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The Historian's Discovery — Slitterhead Walkthrough
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The Historian's Discovery — Slitterhead Walkthrough

Navigate The Historian's Discovery in Slitterhead with our comprehensive walkthrough. Learn about gameplay mechanics, story elements, and combat strategies to overcome challenges.

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Navigate The Historian's Discovery in Slitterhead with our comprehensive walkthrough. Learn about gameplay mechanics, story elements, and combat strategies to overcome challenges.

Walkthrough
  1. 1
    The game begins with you as a bodiless spirit in Hong Kong, with amnesia but a strong hatred for Slitterheads, monsters that possess humans and eat brains.
  2. 2
    Your objective is to counter Slitterheads by possessing humans and making them fight each other.
  3. 3
    Combat is primarily melee hack-and-slash. Initially, enemy attacks can stun-lock you, but the key is rapid body-switching to utilize the buff of newly possessed characters.
  4. 4
    When encountering a Slitterhead, you often need to chase it down before possessing a nearby human to intercept it.
  5. 5
    Identifying disguised Slitterheads involves looking for them among the citizenry. While the game offers a 'sight-jacking' mechanic similar to Siren, the repetitive environments and a prominent visual effect on Slitterheads make it largely unnecessary.
  6. 6
    The game features a mission-based structure, alternating between dialogue-heavy exposition and gameplay in urban levels. These levels often involve chasing and fighting enemies.
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    The story introduces a time loop element and then becomes convoluted with 'good' Slitterheads, parallel universes, and a sudden, abrupt ending.
  8. 8
    A key plot point involves 'Rarities,' characters with special upgradable powers. The game may halt progress until optional characters are found, despite their often minimal impact on the plot.
Tips
  • Constantly switch bodies during combat to maintain the buff from newly possessed characters and avoid being overwhelmed.
  • Pay attention to the visual cues that highlight Slitterheads, as the 'sight-jacking' mechanic is often redundant.
  • Be prepared for a convoluted and potentially unsatisfying story, especially towards the end.
  • Understand that the 'optional' characters required for plot progression are effectively mandatory.
  • The game's horror elements are minimal; focus on the action and possession mechanics rather than expecting traditional scares.

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