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REFLEX
from Edmonton, Alberta (Canada) on 2003-09-05 19:03 [#00852089]
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Just picked it up a day ago, im in the subway station part...... very good so far.
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Murray
from Southend, Essex (United Kingdom) on 2003-09-05 19:40 [#00852107]
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I love this game, very scary
nighty night
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kochlear
from aud-stim.com on 2003-09-05 19:48 [#00852110]
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shit yes we beat the whole thing. i've never played the other SH games but there is some FUCKED up shit in there. especially the otherworld office building. and the hospital. man that's a cool game.
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kochlear
from aud-stim.com on 2003-09-05 19:49 [#00852111]
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PS did you get to the mannequin part yet? if not i won't say anything because i don't want to ruin it. i'll just say it's "special"
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Zombiekev
from Ardmore (United States) on 2003-09-05 19:51 [#00852114]
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sounds like a blast
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revpersona
from Plainfield (United States) on 2003-09-06 02:09 [#00852269]
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Yeah, I've got to get around to playing this. I played it the first day I got it and made it to the 'dark' world, and then quit.
Definitely a quality game it looks like thus far.
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viktor
from Uppsala (Sweden) on 2003-09-06 02:39 [#00852283]
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its a great game, but the previous SH was a little bit better, imo....
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dan7250
from Osaka (Japan) on 2003-09-06 03:56 [#00852317]
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yeah i have this game.... it rocks.
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dan7250
from Osaka (Japan) on 2003-09-06 03:57 [#00852320]
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very creepy....
also have resident evil... though resident evil is more of a gore fest.
but similar controls and stuff.
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uzim
on 2003-09-06 08:11 [#00852488]
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yeah, lots of stuff which makes you ask "what the hell is THIS??"... already the video at the beginning, the first picture, with two girls (?) maybe hung, you only see the bottom of their robes, and a demon (??) spinning down... and all throughout the game, lots of weirdness and evilness you don't see what it is... not as "classy" and beautiful as the new Resident Evils, but definitely scarier! : )
(i loved the phone call of the funny crazy old man in the hospital... ^^)
i just don't like the "architecture" of many of the places, all places/corridors looking the same with lots of locked doors and you lose yourself. mostly in the first levels.
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uzim
on 2003-09-06 08:14 [#00852492]
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actually i don't play them myself (can't get used to the controls......), i watch my brother playing them. but in this kind of games, it's as enjoyable for me to watch than to play!
(i just hope he won't get the bad ending... i want happy end...)
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Ophecks
from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2003-09-06 12:11 [#00852794]
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I just got it 3 days ago, but I still haven't played it! I started a new save on Final Fantasy 8 (which I never did beat, my 4th disc save got erased many years ago), and I have to beat that first... I'm at Ultimecia Castle so I'll be plaing the Hill by tomorrow.
I'm almost afraid to play it. I swear, Silent Hill 2 was so unsettling, that I quit. I really did.
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uzim
on 2003-09-06 18:04 [#00853143]
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ok, saw the (good) ending of it!
i must say... i'm pretty disturbed and intrigued still. first, the scene you see in the video at the very beginning and then at the almost ending ("the two girls (?) maybe hung, you only see the
bottom of their robes, and a demon (??) spinning down"). you also hear (little girl's) cries (those fucking cries are, for me at least, the most fucking disturbing fucking thing of this fucking game) and see phantom footprints before entering the room where this happens. but it's probably just here to scare and make the whole thing even more insane.
- the thing that REALLY intrigues me is that (in fact the basis of the whole story itself):
the god pictured in the books and pictures and stuff seems to be a good one!! so why all of this, why is it just this atrocious....... thing when you finally meet him?!
my idea is that it's because it was the crazy Claudia who tried to summon it, and because she thought hatred was needed for it... and that influencated it and "turned" the god into an evil thing... besides she tried to wake it up too soon maybe, that's why we see it incomplete...
...what do you think? the ones who finished the game? ' _ '
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uzim
on 2003-09-06 18:32 [#00853174]
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damn all i want now is something to cheer me up... but that's ok i have music. : )
i wish the whole world was happy right now! just gonna daydream on my cloud!
