Let me just preface this by saying that this is one of the greatest games, and pieces of media that I’ve ever had the honor of experiencing. And this may very well be my favorite silent hill game (however my love for sh1 and sh2 runs so strong). Heather is such a phenomenal main character, I’d say I enjoyed her more than James. She has got to be the most realistic portrayal of a teenage girl in fiction, which is impressive given how little this is achieved. Heather being the same age as I am currently, I was able to empathize with her even more, it made the experience of playing as her more personal. Claudia was such an unnerving and eerie figure, her resemblance to my own mother both un looks and religious obsession had me spooked. I loved how sh3 returned to the cult and religious origins of sh1, continuing the story of Alessa. The story of Alessa is one of the most tragic and intriguing for me. A girl who endures extreme religious ans cult abuse and medical trauma, causing her to split herself into two (a clear representation of DID), and now she has cursed the town of Silent Hill and bestows physiological horrors on anyone who dares to explore it. To me what is so special about silent hill 3 is how it explores womanhood through the lense of horror just like bloodborne (another one of my favs). This aspect of the game made it the most terrifying game in the series for me, and something I emphasized with DEEPLY. Especially the aspect of forced/unwanted pregnancy. And then you have the aspects of stalking, and the sick twisted romantic and sexual obsession that men have with women they attempt to pursue (as shown through stanley in the hospital boy was that unnerving). But the most terrifying part for me was the final encounter between Claudia ans Heather. Them in the chapel, Heather being unaware of the God growing inside of her, every woman’s worse nightmare. To me, Heather throwing up the red deformed God which is then ingested by Claudia herself was the most blood curdling and unnerving scene for me that left me with an indescribable feeling, and still does. This final encounter between Heather and Claudia which leads into the boss fight against the God is one of my favorite final sequences and final bosses in all of gaming. I remember hearing “uneternal sleep” play for the first time around 1:30 am, and being filled with such a feeling. The way the track paints the scene and feeling of ascending into heaven with God is so phenomenal. Another one of my favorite sections of the game was the boss fight against Alessa on the nightmare carousel, WOW what a genuinely eerie and trippy fight and setting, especially with the track “prayer” playing—one of my favorite tracks off the ost that I can never listen to for long before getting genuinely scared. What I love so much about silent hill is its ability to make me seriously feel like I’m in another reality, another dimension, another state of mind. Easily hands down the greatest piece of psychological media to ever touch earth. Silent hill 3 has some of the greatest art and atmosphere in the game, not to mention the phenomenal soundtrack that is on par with the sh2 soundtrack. One of my favorite aspects of the sh3 soundtrack is that many of the tracks have a religious monologue that starts playing over it, this scared the shit out of me the first time listening to it, but it drives me crazy in the best way possible now. I cannot get enough of the crazy cult and religious stuff presented in silent hill 3. We are so blessed to have silent hill 3. I am forever grateful that I am alive at the same time when silent hill exists.