Easy Pinata Party

[DeathlessVoid]

Silent Hill: Downpour has a bad habit of just "forgetting" that you just killed or incapacitated an enemy. If you're like me (and several others) who missed out on killing/incapacitating 10 Weeping Bats, and are dreading the thought of a fourth partial playthrough, here's a method that I've confirmed is still working in 2020.

 

1. Play through the game all the way up until you get to Silent Hill.

2. Make your way to apartment with the fire escape (in the back yard, that also houses a dig site for the Useless Trinkets trophy) that's part of the story.

3. Go through to the other side, and make your way to the art gallery (you have to go through the alley that the postman goes through, then left, then left again through another alley).

4. This alley will have a Weeping Bat. Don't kill it yet!!!

5. Enter the art gallery, wait for the save to complete.

6. Exit the art gallery and kill the Weeping Bat.

7. Enter the art gallery, wait for the save to complete.

8. Reload the save that just occurred.

 

Additionally, it seems as though the game does not count a kill if the enemy dies when it hits the ground. It has to be twitching around, and you have to whack it a few times to kill it. If the Weeping Bat dies on impact, your kill will not count. Keep a tab on your kills in the statistics screen, all the way at the bottom. 

[CAlfonzoGaskinUS]

Confirmed that still works on August 2022. Thanks!