction, but this clear, beautiful lake has another side as well - many corpses rest at the bottom. Their bony hands reach up towards the boats that pass overhead; perhaps they reach for their comrades.

In November 1918, a very sickly girl and her mother were traveling on the boat. The girl was enjoying the sightseeing, but her mother had other thoughts: "Hanna..." Immediately after the mother called her daughter, the boat's captain witnessed a miserable end. The boat, Little Baroness, never returned. The crew and passengers, numbering at 14, met a horrible fate, and there were no survivors or bodies found.

Seventy-five years later, in 1993, Eric, Tina, Bill, Jessie, Ryan, and George, members of their university's occult club, head to Silent Hill for its many stories, particularly about the bodies sleeping beneath Toluca Lake. Having a strong interest in the rumors, they took the weekend holiday and went to Silent Hill. They stayed at Jacks Inn, and Eric experiences a terrible nightmare. The next morning, Eric exits the inn and discovers Bill wounded with the rest of the club missing. Eric and Tina decide to search the foggy town for answers.

The gameplay is a rail-shooter where the players use light-guns to aim and shoot enemies while the characters' movements are mostly prescribed and directed by the game. Being a rail-shooter, it requires the players to be strong on reflexes, as the camera may turn away at any point to focus on a more immediate threat that only offers a short time frame for attack.

The mechanics closely resemble Sega's The House of the Dead series, where players have to shoot outside of the screen to reload their weapon as well as target bosses at their specific weak points for increased damage. The player has a life meter with a value of 100 or 150 (depending on the difficulty level) which drops by different values depending on the severity of the damage impact. The life meter is designed as a heart monitor, showing a weaker heart-rate as the players receive a significant amount of damage. Health can be restored by finding health drinks and first aid kits, which have health values of 10 and 30, respectively.

Alternate routes are provided in Brookhaven Hospital and Toluca Prison and can sometimes lead to easier routes or stronger weapons, such as the shotgun or rifle. At brief intervals, the player must choose the route before the time limit expires. The alternative routes do not offer a substantial variation in the gameplay, with players likely to seek the more viable route each time to attain quicker progress or a better score. There are gold coins and silver coins throughout each level to increase the score.

The game is divided into chapters to track progress, with each one divided further into stages, normally with a boss to defeat at the end of the third stage. Most boss battles have a time limit to defeat them in order to save a friend of Eric's and Tina's. Failing to save Eric and Tina's allies affects the overall outcome of the game and is more than likely to decrease the overall grading system.

In Asia (Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, and Taiwan), a special e-Amusement Pass can be used, which includes Internet Ranking and allows the player to skip stages on which they had previously played.


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