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kochlear
from aud-stim.com on 2003-09-06 18:40 [#00853182]
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i think you're right about the claudio making it evil thing.
all i know is we were playing it and i said "jesus fucking christ...did she just vomit up a fetus? WHAT THE FUCK DID SHE JUST EAT IT???".
we beat the game on easy and got the ending where heather doesn't stab what's-his-face. it was a little too short of an ending for my tastes.
i think the scariest things in the game where the ones where you think something's coming up and it never does. it's all atmospheric like that. like the mannequins and the sideways wheelchair with blood and a spinning wheel, and that monster stuck behind the cage in that one part of the dark office building.
this game gave me some disturbing dreams.
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Ophecks
from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2003-09-09 10:43 [#00856065]
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Wow, what an amazing game. I'm having the same problem I had with Silent Hill 2 though... I'm so creeped out and intimidated, that playing it is hard on me, physically. I just got on the train in the subway, had to take a break.
Did you guys get the soundtrack free with the game? Just wondering, because I did and I thought somebody would mention it... it's a thing of beauty. EVERY GAME should come packaged with the soundtrack.
Heather is strangely attractive.
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uzim
on 2003-09-09 10:56 [#00856090]
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Heather is pretty nice, but i wish she wouldn't always have her eyes like she was about to cry... - in some of the artworks on one of the official site, she does, you see her smiling and all : )
my favourite character of it is Vincent. you'll probably meet him somewhat soon Ophecks. ^^
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Ophecks
from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2003-09-13 12:57 [#00861258]
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I beat it a couple days ago, and THEN I beat Silent Hill 2 for the first time (beat it in one sitting, right after beating 3... that's a LOT of survival horror). I'd have to say Silent Hill 2 spooked me much more, it's the better game. I got the ''In Water'' ending, and it was extremely depressing, much more effective than the endings for 3.
3 had some pretty creepy things in it though... I expect a few nightmares in the next few days. The wheelchair on the other side of the glass, that 'Valtiel'' demon who you see turning the valves all the time, yet you never fight him or anything... the cries are indeed VERY unsettling... the nightmare hospital was SO claustrophobic... those dead bunnies in the amusement park... that room with the mirror that slowly filled up with blood... and your reflection looks like a corpse and stops moving... man, I cried. And those ''living'' horses on the carousel! What a nightmare.
Man, going from the ''normal'' areas to the ''distorted'' was nerve wracking, I dreaded it.
I don't know about the story... it was a bit convoluted and confusing and didn't get me as emotionally attached as part 2 did. There was an awful lot of references to the first (PS1) game, but I never did beat that one... I'm currently hunting it down though. It probably wasn't a ''God'' at all, the followers were fools... maybe a social comment.
The game lacked an enemy with the intimidation factor of Pyramid Head or Nemesis, that was disapointing.
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Oddioblender
from Fort Worth, TX (United States) on 2003-09-13 13:06 [#00861269]
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i have yet to play part three, though i highly enjoyed parts 1 and 2. i don't have a ps2 anymore, but i have to say my gamecube is supporting my desire for survival horror. the resident evil games have been top-notch (Zero wasn't terrible) and RE4 looks fantastic. plus, i highly recommend Eternal Darkness to any horror game fan who hasn't had the pleasure of playing it yet.
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Ophecks
from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2003-09-13 13:08 [#00861273]
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Silent Hill website
Here's an AMAZING resource for Silent Hill media... movies, pics, scans, sketches, art, box art, everything. Weird layout, awesome content. I want that DVD so bad.
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REFLEX
from Edmonton, Alberta (Canada) on 2003-09-13 13:09 [#00861275]
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I own 1, 2 and 3, all three are amazing, Im a couple hours into SH3 now and its fuckin cool so far... defenitly.
and yeah the mannaquin (SP?) part was great.... nice nice nice tidbit.
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kochlear
from aud-stim.com on 2003-09-13 13:25 [#00861287]
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that was actually the part that fucked with me the most in that game. the enemies kind of lost their scariness after a while. except for the fat dude...i would run very very fast from him.
