silent hill plot analysis
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Play Silent hill 2 again and try and figure it out...Silent hill 3 will not make sense unless you have played Silent Hill 1. If you wanna spoil the plot for yourself, I'll try and find one site that is really good at deciphering the plot...and believe me, the plot to silent hill is so much more complex than any other game I have ever played. I'll try and find the site.
Ok, I couldn't find the site, so I'll reveal some of the plot here. If you haven't finished Silent Hill 2, do that before reading this, or you will be setting yourself up for a major spolier.
SPOLIER BELOW!!!
In Silent Hill 2, your main character James gets a letter at the start of the game, saying his wife is waiting for him in Silent Hill. What you may not know is that, the letter was not sent by Mary, his wife. James goes to Silent Hill, to find out what actually happened to Mary, and he also gets punished in the process by Pyramid head. So basically Silent Hill is a way of making James suffer. James says that his wife died of a disease, but at the end of the game, james finds out that he killed his wife, by smothering her with a pillow, while she was sick. I forgot why he did that, but it also depends on what ending you get. You get the bad ending, James kills himself. In the good ending, Mary forgives James and tells him to go live his life. He also leaves with Laura, the little girl he met in silent hill. In Silent Hill, there are other people there besides James. Basically they're all there to be punished in some way. So it's like Hell, but the demon wants you to find out something about yourself.
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But there is also another plot that is much more complex and something I have yet to figure out. Pyramid head plays a huge roll in Silent Hill 2. I remember this site where someone connected Pyramid head with the first and the third Silent hill games with a great amount of detail, but I can't find that site.
Ok, I couldn't find the site, so I'll reveal some of the plot here. If you haven't finished Silent Hill 2, do that before reading this, or you will be setting yourself up for a major spolier.
SPOLIER BELOW!!!
In Silent Hill 2, your main character James gets a letter at the start of the game, saying his wife is waiting for him in Silent Hill. What you may not know is that, the letter was not sent by Mary, his wife. James goes to Silent Hill, to find out what actually happened to Mary, and he also gets punished in the process by Pyramid head. So basically Silent Hill is a way of making James suffer. James says that his wife died of a disease, but at the end of the game, james finds out that he killed his wife, by smothering her with a pillow, while she was sick. I forgot why he did that, but it also depends on what ending you get. You get the bad ending, James kills himself. In the good ending, Mary forgives James and tells him to go live his life. He also leaves with Laura, the little girl he met in silent hill. In Silent Hill, there are other people there besides James. Basically they're all there to be punished in some way. So it's like Hell, but the demon wants you to find out something about yourself.
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But there is also another plot that is much more complex and something I have yet to figure out. Pyramid head plays a huge roll in Silent Hill 2. I remember this site where someone connected Pyramid head with the first and the third Silent hill games with a great amount of detail, but I can't find that site.
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I read one and it was very long (on gamefaqs). Really interesting though after reading it I don't agree with him on some points.
Edit: the one I read didn't have anything from Silent Hill 4 in it.
Here are direct link to 2 of them:
http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/psx/file/silent_hill_plot_a.txt
http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/silent_hill_4_plot_a.txt
They're both on gamefaqs though, as you can see.
Edit: the one I read didn't have anything from Silent Hill 4 in it.
Here are direct link to 2 of them:
http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/psx/file/silent_hill_plot_a.txt
http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/silent_hill_4_plot_a.txt
They're both on gamefaqs though, as you can see.
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BIG HAIRY SPOILERS!
He kills her because he can't stand to see her suffer. Silent Hill 2 is the only game that really deals with Euthanasia.
Incidently, the suicide ending (Or the "In Water" ending) is a middle of the road style ending. It isn't good or bad. Mary forgives James for killing her because of the burden that she was placing on James. However James then realises that he can't stand being away from Mary and therefore drives his car into the lake. (Or some body of water at least.)
The "Good" ending, of course is the same except James moves on with his life.
The "Bad" ending has James not being forgiven by Mary and James leaving with Maria (Who is Silent Hill's interpretation of Mary to punish James. This is why she dies so many times
)
Of course as he leaves Silent Hill with Maria she coughs hinting at a similar disease to Mary. Which is Silent Hill torturing James to live the death of his loved one again. (Or something)
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dream431ca said:
He kills her because he can't stand to see her suffer. Silent Hill 2 is the only game that really deals with Euthanasia.
