Prolific gamer Adam Kelly has spent most nights in the last seven years attempting to locate a clue, hidden item or concealed door in an installment of the Silent Hill video game franchise, writes Hard Jackson.
Kelly was under the impression that the virtual room contained the clue to accessing the next stage of the game, which is believed to include shuffling, groaning monsters of unspeakable hideousness.
So convinced had Kelly become that the room in question was the correct one that he exited and re-entered it 3,548 times, attempted to use 472 different combinations of collected items and pressed the X button – which prompts the game’s protagonist to investigate, pick up or access items in the game – a record 114,887 times.
Kelly was even driven to read all 23 documents found throughout the haunted American Midwest town – usually a last-ditch attempt by gamers to discern some clue as to their next path of action. He also unloaded 1,254 shotgun blasts at random objects in a desperate effort to provoke action.
At one point in 2009 Kelly received a shot of adrenaline that coursed through his veins like crack cocaine as a familiar but unexpected ringing bell interrupted proceedings; Kelly being forced to stab a slavering zombie nurse repeatedly in the head in and neck. But it led to nothing.
Eventually Kelly located a previously unseen portrait containing a cryptic clue as to the location of a key, which he believes will open a door located in the hospital on the other side of Silent Hill, near Vachs Street.
He will attempt to locate the key and open the door when he returns later today from his shift at Garland’s Pet Shop, his place of employment.
Kelly believes the door will lead to a showdown with some sort of mutated giant weevil with eight heads and the voice of a child trapped at the bottom of a well.
