10 Hidden Video Game Mechanics With MAJOR Consequences
5. Your Entire Gameplay Matters - Silent HIll 3
The Silent Hill series is an excellent collection of psychological horrors that keep the player on edge with every mysterious thing that happens in the titular town.
The games are big on creating fear out of the personal trauma of the main character, and in order to achieve this effect, they utilize several hidden mechanics that shape your character's psyche through the player's actions.
In fact, Silent Hill 3 determines what ending you're going to get through these exact scripts.
Two of the game's endings are determined by the amount of secret points that you accumulate through your actions. Your score changes depending on how often you kill enemies, how reckless you are in fights, and a couple of story-based choices.
If you play stealthily, avoiding combat and harming anything, you'll get the ending where Heather and Douglas survive and leave the town. However, if you've been acting like a maniac, the game will give you an appropriate ending in response, showing Heather killing Douglas in a mad frenzy.
The secret scoring system is surprisingly detailed, especially for a game that's more than two decades old now.
Yep, it's been twenty-two years. That's the true psychological horror!