Silent Hill 2 - Complete Story and Endings Explained

One of the real horror classics has just been remade and for somebody that never played the original this one is going to be a real tree to cover we'll be breaking down the story of Silent Hill 2 and all of its creepy Glory get yourself a snack and relax cuz this will be a good one let's get into the video our first scene shows a man in an incredibly rundown bathroom clearly dealing with some crap I mean when you're looking at Your hands like they're brand new and touching your face like that it's never good

we hear some of his internal dialogue as he asks if Mary could really be in this town and we are greeted with some incredible scenery as we're officially in the middle of nowhere Mary begins narrating explaining how when she dreams she still sees this tiny town of Silent Hill mentioning how James promised to take her there again someday but he never did and she is now alone There in their special place waiting for him James explains that he received a letter with a name on it saying Mary his wife's name but the one problem with

that is that Mary died of a disease 3 years ago he struggles to understand why he looking for her not knowing what she even meant by the special place since this entire town was their special place could she really be here and actually be alive it's hiking time for James as we head down towards Silent Hill this sort Of territory is just asking for a mountain line or a slip to make this a very short horror story after a short walk we arrive at Silent Hill Cemetery and stumble across a young lady looking at some

of the headstones James gives her a heart attack and asks her for directions to Silent Hill since it's pretty darn foggy out here she shows him the path but warns him to stay away saying that there is something wrong with this town she struggles to explain Saying that it's dangerous James understands but tells her that he doesn't care if it's dangerous since he's looking for someone that was very close to him she mentions that she is also looking for someone her mother and is confused since she thought that her father and brother were here too

but she can't seem to find them she does take a quick Glimpse at the headstones while saying this so I think she was looking for their graves not them and the flesh They wish each other good luck as James continues down the path and boy oh boy this place is like a 10 on the creepy meter with all this fog everything looks almost abandoned at the Silent Hill Ranch so breaking and entering later for a key and we can see a picture of Mary in James's pocket take a mental image it'll come back later we

arrive at the outskirts of town and you really would think that they would have a more welcoming entrance you know a welcome to Silent Hill sign with a big turkey mascot giving a thumbs up or something instead we just get the feeling that we're going to be murdered we find a rundown flower shop with a note mentioning a customer that came in today asking for red and white flowers which is apparently bad luck the guy seemed off and stared at the store clerk like she wasn't even there and said that he would pick up the

flowers later and ended up leaving near the exit is a very Ominous trail of uh well something red I don't want to assume but I think we know what there might be we find a map that will help us through the literal Ghost Town what I find even more interesting though is these walls blocking the outskirts of town giant scaff holding walls lined with white sheets to stop people from getting in or getting out we head more towards the center of town and see our first sign of life if you could call it that James

decides to follow That thing into the fog now that is a very questionable decision there James did you see that thing at worst that is a terrifying monster at best that is a crackhead and would I be following a crackhead into the fog of a deserted Town hell no I'm going to keep a questionable decision tally here for names cuz let me tell you he makes a hell of a lot of them this thing is making grunting noises and leaving behind flesh piles but what the heck Let's follow it like a lost puppy holy Christ

I think we now know what left that red Trail at the flower shop this thing left a literal hole in the garage door and we are crawling in after it I know this is technically still the same thing but I'm adding another one to the tally for James here for not backing away once inside a radio is giving us some serious static and we investigate our friend from earlier arrives and ooh that is something much worse than I Imagined James gets to work sending that thing to the grave and we keep the radio with us

since it seems to be giving off feedback whenever one of those things is nearby a voice comes over the radio but is badly broken up it definitely calls out for James and ask to find them but the rest is hard to make out we stumble across the first victim of the Town looking a bit worse for where he has a note nearby that tells the reader to leave saying that Silent Hill isn't what It seems and to run away way to be honest the dead guy has spoken the most amount of sense thus far there

are many more of these body bag looking creatures throughout the town but it doesn't stop us from doing some exploring we find the town library that has a cutout from a news article it mentions how the main psychical research Association visited Silent Hill in 1965 it concluded that the area around the wilsy coal mine to be highly active With Paranormal Activity and wanted to do more research around the gorge they were denied however since the area was a his Nature Reserve is declared by the Silent Hill Historical Society not to mention the local community didn't

like the idea that it could hinder tourist activity to the town I will be straight up here if your town is known for being haunted it is almost definitely going to get more tourist visits than before people love ghost stories we head over Towards the local bar and can see a message on the window saying how there was once a hole here and now it's gone wor much of the windows covered a nearby node explains that somebody in the bar started smashing the Jukebox with the start not knowing what got into him he ran off

saying how he would fix everything between this and the flare shop guy it's clear something odd is going on with the residents of the town we checked the juke box which has Certainly seen better days if we want to play our favorite Tunes we're going to have to track down the guy that stole the button and half of this vinyl James heads towards the nearby apartment building as mentioned on the Note why we fixing some random Juke boxes Beyond me that's another questionable decision there James we are looking for your dead wife man all right

keep your eyes on the prize each of the apartments are of course abandoned and run down but we do Hear noises coming from upstairs which is not a great sign I will say that it does feel good to be above street level out of the fog and watching over those creatures well it was nice while it lasted we find the guy's apartment with a note saying that it was something in this place and that he needed to get his head straight before making his way to the bar in his bathroom is a big hole in

the wall which is very odd to say the least the door that leads to the room on The other side is filled with with a black ooze or oil like substance now why would you have a hole in your wall in your bathroom this guy is either freaky as all hell where he's hiding something James I guess counts on it being the ladder as he sticks his arm in there to feel around that is definitely a questionable decision who knows the diseases that you could have caught from that we get the Jukebox button and make

some quick stops around town including a Dino called Big Jays inside is a note mentioning once again an issue with some man it mentions how they were warned not to come back here but he seemed to act like he didn't know what they were talking about thankfully he left without issue but the staff member mentioned how he gave him the creeps saying that looking at his face was almost like looking at a mask something was hiding beneath waiting to come out we broke into the town vinyl store which hit me Like a truck this is

probably the biggest sign this game has that shows that it is old even saying vinyl store sounds weird we get the other piece of the broken vinyl and head back to the Jukebox within the bar the VIN final is a long way home now it doesn't actually play this song when it's actually put into the Jukebox but there is a song called the Long Way Home by Legend Neil Diamond and the lyrics to this song seem fitting due to what we actually have Done thus far I'll be reading this because there's no way in hell

