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Silent Hill 3
Extreme Mode Speed Guide
(Full course of the game, not half-course UFO ending)
Version 1.2
08-05-03 thru 08-26-03
(remembered to upload update to gamefaqs on 10-9-03)
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Silent Hill and subsequently mentioned
characters are the property entirely of Konami.
Konami is part of the Holy Trinity:
Capcom, Konami and Square. Don't mess with them
(Silent Hill, Metal Gear, and Castlevania belong to Konami).
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J.R. Kerr wrote this FAQ.
No one may edit any version of this FAQ
that is to be shared. For your own personal use on
one computer, you may edit out all this jargon or
select bits of the tips you need. I will not profit
from this FAQ in any way. Anyone may distribute or
post this FAQ anywhere they like provided my name
remain on it. I will use powerful internet voodoo
to eat the soul of anyone who posts my FAQ without
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CONTENTS :
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[01] Why did I decide to write this?
[02] What is Extreme Mode?
[03] Prerequisites for Playing Extreme Mode
[04] Gameplay, Hand Positioning, + Interface
[05] The Mall = 00m00s - 13m45s
[06] The Subway + Train = 13m45s - 21m00s
[07] Underpass + Harmful Veiny Hallways
[08] Office Building
[09] Missionary Made Easy = 1m56s w/ no damage
[10] Do Not Read Maria's Poster
[11] FIRST SAVE Point at Hospital Office = 50m42s
[12] The Hospital:
a) Stun-Katana the Unaware Nurses
b) Maul the Jerky-eating Slurpers
c) Low-Stamina Leonard
[12] Streets, Amusement Park, + Borley Haunted Mansion
a) Snipe at the Spinners
b) SECOND SAVE Borley Entrance at 1h36m00s
b) Ampoule Heat Run
c) Staredown with MOA
[13] Chapel - Finish in under 2h07m00s
[14] Notes to Vincent Merken
[15] Version History
[16] Thanks
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WHY DID I DECIDE TO WRITE THIS FAQ?
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[00] I really want Brady guides to stop putting their
writers under three day deadlines with a handful of
programmer notes. Perhaps FAQs like these will encourage
Brady to put together nicer souvenir material and more
comprehensive writing to earn our dollars. Konami seems to
understand already and they gave us the OST CD for free
with the game to keep it from being just a rental.
[01] Many online Silent Hill discussion forums seem to
indicate that they have grown very frustrated with the
Extreme Mode and stopped playing it already. I hope that
showing a few tips helps to re-ignite the desire to
keep examining and playing this game.
[02] My buddy Rombie McGregor who wrote a great first time
comprehensive FAQ didn't tell me NOT to write this.
He is the sole source that I was able to use
(Complete Walkthrough, Rombie,
http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/game/32795.html)
[03] There aren't any available cheat codes online as of this
date involving codebreaker or action replay, so it seems
believable that these codes (should they turn up later)
will not really help you much with your speed (unless there
is one for infinite stamina). Believe me when I say that
infinite ammo or infinite health will not make you faster.
[04] Most importantly, I love this game. I hope I get a couple
good e-mails with well-thought-out tips. I'll thank you if
you make a good argument to do something different/better.
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WHAT IS EXTREME MODE?
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[01] Extreme Mode is an "Extra New Game" feature that becomes
available after you have cleared a Hard/Hard game. Apparently
there are 10 levels of extreme play and from the main menu
Extreme 1 will be replaced (no longer available) with Extreme 2
and so on until you reach Extreme 10.
[02] In Extreme Mode, the monsters are not only stronger but their
behavior changes drastically. If a dog bites your leg, he can
chew you to death unless you struggle free by wiggling the
D-pad with a lot of vigor. A purple line will appear under your
green stamina bar, and it is VERY long in extreme mode. This
purple line is the get-up meter. If you play for speed it is
nearly unacceptable to ever be knocked down, and the monsters
will generally kill you before you get up.
[03] Heather begins with much less maximum health than in hard.
She also begins with much less maximum stamina. There are not
numbers attached to the life meter, but it is roughly half what you
have in a normal game. There does not seem to be much distinction
between how much health Heather has in Extreme 1 and 2 (I am only at
Extreme 3 now). This makes an enormous difference in how hard
and how fast Heather can hit with melee weapons.
[04] You'll have to make a distinction between Speed Extreme play
and Kill Extreme play. You just can't have both in Extreme Mode.
In fact, they should have named Extreme mode as "Metal Gear Mode"
because the gameplay is so different from when you played on
Normal that it is almost a different game. If alerted, the monsters
are nigh impossible to avoid with your diminished stamina; therefore,
you must choose to sneak past the monsters quickly or to kill
them from a safe distance with the pistol (which takes a long time).
If you are a fiend, you can master the block feature, but it still
takes forever to drop these monsters.
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PREREQUISITES FOR PLAYING EXTREME:
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[00] DONT LET ME SPOIL THE GAME
It is essential that you not read this FAQ until you
have played through at least TWICE. The first time you
hopefully enjoyed and were scared by the noise effect,
the scary ambient sounds, and the lack of items.
