Episode 124: Silent Hill 3

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross ooze affection for Silent Hill 3.

A teenage girl is in trouble. The world is warping around her, and strange people are saying that she's destined to birth Paradise. That's the setup to Silent Hill 3, one of the scariest and most upsetting games in existence. The story has problems, but for atmosphere and dread it has almost no rival.

If you haven't played the original Silent Hill, don't worry: We go out of our way to provide all of the context you need to understand what's going on here. Enjoy!

LINKS OF NOTE:

• Silent Hill: Revelation 3D
• Circumcision nonsense
• Subway scene. Couldn't find unaltered version
• Ghost Stations
• The gates are open. This is the last time this will appear in show notes. Drink it up.
• Session 9
• Suicide House...

Episode 99: Amnesia: The Dark Descent

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross hide in a corner while Amnesia: The Dark Descent happens.

This game won our Spring Survival Horror poll, and for good reason. Frictional mastered the "first person, pursuit-based exploration horror" genre, and created a game that's so scary that a lot of people can't even play it. Listen in, especially if you're one of those people.

LINKS OF NOTE:

• Danse Macabre
• Sanity Patent
• Novint Falcon
• Curated list of custom stories. I can't vouch necessarily
• The Nothing
• Dat fountain
• Road to Damascus
• SOMA
• I can't find the right commercial but I didn't dream up Wyler's
• Torture Museum Reviews

Episode 42: Resident Evil 2

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross experience an outbreak of positive opionions toward Resident Evil 2.

Thousands have died, but don't worry... they're back again. Raccoon City is overrun with zombies and the ultimate bioweapon is on the loose. We join a biker girl and a rookie cop as they uncover a massive conspiracy, in what is one of the best games we've played for the show so far.

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Links of Note:

• Resident Evil 2
• Tank Controls
• Zapping System
• Tom Waits
• Resident Evil 1.5
• Daryl Dixon
• My uncle works at Nintendo
• Child Who Just Lost Balloon Begins Lifelong Battle With Depression
• Resident Evil 2 Shotgun
• DOOM Shotgun
• Retirony
• Raccoon City Police Department
• Avoision
• Paul Blart Mall Cop
• Beaver Boys
• Thirty Flights of Loving
• Goro)
• Gaping Dragon
• Object Permanence
• Dan Birlew RE Plot Guide
• Hunk Action Figure
• Alternate Resident Evil 4
• Dowsing
• Resident Evil Zelda Mod

Episode 37: Parasite Eve

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross take a microscope to Parasite Eve.

Organelles have run amok on New York City! It's up to you to kill an actress who is possessed by your younger sister or an ancient woman from Africa or something! Squaresoft got really, really ambitious when they made this RPG/Survival Horror game. It was almost one of the best games we played, but it fell apart spectacularly toward the end. So it goes.

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Links of Note:

• [Parasite Eve]
• The 3rd Birthday
• Trespasser
• Parasite Eve Novel
• Mitochondria
• Firestarter
• Wicked Firestarter
• Lupus
• Star Ocean
• Vagrant Story
• "Piano Destruction" - IMDB Tag
• Blue Car Syndrome
• Bunk
• Hotline Miami
• Retirony
• Klugman is Dynamite
• Jane Lynch in Wreck It Ralph
• Sling Blade
• The Selfish Gene
• "ABC Speech" - Glengarry Glen Ross
• The New No-Nos
• Billy and the Cloneasaurus
• I'm comin' to join ya', Elizabeth!
• Absurd Magneto Power
• My Uncle Ain't No Monkey
• The Bechdel Test
• "Seether" - Veruca Salt
• Einhander

Episode 15: Silent Hill 2

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross leap into bottomless pits of effusive praise for Silent Hill 2.

James Sunderland is a haunted man in a haunted town. Beckoned to Silent Hill by a letter from his dying wife, James is tortured by guilt as he’s drawn ever closer to revealing his own terrible secrets.

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Links of Note

• Lazy Horse Mattresses
• Silent Hill 2
• Silent Hill HD Collection
• Arc Words
• Itchy Tasty
• H.P. Lovecraft
• [Pyramid Head Rape Scene]
• Blue Velvet
• Pyramid Head Introduction
• Slender Man
• Silent Hill 4: The Room
• Walter Sullivan
• The Making of Silent Hill 2
• Problem Child
• Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
• Jacob's Ladder
• Shalebridge Cradle
• "Under the Pyramids"
• House of Leaves
• Maria Prison Cell Cutscene
• Amnesia: The Dark Descent
• There Will Be Blood
• Frosty Chocolate Milkshakes
• The Hudsucker Proxy
• Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
• How long is Resident Evil 4
• The Something Awful Forums
• Pee Wee's Big Adventure
• Backlog Killer
• Synecdoche, NY Eulogy