Celebrating with over 1 Hour of Silent Hill 2 trivia, secrets, easter eggs, lore and much more in anticipation of Silent Hill 2 Remake releasing in October. I hope you all enjoy, especially those of you who like to fall asleep to my videos. Have a great weekend. And yes, chapters are provided in the descreption of the video.
The reason why Silent Hill 2 it became a classic is because eventually people began to see how unique, eerie, melancholic and authentic the game's atmosphere it really is, and took the time to enjoy its deeply thoughtful narrative and symbolism. To this day it’s by far one of, if not the most mature examination of grief, sexual trauma, suicide, and morality all combined. It’s an intelligent game that does not hold anyone’s hand and comes at the player with utmost confidence in itself. It’s fantastic stuff. The rest of the original 4 are great in their own right and have their own well written stories, but they don’t hold the same emotional weight to them. I think SH2’s maturity by comparison is something that a lot of people are drawn to. ☯️
It’s amazing how many good reviews a game can get even though it’s a direct rip off of Resident Evil, has zero plot, and ends with a fight with a haunted mattress.
I think this game handled trauma, and grief and mental health so respectfully, I agree with everything u said, I don't think there's another game that's ever handed all these themes respectfully and genuine.❤
@@rifleshooterchannel208 Silent Hill and Resident Evil have virtually nothing in common, except for the originals having similar gameplay structure due to being "survival horror" (puzzles, gradually unlocking doors/areas, monster enemies, item management). Everything from the stories to the developer's philosophy on horror to how combat is approached to everything else is entirely different. I honestly wish these two IPs weren't always compared, because there's a lot of ideas and directions that work with Resident Evil that wouldn't necessarily be good ideas for Silent Hill. "Has zero plot" - this is the part I realized you must be trolling/ baiting. Resident Evil has a plot about secret laboratories in a mansion and a virus making people into zombies and you're saying with a straight face that SH2 has "zero plot". If you are serious I want the number of your dealer. I love both games, I'm old enough having played them when they were originally released and I admit RE games are more fun, have aged better but if you are seriously saying they have a better plot than SH2 you need to get examined.
Pretty much all sound affects in video games were stock before the 2000s, it was rare to record any sounds that werent music, voice acting or folly audio for cutscenes
Also, about fact 11... you're wrong. The whispers are from a catalogue of sound samples used in the game and by Akira Yamaoka and it isn't saying that. That's an old rumor and the whisper was not created by Team Silent.
@@morganlak4337 Yeah as far as I know. It sounds like one person whispering what you'd whisper if someone prompted you to whisper gibberish under your breath. There are kind of words in there, but not really, and then your imagination fills in the rest.
@@morganlak4337It's just gibberish, but IMO a big reason why the rumors took off is because it kind of sounds like the voice is saying "I see my dead wife"
Also doing another play through after watching this made the pool in the apartment building make way more sense. Mary was smothered, james supposedly drowned himself, and hopes of having a kid was also "drowned" is that why there is exactly 3 lying figures and a baby carriage in the pool?
Also, you find the Snake Coin in the baby carriage, and the coin puzzle ties the snake to the Biblical Creation story and the snake being the deceiver. I've always interpreted this to mean that maybe James deceived himself into thinking that having a child with Mary would improve their circumstances.
Still looks like an absolutely embarrassing modern slop. That Maria scene is still beyond salvation when it comes to VA and cinematography work, and the gameplay = literal TLOU.
@@GugureSux how is it tlou? There’s no stealth and the only pickups are health or ammo. There’s no parts for crafting or upgrades. It’s literally just what it always has been aside from the new camera perspective
7:57 you forgot to mention James is the only Legendary cosmetic that got an official rendered portrait for the character selection menu but got unused and never updated. 1:01:33 The figure on the center cage reminds me to Lisa Garland
37:49 This is beautiful this must be the letter James gives to Laura in Leave ending, that should explain why Laura forgives James and leaves Silent Hil with him
Your wrong on mary being in James' trunk. Thats an assumption made by people when the dev said mary's body was in the car, mostly due to cultural differences. Guy Cihi said in a commentary that he thinks the dev meant that mary was in the back seat. This actually makes sense as the view into James' car obscures the backseat, and when James drives his car into taluca lake, its believed that the intent is to mimic the japanese concept of (im probably spelling this wrong) moodishinjū. Which is a ritualistic suicide of a family in order to redeem themselves from some grave sin that is considered to have stained the family. This goes so far as to include even the children, and the deaths are often covered up, with everyone avoiding bringing them up.