The second time you hopefully went for the revenge ending
on at least normal mode and got lots of experience
killing tons of monsters. You will not get to do any of
these things in Extreme Mode.
I am leaving out big plot spoilers anyway.
[01] BULLET ADJUSTER
Take advantage of the bullet adjuster trick. If you have
only cleared the game once, you can reload your "Alessa's Room"
file and beat the God again to earn another system-file clear-point.
This means that the system file will believe that you have beat
the game five times, when in fact, you may have only beaten it once.
This will earn you the ability to find 50 bullets from one box
in a place where you used to find 20 bullets in two boxes.
There is no ranking penalty for using the adjuster.
[02] NO BONUS WEAPONS
Forget about using the bonus weapons. You will have to pick them up
or forfeit five stars for not collecting them, but you can't use
these weapons. Mainly, you just don't need to. You won't even
load the empty pistol in your hand until you get to the split worm,
then you won't need any more than the x5 SMG clips that you normally
find in the hospital. If that. All the bonus weapons have a LONG
draw time and will guarantee that an extreme monster will have
all the time in the world to locate you and chew you to death.
[03] Accept the BEEF JERKY. It is now essential for dealing with the
slurpers that crawl through and crowd the hospital hallways. At
first I was using it on the dogs, but they are just as easily run from,
so I highly suggest collecting all jerky but saving until the hospital.
[04] BE QUIET
Forget about the FLASHLIGHT, the radio, and the background music.
I hope you enjoyed them all the first time you played, but they now
will either get you instantly killed or disguise sounds that you need
to listen for. The radio need to be turned off as soon as you get it.
The radio never turns back on. The flashlight is a necessary evil.
You have to have the light in order to pick up items (like the bleach),
but it frustratingly turns back on in weird places to ensure that
you get killed (like when you step out of the Lakeside Motel).
If you are playing in one of the t-shirts, you can't see the light
on your vest anymore... so you may want to consider playing in Heather's
default costume. Personally I like the GangsterGirl skin because it
is low contrast and you will be playing mostly in the dark
for the whole run (easier on your eyes).
[05] You need a lot of FREE TIME. While it is true that Konami will stop
the clock while you are paused (unlike Resident Evil), it is best to
refrain from interruption while you are playing so that you
stay in the groove. It is nearly impossible to dodge a hallway full
of nurses if you are coming back from seeing a movie. Try hard to
run all the way through at once.
[06] You know all the answers to the HARD PUZZLE Mode. The main reason
to combine Hard Puzzle with Extreme Action is that it REALLY saves
you a lot of time. The four hardest puzzles (Shakespeare, Eat You Poem,
Cremated Puzzle, and Tarot Door) have answers that do not change
on Hard Puzzle mode. On Normal Puzzle mode you must waste time figuring
out the randomized four digit answers. I did not figure out these
puzzles myself. I got the info from Rombie's FAQ, so if you need
these answers... read his FAQ and write them on a note card to keep
near the screen (preferably facing you).
[07] SAVING
Go ahead and save a lot if you are starting extreme. You'll
have to do all this ten times to really finish. Try not to save
until after the missionary: you had good practice getting that
far when you did the UFO ending, right?
I may not ever say to save, but feel free to save at every sigil
you come across if you have to.
Eventually you (and I) will finish this thing in 2 hours with no saves.
[08] WEB LITERATE
You ought to know the real names of these monsters from either the
official website, or somebody else's FAQ. Please also forgive me
for referring to these things as what they do (e.g.: hopper = numb body).
Its less to write and interferes less with my inner-monologue.
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GAMEPLAY, HAND-POSITIONING, + INTERFACE:
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[00] Set the MUSIC VOLUME down to no lower than 2 bars. If you so
desire, you can set it higher, but it will interfere with your
ability to respond to sound-effect cues to do things. You do not
need to waste extreme mode play time to do this. Load an old normal
file and make the change... it will save to your system file
and you won't have to do it again later. If you turn it all the
way down, you won't hear the cinema-dialogue at all, which will
disguise your cue to thump start and skip through cinemas that
begin in darkness with only dialogue.
[01] BLOOD COLOR
I highly recommend that you change the blood color from anything
but black or red. There are lots of black and red floors and it
will sometimes be hard to tell if something is dead in the darkness.
The purple or GREEN are really great. You can see your shots when
they cause damage in the dark easier, and you can really tell when
something is dead if you set the blood volume to "MUCH."
Yeah, you can listen for a death cry, but sometimes you'll pile
up three or four dead things and you need to make sure that they
are deflated before you release the caution button and run for it.
This is especially true of slurpers, who will play possum til you
leave the room, but be in motion when you get back!
[02] SEE-SAW THUMB ACTION
Your right thumb needs to be positioned like a lever over the
square and x buttons. Don't change the controls to "reverse."