I'm singing girl I took the long way home it's true the long way home to you and I want to say I'm home to stay ran a lot don't know what I thought I would find town to town all I found was you on my mind I do think that this is a reference to this particular song since the lyrics fit the story of sarden hill almost to a tea listening to the song gives James a flashback to an area within the town the Silent Hill Park near the lake a place that James and Mary

spent the whole day just watching the water together he believes that this could be the special place that Mary mentioned in her letter a note at the back of the bar mentions that same guy that broke the Jukebox saying that when he came back he mentioned that he was leaving town with somebody pointing out his vehicle a number plate and to go and check his vehicle we do just that and find a bunch Of bloody clothing within it is a key to his apartment the Woodside Apartments and we get ambushed by a bunch of creatures

but James manages to make it out alive we arrive at the apartment building and find a map this is going to be one hell of an easd account we head upstairs and wander into one of the apartment rooms and it's it's filled with mannequins and one of them has a bright flashlight attached to it we take that for ourselves and get jump scared By this abomination of a creature quick look at the mannequin which had the flashlight will reveal that it is wearing clothing that is very familiar it is eily similar to the outfit that

Mary was wearing in her photo and in James's flashback we come across a news article talking about a murder of two siblings within the town and how the perpetrator actually killed themselves while in custody Walter Sullivan culprit and suspect in the murder was found dead In his jail cell after sing his own carded artery with a soup spoon buried 2 in in his neck this of course is after his recent arrest for the murders of siblings Billy and miam Loan the police question some of Walter's old schoolmates which mentioned how Walter was very paranoid before

his arrest blurting out strange stuff like he's trying to kill me he's trying to punish me the monster the Red Devil forgive me I did it but it wasn't me we continued Going room to room in the apartment building before finding a key behind some bars as Jame goes to reach for it a young girl kicks the keys away and steps on his hand firstly rude is all hell secondly not a great place for children to be wandering around with all these creatures slithering about we make it to a room that thankfully has a pistol

inside making our investigation a little bit more safe the gun owner however has seen much better days left slashed in His cheer watching the television he is not the only deceased person within the building however after we find this guy getting a little too comfortable with his fridge sounds of vomiting can be heard nearby in the apartment and we find a young man in the bathroom he proclaims claims that he didn't do anything and that the guy was dead when he got here he is all kinds of messed up I mean he's sweating and there's

vomit all over his clothes James asks if he Lives here and Eddie tells him that he isn't from Silent Hill that he is here because somebody brought him here that they came at him and he didn't know what to do so he ran to Silent Hill James tells him that there is something really wrong with this town and that he should look to get out of here when he can Edy asked James to come with him since together they may have a better chance of actually getting out of the town but James denies him saying

that he can't Leave yet that he still needs to find someone we get into apartment 2011 and find a napkin on the table this napkin however feels familiar to James before a creature falls to the ground behind him taking a peek around the corner reveals a person with a pyramid head wrestling with another of the creatures James hides in a nearby closet and is that thing dabbing on us right now what the hell the scene gets tense as Pyramid Head stares straight at the closet that James is hiding in James holds up his gun and

decides to shoot through the door at the mental helmet I will put this down as another questionable decision firstly it didn't act it secondly it's a metal helmet at least ain't for the body James it makes more strange movements grabbing at the helmet and decides to leave James unharmed grabbing the creature and dragging them through the nearby red door now I have a question for you all what would you do In this situation run out the front door and get as far away from this place as possible no well how about following the indestructible creature

through the red door yep add that one to the tally the door takes us to the next door apartment building which seems to be much more rund down than the previous one middle grates on the walls wallpaper decaying and everything is in a great deal of disrepair within one of the rooms is the young girl from the cemetery lying down Staring at a big window with a knife in her hand the young woman's name is Angela James mentions to her that he isn't sure what she's doing but reminds her that if it is what he

thinks it is there is always another way Angela disagrees saying there is no point saying that it's easier to run and it's what they all deserve saying that James and her are all the same James asked if she's found her mother but she replies that she hasn't yet Jame goes on to ask If her mother lived in the building but once again Angela states that she just doesn't know James asked that if the only thing that she does know is that her mother lived somewhere in this town then this gets Angela oddly defensive asking how

James could know that but he explains that it's just basic deduction she apologizes and asks if he's found who was looking for yet which he also explains that he hasn't he shows her a picture of Mary and explains that she is His wife saying how he doesn't know why he thinks that she's here since she actually died 3 years ago this confuses Angela but James assures her that he isn't crazy Angela gets frantic saying that she needs to find her mother and James asks if he should go with her but she tells him that she

is fine before she has a chance to leave James points out the knife opting to hold on to it for Angela since well she can't trust trust herself with it things get a Little weird when he tries to grab it however as she lunges and then immediately apologizes saying that she's been bad before storming out throughout the hallways and our slice marks and the walls and floor that were not there previously not only that but the building itself seems to be degrading more and more as we get further through it it isn't long before we

run into our Pyramid Head friend again and judging by that weapon of his I would take a guess As to who the culprit was for the big slices in the walls and Floors this time he is not as forgiving and a fight ensues it begins to look bad for James until a siren can be heard and it immediately takes his attention away and Pyramid Head just leaves thankfully James takes the hint this time and leaves the building and we wander back around the town we stumble across the same young girl from earlier that stepped on

James's hand she is sitting Staring at a letter and is not very accommodating to James calling him a dumdum James asks if her parents never taught her any manners which clearly strikes a cord with the young girl as she goes quiet James asks about the letter in her hand and she tells him that it's none of his business since he doesn't really love Mary anyway and she runs away this surprises James since he's never told her about his wife and never mentioned her name we continue Towards the park the area which James believes as the

special place that his wife was referring to in the letter once we get there a lady is actually standing there when she turns around James mistakes her for Mary but quickly realizes that she was mistaken he is shocked by the woman since she resembles Mary both in her appearance par but also in her voice the woman introduces herself as Maria and attempts to touch James's face but he quickly tries to Leave saying that he needs to find his wife he explains to her the story how his wife died 3 years ago from a disease and

that he's received a little from her recently Maria asks what the letter said and James explains about the special place that Mary mentioned and how he was clearly incorrect on the location Maria says that she hasn't seen her before asking about other places that she could have considered special James isn't sure it feels that there is somewhere but He's struggling to remember Maria points out a nearby place that could fit the bill that lovers typically go to she does once again try to put the moves on James acting and speaking seductively to him he brushes

her off before she tells him that she will lead him to a place that she mentioned before James is reluctant to go with her but Maria guilt trips him again asking if he would actually let her leave alone with all these monsters walking around or if the Reason he wants to leave her behind is is because Maria reminds him of his dead wife James concedes and agrees to go with her I love how James will follow a giant Pyramid Head creature with a 10-ft sword into a deserted building complex without a second thought but following

a woman will take some real convincing we take a quick detour through a motel since the majority of the road is now within a sinkhole with Maria again trying to tempt James into staying for a While in one of the rooms and asking if she would look good in this outfit that she finds in a wardrobe this girl is really laying it on thick while in the the lobby Maria gets attacked by a creature and James needs to quickly help thankfully we have John Wick like reflexes and she thanks James for saving her life we

find a mention thereby that Maria refuses to enter saying how the place gives her the creeps James asks if she's ever been inside and Maria answers That she isn't sure but it sure feels familiar like a bad memory this is a nod towards the Silent Hill 2 born from a wish DLC from the original game which is set within this very Mana named the Baldwin mana and pretty crazy stuff takes place there hopefully the DLC gets remade as well cuz I would love to break that story down also the streets are filled with creatures and

