Silent Hill 2 - EVERY ENDING EXPLAINED
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 พ.ย. 2024
- A thorough examination of all eight endings to Silent Hill 2 and the events leading up to them, including Mary's murder, Angela's final moments, the battle with the two Pyramid Heads, and the final boss fight with Her.
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14:01 It’s not that she didn’t want flowers, it’s that she felt like she didn’t deserve flowers because of how disfigured the disease made her which is just so sad.
This is a good point - it definitely has more to do with how she was feeling and how depressed she was than anything else.
Resisting strangulation is an instinct. Doesn't matter if you expect it or not.
Fair point - as I mentioned to another commentor, a therapist I used to work with in my day job once told me that there's strong evidence that even folks who fully intend to take their own life change their minds at the last moment. No idea how true that is, but it might speak to the possibility that they did have something along the lines of a plan, but when James took action, Mary's human nature and survival instinct took over.
True that,even a lobotomy patient would fight outta reflex.
Love this video 💜 Not a lot of people know this and i want to clarify (as someone who works in end if life care) palliative is for people with chronic illnesses or long lasting conditions (not expected to die within 6 months); hospice is for end of life care (expected to die within 6 months)
Glad you enjoyed it, and thank you for the clarification! In that case, would it be fair to say that Mary was likely palliative care when she was at the hospital where she met Laura and where the long hallway conversation took place, but was probably about to enter hospice care when she came home for her visit with James?
I love the stillness ending . Acting is great . My only complaint is that you don’t get the letter being read in this ending which is a shame .
The idea that James enters a tape and then "saves" inside it using a red square is so fucking meta, that I'm just going to consider this to be the canon explanation of the Bliss ending for myself, you just cannot get a crazier scenario than that. As for Rebirth, I've always seen it as James esentially going crazy, even Maria, both in the original and the remake, is surprised at James' plan. You never see him truly revive Mary, and him rowing off to that island, shrowded entirely in fog, just looks like he's been completely consumed by it, to me it's Silent Hill 2's version of "Nowhere". He's just gone. It's a nice homage to the cult stuff from SH1, but I've never really tied SH2 with any of that stuff, and it just seems like all the trauma and horror completely broke James in that ending. He even sounds unbelievably delusional in it.
Glad you liked my idea on Bliss! No idea if that's what they were going for, but I love how meta it is. And same here - I love how delusional James sounds in Rebirth. He just sounds completely out of his mind
I have that red square tattooed on me right underneath a pyramid head tattoo I just got yesterday and every time I just stare at my red for a little while and my family looks at me like "what are you doing? lol just like Maria does at the hotel
If you check the envelope at 23:39, you'll notice that the letter Maria gave him was not his, but Laura's.
i know close to nothing about silent hill, but i think i could watch you talk about literally anything and be invested, so i'm psyched to watch this anyways
its so good dude play it
Thank you my friend! I appreciate it! It means a lot to hear from people who watch my content regardless of the topic I'm covering.
James would be a great father to Laura unless she gets sick again, then she'd better avoid pillows.
"Hey Laura! I got you some new pillows!"
"Hold up Fart Face - you can leave those at the door!"
"Alright, fair point."
You can definitely tell, that in Bliss ending, it is exactly James from the present you were playing all along, by the flashlight in the pocket and the same clothes 35:11. He wouldn't wear any of that if they were resting in the hotel and were about to pack up and leave.
Remake really emphasize how the illness/disease really made Mary look sick. In the OG games, graphics were not detailed enough to showcase the reason why James was angry and frustrated.
It's not her fault but sadly, human relationships aren't always nice. What James did was awful but it's understandable.
Mary didn't want to die like that, the letter pretty says how much she felt like something bad would happen when she'd get home.
Their situation just sucked.
Stillness and bliss were great additions but not gonna lie, Bliss was heavy with implications of the drug he used. He probably dies off screen with his delusion.
No matter how you look at it, this story is tragic.
Love your voice, definitely watching more.
Thank you! I appreciate it!