You need to have improved and constant control over whether
Heather is running or opening a door. If you have it on reverse
then you will need to hit both buttons at once to open a door
after running to it... which is not as easy as seesawing your
thumb from run to open. On extreme you must run continuously,
and you will die if you smack into a door instead of opening it
(dogs will get you). The trick is that you make the seesaw action
happen right before a door... so that you stop running a split second
before you collide and instead choose open... you will be pressing
up on the D-pad throughout the process to engage the helpful door vacuum
effect which will sometimes pull you over a monster blocking a door.
[03] DO NOT KILL anything until you get to the subway train. The
larger variety of Numb Bodies (hoppers) are ridiculously quick at lunging
and are preferably killed from the shadows rather than run past;
therefore, keep your middle finger off the R2 button.
[04] Be prepared to see more LOAD TIME than room. Many rooms can be crossed
faster than the next room will load. You will be staring at a black screen
and waiting for more than half of your time (not game play time). This
can get kind of boring. Try to stay frosty and think about the room
ahead during these load times. You may want to throw on some relaxing
ambient music in the background so that you don't bounce your controller
off the floor as you die trying to do this the first few times.
[05] The monsters are IN MOTION. They are not static until you activate them.
If you know their circuit, you can wait until the best time to sneak past
them. If you don't like some of my ideas about when to run for it, perhaps
you can adjust to your own liking and use some time to save some health.
Monsters can see your stamina bar, if it is low they will not let go
of their "missile lock." So...
[06] DOORS REFILL YOUR STAMINA. If you are willing to waste your real time for
an increase in game clock time, you can use a door in a long hall to
refill your stamina and run the rest of the hall faster. You will also
gain better ability to dodge monsters.
MASTER THE QUICKSPIN. Pressing L1+R1 will cause an instant reversal
of Heather's position. If you are fast with it, you can be in and out
a room before you see anything (perhaps you'll hear something in the room)
and you'll be back in the hall with full stamina instants later.
[07] AMPOULES
Yes, we collect ampoules. No, you aren't saving them for bosses.
The extreme bosses cheat if you use super stamina. You only need
super stamina for the running parts of the street (x3), the borley
haunted mansion red-heat run, and for healing up AFTER the carousel
fight.
okay, here we go...
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THE MALL - STARTING EXTREME:
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[00] You thump start to skip Happy Burger and Douglas cinemas.
You start with a glowing red halo (ignore it), thump select
to bring up options and hit R1 to access hidden options.
Set bullet adjust to x5 and life meter to on. Equip a shirt
if you must (I like the GangsterGirl for low contrast), but
be sure to set the cursor back on Heather's pendant because
all useable key items will appear to the RIGHT of it. Do not
equip a weapon... the game will put an empty gun in your hand
during one of the cinemas and you won't fire it until the split worm.
Run forward to the window and seesaw (see hand positioning) out.
Turn Heather left and run to the INFINITE SMG. Pick it up.
Thump x to confirm receipt of the weapon.
Quickspin and run straight down the alley. Spin slightly
right and seesaw to get sucked through the door.
[01] Run to the far end of this hall and seesaw through the double doors.
Spin left and run to the open shutter. Angle slightly left and
seesaw into the shutter. Thump start to skip cinema.
Thankfully you don't have to see the bullets on the bench to
pick them up... run a bit forward... pick up, confirm, quickspin
and angle right and around the counter out.
Do not open the near double doors, spin right and run into a
camera angle change, quickspin and grab the MAP, spin right and
open the stair doors.
[02] You shouldn't smack the walls on the stairs if you turn wide and
early. On the second floor there is a little hopper (Numb Body).
Spin left and run straight down the left side of the hall (no faking
out is necessary yet).
[03] Run straight from the balcony door and angle right at the camera
angle change to seesaw into the bakery. Spin left and grab the TONGS.
Quickspin. Run forward with an arc to grab the FLAMETHROWER. Spin right
and leave the bakery at a run.
[04] Spin right and go back into the back hall. Dodge the hopper on the
left again (he's on the other side of the hall where you left him).
Around the big bend and after a small period of no doors is a door
to the left... as you stop running you'll notice Heather looks down at
the door handle to indicate she can open it. Open and squeeze L2 for
hood-ornament view. Walk normally forward and grab the JERKY off the
barrel. Quickspin and run out the room. The dog will not be alerted if
you walk calmly toward the jerky.
[05] Run to the end of the hall and grab the BEAM SABER. Quickspin and run.
Open the door on Heather's left that she looks down at. Run into the
room and angle toward the shelves. Confirm fast and hear two tones
faster than you can read the text. Quickspin. Run. Thump select after
squaring your toes with the pallet. Use Tongs to the Right of Heather's
Locket. Skip cinema with Start.
[06] In addition to the first hopper, there are three new ones to ambush you.
Squeeze L2 and run forward and right. Past the first ambusher, angle left
and dodge the second. Run straight past number two, three, and finally
four. Don't forget to turn right at the corner and go back to the balcony.
[07] On the balcony, spin out from around the near corner and go the other
way from the bakery. You'll be sprinting past the Shuffler (Closer?)
and seesawing into the Bookstore without a smack. Shufflers are always
really easy to run past and this time you have a lot of room.