I get what ito says about the inclusion in dbd, but to me it’s perfectly fine. In the dbd lore, after James leaves silent hill pyramid head is about to enter the long rest and basically go dormant. The entity whispers to his manifestation before he rests and gives him a new purpose and to stop hunting james.
"James may struggle with disassociative periods" *Dissociative...* not _dis-associative_ lmao. As someone with depersonalization/derealization disorder, this alliteration is so funny because I hear it all the time lol. But it's not big deal, and I totally agree that this is what James is doing. Your hands are the most absurd looking thing when it first comes over you. I've had it for so long that it's pretty much a non-issue unless I see something that really messes with my head or freaks me out. But your hands are always the first thing you notice that look odd while having a flare up.
I feel you. Been dealing with it since highschool, almost 15 years ago. It happens a lot when I’m driving. It’s like my arms and hands detach and I’m looking through a camera instead of my eyes. So weird.
it always boggles me that mary is modeled after christina aguilera ( well i mean her clothes look dead on) but she always reminds me of kirsten dunst much more facially
Well...if the fact about the Hotel is true,then Otherworld Lakeview Hotel is the only time we see the Otherworld producing a beautiful place rather that a nightmare fuel place like we are accustomed.
Im now camr to hospital during my first walkthru on medium level. I prefer slow pace ,walking and i hate radio. So im tryin to clear areas ,mostly with melee and cautioness . But on my next walkthru i hope to use chainsaw and on my third i just wanna to cheat some bullets and shoot everything what moves. Dunno why
Although I prefer the "leave" ending, in water seems to make most sense not only for James' mental state, but for his disappearance along with his wife mentioned in 4. Leave implies James leaves a changed man that will atone for his sins(turn himself to the police) so I doubt he would just get rid of the body and disappear with Laura
I always thought James' surname "Sunderland" was inspired by "Raskolnikov" from Crime and Punishment because "raskoliti" means "to tear asunder". In either case it's a metaphor for their torn state of mind. This connection made me suspect that the SH2 devs took inspiration from Crime and Punishment even before it was confirmed.
@@lesialysychka I'm Croatian and we say "raskoliti", I was too lazy to look up the Russian equivalent, my bad. Anyway, I'm pretty sure it can still be translated as "to tear asunder".
Can someone explain to me how we know james turned to alcohol and that james and mary wanted a child? Ive been searching the internet but cant find out how these details came forth.
There's a part in the game where you can come across some cases of wine, and if you examine it, James comments that he's been drinking a lot lately to deal with the pain and loneliness of losing Mary.
@@Kintsugi23fun fact: in the Silent Hill 2 novel, James shares that he also drinks to deal with his feelings and he's an angry drunk. Even his coworkers hate him cause of it.
There are a ton of mispronunciations here-which is fine, everyone does it. But you should prob figure out how to properly say “pachi-slot” as you’re inadvertently and repeatedly using a slur
@@dan4ikp4ola Just as an easter egg dude! Holy fuck. It'd be like the swamp monument, the first time you see it, the message is mostly scratched out, but after you beat the game, the full message is revealed.
@@nightflyer777Do you really think that if someone doing his SH2 playthrough don't skip cutscenes? I think that almost 99% of players skip the cutscenes after they complete the game ones and probably if they did add it as an Easter egg nobody would hear it
It’s been 3 years between Mary death and James going back to silent hill so would that mean if Mary was in the boot or trunk of the car wouldn’t she be a skeleton by the point of the game?
Mary wasn't dead for three years when the game began. She's only been dead for days after James have murdered her. His unstable mind made him believe Mary was dead for three years. Laura conversation with James reveal the truth.
@@anglo-saxonconnor817the remake gives foreshadowing to the truth on James hand. His ring finger still has the indent that the ring left. If Mary was dead for 3 years the indent would be gone by that time.