Incidently, the suicide ending (Or the "In Water" ending) is a middle of the road style ending. It isn't good or bad. Mary forgives James for killing her because of the burden that she was placing on James. However James then realises that he can't stand being away from Mary and therefore drives his car into the lake. (Or some body of water at least.)
The "Good" ending, of course is the same except James moves on with his life.
The "Bad" ending has James not being forgiven by Mary and James leaving with Maria (Who is Silent Hill's interpretation of Mary to punish James. This is why she dies so many times
)Of course as he leaves Silent Hill with Maria she coughs hinting at a similar disease to Mary. Which is Silent Hill torturing James to live the death of his loved one again. (Or something
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No, Maria was created by James subconcious as his perfect wife. Then he began to think he didn't deserve her, and the Pyramid Heads obliged (also created by his subconcious). Then he was sad and wanted to be happy again so she came back. It's all in the second guide I posted which is much more comprehensive, makes more sense(IMO) and is painfully long.Venmoch said:BIG HAIRY SPOILERS!
He kills her because he can't stand to see her suffer. Silent Hill 2 is the only game that really deals with Euthanasia.
Incidently, the suicide ending (Or the "In Water" ending) is a middle of the road style ending. It isn't good or bad. Mary forgives James for killing her because of the burden that she was placing on James. However James then realises that he can't stand being away from Mary and therefore drives his car into the lake. (Or some body of water at least.)
The "Good" ending, of course is the same except James moves on with his life.
The "Bad" ending has James not being forgiven by Mary and James leaving with Maria (Who is Silent Hill's interpretation of Mary to punish James. This is why she dies so many times
Of course as he leaves Silent Hill with Maria she coughs hinting at a similar disease to Mary. Which is Silent Hill torturing James to live the death of his loved one again. (Or something
-EDIT- Added spoiler notification.
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You want a game with a crazy, complex, plot that requires a long plot analysis?
Play Killer 7.
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Surely not as long as this:DeusExMachinia said:
http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/silent_hill_4_plot_a.txt
WHICH HAS YET TO BE FULLY TRANSLATED!
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I think that depends on the ending.Loc-Dog said:
Leave:
James was just ending the suffering and Mary forgives him
Maria:
James did it out of selfishness and he goes with Maria
And In The Water is somewhere in between.
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The point is that James regrets killing his wife. He killed her for his own selfish reasons, and Silent Hill (his mind) needs to grasp it.
The good ending means that James forgives himself for what he did, and moves on in a new life with Laura.
The suicide ending means that James is unable to forgive himself, and commits suicide because he feels that he doesn't deserve to live after what he did. He wants to meet Mary in the afterlife.
The bad ending means that James continues to deny what happened (he keeps telling himself that his wife died of natural causes, and that he isnt conciously guilty of anything). He leaves Silent Hill together with Maria, triggering the whole process all over again. Maria will eventually get sick just like Mary, and james will find himself in the same situation over and over again. Until he understands and forgives himself.
This is why you are forced to watch Maria die over and over again throughout the game. Because that is what happened to Mary, and james has to understand it. The pyramid head is the part of his psyche that is guilt, and he keeps punishing James until he can forgive himself.
The good ending means that James forgives himself for what he did, and moves on in a new life with Laura.
The suicide ending means that James is unable to forgive himself, and commits suicide because he feels that he doesn't deserve to live after what he did. He wants to meet Mary in the afterlife.
The bad ending means that James continues to deny what happened (he keeps telling himself that his wife died of natural causes, and that he isnt conciously guilty of anything). He leaves Silent Hill together with Maria, triggering the whole process all over again. Maria will eventually get sick just like Mary, and james will find himself in the same situation over and over again. Until he understands and forgives himself.
This is why you are forced to watch Maria die over and over again throughout the game. Because that is what happened to Mary, and james has to understand it. The pyramid head is the part of his psyche that is guilt, and he keeps punishing James until he can forgive himself.
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