[08] BOOKSTORE:
Sprint straight through the bookstore to the counter and swerve around
it. Score bullets. Quickspin. Confirm at the door. Input the unchanging
Hard Puzzle Mode answer (see McGregor's FAQ). ______________
[09] Thump start to skip Claudia's cinema. Run forward and take the second
turn into the elevator. Test door and panel. Wait. When the letterbox
happens, thump start and skip a brief cinema. Pick up the RADIO.
Immediately press select, set the cursor on the radio, turn the radio off,
then set the cursor back on the lucky charm. Select the beef jerky in
supplies and "equip" it. Step into the hellevator and thump start to skip
Valtiel's cinema.
[10] DOG AMBUSH:
This is one of the worst spots in the game. You come off the helevator
in the middle of a spotlight with two dogs walking their circuit, but
toward you. If you move slowly out to the hall, you are going to die.
You can try to use the left analog stick to set down some jerky in the
spotlight, then back into the shadowy corner... but only one dog will
be distracted. If you wait a few seconds, the dogs will move a short
distance down the hall on their pre-planned circuit. This is when I run
for it. I always get hit by one of the jumping dogs, but its preferable
to being chewed on by both and instantly dying. You spin right, and angle
right with a run from the helevator. Sprint around one corner and enter
the door at the end of the hall (in darkness - no spotlights).
[11] Pick up health drinks from the shelf inside this room, run to the desk
to collect the ampoule. Quickspin and angle left with a run toward the
door and seesaw out of here. Back in the hall spin/arc/run to Heather's
left and pass on the right the dog chewing the meatbag in the darkest
part of the hall yet. Notice he doesn't come after you.
[12] Out in this room you are safe for a moment because you are in darkness,
but a shuffler is coming toward you on his route. As you sprint toward
him, you will be entering a spotlight and alerting him to your presence.
Take this corner fast. Down at the middle of the hall is another
spotlight and another shuffler. Swerve a little to Heather's right
(Shufflers always stab with their right hand- to your left)
and duck the corner right at the end of the hall.
Seesaw into the door that Heather looks at
right before the set-in double doors for the bathroom.
The flashlight is stuck between the two cardboard boxes, and you
really can't see it very well. Click circle to turn it off immediately.
Spin left and confirm through two tones for bullets. Don't read the text.
Quickspin and angle right with run then seesaw out of this room.
[13] BLEACH:
Back in the hall spin hard left and jog around the corner then seesaw
into the bathroom. Run in and stop/spin left at the bleach. Toggle the
light ON with circle, confirm through a tone for the BLEACH. Toggle the
light back OFF. Spin left and run/seesaw out of the bathroom.
[14] Spin left. Run down the empty dark hall to the busted shutter.
Enter a short yet wide room with a shuffler and a dog. Run forward out
and swerve to the shuffler's left (your right) and hopefully the dog
will get snagged on the other side of the shuffler. Pass the yellowish
double doors and go opposite for the half-open shutter. Toggle the
light back ON to pick-up and confirm by tone for the BULLETPROOF VEST
and the COAT HANGER. Turn the light back OFF with circle before you leave.
[15] As you come back out, the dog may be gone if he collided hard with the
shuffler (I think its a glitch). Spin right and run/angle right and seesaw
back through the busted shutter. In the L-shaped phone back hallway, the
two shufflers have reset and are at the start of their orbit walking away
from you. You will not alert them by sound... but when you cross into
the spotlight, they see you with eyes in the back of their head and turn
around. Don't worry. Pass at a run on your right (their left). Turn right
and run then angle right to pull through tannish double doors.
[16] BOUTIQUE:
Square your toes with the table and thump select to use the hanger. You
have to begin climbing up, but when the cinema starts, thump start again
to skip this little one. Begin facing a gurney. Run past with a curve
to the left. Turn left hard at the up escalators. Take the one
on Heather's right. You won't see this next shuffler ever.
Spin right and hit the first greenish double doors.
Run forward and arc out to avoid the table in the middle of the room.
Circle back in to be square toed with the dog barbeque. Thump x to confirm
through some text and a tone for the COOKED KEY. Quickspin.
Run arcing left to duck into the near side of the bar and confirm through
two tones for two health drinks. Quickspin, run with a wide arc around
the bar and the table, seesaw out. Spin left and run down the other
side of the escalator (Heather's right again).
[17] HOPPER AMBUSH:
You may not want to do this. If so, get to the back hall through
the walnut room and forfeit only one box of bullets.
Hit the doors before the static TV. Run fearlessly straight in to this
room. Angle right slightly. At the camera change, toggle your light ON
and confirm through a tone for bullets on the counter. You'll get hit
in the back by one of the four hoppers in this room probably, but they
are all now behind the hopper that hit you and won't come forward. You
lose about 20% of your health from this hit if you take it. Quickspin
and run forward angling right, then seesaw into a door that needs a
double confirm to unlock and then open.
[18] BACK HALL:
Turn your light OFF. You'll barely see whats going on, but trust me.