God, i hate artists that don't allow for creative freedom with their characters. Aren't they interested in how others see their creations? I would LOVE for people to go Nuts over mine! Make them into how they interpret them as, breathe new life, but nope! We have a toxic attitude akin to the art community. The unfortunate reality is, once you release something out into the public, it's no longer "yours".
"Fact" hu ? Well number 11 is wrong ,it's a stock sound. and it says nothing , its gibberish nonsense. 4 minutes in the video about fact and you already get your "fact" wrong. Go watch Nubzombie SH iceberg peoples , don't waste your time here
@@GangreneSerenity Not at all, the dude did his best i'm sure , no harm done. Just Imagine a detached , slightly disappointed voice and tone when you read my comment and you'll get that i'm not mad. Why should i be all "Up in arms " and all ? Fact are ..well fact ! Can't have them wrong now can we ? kinda defeat the purpose don't you think?. I might just save people some time by recommending to go watch what is , imo anyway , a superior video instead of an 1 hour+ one with already wrong infos appearing just 4 minutes in.
@@kaporal890 I appreciate you being kind. I’m checking out nub zombie. I got time to watch both, I also see your point to save peoples time. Thanks for the recommendation!
Very dishonest to use the remake thumbnail but the original game in the content. Even though I am pretty sure all these facts are interesting. Still dislike for this.
@@StramSaturdayDBDBDIB yeah, I agree, there are some good and nice people of course but, I met a guy that said "the remake would be bad, because James washing his hands instead of looking at the mirror"
@@CHICKENNUGGETSKOON No, it absolutely does not. It's literally all the worst fears of any SH fan, come reality. A fugly, generic OTS shooter, backed by a DEI firm.
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Celebrating with over 1 Hour of Silent Hill 2 trivia, secrets, easter eggs, lore and much more in anticipation of Silent Hill 2 Remake releasing in October. I hope you all enjoy, especially those of you who like to fall asleep to my videos. Have a great weekend.
And yes, chapters are provided in the descreption of the video.
Fact 11 was wrong but overall amazing video, love your content ❤
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The reason why Silent Hill 2 it became a classic is because eventually people began to see how unique, eerie, melancholic and authentic the game's atmosphere it really is, and took the time to enjoy its deeply thoughtful narrative and symbolism. To this day it’s by far one of, if not the most mature examination of grief, sexual trauma, suicide, and morality all combined. It’s an intelligent game that does not hold anyone’s hand and comes at the player with utmost confidence in itself. It’s fantastic stuff. The rest of the original 4 are great in their own right and have their own well written stories, but they don’t hold the same emotional weight to them. I think SH2’s maturity by comparison is something that a lot of people are drawn to. ☯️
Here's hoping the remake does it justice
It’s amazing how many good reviews a game can get even though it’s a direct rip off of Resident Evil, has zero plot, and ends with a fight with a haunted mattress.
Nah cuh dog ending
I think this game handled trauma, and grief and mental health so respectfully, I agree with everything u said, I don't think there's another game that's ever handed all these themes respectfully and genuine.❤
@@rifleshooterchannel208
Silent Hill and Resident Evil have virtually nothing in common, except for the originals having similar gameplay structure due to being "survival horror" (puzzles, gradually unlocking doors/areas, monster enemies, item management). Everything from the stories to the developer's philosophy on horror to how combat is approached to everything else is entirely different.
I honestly wish these two IPs weren't always compared, because there's a lot of ideas and directions that work with Resident Evil that wouldn't necessarily be good ideas for Silent Hill.
"Has zero plot" - this is the part I realized you must be trolling/ baiting. Resident Evil has a plot about secret laboratories in a mansion and a virus making people into zombies and you're saying with a straight face that SH2 has "zero plot".
If you are serious I want the number of your dealer. I love both games, I'm old enough having played them when they were originally released and I admit RE games are more fun, have aged better but if you are seriously saying they have a better plot than SH2 you need to get examined.
on fact 11: wasn't it confirmed that it was just a random stock audio?
You're correct
Correct 👍
Pretty much all sound affects in video games were stock before the 2000s, it was rare to record any sounds that werent music, voice acting or folly audio for cutscenes
Great video. It’s amazing that over 20 years later there’s so much to discover about the game. Can’t wait for the remake soon!