James and Maria have no choice but to look for cover not to mention the fog and the Weather are deteriorating we get to a back door of a building which is locked but luckily Maria has a key to the building what luck it turns out that the building is a local strip club Maria's old workplace James gets frustrated asking if this was the special place that she was talking about Maria jokes that it isn't but ask if they can take a break and spend some time together at the club James of course refuses and gets

annoyed Maria guilt trips him once Again saying that she needs a break from the monsters and James reluctantly agrees to a very short break he asks her if he is crazy for thinking that his wife is still alive and in Silent Hill Maria says that she thinks that another word is more appropriate hopeful she pours them both a drink to take the edge off but James denies the drink much to Maria's surprise James stares at the glass as they begin to leave clearly showing that he has had an issue with Alcohol in the past the

weather has now gotten better and we continue towards the area that Maria mentioned another park with more statues James points out that he hasn't been here before Maria shows him a statue within the garden and mentions the story around the statue which I think is a pretty vital story point so pay attention it's a local Silent Hill Legend of a young woman that was exiled to an island out on the lake to die after being found guilty of a Crime a man in the town however was made in love with her and every night he

would sneak out row across the lake and bring her food so she wouldn't starve he would also bring her his company and each night she would stand there on the shore with a lit candle to help guide him through the night towards the island this was until one night a terrible storm broke out it blew out the candle but the man wouldn't give up choosing to continue to fight against the waves and Find his own way to shore but after a while he grew tired and eventually the leg took him even after that the woman

never lost hope continuing to go to shore each day with a lit candle to lead her beloved home to shore this is most likely a fairy tale with no real historical evidence for it to be real James gets frustrated saying how Mary isn't here and wonders why he even came here at all since he's never actually come to this place before Maria Comforts Him saying that there are many places in Silent Hill that she could be referring to they hear a young girl scream and take off towards it they deduce that it came from the

movie theater and James goes inside to check it out while Maria keeps watch outside when we're inside we can hear a little girl and idy speaking with each other Iddy makes fun of her for screaming at a rat and the two baned between themselves the girl asked Eddie why he is sitting in here saying that he Mentioned to her that the cops are looking for him but Eddie mentions that he barricaded the door so he doesn't have to worry about anybody getting into the building James makes a loud noise when moving a cabinet from the

door and Spooks the young girl when we get into the main seating area only Eddie remains going to town on bucket of ice cream damn no spoon or anything straight fingers and hands gross dude he doesn't remember James at first but he does After James reminds him James points out that it's good to see that Eddie has his appetite back which causes him to change his mood the camera shuts off and Iddy points out that it was likely Laura was just messing around in a very serial killer kind of way might I add James goes

to find her and asks if idy is going to come with him idy quickly refutes James asking if he actually wants him to go with him this time clearly upset about James's earlier Refusal to team up at the apartments James leaves and Eddie goes back to munching down on his melted ice cream we find Laura in the camera room but she continues to run whenever James gets close running outside and past Maria they continue to follow her down the street until they see her entering the Brook Haven Hospital inside we get a map and once

again we got some exploring to do we find Laura again drawing on the walls of the staircase before she takes Off upstairs she locks the door doors and the only way up is via the elevator which means that we need power James and Maria head downstairs and refill the generator fighting through creatures in the process we get the elevator working and head upstairs but Maria seems to be having some problems entering a nearby patient room she is breathing heavily and mentions to James how she isn't feeling well and needs a moment to rest James decides

to continue his search for Laura while she does she asks James what he would do if he cannot find Mary but he tells her that he hasn't thought about that and just leaves we find a voice recording speaking about three special cases within the hospital the doctor refers to them as three hopeless cases saying that they require diligence discipline trial and error before stating that he will find what ails them and he will cure them we continue looking around the hospital before James Finds a hole in the wall and for some godamn reason he thinks

it's a great idea to climb down between the wall in the tightest place ever honestly this this is the scariest thing I've seen yet add another one to the tell he falls of course and is literally the luckiest person ever by the way falling down to a hole in the wall with a cabinet that he can push over what was the plan there James a painful long death and between the Walls we find some documents on three patients that I mentioned earlier firstly patient 50 this symptoms consist of sudden Outburst of aggression and visual and

auditory hallucinations the diagnosis however has reverted saying that the patient is declining suddenly the doctor notes that things that once helped are no longer having any effect patient 90 is having sensory delusions with insomnia and is not drinking or eating this patient needs constant Surveillance and is forc fed and bathed patient 130 is having intense and unrelenting anxiety and paranoia along with visual hallucinations the doctor point out that they cannot be left alone and also need closer monitoring while I think we're heading into Theory territory here which I tend to try and avoid I will

be coming back to these three notes at the end of the video we head upstairs and find Laura again drawing on the walls she once again runs Off telling James to go away but this man is on a mission we find another write up about patient 90 the one with sensory delusions insomnia not eating Etc it points out how they were transferred to Observation malnourished shallow breathing and avoids eye contact agitated in the presence of staff and frantic at the notion of touch they're force fed and the malnourishment is getting worse they also have signs

of self-injury something is really wrong Another note seems to be written by patient 90 mentioning how they feed them garbage rotting meat crawling with maggots they describe the juices red and yellow hitting the back of their throat they choke and gag until they vomit but they can still taste it now I don't think the doctors are actually feeding the patients rotten food but it's clear that the visual hallucinations are pretty severe they bathe them in filth and blood piss and bile rubbing human Waste all over their body they beg for the nurses to stop but

they don't listen not to mention that they lock them up with him he's always there closer each time the rot comes with him again keep this some mind it will all make sense at the end we get to the rooftop of the building and find a diary page in a small room it is a patient that is struggling to come to terms going home feeling like something bad will happen when they do we attempt to leave and get One hell of a jump scare from Mr Pyramid Head who throws James down the Elevator Shaft somehow

he didn't get any injuries but we do continue our search now that we are near Laura we find her as she is playing with a teddy bear James asks her how she knows about Mary to which Laura asks what the big deal is James pleads with her to tell him she tells him that Mary is her friend and that she met her last year at the hospital this causes James to actually yell at her telling Her to stop lying and actually jumps up towards her he quickly apologizes for the out burst but Laura is upset

that he doesn't believe her and begins to run out of the room James grabs her arm telling her that she can't keep running around aimlessly since she might get hurt she responds hurt by what a very important line to slip in here James convinces Laura to stay with him but she tells him that she needs to retrieve a letter from Mary that she had in a Nearby room they go to investigate the room but Laura quickly locks the door trapping James inside he tells her to open the door but she laughs at him saying that

she is a liar according to him so why should she James has another outburst calling her a brat and slams the door but noises of a creature can be heard behind him he quickly asks Laura to open the door since something is in the room but she runs off leaving him we get a look at the creature and oh my god What the hell is that listen there's some things that even I can't explain dealing with this nightmare fuel is tough work but James does get the better of it oh crap there's a second one

