These Video Game Weapons Suck! (At First)

I absolutely adore the Silent Hill franchise, as not only have they provided some of the most exemplary horror moments across the entire medium, some of the best-designed enemies, and provided them the most intensely disturbing lore, but they have balanced all of this brilliance with sheer and utter batshit moments!

Aliens, dogs at computers, golden pipes that you can throw into a puddle in a sewer and bring out a lady of the lake style figure, all of this and more make up the sheer insanity of even the tamest Silent Hill experience. And to be honest, "tame" is a good way to describe what at first seemed like the most bonkers of unlockable weapons in Silent Hill 3, the Heather Beam.

Now if I told you that you were able to unlock the ability for protagonist Heather to shoot laser beams from her head at enemies, you'd probably be scrambling for the controller in order to kill 333 enemies in order to do so, however before you engage in some old fashioned skull caving, there are some significant drawbacks to this lackluster laser. For starters it drains Heather's stamina, and only does slightly more damage than most other firearms in the game, meaning you can find yourself unable to flee from enemies who survive the first wave.

HOWEVER, it turns out that all you need to do in order to get the most out of this weapon is to power it up properly! By finding the "Transform Costume" thanks to a code that the player gets after completing the game once, Heather will be able to indulge in an offbeat bit of Sailor Moon cosplay. However, this is more than just weirdo fan service as this actually allows Heather to buff up her beams to "sexy" levels.

And that's not me just also being a weirdo, it's what the beam is actually called, the "Sexy beam" and trust me it more than lives up to the, admittedly strange, hype! Now pulling a pose and whispering "sexy" Heather now shoots out double the amount of homing beams, plus a wave of new damaging symbols in front of her, AND it doesn't drain stamina either! As joke weapons go, this packs quite the punchline.