Run around the dark corner to your right. You'll see the faint highlight
on the shuffler. Run straight along the edge of the hall on Heather's
right. With the light OFF, this shuffler is real dumb and launches his
hit from the middle of the hall and it will totally miss you. Know that
you need to turn to Heather's left in the darkness past the shuffler.
The door you need to go into has a light above it.
Enter the room, square up to the case, confirm through the tone for a
walnut and spin and run back out.
The shuffler should still be in the dark corner of the hall where he
launched his slow stab hit at you. Use his highlight to negotiate the
turn in the hall without smacking up against a wall. Turn right a step
after hitting the straightaway, take two/three steps and open a door
that you can't see.
[19] KITCHEN/BALCONY:
Confirm through two tones for two health drinks. Grab the pipe (you
will not be using the three pipes. Ever.). Hit the double doors.
During the longer-than-usual blackout load time, try to remember that
something bad is about to happen. You are dropped in sight of
a spinner and a dog near a ledge. You can die instantly here by
running madly forward and getting hit/pushed off the ledge. Spin
carefully right and run forward... its okay if you hit/smack the column
because the dog will waste time howling. Run past and open the first
tannish door with a handle.
[20] BAKERY:
Run under the sculpted doorway and toggle the light ON. Spin right
and grab the DETERGENT. Toggle the light back OFF. Quickspin. Run.
Seesaw through the door.
[21] Go long on this hall and stop short of smacking the fan switch.
Thump confirm twice but not three times. Spin left. Open door.
Spin left, thump select, combine bleach and detergent and use.
Thump start to skip cinema. Spin left. Confirm twice. Spin left.
Open door. Don't run... you'll hit the can. Hit run+R1 to strafe
a bit, then run. Take two corners and a long stretch of hall with
no doors.
[22] TWO SETS OF TAN + BLUE DOORS:
Take the first tan door on the way next to a blue door. You enter
in a red glow. Run forward, angle left, confirm twice through
two tones (for bullets... I think) then quickspin and run up
and confirm for jerky. Spin right and run then seesaw out of the room.
More load time than room again.
Spin right out in the hall. Run. Take the next right.
Take the tan door next to the blue door again.
You will enter a nasty pitch black room with a shuffler in the middle.
You won't see anything. Run along the wall to Heather's right, jog
to the left, then frantically seesaw for a door you will never see.
[23] EVIL BALCONIES + SPORTSHOP:
The spinners are already in orbit toward you. Spin right and run long
and pass two doors you can't open. Duck in for the center walkway,
and be advised that a dog in orbit will only just be passing the sport
shop door you need. Plow into his butt and push him out of your way.
Seesaw into the shop. Keep your light OFF! Square up to the vise which
is to Heather's right from the door... select, walnut, use. Confirm tones.
Quickspin and angle left with run. Seesaw out of the room.
Out on the balcony, the pushed dog is mad... but facing the wrong way.
Run along the wall to Heather's right and thump madly to double confirm
through a door you unlock. Now you are back at the first balcony area
and you want to calmly spin right and run forward, swerving deep toward
the wall in the wide area. Look for blue/brown doors immediately
adjacent to double skin panels.
[24] HOPPER KITCHEN AMBUSH:
Run fearlessly forward in this room and angle to Heather's left.
You'll be sliding past two hoppers who can't quite get missile lock
on you in the dark. Circle the bar corner and slide along the edge
of it to Heather's left... you should pass by the hopper behind
the bar and wind up behind him (with him blocking the door).
If you are good at getting the instantaneous seesaw vacuum then
you will pull right over the top of this hopper and be free of this
room without a hit. If the hopper knocks you down, then restart
the game. You should only be about 10 minutes into gameplay time anyway.
[25] BACK HALL TAKE THREE:
Run forward and hang a left. Slide through the dark corner with the
Shuffler again. Hit the door in the light. Run forward from door to door
in the gallery. Spin right. Run past two TVs. Run up the right escalator
because that shuffler is at the top of the one to the left. Swerve right
toward the barbequed dog door and avoid seeing this shuffler ever. Stop
at the crescent door. Do not read it. Thump select, moonstone, use. You
are safe for a moment in an enemy-free balcony area, but be careful not
to madly rush the edge and fall. You must climb down the first part of
the stairs, but a cinema takes over. Skip it with start.
[26] SPLIT WORM:
You start with your light ON and an empty pistol in your hand.
Keep your light on and squeeze L2+aim+fire+down. Heather will load
the pistol and begin firing as you walk away from the worm.
You need the light ON so that auto-aim actually works.
You need to do this in under two minutes for a gold rank, but its only
two stars, so don't beat yourself up if you err on the side of caution.
The split worm will kill you instantly if you stop in front of him later.
Vest or no vest. You just die. Keep the vest OFF. Don't try to learn
new fingering to make square+strafe work yet... you'll mess up.
Run, quickturn, spin and re-angle to always be 30 degrees to the side
of the split worm at half-room or farther. You'll get three shots into
his mouth if you are really having a good day. He gets really fast after
about six shots to the mouth. You'll probably only pop him twice at
a time there at the end. Unfortunately... you can't skip his death cinema.