James is taken by the creature and dragged along the ground staring at the ceiling hearing Mary call out to him while an alarm is sounding in the distance very similar to the one heard by Pyramid Head if you pay attention to the different ceilings things are slowly getting more Decrepit and when James wakes up we are still within the hospital but things look a hell of a lot more different it now resembles the rundown apartment building everything is decayed and rotting and the hallways that were once accessible have now been blocked where different parts of

the floor missing it's odd to say the least we head back to the room that contained The Written Letter from patient 90 remember the one well now it's changed significantly it Speaks about dancing in sink and how the music got louder and louder before it all fell silent monsters L the hallways with more letters from patients getting darker and darker we encounter a room with a box connected to change which requires solving James would need to search around the hospital finding the codes and the key to enter the box once we successfully get past the

locks the box is empty James has to live with his failure but thankfully something is Revealed behind him the lady of the door she has an elevator button that will lead to the basement next to her is a passage it says she is an angel no one knows only I can see the lady of the door they cannot walk along her Bridge of threat they fall from the weight of their crimes like bloated and ugly corpses their sins she devours them sin and sin are alike she saves me she is an angel we enter the

elevator and the speaker turns on with a man talking like He's the host of a game show he mentions that he will hit the contestant with some Silent Hill trivia and the prize is ambiguous if you get all the answers right then you will have great Fortune if not it's not very good he mentions that the contestant is none other than James southernland his first question to James is about a deadly disease that spread across Silent Hill in the 1800s the bodies of the deceased were thrown into a lake how many were lost during The

plague 42 67 or 85 the second question was which road would take you towards the lumber yard and Cemetery at the East side of Silent Hill Bachman Road mson street or witzy road the third question Silent Hill witnessed a gruesome double murder a few years back a pair of siblings were playing on the side of a road when they were attacked and chopped into pieces with an axe the young boy was called Billy loane but what was the name of his other victim His sister Miriam Heather or Julia now I want you guys to answer

that third question since I actually brought this murder story up near the beginning of the video do you remember the name of the young girl I'll give you a second if you chose Miriam you would be correct now the first two questions I don't expect you to get since I never actually mentioned those two things previously since neither of them are hugely significant to the overall story but for The Curious ones out there the road answer is wiy road as seen on the map that we found and the answer to the deadly disease question is

62 as mentioned briefly in some papers as James is stumbling through the basement Maria catches back up with him he immediately mistakes her for Mary again before realizing and sort of just brushes her off this annoys Maria since she nearly got killed back there and points out that all James cares about is His dead wife James tries to make her feel better before she hugs him and asks James to stay with her and not to leave her alone again since he is supposed to take care of her the hell listen lady I get the circumstances

and all but you two have not known each other long enough to have these sorts of responsibilities with each other she asks James about Laura to which he explains that he lost her on the third floor She urges them to for her again Which prompts James to ask why she even cares so much about this little girl Maria points out that she doesn't actually know Laura but she feels sorry for her somehow and for some reason feels that it's up to her to protect her H we find a jeweled box which represents the questions and

answers from the elevator trivia after correctly answering we get a bunch of shotgun ammo and some syringes oddly anticlimactic he heads back to the lady of the door and Opens it with some rings we found throughout as we attempt to enter Maria once again struggles to enter stating that something doesn't feel right much like the manor earlier James reassures her that everything will be fine and escorts her inside there is no way that you can guarantee that James everything so far has been anything but fine add another one to the Telly would you look at

that we got ourselves a pyramid head chasing us down hallways now see James Play Silly games Win silly prizes we see an elevator at the end of the corridor and make a break for it but Maria does the classic horror Trope and trips before we get there the doors are closing quickly and James tries to hold them open for her but Pyramid Head says no stabbing Maria through the chest right in front of James killing her James falls to his knees taking in what just happened as we try to contemplate the death of Maria we

can find a BG near The hospital exit and speaks about the illness of hallucinations the doctor mentions how under the right circumstances any man or woman could be dragged into what they call the other side the place that lies beyond the borders of reality and unreality while it's easy for doctors to to say that their imaginings are nothing more than inventions of a busy mind to the patient there is well no other reality the patient is happy there so why should he In good conscience drag him painfully to the world of our own reality James

Hears A noise nearby and we can see that Laura is running down the street in the rain away from the hospital so he follows you know what I know he is still trying to find information about his wife but just leave the kid alone this is not working man all right and add another one to the Telly the entire town of Hill is now degraded like the hospital it's almost like another reality of what the town Was before you remember the bar with the Jukebox yeah this is the same bar now looking pretty rough there

is now writing above the Jukebox that reads if you want to see Mary you should just die but you might be heading to a different place than Mary James the Jukebox isn't playing any music instead the sound of what I believe is breathing can be heard outside we hear the sound of a telephone ringing when we approach and answer there is nobody on the other end it does However give James a note and wrench telling him to go back to the park with the Praying Woman our way back however is in a tunnel which is

never a great idea I won't add one to the tally since James technically doesn't have a choice here actually what am I talking about the man should have climbed at another one there are creatures with mouth hands hanging from the floor below who thinks of this crap man we get back to the garden and find Angela standing at the Statue James asks her if she's feeling better but Angela mentions how different this places than what she remembers she doesn't think her mother is here anymore saying that her mother doesn't want to see her anymore James

points out that he is happy to see her alive which confuses her slightly she tells him that she needs to leave and James offers to join her pointing out the fact that together they might actually have a chance of getting out of here once again Angela is Confused asking James get out of where James says the town get out of Silent Hill Angela declines saying that she'll be fine she looks behind James at something and begins panicking and screaming that they shouldn't be here James attempts to console her asking what is wrong he even touches

her arm which Angela violently pulls away yelling at James to not touch her she turns and runs out of the garden we find the hidden box beneath the statue a key With a note it mentions James by name praying that the Lord above will have mercy on his soul not ominous at all the key is to the old Historical Society building on the west side of town a kind of Museum of Southern Hill history once inside we can find a variety of interesting things such as a painting of The Lady of the Lake statue from

the garden and a painting of The Pyramid Head man titled a misty day remains of the Judgment we see the coal mine that The news article mentioned is having a bunch of Supernatural activity and of course the Brook Haven Hospital that we will still have nightmares from at the end of the building is a tunnel Hing down into what I can only describe as hell itself hell to the no you know what this is deserving of two telly points all right the same siren as before is heard so I'll count that as one as well

just to put into perspective how long this damn staircase is this is unedited Running folks this is an underground lay on steroids you could not pay me enough to go down here we reach a building downstairs with photos on the wall it shows the TCA prison which I guess this is kind of a part of and it also shows some other questionable stuff that made me take a second look we find a giant hole in the ground and there is no other way around this place well I guess we just need to make our way