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Rambling Madman
from the future (United Kingdom) on 2003-09-13 13:29 [#00861290]
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I remember sitting in my bedroom playing Res Evil on the PS for days when it first came out, it still brings back fond memories for me, it's probably a good job SH wasn't around back then cos Res Evil used to scare me alot. These days Res Evil seems too cheesy to be scary & the monsters get more overblown & ridiculous every release, it's the twisted psychological shit that gets me =8S
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REFLEX
from Edmonton, Alberta (Canada) on 2003-09-13 13:31 [#00861292]
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no shit.. well I think they are great monsters as well, that fat guy when he fuckin runs at you its crazy.
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disasemble
from United States on 2003-09-13 13:46 [#00861306]
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yeah, pre ordered silent hill 3 on ebgames.com, got it quite a few days early
very impressed with it, brought back what i really liked in silent hill 1 (which was pretty non existant in sh2), but retained the graphic quality/atmosphere of sh2.
story is good but its very straightfoward. this kind of put me off at first, but the atmosphere alone makes up for a small thing like that.
right now id have to say my favorite moment is in the alternate hospital, when you go into that room with the mirror. now that was fucked.
yeah that felix-site-thing is a really good source. a silent hill 3 complete soundtrack is being worked on, though i do really want to get the art of silent hill dvd.
sh4 is in the works too apparently. a voice actor slipped up by saying she was auditioning for sh4, though theres no official news.
cant wait
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REFLEX
from Edmonton, Alberta (Canada) on 2003-09-13 14:53 [#00861352]
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well i havent played it through yet, so i cant wait. i heard it was shorter than #2 is this true?
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disasemble
from United States on 2003-09-13 14:57 [#00861356]
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hrm, depends i guess.
me and a friend are slow silent hill players. ie we never run unless we have to, its always walking. more of a chance to appreciate the design, which is fucking spectacular.
even on sh2 i ended up with about 9-10 hours. on sh3 it was somewhere around the same
theres more to silent hill 3 though, more areas. better areas. back to the ol blood n rust of silent hill 1.
i like it more actually. sh2 is slow to move, although it has some great moments in it.
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Aphexisatwin
from your mom's room (United States) on 2003-09-13 15:02 [#00861363]
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beat it in 5 hours on easy.... unlocked an unlimited submachine gun, and a beam sabre (lightsabre)
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uzim
on 2003-09-13 15:10 [#00861367]
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happy birthday to you..... happy birthday to you... happy birthday dear whoareyou... ^^
so, the demon is called Valtiel? : ) how do you know it ' _ '
weren't you feeling uncomfortable in the scene with the two lower bodies hanging, with the dresses and the legs and Valtiel spinning under them?
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REFLEX
from Edmonton, Alberta (Canada) on 2003-09-13 15:31 [#00861384]
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yeah that was awsome the fucking game is great so far , as far as it being like SH1 i agree.. Sh1 was creepy with the religious stuff
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kochlear
from aud-stim.com on 2003-09-13 18:11 [#00861500]
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a friend and i were talking about how awesome it would be if nintendo made another mario platform game but all the levels had silent hill 3-esque graphics and were extremely bloody and disturbing...yet you still ran around getting coins and shit. it would give so many little kids nightmares.
i'd buy a gamecube JUST to play it.
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uzim
on 2003-09-13 18:16 [#00861505]
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kochlear > what would the music be like? super mario bros. theme mixed with creepy noises, dark ambient and screams? =)
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uzim
on 2003-09-13 18:22 [#00861515]
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or......
*thinks of that Super Mario Bros. + NIN: Closer mix*
eww.
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kochlear
from aud-stim.com on 2003-09-13 18:30 [#00861523]
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it would be complete silence and then when you collect 100 coins or beat a level it would be a full volume top of the lungs scream.
kinda like those prank things on the internet that try to get you to turn your speakers up then scare the shit out of you...and then work.
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uzim
on 2003-09-13 18:38 [#00861533]
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nice Heather avatar!!! ^^
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Ophecks
from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2003-09-13 18:58 [#00861557]
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I rented Silent Hill for the PS1 this evening, hehe... can't find it for sale around here, yet. Some terrific atmosphere, despite the choppy framerate and low polygon count.