You can skip the cinema as soon as you see the fountain. Circle the
fountain and pass through the half-shutter.
[27] HAPPY BURGER:
Its down at the end on the right. Merken would skip this, I'm sure...
but I need that jerky for the hospital, so I clean out two confirm tones
from past the save sigil and collect jerky from the back stool.
Hit the glass doors and skip a cinema with Douglas.
You have spent no more than fifteen minutes to get here.
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SUBWAY + TRAIN:
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[01] SUICIDE PUSHER'S BONUS FIRST AID KIT:
Begin running. Take a right. Hit a little door.
Curve deep into this next large room and swerve out to Heather's
right to hit the NEWSPAPER on top of the phone booths.
You need this. Quickspin. Run and angle right into the
turnstiles and duck around their corner to grab the MAP.
(You will not ever look at this map.)
Quickspin and go down the closest stairs to the Heather's right.
From down here, you go forward and left... squeezing L2
and left sticking up to see the Bergen Street 3 sign,
but NOT that map you picked up. Down those stairs you'll
see a TABLOID on the landing. Confirm through its text quickly.
VERY IMPORTANT: You must go OUT to the yellow grated guard
and WALK along the track. If you duck in by the benches,
you launch the suicide pusher cinema, but will not get a
first aid kit. At breathing, thump start and skip cinema.
Quickspin. Confirm up the guard rail as train whistle blows.
Run forward to the bench and receive FIRST AID KIT.
[02] Back up two flight of stairs. Run forward and turn right
at the red glow. Its a save sigil, but run past it and enter
a little grey door past it. In the larger room, cross to the
left side of the room between the poles. Turn left and left
again to go down an open blue gate.
[03] FAKE OUT MANY DOGS:
I can't tell how many dogs are in here. In darkness it is hard
to tell if I'm just seeing the same dog again. These dogs cheat.
They immediately howl to indicate that they are programmed to know
you are coming. They are not near you. Spin/Angle right and run, but
kinda swerve right at the camera change or you will hit a grey
beam (and die from dog chewing). Cross the room across the metal
planks: the sound of your footsteps will change. Angle right and
go down the first stairs. There will probably be a dog with you
on the stairs all the way down, but the game will reset him farther
from you on the way back up (use this to your advantage).
Downstairs run forward a step or two, then stop and spin with L2
to see the NUTCRACKER. Jog up, confirm through a tone, Quickspin
and use L2 again to see your turn for the stairs (Heather's left).
Back up in dog hall the dogs have moved. You shouldn't really see
them again, but they are behind you. Move across the metal step sound
area and go down the stairs. Toggle light on and spin with L2
to see a health drink. Confirm with tones. Quickspin. Run up stairs.
Circle out wide to Heather's left, but come back in to the UP
staircase.
[04] NUTCRACKER + SHOTGUN:
At the top of the stairs run down the long skinny part of the hall
and spin left to the chain. Select. Nutcracker. Use. Confirm. Run.
Down you go. Darkness. Forward and to Heather's Left is a shadowed
subway car. Toggle light ON. Enter car. Spin right. Confirm receipt
of two shotgun shells. Spin left. Run. Angle right and confirm receipt
of shotgun with text. Toggle light OFF. Run out of car and toward bench.
Its okay to run past these insane cancers if you started from the
benches, otherwise you would need to walk. Run around where you came
down from (do not go up) and go down the stairs. Run forward. See clutter
with L2. Turn right. Run to second right turn. Go down.
Run to end of platform and jump onto rail. Run toward red door.
Square firmly against red door before trying it. Notice that Heather
looks at dogs who are not activated to leap before she tries the door.
Immediately quickturn and run after confirming the locked door.
You'll run to far side of track, but circle back after third jumping dog
to the yellow guard grating and confirm. Thump start to skip the cinema.
Run forward. Unlock, Confirm door.
Run forward... possibly pushing against the side of a jumping dog
(There are two dogs. You can push them in the butt with your shoulder
while they are jumping and you are running).
DO NOT RUN TOO FAR. You must angle right and go up these stairs.
Continue running forward. Landing. Stairs. Down. At next platform
toggle light ON and spin right to confirm receipt of health drink.
Spin left and run angling left. Enter subway train. Thump start
to skip cinema.
[05] TRAIN:
This is simple. Run Forward. If there are little hoppers, then run
past them. If its a big hopper, then shoot it from the darkness
(if available). Hoppers CANNOT get missile lock if you are standing
in the darkness. Be careful about standing under a light. The hoppers
do not have ears and they can't hear where you are running.
The range of your shots determines their strength, and yes... one
point blank shell will knock a big hopper over, but don't try it.
Waste three shells from a safe distance to kill big hoppers. Don't
try to run over a stumbled big hopper... squeeze L2 and watch for the
little hopper to successfully walk through a deflated corpse, then
run past him in the dark. The little hoppers can lunge over a dead body
that you can't run over or push out of your way.
Wait until the lit car where Heather glances down and left. She's
looking at shells you can pick up with the light OFF. In the very
next car you must turn your light ON and spin right, to confirm
through TWO tones for bullets you will never see. In extreme mode,
ONLY these three items are available on the train.