back up those stairs no other option really James what Are you another Telly point so we're just jumping down holes where we can't even see the bottom now that's what we're doing how do you not turn into a blood and flesh splatter after you do a 50t fall how do you even have ankles we stumble into one of the rooms that is filled with beetles not to mention the door is now locked I I kind of feel he deserves it at this point I got to be honest we managed to make our escape and find

yet Another hole on the ground that looks like it's about 100t drop and yeah why not James is need to be studied we are now in a cafeteria area with a man dead at a table nearby is Eddie who was talking to himself about how easy it is to kill someone James asks him who the man was and idy responds that the man came at him James clarifies the circumstances that happened and it becomes more and more obvious that Eddie is not telling the whole truth Eventually saying that he shot him because he looked at

him funny and admitting that the guy never actually came at him James is worried telling Iddy that you can't just kill someone cuz they looked at you funny but Iddy reinst states that he was clearly making fun of him and now he learned his lesson before pointing the gun at James and begins laughing saying that he is only joking and the guy was dead when he got here he leaves alone denying James help Once again this time with a smile on his face I have a feeling that Ed is not being very upfront about this

guy we are now within the TCA prison back to exploring we can stumble across a monument at the prison Gallows of two pyramid heads standing next to each other on either side of an executed prisoner these guys are more famous than I give them credit for inside the prison Chapel is an area for prisoners to confess their sins and those hand clamps And feet spikes are telling me that there might have been some human rights violations that took place here just going to take a wild guess this place as a whole is honestly a certified

horror show now there isn't all that much law based stuff throughout the prison area worth mentioning but this is a significant portion of the game and definitely not where I would want to serve my time we get another hole in the wall this time in the prison bathroom That is definitely another one for the tally you are just asking for trouble putting your hand in there a book from the warden inside the infirmary mentions how prisoners within the place were getting sick from an unknown illness with the staff doctors attempting to find out what is

spreading around a prisoner letter however mentions how the guards think they are lepers now and don't actually know why but since they stay away they're not complaining hm Those two stories conflict we'll get back to this another note from the wed mentions the emergency medical examination of the prisoners it mentions how the report conclusions from doctors are simply Incorrect and re states that the prisoners are sick and must continue examinations until a diagnosis is found we find that very report stating that none of the prisoners show any clinical sign or symptom of a life-threatening illness

contagious or otherwise inside The warden's office is a typewriter with a page of paper with the only word sick written on the page something is up with this Warden we complete the puzzles and unlock the monument outside that has a variety of horror poems for our enjoyment you essentially need to peer the second paragraph of the poem to the one that's already in place the finished poems are as followed for your grace I do not plead for the Flames I did set free sisters shrieked and children cried No one made it out alive I watched

them burn I heard them cry I felt a soothing warmth inside it felt so good I cannot lie and for my Bliss they had to Die the wealth of others I did not take the seventh statute I did not break and yet my Deeds I don't regret I have my reasons that is that what were those reasons you might ask the truth allow me to unmask I see I crave I need I take to all the sense it needs to make I took the child you are quite right carried Her off into the night she

did not scream she did not ball I was her father after all forgive me child for I have failed to save you from her wretched way she whom I loved who gave you life a monster hiding in plain sight once the sun has creased its rain I cut through the rusty chain push the door and stuck within filled my pockets to the brim I departed with great haste leaving not a single trace ever faithful to my Creed All Is Right which feeds my greed Mommy Dearest mommy sweet your love for me was so deep why

oh why you shouted when my knife pierced through your heart you were oh so kind to me filled my heart with joy and Glee in the end it was for not why oh why you ask why not I waited so long I bid my time I waited to commit my crime the man appears he saw me not a bloody end is what he got in truth he was less man than beast and in my flesh and soul he had Feast my will to live he had tried to break but there is so much A man

can take not vital to the story but I thought the poems were cool nonetheless so I just wanted to share them with the puzzle solved there is only one thing to do no not that pull the Noose James is now underneath the prison with corpses moving H are there zombies now we find another hole in the floor and James gets another added to the tally make that too we're now in some kind of house complex it's hard to say things are getting pretty weird now We find a newspaper that describes a murder but Parts have

been lost to Decay it mentions a man named Thomas Oro something not able to see the end of his last name a lumberjack that was discovered dead at the age of 39 the cause was multiple stabbs to the front of his neck and left side of his torso by a sharp edged weapon time of death was near midnight and there were signs of a struggle in the room with the murder weapon now missing no cash was Stolen and with the victim's history of drunkenness and violence the police do believe that the murder was not a

robbery but instead a crime of passion in a nearby room we can hear the screams of Angela as she screams for her father to stop when James arrives Angela is telling him that she'll be good pleading with James to tell her father that she will be good James takes a look around and we can see the thing that Angela is calling her father and what is that man My God it's like a bid creature of some kind with two entities in one we managed to kill it and find a television of a man yelling it's

largely broken speech but we can hear the man yelling that someone should be more grateful when to look at him the creature arrives again as James flees into a hidden closet with a titty beer and pictures of a family specifically Angela's family another television has the same man speaking yelling at somebody for wanting to run Away and leave asking where they would go nobody cares about them he knows what's best for them we finally put this creature to bed mind the pun and Angel attacks it James tries to calm her down but Angela tells him

not to try he asks what she means she tells him that it's always the same with him and he's only after one thing telling him not to lie go ahead and say it before telling him that he could just force her like he always did and she begins breaking down This is probably one of the roughest parts of the story it becomes very clear that Angela's father abused her as she breaks down calling him a disgusting Pig and stating just how much she hates him James tells her that he doesn't want to hurt her only

to find his wife Angela asked James to admit it admit that he didn't want his wife around anymore saying he probably found somebody else this angers James as he denies ever finding anybody Angela leaves with James Still denying to himself ever wanting his wife gone as we continue into the story remember the news article I read before and the creature that we just killed we'll be coming back to that later also we reach a labyrinth with a wall of what I can only describe as Souls BL blocking the path a nearby Corridor leads to a

room with none other than Maria inside of it James asked how she still alive saying that she was stabbed through the chest but Maria Calls James silly saying that that never happened asking what he's talking about Maria now calling him honey is asking if he's just confusing her with somebody else saying that he was always so forgetful reminding him of their time at the hotel and how James thought that they actually had gotten everything but forgot the video tape that they had made wondering if it's still there James asked Maria how she knows about that

asking if she's actually Maria she Bluntly replies that she is not his Mary but she can be whatever James wants her to be or whoever it doesn't matter who she is but she is here for James in any way that he needs if he makes up his mind if he decides he wants her she'll be waiting for him James is a bit lost at this new version of Maria before telling her that he'll come back that he promises we will come back to this later as well okay this video is going to be very back

