Silent Hill Downpour: DAY NINE

[sincere]

You can't outrun yourself, Murphy!


Starting from: Chase sequence in the prison!

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[sincere]

There's a giant, giant, giant mangled monster in a wheelchair here. It is breathing noisily through its life support and flailing angrily at Murphy. It's awesome.

[slayerofgod]

This game needs a price cut sooner rather than later. It sounds totally awesome.

[sincere]

You disconnect the life support and it flails and dies.

And now we're in the shower room with the mangled body, and the lady cop is here. "How could you? He was a good man!"

Murphy protests, no, he was a monster, but when he looks at it again, it's Officer Coleridge. Flashback to Murphy meeting Coleridge in the shower room, freaking out; this isn't what he agreed to...

[sincere]

Sewell comes in, and then we have a confrontation, shoulder devil saying "DO IT YOU OWE ME" and shoulder angel saying "DON'T DO IT MURPH YOU'RE A GOOD MAN"

Finally, Murphy says, "No."

[temples]

What is this game's wheelchair fetish!

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[rainfall]

I really like how your murder of him is totally indirect. There's some fridge brilliance there with the good ending, which you achieve by trying and failing to help people and not 'finishing' monsters.

(Literally: running from monsters gets you NOTHING. Only incapacitating them and then sparing them earns you points towards the good ending.)

I'm particularly pleased because otherwise the good ending would have felt weird to me. Really? You make up for your sins by largely not having committed any to begin with...? You know? But I like the fridge brilliance aspect of it.