10 Video Games Designed To Totally Screw With You

9. Silent Hill: Shattered Memories Psychologically Reads You

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There’s a warning at the beginning of Silent Hill: Shattered Memories…

‘This video game psychologically profiles you as you play. It gets to know who you really are then uses this information to change itself, it uses its knowledge against you, creating your own personal nightmare. This game plays you as much as you play it.’

Well, at least the game’s honest about its intent. Every cloud and all that.

The Psych Profile then proceeds to observe your actions in the game, altering the storyline, enemy appearances and even the game’s ending depending on how you played. Spending too much time staring at an NPC’s breasts or hunting down trivial objects will influence your experience, as will the answers you give during psychological evaluations, and at the end of it, you’ll be assessed by the game’s psychoanalyst – just to show you how dark your mind really is.

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