heavy since a lot of this Doesn't make T until some later reveals the Labyrinth is filled with all kinds of nasty creatures dead ends and of course Pyramid Head but at the very end we manage to find the door to Maria however she is dead coveted marks similar to a disease James begins crying mourning the loss but before realizing what goal really matters and that's finding his wife Mary we find pyramid head's weapon outside that James can use to keep the souls at Bay and allow us to Make an exit we stumble across a graveyard

with a bunch of headstones one of them belongs to Miriam the young girl killed in Silent Hill and The Sibling murder we also see Walter Sullivan the man who murdered the siblings then there are three at the back with Graves dug but are currently empty Angela Orosco Iddy dombroski and James Sunderland James jumps into his own grave with his name on it definitely another one for the telling my friend that is just Asking for bad news another long hallway leads to Eddie yelling at a dead man on the ground saying how he couldn't just leave

him alone he needed to follow him all the way out here how many many times does Iddy have to kill him James surprises him but asks what idy is doing Iddy begins yelling insults about his weight and how he's meaningless maybe the guy is right maybe he does mean nothing maybe he is disgusting but it doesn't matter if you're pretty ugly Smart or dumb in the end it means all the same when you're dead and a corpse can't laugh he puts more bullets into the corpse James tries to stop him but Eddie turns his attention

to James saying how he must think the same thing about him laughing at him behind his back ever since they first met at the apartment building he has seen it all along but James isn't laughing anymore before pointing the gun at his head James gives Eddie a good right hook and You know what I'm going to take one off the T for that decision James well done James tells Iddy to calm down but he points out to James that the town called him here also so as not to act all high and mighty they are

the same the town wanted them both he jumps up and leaves telling James that he's about to find out we take a look around the room and we can see that the deceased is the same guy guy from the cafeteria and there isn't just one more but a handful of the Same guy we follow Eddie into the next room as he yells at James asking him if he knows what it feels like to be picked on and treated differently just for how you look admitting that he ran away after killing the dog saying that it

was fun the dog even tried to eat its own inid before curling up into a ball and dying then he came after him which Ed shot him in the leg he explains how the man cried more than the dog dude I want it he did okay that dog story is enough For me there is no saving this dude idy wants to kill James in the two fight amongst the hanging meat and I have to say idy had a real future in the NFL if he wanted it guy is Nimble it takes a few times but

James finally manages to get a kill shot on idy shooting him in the chest before he collapses to the ground James you are now a murderer my guy you know what another point off the tally for killing the dog killer well done we finally reached the outside and For you guys this area would have been like 10 15 minutes on the video for me it was more like 3 to 4 hours this change of scenery was sorely needed James finds a nearby boat and begins rowing into the lake with a light behind him remember the

story of the Lady of the Lake holding a lit candle to lead her love into the darkness towards her in James's search for Mary this is very reminiscent of the folklore seen in the Silent Hill Legend and in many ways Parallels the story to a tea and as we get closer the light gets brighter with James arriving at the hotel near the lake the Lake View Hotel fitting we make our way in side and find a note addressed to James saying how the videotape that he left in their room during his last stay has been

recovered and is ready to be returned to him at his earliest convenience this fits perfectly to the story that Maria mentioned earlier which caught James off Guard but how could she know about it James gets a fright from a nearby piano with the culprit being none other than Laura James is actually playful for once and jokes that he probably deserves it for how he's acted until now Laura laughs and says maybe but he isn't all that bad he's just annoying he continues to joke with her saying that there's a dark room back there that she

could lock him in again if she wanted but she says that he's had enough for now she asked James to help her find Mary saying that she's in here somewhere and ask James for confirmation he tells her that he doesn't know but Laura is confused since Mary said that she would be in her letter this shocks James now realizing that the letter that Laura mentioned earlier wasn't actually a lie Laura gives him the letter telling him not to tell Rachel her nurse I will play the clip of the letter un interrupted since this is such

a vital part of the story And the music and the voice acting is awesome my dearest Laura I'm leaving this letter with Rachel to give to you after I'm gone I'm far away now in a quiet beautiful place please forgive me for not saying goodbye before I left be well Laura don't be too hard on the sisters and Laura about James I know you hate him because you think he isn't nice to Me but please give him a chance it's true he can be a little Surly sometimes and he doesn't laugh much but underneath he's

a really sweet person I love you Laura I love you like my very own daughter I wish things were different I wish we could be happy together like we talked about even so I know you will have a good life you're a strong smart beautiful Girl happy 8th birthday Laura your friend Mary James asks Laura how old she is and she tells him that she just turned eight last week this means that Mary couldn't have died 3 years ago could she really be here could this be the special place that she mentioned in her letter

Laura tells him that Mary spoke to her a lot about Silent Hill and showed Laura her pictures she really wanted to return here and spoke a lot about James as well To Laura even writing him a letter that she gave to Laura she admits that she wanted to hide it from James saying that she didn't believe that he deserved it but understands that Mary wouldn't want it kept from him and gives him the letter the envelope is empty which horrifies Laura saying that she never opened it she tells James that she needs to find the

L and runs off we continue looking around the hotel which is also filled with creatures and nurse monsters H nice we can find a medical file for Mary on the desk in the nurse's office along with a Cinderella statue in a nearby room we are attacked by another creature with mouth hands and a mouth for a face again I can't explain everything unfortunately after an hour or so of puzzles and exploring we made our way to room 312 the room that Mary was said to be waiting inside we used the video tape that James left

at the hotel with the VCR player and he sits Down and watches the video we see Mary in the same room speaking to James as he records her she mentions how much she loves it at Silent Hill how peaceful it is saying that she heard this whole area was once a sacred place and she can see why she asked James to take her back here again before coughing the video cuts to Maria on a bed as a man places a pillow over her head as she struggles to breathe fighting for her life that man is

James as it is now revealed that James was the one who killed his wife she did not die from her sickness Laura arrives asking where Mary is and James tells her that Mary is dead Laura asks if it was due to her Illness but James admits that it was him that killed her Laura yells at James saying that she knew he didn't care about her stating how much she hated him pointing out that Mary always waited for him why would he do it James tells her that the Mary that she knew isn't here any longer

and Laura Runs out the room crying we see that James is is sat thinking about the truth for a while with the hotel now degrading much like the hospital in town Mary yells out over the radio asking for James to find her asking if he hates her asking why he won't come begging him not to leave her out here he goes to look for her through the now destroyed Hotel ending up in a familiar but destroyed places he enters a room on fire with Angela looking at a castrated man on the Wall smiling she mistakes

