Psychological Horror At Its Finest | Silent Hill 2
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Published 2021-11-11
Silent Hill 2 is one of my favorite games to revisit. That said, Silent Hill 2 needs a fair amount of time in between playthroughs. It's not like the better Resident Evils where I can pick one up at any time.
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Silent Hill 2 seeps into you, something that needs time to digest. Even with a short runtime, Silent Hill 2 can accomplish so much.
There is a good reason that 20 years on, Silent Hill 2 still hangs heavy over the series and the survival horror genre.
Few games have been dissected, picked apart, and debated as Silent Hill 2 has. And for good reason. Silent Hill 2 is a mostly self-contained story in which the cult and the lore of the series fall into the background. Instead, we go into depth with these characters, with an execution that is unmatched.
Silent Hill 2 is a title where Team Silent had the good knowledge to not try to recreate with future titles. When the development of future titles fell to other studios, Konami pushed for "another Silent Hill 2", but nothing came close.
So let's dig into why 20 years on, Silent Hill 2 has such a fascinating legacy and following in the gaming landscape.
This Silent Hill 2 review/analysis/critique/retrospective looks at how Silent Hill 2 came to be, the presentation, the gameplay, the plot, Born From a Wish, and more.
Timestamps:
00:00 - Prelude
01:56 - Behind The Scenes of Silent Hill 2
02:46 - Silent Hill 2 Intro
03:47 - Presentation of Silent Hill 2
05:12 - Gameplay of Silent Hill 2
08:02 - Going through Silent Hill 2 (SPOILERS BEGIN)
10:27 - Monster Design of Silent Hill 2
11:39 - The Apartments
14:42 - Ave Maria
16:25 - The Hospital
19:03 - The Prison and Labyrinth
27:06 - The Hotel
31:46 - Ending(s)
35:08 - Born From A Wish
36:11 - Conclusion
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All Comments (21)
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If Chris Redfield was in Silent Hill 2 he'd punch the pyramid right off the Pyramidhead
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Silent Hill 2 is the game that “cinematic games” developers wishes they could be. Still the best story in gaming
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A great bit of detail I find is that the piano song that plays after Maria's first death is called Magdalene. A reference to Mary Magdalene, a prostitute in the Bible who is supposed to be the mirror of Mary mother of Christ - which is exactly Maria's role in sh2.
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On one hand, this is a killer video, but as I was writing this comment I looked over in my recommended feed and your RE7 video hit a million views?!?!?!??! Holy fuck man! Congrats!!
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'Aren't you Maria?' 'I'm not your Mary.' Line still gives me the chills all these years later. So well acted! <3
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Dog ending is still my favorite ending. Especially the credits song.
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You missed something I feel is important: there are many corpses throughout the game that look like James, including the one that looks to have shot himself in front of the TV. Add that to that one suspicious line from James "No, I'd never kill myself" is why many of us think that James is already dead and the ending doesn't really matter because it's just one instance of his purgatorial loop.
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"He's not remembering well because the town is making him stupid". So, Silent Hill is, basically, twitter?
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Original voices: Dissasociated and eerie like the town and events themselves New Voices: Sounds like they're losing their breathe on every line.
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As a kid, I played this and got the "in water" ending it felt so fitting so conclusive that I can't even imagine the other endings being cannon
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That scene you played at the start still gives me chills.
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Never played a game since that 'captured an atmosphere' like SH2 did, and that soundtrack, fantastic.
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I cry a little bit every time I hear "James.... You made me happy." Ugh I teared up just typing it.
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The first time I played this was in my best friend's room which was the basement and it had a huge crack running horizontally across the wall where thr ground had pushed it in enough to cause a large black void when there was little light. That house creaked likr crazy. It was perfect.
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The first 4 silent hill games are just so amazing especially 2 It's in my top 5 games easily
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SH2's interpretation of "5 Stages of Grief" on each Characters: James - Denial Eddie - Anger Maria - Bargaining Angela - Depression Mary/Laura - Acceptance
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I personally want "in water" to be my canon ending. Idk speaks most to me. This is my all time favorite game and you did great reviewing this. Good job mr. punch.
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I swear most of the cutscenes in this game are more immersive and convincing than most cutscenes in the past 5 years.
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Angela let grief overcome her And Eddie tried to coexist with it While James chose to overcome it 3 stories 3 people 3 different ways of struggling with 1 force Grief