You forgot to mention that both James Sunderland and Jacob Singer have the same initials.
I’ve dug so incredibly deep into the information about this game and I’m still learning a few new things, it’s insane
13:27 perhaps originally a nod to RE2 since they also had a sign in the RPD that spelled it like "wellcome" originally
glad someone else caught that too
Don't think is that deep, but would br Really good
or it's just a mistake, like how in some versions the hospital says blookhaven on the sign outside
Also, about fact 11... you're wrong. The whispers are from a catalogue of sound samples used in the game and by Akira Yamaoka and it isn't saying that. That's an old rumor and the whisper was not created by Team Silent.
This is correct. Nightingale Voice Box Sound Effects Library, I think.
What is it saying? Just gibberish?
@@morganlak4337 Yes.
@@morganlak4337 Yeah as far as I know. It sounds like one person whispering what you'd whisper if someone prompted you to whisper gibberish under your breath. There are kind of words in there, but not really, and then your imagination fills in the rest.
@@morganlak4337It's just gibberish, but IMO a big reason why the rumors took off is because it kind of sounds like the voice is saying "I see my dead wife"
Dbd player here the glitch with Jeryl has been patched... jeryl is now dead. Also dont forget you can play as Maria now too! 😉
I always love hearing facts about Silent Hill. Great job!
Also doing another play through after watching this made the pool in the apartment building make way more sense. Mary was smothered, james supposedly drowned himself, and hopes of having a kid was also "drowned" is that why there is exactly 3 lying figures and a baby carriage in the pool?
Also, you find the Snake Coin in the baby carriage, and the coin puzzle ties the snake to the Biblical Creation story and the snake being the deceiver. I've always interpreted this to mean that maybe James deceived himself into thinking that having a child with Mary would improve their circumstances.
Thankyou for helping my anxiety.
37:37 i own a European collectors edition and it features Marys voice
Thank you for tonight’s sleep to content, hope you do a deep dive into the new footage soon. Blown away by how much better it looks
Still looks like an absolutely embarrassing modern slop. That Maria scene is still beyond salvation when it comes to VA and cinematography work, and the gameplay = literal TLOU.
@@GugureSux how is it tlou? There’s no stealth and the only pickups are health or ammo. There’s no parts for crafting or upgrades. It’s literally just what it always has been aside from the new camera perspective
7:57 you forgot to mention James is the only Legendary cosmetic that got an official rendered portrait for the character selection menu but got unused and never updated.
1:01:33 The figure on the center cage reminds me to Lisa Garland
37:49 This is beautiful this must be the letter James gives to Laura in Leave ending, that should explain why Laura forgives James and leaves Silent Hil with him
From another iceberg video I saw that the whisper is apparently a stock SFX sample from a sound effects library.
Now i need to play this every night until i hear everything and go to sleep! Thank you kind stranger for few nights of easy sleep!
Your wrong on mary being in James' trunk. Thats an assumption made by people when the dev said mary's body was in the car, mostly due to cultural differences. Guy Cihi said in a commentary that he thinks the dev meant that mary was in the back seat. This actually makes sense as the view into James' car obscures the backseat, and when James drives his car into taluca lake, its believed that the intent is to mimic the japanese concept of (im probably spelling this wrong) moodishinjū. Which is a ritualistic suicide of a family in order to redeem themselves from some grave sin that is considered to have stained the family. This goes so far as to include even the children, and the deaths are often covered up, with everyone avoiding bringing them up.
Wasn't this exact point made in the video moments later tho.
He literally says that like 10 seconds after
It's too bad the corpse in the apartment was deceased and not an alive corpse.
4:27 They also added this model of James in SH3
In regards to no. 2 - I'm pretty sure it looks that way because the first save point is in the well, no extra symbolism there.
"We Com" truly an eerie vibe
. I just subscribed because I liked this video very much!
1:52 OMG I can't wait to see this animation in the Remake.
I get what ito says about the inclusion in dbd, but to me it’s perfectly fine. In the dbd lore, after James leaves silent hill pyramid head is about to enter the long rest and basically go dormant. The entity whispers to his manifestation before he rests and gives him a new purpose and to stop hunting james.