James for her mother but realizes that it's just James here apologizes to Angela saying that he thinks that she was right all along what they are looking for is not here anymore Angela Thanks James for helping her earlier but wished that he hadn't she deserved what happened just like her mother said she asked James to give her back the knife which James refuses to do she asks him if he's saving it for himself to which he doesn't respond she Turns around saying that the knife changes nothing anyway James points out how hot it is in

here before Angela asks if he sees it too explaining that it's always like this for her James leaves and enters a fighting pit above is Maria hanging upside down on a grate and James pleads to the pyramid heads to leave her alone they stab her once again killing her while James watches on James mentions that he knows what they are and why he needed them but now that it's all Over he doesn't need them any longer the two come down and a fight between the three begins before the fight can end both of the pyramid

heads impale themselves on their Spears before cornering James offering him the components to enter the final room as he wanders down the hallway he hears Mary's Voice once again in a flashback she asks why James is here saying how she doesn't want his flowers she is disgusting between the illness and the drug she Looks like a monster she tells James to get the hell out of here leave her alone already she is no use to anyone she'll be dead soon anyway it would be easier to just kill her but the hospital is making a good

profit off of her she yells a final time fighting through tears for James to leave and to never come back we reach the final room and we can see Mary looking out the window dressed in her familiar outfit the two hug as James States how much he missed Her she mentions how the two can now be together forever James refuses saying how Mary is gone saying he knows how much she tried but she is gone and he cannot continue pretending it is revealed that this is actually Maria stating that she can be better than Mary

ever was giving him things that she could never give she asks what he wants her to be but James finally tells her that this needs to stop it's time to Let It Go Maria tells him bluntly no that She will not let him do this to her and she will not let him go oh my we have ourselves another creature we managed to beat Maria and finish her off for good as we cut back to James sitting in his car from the beginning of the game he apologizes to Maria saying how much he tried but

he just cannot go on without her and he cannot forgive himself for what he did he knows that it isn't what she would want but it doesn't matter any longer since she isn't here here anymore He looks back revealing Maria's body lying in the back seat of the car he turns the car on and drives it through the railing and off the cliff into the lake our final scene is Mary's notes sinking into the lake while she narrates over in my Restless dreams I see that town Silent Hill you promised you'd take me there again

someday but you never did well I'm alone there now in our special Place waiting for you to come and see me but you never do so I wait wrapped in my Cocoon of pain and loneliness I know I've done a terrible thing to you I wish I could change that but I can't I feel so pathetic and ugly laying here every day I stare up at the cracks in the ceiling and all I can think about is how unfair it is the doctor came Today told me I could go home for a short stay it's

not that I'm getting better it's just that this could be my last chance even so I'm glad to be coming home I missed you so much but I'm afraid James I'm afraid you don't really want me to come home every time you come to see me I can tell how hard it is on You I don't know if you hate me or Pity Me Maybe I just disgusted you I'm so [Music] sorry when I first learned I was going to die I couldn't accept it I was so angry I struck out at everyone I loved

especially you that's why I understand if you hate me but I want you to know I will always love you even though our life together had to End like this I still wouldn't trade it for the world well this letter has gone on too long so I'll say say goodbye I told the nurse to give this to you after I'm gone which means that as you're reading this I'm already dead but that's okay I'm not afraid of it anymore I just hope the pain will end soon so that you remember me for who I Was

and not what the disease made me I want you to go on I want you to live for yourself and for others like you did for me James you made me happy and with that ends the story of Silent Hill now don't go anywhere this video is far from over we have a lot to cover and give context to the story and What actually happened and why everything happened and what it all meant since I am sure a good amount of you are completely confused right now firstly there are eight endings to the Silent Hill

2 game and the one that you just saw is called the inwater ending now you might be wondered why I chose this ending to show first well I did some research and there is no definitive ending to Silent Hill 2 due to the variety of them the inwater ending has Been described by many fans and even some developers over the years as being the most theatrical and fetting ending to the game story hence why I used it here but we will cover all the other seven endings so you can take a pick at your favorite

then we will provide some context to the story I want to shout out mow on YouTube link in the bio for getting the footage of all the other endings and saving me tens of hours of work getting each one myself you are a Gods end we begin with the Bliss ending this takes place before the final boss and simply shows the peaceful vacation that James and Maria had at Silent Hill without revealing his murder of her we see the two Embrace after good times and James proclaiming to the camera that everything is fine a revealing

shot shows that James is no longer in the chair the rebirth ending shows James rowing his boat with Mary's body with him as he apologizes for waking her Saying how peaceful she looks but he can't live without her he mentions that the old gods that still look over this place Grant power to those who follow them he intends to resurrect Mary using a ritual the next is the Maria ending it shows her as Mary can conf fronting James about his murder of Mary James States how he couldn't see her suffer any longer she makes James

admit that he actually resented Mary hated her which he admits to having some of those Feelings since it was a long three years he was tired the boss fight ensues but afterwards we see Maria awaken at the strip club with James helping her up she gives James the letter from Mary but he doesn't even read it telling Maria that it's time to go the two get back to his car as Maria begins coughing James points out needing to do something about that cough this ending shows James forgetting Mary and choosing to continue on with a

new life with Maria choosing To ignore the lessons he learned along his journey and with the cough signaling that he might just be making the same mistake again with Maria we now have the leave ending this shows a flashback to Mary sick on her deathbed with James sitting alongside her he apologizes to her but she tells him that she wants the Pain to End and not to blame himself he tells her that he knows that she wanted it to end but it's not why he did it the truth is that he hated her he wanted

her Out the way he wanted his life back Mary asks him why he looks so sad if that's true she hands him a note telling him that it's what he's been waiting for we cut to Laura drawing on a wall as James meets with her he gives her the letter that he received from Mary it is the same letter that we hear at the end of the inwater ending at the end of the narration we see Laura and James leaving Silent Hill together next is the Stillness ending it shows James in his Car telling Mary

about how he cannot go on without her but this time she is alive asking him what is wrong James begins crying proclaiming how much he has missed her and how sorry he is she tells him that it's okay she has always been waiting for him as he looks down at the L alongside him it cuts the black as we hear him once again driving into the lake this one allows James to receive his forgiveness directly from Mary not needing to read the letter we now have The two comical endings that are definitely not cannon in

any way but it's fun nonetheless we see James outside of room 312 as he holds a gem to the skies a UFO can be seen above him and he is now seeing his old original silent 2 model there is space James and Aliens working together and space James is also looking for space Mary it's a whole thing the final ending shows James reaching a control room however it is a shenu dog behind the control panels the Dog is the master the dog controls everything or Hell our dog Overlord anyway where was I those are the

eight endings of Silent Hill 2 again thematically in water is considered the most appropriate but there is actually no official Cannon ending so I want anyone that made it this far into the video to write the ending which was their favorite here are the endings names and let me know so I can see okay let's get into some context firstly did Any of this happen was it a dream was it imagine was it real if so who was real now we are definitely getting into some Theory territory here since we cannot know for certain but

