What do you think Nutrition/Health Drinks taste like?

[I Am Klaus]

I have this stuff I drink as an alternative to Energy Drinks called Arizona Rx Energy, it's basically an herbal tonic with a lot of caffeine. Gets me wired but doesn't make me feel like I'm doing damage to my heart. Has a sweet, slight medicinal flavor with a hint of herbs and honey.

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I imagine they taste something like that, albeit more medicinal.

[@R+5]

unless konami wants to try to sell a rl limited edition item, endorsed by whoever wrote or introduce the design of the drinks, theres no way theres an official possibility of what its supposed to taste like. That could be something that could happen in japan (specially if this game was made at least 10 years ago, when konami cared more a bout quality and originality), but considering how little they currently care and how lame are the current downloadable extras, i doubt any similar promotion will.

if the original historical context of silent hill 2 was more or less the early 80s, or even late 70s, since the technology available in the story seems to reflect that (casette recorders, land phones, 4:3 aspect ratio tvs, and so on; plus original devs commented sometime about that), the likelihood the ingame "health drink" (or whatever you call them) probably wouldnt taste like any early 2000 or later energy drinks (which often tried to emulate both redbull and monster drinks).

I those years, irl, there were hardly mention of energy drinks or similar products. the closer stuff would be body building stuff. in night clubs people more openly and more frequently consumed cocaine, which also relates to gang culture of that era (and classic cia + druglords bs).

so, my bet would be they should have a more artificial flavour closer to some old soft drinks, or maybe even some medicines from that era, which were nothing like redbull or more modern drinks (since energy drink werent a fad, or even as mainstream as they became later).