At the Insane Cancer ask yourself if you feel lucky. If you feel lucky
then drop him with two close blasts and then WALK forward and left
pushing him out of your way. He won't slide all the way out of your way,
but just enough that as he stands up... you can slide past a little
more and use the seesaw vacuum to pull over his swinging arm and
get sucked through the door right before he hits you. If you do not
feel lucky, then spend six shells and multiple kicks to deflate this one.
Its one car past him, a long blackout, then skip a cinema.
[06] UNKNOWN STATION + HURTING VEINY HALLWAYS:
Turn your light ON. Spin left and run. Spin right. Seesaw the door.
The hall looks normal at first, but don't stop running. Light on.
Once you can see the red door at the end of the hall, toggle the light
OFF while you are running. YOU WILL LOSE 70% OF YOUR HEALTH. Thats right.
This hall really hurts now. In the next room you are in total darkness
and there are three spinners walking toward you. In darkness, navigate
by their dim keylight and angle right, left, right between them.
After the third toggle your light ON, and spin RIGHT for a blue door.
Inside this door use some stuff to put your health back up.
Switch the light back OFF! Run forward and angle RIGHT for a door
near a little hopper coming at you. Run forward past the T intersection.
Quickspin and L2. Three hoppers should come on their route out
of the turn you need and walk down the hall. Go where they were.
Hit a door in darkness. The next room is pitch black. Toggle light ON.
Grab the MAUL, and the MAP from Heather's left. Quickspin. Grab the
FIRST AID KIT from the shelves (hard to see). Spin left and leave.
[07] BIG HOPPER SHADOW KILLS:
This hall should have a big hopper coming at you. Squeeze L2.
Do not release L2. Walk forward only so much that you can remain in
shadow to thwart the hopper's missile-lock.
You will need four shells to kill this big hopper from a safe distance.
The hall is not wide enough to dodge his lunge. Don't try.
You can run past the little hopper if you see a way with L2.
Go to the end of the hall and turn right... you want to go to the
end of this hall and get the shotgun shells off the barrel
(toggle light ON/OFF) before you go for the WINE BOTTLE hallway
because more hoppers populate the big room after you get the bottle.
Come back from the barrels and the handrail thing, spin left,
run to the lit blue door, run forward, toggle the light ON and
confirm through two tones for stuff (I never see what it is because
I'm standing in front of it) then angle over to the wine rack and
confirm receipt of the wine bottle. Quickspin. Run.
AMBUSH! Another big hopper! You are standing in a spotlight!
He instantly gets missile-lock and is going to hit you no matter
what you do. Try to run past him so that he only hits you in the back,
and allows you to continue running. Angle left with this run and take
a turn to Heather's right. Seesaw a door.
There's a long dark hall with two waddling spinners.
Zig-zag through them before they launch and exit left to a blue door.
Then a long lit up straight gray hall.
After this is a totally empty hall that you go right and right in
and leave from the end door.
[08] KEROSENE + GENERATOR F HALL
Pretend this hall is a letter F. You can turn right twice, but pretend
the door at the top isn't there. You aren't going in there. There
are angry monsters and no items.
From the start run forward, but not out of the shadows. Aim. L2.
Blast the big hopper often until you hear his death cry.
Repeat with the second big hopper. Take the second right and toggle
the light on in this room with the KEROSENE.
Square up. Select. Wine Bottle. Use. Confirm/Tone. Quickspin.
L2 and see health drinks. Confirm receipt. Spin left.
Toggle light OFF. Exit.
Back out in the F Hall... WALK, do not RUN out to the end of
your hall and watch a parade of three little hoppers walk past.
Wait. Then run out and curve wide left, putting yourself into
the next hall to your left. You didn't alert the hoppers.
In the GENERATOR room running forward should put you up the stairs.
Square your toes up to the hole, select, wine bottle, use, confirm.
Slide with R1 to the switch and confirm Yes, then start/skip the
cinema. Quickspin. Run and angle right to get down the stairs.
Around the rail. If its still light OFF, then you have to confirm
through some text. If you toggle the light ON, then you can get down
the stairs faster.
[09] HAIR DRYER
Spin left in darkness toward a ramp. Up into a room. Spin right.
Toggle light on. Spin left. Run up stairs. Spin left. Hit door.
There's another long empty hall forward. Door.
You'll be in a water channel room. Immediately
press confirm and leap into the water. Run down the middle of the
water channel splashing and making a lot of noise. The hoppers
patrolling this area have no ears. You are going right first and
then through a door and up some stairs. Running. In the compactor
room, toggle the light back ON. Step to the room's middle and confirm
receipt of the dryer. Quickspin and grab an AMPOULE from the far
shelf. Quickspin and angle/run left out of this room.
Jump into the water. Do not fear the patrolling Hopper in front of you.
He can't see you. Wait til he is halfway across the wood plank to your
right before you climb the step and enter the door in front of you.