I feel pretty solid on some things firstly the town of Silent Hill it is mentioned in newspapers like we saw that the town has recorded Supernatural capabilities not to mention that the town was built on sacred Indian Land This points to me that Silent Hill serves as almost a Conduit for somebody's grief or troubles calling in people and showing them things that are appropriate to them so for example there are only four real people in Silent Hill 2 all of which have been called to the town for different reasons the first is James the second

is Angela the third is Eddie and the fourth is Laura let's begin with Angela Orosco we see Angela at the beginning in the graveyard looking for her mother while pointing out her father And brother should be around here but she cannot find them I mentioned how she looked at the gravestones when she said this which suggest that they could be dead this is confirmed in the news article that I read before we find Angela with her father the article describes a man named Thomas Oro the rest of the last name is missing but the last

name is Orosco he was stabbed to death with no belongings taken the murder done in passion this was an Article describing what Angela did to her father her abuser and it also hinted that her brother may have been abusing her as well which means that Angela killed both of them it explains that the murder weapon was never found well that's because the knife is in possession of Angela or while it was until she handed it to James to hold on to she mentions to James how her mother told her that she deserved everything that happened

to her which suggests that Angela was not just trying to find her mother but was trying to kill her as well her reaction to being touched on the arm by James is explained by the trauma that she had had by her brother and her father and the sudden Outburst of something that James did not see was well because only she could see it the town X is a conduit showing each person what they need to see but at times these things seem to cross over and they can peer into each other's worlds if you Will

an example of this is when Angela is speaking with the creature that she called Daddy I describ this creature at the time as a bed creature because that is what it is there is one figure above another figure on what seems to be a bed it should be obvious what this is representing this is a creature created in the mind of Angela a creature of her father you put the two together and it's equally as disgusting as it is sad another instance is when James finds Angela in the burning room he tells her how hot

it feels as she mentions to him that it's always like that for her this is the world that Angela sees within Silent Hill much like the broken down version of the world that James sees to her the world is a burning Inferno much like the hatred and the trauma that's held within her briefly James was able to visit these places which should have only been available and to be seen only by Angela now for idy dumbrowski idy is Severely mentally unstable this being because of the years of being bullied for his weight and appearance this

has led him to be laughed at and ridiculed for much of his life at the point in which he finds himself in Silent Hill he is essentially a serial killer willing to kill anybody that laughs at him finally taking Revenge back for all those years of Torment we see the individual in the cafeteria this is someone that Silent Hill has mastered From Edd's mind destined to continue following him laughing at him making fun of him this is why we see so many of the same corpses sent to endlessly mock idy as he kills each of

them and becomes more and more unstable in the process 's World takes the form of that meat locker it's cold it's dark it's lightless filled with big clumps of meat hanging from hooks this is likely showing just how dark 's mind is his lack of remorse and the flesh is a sign of his Insecurity of his weight and gluttonous nature then there's Laura a young orphan girl called to Silent Hill in memory of her one true friend Mary who told her stories about the place that she wanted to visit again before she died but Mary

didn't get that chance so Laura went for her Laura treated James poorly at the beginning because she heard stories from Mary that painted him in a bad light but Laura is only 8 years old she is still innocent not holding any guilt or trauma Like the other three showing bunnies and dogs it's all happy scenery this is in stark contrast to the surroundings that we see through James's eyes but this is because Laura is not seeing the same thing as James remember the scene where James tells Laura that it isn't safe and that it's dangerous

well this is because for James it was dangerous he was seeing creatures everywhere that he went within Silent Hill but did you ever wonder how a young 8-year-old girl was able to run Around all these places without ever getting attacked killed or chased well it's because there was no creatures for Laura she didn't have monsters it was just the town this is because of her innocent unlike the others who were brought to Silent Hill for their past Deeds Laura went on her own valtion for a friend with absolutely no baggage now for James there are

a lot of layers to James firstly the reason he believes his wife died 3 years ago to the disease is Actually semi- revealed at the end of the game he mentions to Mary that it was a long 3 years and that he grew resentment towards her as a result this suggests that Mary dealt with her illness for 3 years and we know that she died shortly before the events of Silent Hill 2 only a few days before which means that deep down James considered his wife dead the minute she got her disease not the moment

that she died his wife didn't die through 3 years ago she Got her disease 3 years ago which gives some insights into the way of his thinking we SE numerous Clues throughout Silent Hill that suggest that Everything Is Not What It Seems like Mary's clothing on the mannequin with the flashlight I believe this is not a coincidence we already saw a reference between James and Mary and the story of the woman of the lake how the woman would stand each night at the beach with a candle to light the way for her love Waiting for

him the flashlight on her dress is the first clue of that the candle lighting the way for for her love we hear numerous times how Mary would wait for James to visit her but realizes how hard it is or was for him to see her like that but she waited for him just the same just like the Lady of the Lake and much like the man who got lost in the storm James lost his way too beginning to hate his wife letting his selfish thoughts come through now for Maria Maria is not real and she

never was we know this since Maria was never acknowledged by any other living character she wasn't inside the movie theater when James met up with Eddie and Laura again she was around however when Laura fled the movie theater and when Laura was on the staircase but neither time did Laura ever acknowledge her or even bring her up to James she wasn't present when James met with Laura on the third floor she was a manifestation of Mary and James's head it's why she resembled her so much and had a similar voice we can see that Maria

had memories of Mary throughout as well like the time that she mentions that she didn't know why she felt responsible for Laura's well-being this was a nod towards Mary's real feelings towards Laura or the time that she brought up the Lost video tape we know that this tape was referring to the one that James watched at the end of the hotel but we can also see that it Was Mary who was with James not Maria the different creatures that James saw along the way suggest different perceptions that he had of Mary and those around her

like the nurses not to mention Pyramid Head James points out that he knows what they were but he doesn't need them anymore I think Pyramid Head was most likely his own guilt fighting to punish himself over killing Mary it's only when he has accepted his guilt and his role that They eventually impaled themselves he was finally ready to see Mary again obviously this turned out to be Maria but it's almost like Silent Hill was testing to see if James actually learned his lesson accepting his role in guilt and was ready to move on something that

Angela and Eddie failed to do in the end he wasn't able to move on if you go by the inwater ending as I have but he did return Mary to Silent Hill one last time just like he promised now do you Remember the three patient letters at the hospital patient 50 patient 90 patient 130 I believe these patients were actually nods to the three main patients of Silent Hill patient 50 sudden Outburst of aggression Visual and auditory hallucinations with a sudden decline in mental stability this I believe was referring to James Sunderland patient 90 Century

delusions insomnia not drinking or eating this fits more closely with Angela and her Demeanor as she deals with the killing of her family and the trauma that she now has to live with and patient 130 intense and unrelenting anxiety with paranoia visual hallucinations we saw firsthand 's paranoia always believing that people were laughing at him behind his back and the anxiety of his weight and self-esteem issues this does not mean however that I thought that they were patients at the hospital I want to state that now but I think that it was a Nod towards

the three characters with all of that said there is no definitive answer and while I do feel strongly about my theory and the evidence that I've built I would love to hear your thoughts if I'm correct or if you think there's something else let me know in the comments below I would love to see them this entire video was an absolute treat to make and I hope it was equally enjoyable to watch be sure to like the video as it helps me tremendously And Subscribe for more story explain videos just like this in the near

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