I'm currently playing Silent Hill 3 on PS2 in normal difficulty and get stuck in a puzzle. The level is Dark Shopping Mall. I have to get rid of some flying bugs with poisonous chloride gas, which I have to mix with bleach and detergent. The problem is I didn't take the bleach in the women' bathroom early on and now I cannot return there. It is the room with the ladder from ceiling where the door won't open.
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The story, controls, or core gameplay mechanics have remained the same, however there have been various changes in other areas
Silent Hill 2
New voice acting, with the choice to use the original voices (comparison video).
A lot of the fog has been removed which has resulted in negative feedback from the original director of the first three games (source) and reveals unfinished areas (source):
Without that fog, one can see where parts of the game world have not been finished and were left to end in nothingness. This is especially notable during moments near Toluca Lake, where the water can be seen abruptly ending, as if it flowed off the edge of the world. The boat sequence toward the end of the game looks absolutely horrific, not just for the previously stated reason but also for the lack of water texture as well as the guiding light in the distance that now looks like a star drawn in a child's cartoon.
Comparison screenshots:
Silent Hill 3
- New voice acting, with no option for the original voices (comparison video).
Both Games
Nevertheless, sound issues permeate both games. In Silent Hill 2, the audio randomly skips in outdoors environments, and both games struggle to keep the sound consistent whenever a character uses a bladed weapon -- the Great Knife in Silent Hill 2 and the katana in Silent Hill 3. While the Great Knife is only useful for one boss fight, the katana is an all-but-essential part of Silent Hill 3's melee arsenal, and to have audio cutting out almost every time it hits something is unbelievable. In both games, there's a bizarre crackling that randomly occurs on the save screen, sound loops during sections where it shouldn't be (ruining one of my favorite jump scares in Silent Hill 2), and unlocking achievements has the nasty side effect of crippling the frame rate of cutscenes to the point where I've had to skip them.
- Lip movement desync with new voice acting (source):
One horrible side effect of the added audio is that the new actors struggle to match the lip movements of the characters, and as such, vocals sometimes end up horribly out of sync with the visuals.
- Finally, here is a video comparison of both games. The graphics in the HD collection seem a little more polished, but I personally don't see a huge difference.
From the game's Options menu, you need to go to the Extra Options Menu where you can turn the noise/grain filter off. On the PS2, you did this with the L1 button as described here. On PC, I'm not sure what button it is, but since the PS2 uses L1 and R1 to turn and the PC version uses Q and E to turn, I would try hitting the Q or E buttons from the Options menu to see if you can access the Extra Options.
Best Answer
The return to the bathroom in which the bleach is located is in fact possible. After you jump in the room with the ladder from ceiling there is a door in front of you. This door is locked so you must go in the opposite direction. It is hard to spot but there is the door from which you went in to the room earlier. The game will not respawn new monsters so you can walk safely. Search for the bathroom and the bleach is there. There is another bathroom 2 floors above that one which looks more or less the same, but going there is pointless except for hiding from monsters