[10] CONTROL ROOM + BONUS PIPES
Toggle your light ON briefly in the control room to collect a health
drink on the desk. Thats all. Heather will look at a bunch of memos, but
none of them save to your memo file, so don't mess with them. Leave
through the door that used to say "Keep Out."
Use the dryer. Thump start to skip the cinema. Run Forward.
Opposite the tentacle, confirm your wish to drop the pipe.
You can press start to skip through the vocals on water goddess.
Just be honest. Get 3 pipes. I believe the two pipes are worth a
gold star each for "bonus weapon collected ranking" because it is
five stars total, and I know the heather/sexy beam do not count toward
bonus weapon collection (because you start with them).
If you skip the vocals, this should only take a few seconds.
[11] SPINNER WATER CHANNEL:
There are a few hallways beyond the Hair Dryer scene, but the important
bit of business is one last hopper hallway. In this hall do not get
confused and run deep into the hall and go right. That door is locked.
This time you exit far left past the middle spotlight.
There's a forked Hall, go straight... the left path is blocked anyway.
There may be some gray stair hallways, go forward.
At the room with the water channel, jump into the water.
The spinners don't really hear you this time. Run left then turn right.
These spinners have a crappy orbit. If you don't run toward
your exit hall, then a spinner will go in before you and you'll
take a hit sliding past him. If you do run, it will sound like he
noticed you and is chasing you. Relax. Its just his route. He
doesn't see you.
There is one more stair, then outside to a rail set of stairs
and up to a ladder. You come up outside the Office Building.
Run quickly around the corners, at the red glow quickturn and
hit double doors into the building.
[13] OFFICE BUILDING + SILENCER:
Inside toggle your light on. Run forward. Head spins. You spin left.
Confirm two tones for health drinks. Leave light on. Resume.
Hit the stairs and go all the way up. In the first hall stay away
from that enticing bathroom. No need for scary music today.
First thing in here, run forward, grab bullets, then health drink
on far side of mattress, then quickturn and advance toward wall.
On normal and easy mode, you have enough maximum stamina to hit
this wall and break it from anywhere. Now in extreme mode... you
need to be at full stamina and a step back from the wall so that
the spiked ball part of the maul connects perfectly in order to
break it. If you are standing right on the wall, then the handle
connects, you get a lousy hit, and the wall won't break.
Collect the SILENCER. Yay! You really need this in Extreme.
Quickspin. Confirm your wish to drop the mattress. Run to the edge
and you should just jump in without having to confirm.
Your light is still ON.
In the next room spin left and run toward the patched window.
Toggle your light OFF then hit the window.
Outside on the railing are spinners who don't see you even though
you begin in the light. Spin calmly left and then run
along the plank and turn left. Seesaw into the window.
This little brown room has nothing. Snake to next door.
[14] INSANE CANCERS CAN'T DANCE
These office halls look purple in darkness. Run to the far end
of the hall and thump the whitish door to enter the mannequin room.
Don't look at soon-to-be-headless girl. Toggle light ON.
Run around to confirm tones for bullet pickup. Exit. Light OFF.
Take the door on your side of the hallway red light.
In the next semi-H shaped room, run forward into another door
with a light above it (use L2 if you don't see it) for the back
hall of Monica's Dance Studio. Arguably, you could go upstairs and
get the screwdriver + jack first, but I've become superstitious about
that ampoule being there when I get back so I do this hall first
(which only wastes 10 seconds anyway). Hit the door opposite you
to enter the office. Run in and grab the MAP off the table.
Spin left and leave. In the hall spin left, run to the end of the
hall and angle left and pull through a door. There is a locker
with a FIRST AID KIT and an AMPOULE. Confirm two tones.
Go back down the hall and angle left for the door back to the
elevator room. Squeeze L2. You are down by the bathrooms, and those
are at the opposite end of the big room from the staircase door
with a red light above it. There are two dogs. They are going to
jump as you run past. Be cool. They won't be here when you come back.
[15] AUTO-PARTS with JACK and SCREWDRIVER
Take the stairs smooth, wide, and running to the 5th floor.
The elevator room is clear. The door you want is toward the
bathrooms then turn left. Use L2 to see the
correct KMG door which is near the Art Gallery door. Do
the Art Gallery first. Run forward dodging the couches, and
thump on the whitish door in darkness. Forward and turn down
the bent hall, its the hard-to-see door in the corner.
This room is pitch black. Toggle the light ON. Confirm receipt
of Katana. Quickturn. Exit. Run to other end of hall, not
the blood swiped white door you came from, and grab the
SCREWDRIVER off the box. Quickturn. Its a sharp circle (left)
back to the door into the Gallery. Cross. Exit. Run across
hall and seesaw into the KMG door.
There is one U shaped hall now (the hell version has two L shaped halls).
There are four little hoppers and they are spread out.
Sneak toward one with the light off, then toggle light ON,
and hold aim+fire+down to walk away while shooting each little hopper.
The KMG Office is at the far end of the hall on Heather's left.
In the Office toggle the light ON, grab the health drink from
the desk, then grab the jack off the shelves and turn your light
back OFF. Leave the office. Run straight across the hall to the