Syphon Filter: How To Use Flashlight

Thanks to the success ofMetal Gear Solidon the PS1, the stealth genre was coming into its own in the later 90s and early 2000s as a thinking person’s action game. Other titles emerged on the scene withTenchu,a ninja gamethat was a pure stealth game, and of course,Syphon Filter,an espionage superspy thriller with a similar aesthetic toMetal Gear Solid. Thanks toPlayStation Plus Premium, fans have the chance to play this classic on PS4 and PS5.

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UnlikeMetal Gear Solid,Syphon Filtercombines both action and stealthwith a fantastic level design. The missions are highly explorable, offering players an almost unprecedented amount of replayability on the PlayStation. TheSyphon Filterseries found more success on the PSP withSyphon Filter: Logan’s Shadowwas one of the handheld system’s standout titles. Manyelements of theSyphon Filterseriesmade their way into Bend Studio’sDays Gone,a post-apocalyptic open-world stealth zombie game. However, as a game over two decades old,Syphon Filterhas dated mechanics by today’s standards its shooting mechanics and selecting Gabe Logan’s gadgets can be a little tricky as the game doesn’t do a great job of telling its players how to do it.

How To Select The Torch In Syphon Filter

Syphon Filteris a worthwhile classic entry onPS Plus Premium, but the mechanics inSyphon Filterfeel like they were designed to be played with the original PS1 controller before the analog sticks were introduced. As a result, it’s hard to navigate maps as only the D-Pad and left analog stick work. Gabe can strafe left and right by using the R2 and L2 buttons and shoot with the Square button. Unfortunately, it’s not immediately obvious how to change weapons and equipment inSyphon Filter.

To change equipment inSyphon Filter,the player mustpress the select buttongiving Gabe access to the different weapons he has at his disposal. This includes the iconic taser, sniper rifle, silenced pistol, and more. However, the flashlight isn’t immediately available to use without equipping it.

Syphon Filter Gabe in the dark

Equipping The Torch

The instructions to make the torch/flashlight available to Gabe are as follows:

Unfortunately, as it’s under the weapons menu, the flashlight/torchcannotbe used at the same time as weapons. Moreover, pressing the Select button again will reequip Gabe’s weapon, but to reuse the torch it needs to be equipped via the Weapons menu.

Syphon Filter selecting weapons