When i first played the original i got the in water ending,then 4years later i met a mary who became my wife ,she became ill and it drove her to take her own life ,i blamed myself for not being there when i should,when the remake came out three days before her birthday.i still got the in water ending.and i have to say how hard i relate to it .its been three years since she died and i cant move on,if i had a car i would have driven it into the river by now . sometimes people find the happiness they wanted,when its gone you are left with complicated grief and its very hard to live with after that.😢
I feel like the reason we can't see james preparing the murder is he doesn't know his own rationale. He's mulled it over so many times he can't trust his own account.
I picked up the last book at the hotel for the rebirth ending but by opening the safe and retrieving the postcard, it switched to the Stillness ending. So you can technically negate rebirth
18:04 At the very least we can guarantee it won't be anything like Usagi Drop... the arcane knowledge is pain
Looking at the Silent Hill Wiki, Mary was confirmed in background notes to be 25, and James is 29.
Laura is 8. This will mean that Mary was 17 when Laura was born, so she would have (depending on country) only just have been old enough to have been Laura's mother.
Thanks for pointing this out! I would've guessed older, but in retrospect 25/29 makes sense. And yeah, old enough to be her mother if she had her at a relatively young age by US standards.
I think it's worth mentioning that in this game and the original, Eddie's victim is the only unique corpse model that isn't James.
Eddie doesn't spend his time killing James clones, he has his own issues. So the part where you say Eddie's victims are James corpses is incorrect
Is it bad I got the Maria ending on my first run? 😭
Not at all! I was aiming for the Maria ending on my first run as well. It's better to go that way so you can manipulate your way to the other endings on subsequent playthroughs
No that’s actually impressive because most people will get leave as their first ending, so that’s an accomplishment that you got it on your first run
Its natural to resist when youre inevitably going to die. No one is going to act calm when theyre in a situation that involves them in pain. You think James just sits in the car when he drowns or does he try to grasp for air as his lungs fill with water?
Fair point - a therapist I once worked with in my day job said that there's evidence that even people fully intend to take their own life often change their minds at the last moment. Don't know how true that is, of course, but I suppose it is possible that they agreed to some form of a plan, but that she had human nature take over when James took action.
13:07 Mary was 25, btw
I always had one issue with Silent Hill 2. It's just a stupid line James says. He says that Maria looks just like Mary.
Different hair colour, different clothes, different face.
Like, I wish they'd have fixed that. If they'd call Maria his ideal woman, his dream woman, something like that? Fine.
But he says she looks just like Mary, and I don't see it at all
It’s deliberate. He thinks that oversexualized Maria is the perfect Mary he always dreamt of. But then look at how Mary herself is being portrayed.
Think of it like this. Remember how as time goes on, especially after discovering the truth, the lakeview hotel starts to deteriorate and becomes what it truly is, not what James is deluding himself into seeing? It's like that here, when he sees Maria he's seeing what his deluded eyes are wanting him to see.
When he realizes the truth in the endings where the final boss is Maria, not Mary (i.e the Leave and Rebirth endings are the ones I can think off the top of my head), In one last ditch effort Maria takes on what Mary truly looked like to try and convince/stop James to stay with her. It's her last gambit to make James not accept the truth. I think even, at least in the remake that in the Leave Ending, Maria's eyes change back to her eye color instead of Mary's when James rejects her.
That's how I view it anyway.
James is deranged, this is like... the main point of the game.
You say yourself that Remake James is softer, more caring, more nuanced, more emotional and less dismissive than original James. To me it just means they did not understand the character at all. Or that hey deliberately made him more fretful, more emotional and more liekeable for the new audience. I really don't like that one bit.
For players like me who are playing the game for the first time, and knew nothing about silent hill I think it made the game better. It wasn’t until around halfway through that I realized something might be off about James’ character. Being able to slowly put it together that James is in fact the villain of his own story was an absolute mind fuck, and I think it woulda been ruined if James was super crass from the beginning because it woulda been way to obvious to me. James being caring is what sells the twist for me