08:17 didnt expect jeryl in this video.
i love this channel, hopes it never dies
"James may struggle with disassociative periods"
*Dissociative...* not _dis-associative_ lmao. As someone with depersonalization/derealization disorder, this alliteration is so funny because I hear it all the time lol. But it's not big deal, and I totally agree that this is what James is doing. Your hands are the most absurd looking thing when it first comes over you. I've had it for so long that it's pretty much a non-issue unless I see something that really messes with my head or freaks me out. But your hands are always the first thing you notice that look odd while having a flare up.
I feel you. Been dealing with it since highschool, almost 15 years ago. It happens a lot when I’m driving. It’s like my arms and hands detach and I’m looking through a camera instead of my eyes. So weird.
Seeing my reflection is the worst for me when things are bad. It’s always so jarring. My hands don’t affect me much, oddly enough.
5:04 it’s been discovered that this was just a free sound clip the devs found online and used it. It doesn’t say anything of meaning
05:37 I think it's because it's so hot he's whiping his forhead full of sweat
45:10 Wonder where that Mannequin of James and Laura is these days.
Man I love this video
it always boggles me that mary is modeled after christina aguilera ( well i mean her clothes look dead on) but she always reminds me of kirsten dunst much more facially
Well...if the fact about the Hotel is true,then Otherworld Lakeview Hotel is the only time we see the Otherworld producing a beautiful place rather that a nightmare fuel place like we are accustomed.
Karate chops with his foot?
Number 11 is incorrect it was found out later it was just a stock sound clip from an online collection
Im now camr to hospital during my first walkthru on medium level. I prefer slow pace ,walking and i hate radio. So im tryin to clear areas ,mostly with melee and cautioness . But on my next walkthru i hope to use chainsaw and on my third i just wanna to cheat some bullets and shoot everything what moves. Dunno why
In my opinion Mary has a tuberculosis.
"Your a good man James Sunderland"
I'm gonna say it, I'm gonna say it....
Remake James is hot.
Hi everyone !
Put your favorite/in head canon ending here: "In Water" for me.
My favourite is "In Water" ending.
Although I prefer the "leave" ending, in water seems to make most sense not only for James' mental state, but for his disappearance along with his wife mentioned in 4. Leave implies James leaves a changed man that will atone for his sins(turn himself to the police) so I doubt he would just get rid of the body and disappear with Laura
Maria
Definitely Leave. I mean James just made it through his own personal purgatory- give this man a rest 😄 Even Mary approves this in this ending 👍
@@KultClassicyou better do something about that cough....
You forgot to mention that Pyramid Head is not Egyptian
The whispers from 11 are just from a generic audio database, it's not actually saying anything.
Sh3 facts next
I need to know the name of the music used in this video!
The remake is a masterpiece, better than the OG in every way imaginable
I always thought James' surname "Sunderland" was inspired by "Raskolnikov" from Crime and Punishment because "raskoliti" means "to tear asunder". In either case it's a metaphor for their torn state of mind. This connection made me suspect that the SH2 devs took inspiration from Crime and Punishment even before it was confirmed.
raskolot’ means “to crack, to break apart”
@@lesialysychka I'm Croatian and we say "raskoliti", I was too lazy to look up the Russian equivalent, my bad. Anyway, I'm pretty sure it can still be translated as "to tear asunder".
Can someone explain to me how we know james turned to alcohol and that james and mary wanted a child? Ive been searching the internet but cant find out how these details came forth.
There's a part in the game where you can come across some cases of wine, and if you examine it, James comments that he's been drinking a lot lately to deal with the pain and loneliness of losing Mary.
Mary wanted to adopt Laura
@@Kintsugi23fun fact: in the Silent Hill 2 novel, James shares that he also drinks to deal with his feelings and he's an angry drunk. Even his coworkers hate him cause of it.