A school-full of bandaged knife wielding children... and there's some sort of transculcent crying baby following me
around. Fucking demented.
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kochlear
from aud-stim.com on 2003-09-13 19:27 [#00861582]
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i just downloaded the SH3 soundtrack. good stuff, some excellent downtempo.
i tried getting SH2 for PC but the size was too big for my hard drive.
i really want to play #2 and #1 now. so badly it hurts.
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ziggomatic
from ??....uv ajed...deja vu....?? on 2003-09-13 22:21 [#00861701]
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ha, i remember when that face was my [first] avatar......
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ziggomatic
from ??....uv ajed...deja vu....?? on 2003-09-13 22:32 [#00861708]
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hmmmm, anyway, I own SH 2+3, I had 1 also, but I sold it for cash, being that I had beat it on every diffuctulty twice, and gotten the UFO ending and all secret weapons/items.
I only beat 2 once, so I'll pick it up a couple more times....., and compare it with 3, after I beat it soon...
the soundtrack is really ace,....!
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ziggomatic
from ??....uv ajed...deja vu....?? on 2003-09-13 22:35 [#00861709]
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i dig #2,3,4,5, .......hell all of them...
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uzim
on 2003-09-14 06:26 [#00861855]
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(hint: if you finished the game already, try entering "PrincessHeart" in the "extra costume" mode... SUPER ULTRA GREATNESS!!... then take the costume off and re-put it on for a superb cut scene, fitting so well in the SH3 spirit... - it also modifies the "heather beam" if you already have it (i don't) : ))
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Ophecks
from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2003-09-15 22:15 [#00864621]
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Just beat Silent Hill 1... WOW, was it ever long! Took me 9 hours, as opposed to almost 6 for part 3 and almost 7 for part 2. The games keep getting shorter and shorter...
I got the ''good'' ending, Cybil surviving and Dr. Kaufman coming to the rescue. What a great game... as long as they're remaking games like Metal Gear Solid and (in people's dreams), Final Fantasy 7, they could do worse than to touch up this masterpiece. The atmosphere was just as good as the other two, but you could tell the Playstation 1 was being pushed FAR too hard for it's own good.
Uzim- yeah, these games have tons of cool stuff unlocked when you beat them. The Heather Beam, the Sexy Beam... and she looks so smoking in her spiffy new skintight shirts. The lightsaber that you can find in the door in the mall is awesome!
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Ophecks
from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2003-09-15 22:18 [#00864626]
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This is kind of a Silent Hill mood killer.
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disasemble
from United States on 2003-09-15 23:01 [#00864685]
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hehe
ive gotten the costume and heather beam. its quite bizarre.
also one thing i liked about silent hill 3 is that when you play it through a second time, a certain place...erm..."changes".
was quite awesome when i saw it, even though it lasted a short time.
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REFLEX
from Edmonton, Alberta (Canada) on 2003-09-15 23:27 [#00864706]
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Im at the hospital part now.. just got there, very good so far, Iam enjoying this game quite a lot so far!
SH1 blew me the fuck away, I own it along with 2 and 3 ofcourse. 1 still blew me away after I played it the 2nd time after playing SH2, graphics may be not so good but the ideas and creepiness it totally there.
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kochlear
from aud-stim.com on 2003-09-15 23:33 [#00864710]
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about 2.5 hours into sh2. it's pretty damn creepy, but i wish it went into hell world already. it's taking forever.
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disasemble
from United States on 2003-09-15 23:45 [#00864724]
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sh2 takes forever to build into it.
but once it does, i really do enjoy it. its more sombre, which is nice.
sh2 is more grey/decay/psychological sh3 is more blood/rust/evil-satan-ohno-religion-etc.
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uzim
on 2003-11-08 08:17 [#00940970]
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a weird site about SH3....
it's in japanese only and mostly uncomprehensible but well worth a visit, all in flash with lots of interactions possible : )
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Aphexisatwin
from your mom's room (United States) on 2003-11-08 08:25 [#00940971]
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sh2 is my fav.... but the "changing room" is by far superior to anything scary in the others... I had nightmares
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uzim
on 2003-11-08 08:47 [#00940989]
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.....changing room?
what was that?
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