Cultivating Incoherent Panic In Silent Hill 3

Thanks to Tokyopia.org for posting their spoiler-free post-game impressions from Silent Hill 3, the 'survival horror' PS2 title from Konami that's already been released in Japan and Europe, and is out in the U.S. on August 6th. The piece says that "The third game combines the tone and feel of the first game with the stronger emotional intensity of the second", but reassures on the creeping nature of the in-game horror: "Don't worry: the game hasn't devolved into cheap monster-jumps-through-window style gimmicks, a la Resident Evil. It's a more subtle 'shocking' and 'directness' than that... the pieces of Silent Hill 3 build slowly towards a sort of incoherent panic. The tension rises bit by bit.. [until] the player.. snaps and goes on a blind, unthinking rampage of running and shooting in cathartic self-defense."