The Expanded Lore of Pyramid Head in Silent Hill 2
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2024
- Where does Pyramid Head come from? What does Pyramid Head symbolise? What is Pyramid Head? Wonder no more because Zoe Delahunty-Light is here to explain Pyramid Head lore from Silent Hill 2, and the subtle changes the Silent Hill 2 Remake has made to his appearance, behaviour, and significance.
Zoe also explains the key differences in the Silent Hill 2 cutscenes and the ending of the Silent Hill 2 remake. This video will help you figure out exactly what Pyramid Head's deal is. Or, close enough...
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the second Pyramid Head shows up right after James kills Eddie. James immediately expresses guilt for taking another human life, leading to the second one being created.
I also love that in the remake, James reaction after killing Eddie (anxiously massaging his palms) mirrors his behavior in the introduction in the bathroom
Maybe the question is how is Pyramid head? Rather than what is Pyramid head?
No, the real question is "why is pyramid head?"
Perhaps the real Pyramid Head is the friends we made along the way.
I heard he be living his best life right now..
@@alexbruce9499 🤣
I'm hiding behind the sofa, asking "where is Pyramid Head!?"
They knocked it out of the park with the new James voice actor. He is AWESOME. Angela, Eddie and Maria are all believable too. I don’t hate the Maria, but the original was better. She seems less like she’s trying to cause trouble in the remake. In the original, it was very obvious that she was an agent of chaos.
I remember reading somewhere that the first Pyramid head boss fight represents James having a sudden urge to unalive himself and him walking away means James getting over the urge. And in the original, the fight is on a starircase filled with water, another symbol for death in the game
I just got to the part where James hides in the closet while pyramid head violates the mannequins. The way pyramid head just stands completely still while James shoots him is terrifying. Such a great recreation of that scene! Bravo Bloober team! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Like why did p head just turn around and not rip his head off? Lol that scene was terrifying I just got their too
@cwavygaming6615 right?! The way he walks out of the room dragging the mannequin is chilling.
@@skatemobster creeped me the hell out and the fact he just stares at you and doesn’t retaliate just walks away lol
@@cwavygaming6615 YEEEEESSSS!!!!!!!! It's SOOO GOOD!!!!!
@@skatemobster it’s terryfing too I’m trying to play with headphones in man.. the other world just turned it up a notch!
These SH vids are amazing, Zoe. Keep them coming. :D
Also, why doesn't this game have a photo mode?!? Let's hope they include it somewhere along the line.
Also, according to Ito, Pyramid head is killing the mannekins, not doing something else
Right? People keep insisting this fanon is canon even years after the people who made it said otherwise
This is what I love about Silent Hill. There's so much to unpack about the monsters.
i just beat the game in hard combat and hard puzzle. what a fun stressful 30 hours.
I also think this is a sequel of SH 2, like Sh 2, 2, just for the fact of the subtle changes and how the game lets you know of the things that happened in the original, like James had been trapped for eternity there, he is the Bill Murray of Silent Hill in this case.
Zoe DeLOREhunty-Light special! I love her lore videos.
The save points glow red, and envelope James in a similar light to that of Pyramid Head in the first encounter. I wonder if that's connected?
You did just mention the red and white being a sign for these ritual executions. His iron head looks red to be and his bottom half white when you shine your light on him.
Hey maybe you could also do a video on the question of if the monsters are real or not couple of hints at this throughout ALL the games but never confirmed one way or the other and this game I feel slapped it on even thicker especially with Laura idk an idea for content
Travelocity review: “Good vacation except for the unholy fog that warps reality into a nightmare hellscape. 4/5 stars.”
Thanks for your insightful analysis. To me, it seems that the red glow (and red pyramid) versus the white hands also to add to the idea of the two colours used in rituals. I wonder what the symbolism behind the these colours is. Any thoughts?
i will say silent hill 2 does a really good job of making the cult stuff extremely unsettling, even if it's not the core focus of the game.
Literally went woo! when I saw a lore video today. Looking forward to watching it.
It was a good video!
I think the reason pyramid head glows red is because red represents death in some movies such as the sixth sense.
I mean, I'm gonna keep calling hime Pyramid Head too, but isn't his real name Red Pyramid?
His original name was red pyramid thing yes but that name has been abandoned for awhile so there’s no point in really calling him that anymore. It also is a longer name.
I'll do you one better, Why is Pyramid head?
How is Pyramid Head??? Zoe
i have a feeling if he remove the pyramid off his head he will have the same face of the protagonist . when chased by guilt the stalker in writing have always the face of the character feeling the guilt or in some cases the face of the victim
You mean....just like the old game?
