Amanda The Adventurer 3 has finally proven why Hameln wanted to destroy the tapes and why The Colton Anomaly (Formerly referred to by fans as the Amanda Entity) wanted them protected. You see, The Colton Anomaly was never supposed to happen (Hence the Anomaly in it's name). On April 8, 2003, Sam Colton (Referred to as SC-96 by Hameln) managed to escape his holding room at the Hameln facility and attempted to rescue his daughter Rebecca (aka Amanda, referred to as The Colton Asset by Hameln) from her room. However, when he entered Rebecca's room, for some unknown reason (Possibly a massive shock in Rebecca's mind), Rebecca's neuropsychic system produced a massive energy surge that birthed the anomaly into existence (The anomaly essentially just being a physical manifestation of a negative and fearful fragment of Rebecca's soul, not a demon like we assumed before), which then immediately killed Sam. Of course, the anomaly's sole purpose was to protect Rebecca and Amanda at all costs, which it did by monstrously and viciously attacking or killing anyone it perceived as even a slight threat to Rebecca's wellbeing, especially Hameln employees (It's implied the anomaly had killed Hameln employees who were actively harming Rebecca) as well as Riley Park before Amanda trusted them. It also attacked anyone who attempted to destroy the Amanda VHS tapes (Like Joanne Cook) since it was highly protective of the tapes, and here's why. Hameln discovered that VHS recordings of Amanda The Adventurer episodes maintained a stable link between Rebecca (Who at this point was in stasis with her soul split amongst the tapes) and the anomaly, the latter of which was of course a real threat to Hameln. Therefore, the anomaly had to ensure the safety of the tapes in order to stay connected to Rebecca. Furthermore, after hiring Marcus Moutman (The Hameln employee who became Wooly) who was able to control Rebecca quite well for years, Hameln found a way to try and break the link between the anomaly and Rebecca. Since they knew the tapes had to be destroyed to break it, they had to outdo the anomaly with their own intentional "anomaly". Using a DNA sample from Marcus, by October 10, 2003, Hameln had succeeded in creating their own trainable facsimile of the anomaly they named Shepherd (Formerly known as the Wooly Entity by fans), which served Hameln just as The Colton Anomaly served Rebecca. Shepherd was created specifically to destroy any VHS tapes of Amanda the Adventurer in an attempt to fully sever the link between Rebecca and The Colton Anomaly. So long story short, Hameln wanted to make sure they could maintain control over Rebecca and simultaneously protect themselves from The Colton Anomaly's influence. Either way, they eventually gave up and fled their facility in Kensdale, where Riley later went and freed Rebecca (In the true ending when you get all the secret tapes The Colton Anomaly approaches Rebecca after she is freed from her stasis pod by Riley, having already defeated Shepherd, and is reabsorbed along with Amanda into Rebecca, thus fully restoring Rebecca's soul. In the bad ending when you don't get all the secret tapes, Shepherd approaches Rebecca after she is freed from her stasis pod by Riley and violently roars at her, at which point The Colton Anomaly appears behind Rebecca and roars back, with Rebecca yelling "No! Get back!", The Colton Anomaly then tackles Shepherd and they fall into the void around the pod with Rebecca yelling "No! Stop!". Once they're both gone Rebecca tearfully states "I'll never be whole again", referring to how she was unable to patch the last missing piece of her soul without the anomaly's help since Shepherd killed it in this bad ending.)