1 hour of silent hill facts to fall asleep to
It’s only on ps5? Lame
Got my ps2 so whatever 4K graphics
There are a ton of mispronunciations here-which is fine, everyone does it. But you should prob figure out how to properly say “pachi-slot” as you’re inadvertently and repeatedly using a slur
Feels like bunch of reuploads at this point
this episode was bad and pointless. i have watched every day since 2018 and ive only been this disappointed probably 4 times
Yippie
Imo, they should have kept Mary asking "Why did you kill me?" at least for replays since we know the twist by then, kinda like the swamp monument.
Bruh no, it's such a big spoiler for those who's playing sh2 for the first time, it's literally telling you the twist :/
@@dan4ikp4ola Bruh, re-read my comment. I literally said for REPLAYS. Meaning, after we already beat the game, not the first playthrough... :/
@@nightflyer777 who cares about it when you already know the twist like, FOR WHAT?
@@dan4ikp4ola Just as an easter egg dude! Holy fuck. It'd be like the swamp monument, the first time you see it, the message is mostly scratched out, but after you beat the game, the full message is revealed.
@@nightflyer777Do you really think that if someone doing his SH2 playthrough don't skip cutscenes? I think that almost 99% of players skip the cutscenes after they complete the game ones and probably if they did add it as an Easter egg nobody would hear it
It’s been 3 years between Mary death and James going back to silent hill so would that mean if Mary was in the boot or trunk of the car wouldn’t she be a skeleton by the point of the game?
Mary wasn't dead for three years when the game began. She's only been dead for days after James have murdered her. His unstable mind made him believe Mary was dead for three years. Laura conversation with James reveal the truth.
@@anglo-saxonconnor817 a now it makes sense thanks
@@anglo-saxonconnor817the remake gives foreshadowing to the truth on James hand. His ring finger still has the indent that the ring left. If Mary was dead for 3 years the indent would be gone by that time.
3 years? More like 3 days. It had just happened.
+ James mind made him believe that Mary died when she got the disease which was 3 years before the main story
God, i hate artists that don't allow for creative freedom with their characters. Aren't they interested in how others see their creations? I would LOVE for people to go Nuts over mine! Make them into how they interpret them as, breathe new life, but nope! We have a toxic attitude akin to the art community. The unfortunate reality is, once you release something out into the public, it's no longer "yours".
"Fact" hu ? Well number 11 is wrong ,it's a stock sound. and it says nothing , its gibberish nonsense. 4 minutes in the video about fact and you already get your "fact" wrong. Go watch Nubzombie SH iceberg peoples , don't waste your time here
Over an hour in content and one wrong fact got you up in arms? Relax man.
@@GangreneSerenity Not at all, the dude did his best i'm sure , no harm done. Just Imagine a detached , slightly disappointed voice and tone when you read my comment and you'll get that i'm not mad. Why should i be all "Up in arms " and all ?
Fact are ..well fact ! Can't have them wrong now can we ? kinda defeat the purpose don't you think?. I might just save people some time by recommending to go watch what is , imo anyway , a superior video instead of an 1 hour+ one with already wrong infos appearing just 4 minutes in.
@@kaporal890 I appreciate you being kind. I’m checking out nub zombie. I got time to watch both, I also see your point to save peoples time.
Thanks for the recommendation!
bruh most of these aren't facts
have to unsub due to misinformation about these "facts"
Okay but who cares?
Very dishonest to use the remake thumbnail but the original game in the content. Even though I am pretty sure all these facts are interesting. Still dislike for this.
Boo hoo, you people are unbelievable this fandom is fucking toxic about everything and I mean everything. You guys must live sad lives
@@StramSaturdayDBDBDIB yeah, I agree, there are some good and nice people of course but, I met a guy that said "the remake would be bad, because James washing his hands instead of looking at the mirror"
The remake is looking SOO BLAND
its looking amazing
@@CHICKENNUGGETSKOON it looks like shit
@@CHICKENNUGGETSKOON for someone who doens-t care about atmosphere and artstic intent, sure
@@CHICKENNUGGETSKOON No, it absolutely does not. It's literally all the worst fears of any SH fan, come reality. A fugly, generic OTS shooter, backed by a DEI firm.
@@abinas7077 have you ever played a silent hill game? what a pretentious comment to read. "backed by a DEI firm" do you even know what that means?
He can kill his wife after she got sick and play God but saying the word shit is where james cross the line its a childs game damn it