10 Video Game Chase Sequences That Made You Rage Quit

Released during Sony’s State Of Play in January 2024, Silent Hill: The Short Message took the long-running survival horror series to modern day Germany. In it, players play as teenager Anita as they wander through a creepy apartment building in a first-person perspective.

Being a Silent Hill game, the in-game horrors are manifestations of the protagonist’s trauma. For Anita, this comes in the form of Sakura Head, a humanoid monster covered in cherry blossoms.

This creature appears regularly throughout the game to pursue players through the building's labyrinthian hallways. Although the initial encounters are tense ordeals that task players with finding the exit, the final chase was nightmarish for the wrong reasons.

Unlike the previous encounters, this one requires players find five photographs to unchain the door to the exit.

With this level being much bigger than any of the others, it became far too easy to get lost within the looping corridors. And with the monster never far behind, players had no time to get their bearings.

Even more frustrating is that the game never tells players that they need to find the photographs. This means that players could spend ages running around without knowing what to do.

This disastrous finale ended this otherwise enthralling spin-off on a flat note.