@@mykelmellen2378 is it ? i never played a silent hill ever but i am a writer and i know writers tend to do such tropes.
@@LauftFafa you never actually see it, but they have James' face modeled under the pyramid in the original.
Not only that, but the random corpses on the ground that have keys, or the one in the first apartments sitting in front of the TV with static. They also have his face but are throughly obscured.
Good catch lol
why? because Pyramid Head just got.... THA AURA!!!!
Well I know that when pyramid head kills Maria is not the same one chasing James 🤔🤔🤔🤔no joke and work that out without internet help I did
I wish it was possible to ascertain all this insight through playing the game, but there just isn’t enough story context.
i’ve been saying for awhile that the reason Toluca Lake was a sacred place to native Americans is that the water grants wishes. When British colonials came over and started colonizing the area, Puritans with their repression and their fucked up self-loathing that they directed at the local indigenous population, women they deemed to be witches, whatever, well, the fog granted their wishes. But they had diseased, writhing wishes they didn’t want to acknowledge, and thus that signature Silent Hill Look was created. When the Age of Industry began, when metal became ubiquitous and mass-produced, the water settled on it when the fog came off the lake, or things got dumped in the water, and the water became familiar with it, settling in and rusting it, learning the forms we see in multiple games. Old gates, fences, fans.
And there’s a sort of artist-audience relationship here too; the water grants the wishes, and the people are changed by having their wishes granted, changing and informing the water in turn, which creates wishes anew, based on the last time, but incorporating things from the people it’s in conversation with.
That’s why when James rolled in full of guilt and shame, the Executioner is created, based on James psyche yes, but also the past of the town.
Afterwards, the Executioner didn’t just dissipate, because that’s not how the town works. Instead, it lingered, explaining how he can show up in Homecoming.
I’m still amused that Pyramid Head in the remake did his best impression of Violent Flailing Kermit the Frog when he stood outside of James’ closet. Don’t know why he did this, but it keeps me up at night 🤣
it's a really good jacob's ladder reference, especially with how it's framed in the remake
@@SpinfoilHat Yep!
👀 I uh… I like the pyramid head in the first movie… it had no pants on 😍
Ehehe lol yeah Mister Sexy 😂
So basically Catholicism lol got it
Ok for the final time. People are over thinking it. Pyramid head is a sexually repressed James. His first scene tells us everything. Mary is ill. There were not intimidate in years. When we first see Pyramid head and the things he is doing, this is what James seeks. The muscular form and Pyramid head is hood shaped for a reason (I don’t have to spell it out). The rust is symbolic of lack of use. The sword and spears mean nothing. There just for gameplay. The dual pyramid heads at the end mean nothing, just for gameplay.
The dual pyramid heads do mean something. One represents his guilt over Mary, and the other over Eddie.
Funny how you criricise others and moves on to overthinking this character with your opinions. That angle was already debunked by origianal creators, hence they changed it in remake.
‘Some spoilers’ is quite the understatement
Okay so from what you're covering here it very much sounds like someone at Konami leashed the Bloober Team writers so they couldn't do what they did in Layers of Fear or The Medium with their hackneyed, victim blaming writing.
Thank fuck for that.
In Layers of Fear, it’s clear the guy is the jerk. What victim blaming there? He may blame his wife, but it’s he who can’t accept reality.
It's not subconscious, it's unconscious. But great video otherwise.
@@smashbrandiscootch719 You said unconscious so I'll allow it. :P
Pyramid head is James only friend in Silent Hill.
Recommend watching this at least 1.5x speed as it is a Zoe video and she’s talking very slowly again…
Hello! I'm getting used to a new mic set up so I'm talking slowly because I'm concentrating on keeping Adobe Audition in check. Hopefully I'll get back to my normal speed soon. Thanks for watching the video! Zoe
It's really not (slow) I hate this trend of speed blurbing that some other channels do.. It's like they're trying to cater for people with short attention spans. This video is fine. Well-spoken and precise @eurogamer
I absolutely hate trying to shoehorn in pseudoscientific ”lore” and destroy the mystery/symbolism. It’s like taking Gulliver’s Travels and explaining scientifically how the tiny people could exists. It completely misses the point.
Seriously a question we don't need the answer to supernatural horror themes work best with less knowledge.
For most horror games sure. Not that one
Not a fan of the censorship of the original
Still waiting for someone to explain what's censored instead of just whining into the void.