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7. Who Would Even Think Of Doing Something So Disgusting? - Silent Hill 3
The Silent Hill series isn’t really known for its sense of humor. Well, easter eggs and secret dogs in control rooms aside.
The franchise is meant to be a subtle and disturbing psychological horror, which is why any in-game moment of levity feels quite bizarre.
Especially, however, when it involves one of the characters talking to the player!
In Silent Hill 3, the protagonist, Heather Mason, differs quite drastically from her predecessors. For example, unlike James, the protagonist of the second game, she isn’t willing to go treasure hunting in random toilet bowls, no matter how dire the situation.
In fact, the concept is so disgusting to her that she will even scold the player directly if they decide to force her to do it!
If you try to make Heather reach into a toilet bowl in Silent Hill 3, you will activate a secret cutscene in which the girl tries to do it but ultimately gives up and then turns around to directly face the camera and ask, “Who would even think of doing something so disgusting?”
The scene being a cheeky reference to the second game already feels out-of-place, but the fact that Heather looks at you amplifies the disbelief to a whole new level.