Soulless-Shadow wrote:
AuraTwilight wrote:
Walter doesn't control the monsters. I'm pretty sure there's one point where he kills one after it attacks him, but I'm not sure if I'm just dreaming that up or not.
I vaguely remember something like that. Perhaps it's similar with Alessa and the monsters in her otherworld; neither have complete control over every single thing including the monsters. Of course, I would expect Walter to gain complete control once he's finished with the sacrifices, but in the meantime, not so much.
I remember he lets a bloody trail of dead sniffer dogs. Anyway, maybe he just doesn't like the monsters. I wouldn't like a bunch of my negative feelings taking form in front of me.
LastGunslinger wrote:
A related question that bothers me is, why is Walter himself hostile to Henry and Eileen before they arrive at the location where the ritual is supposed to be completed? One could make the argument that if the ghosts have any intelligent desire at all, it's to kill Henry and Eileen prematurely so that the ritual can't succeed, but Walter seems perfectly fine with trying to kill them himself in the latter half of the game. It's possible that the exact time and place doesn't strictly matter to him as long as they're killed in order, but Walter always seems to attack Henry before Eileen.
I think the time and method of murder does not matter in this case. Henry already witnessed all the murders, there's no reason Walter would not kill him.
Also, I personally think that the ghosts are only a manifestation , and not really the people's spirits. Makes sense for me. After all, in the 21 sacraments ending,
we find out the ritual is bullshit.
A bit off topic, I also believe that the ghost in the Hazel Street subway station in SH3 is just Heather's manifestation. Think about it; It only shows up if Heather reads both the Ticket Machine Newspaper and the Occult Magazine. She could have unconsciously remember what she read and she got to Hazel Street Station, and the power of the otherworld manifested it to her.