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Came back here cus ngl with y'all the remake is great and all but the emotional impact this has is greater than the remake.... Wish they just kept this original scene and audio at the end.......

Fun fact: According to the Silent Hill 2 tropes page, the Shiba Inu is a girl and her name is Mira!

This will never not be hilarious to me. A dog pulling all the strings, no animation of the door opening when James walks through it and then James just suddenly speaking Japanese, out of nowhere. It feels so thrown together at the last minute and I'm all for it.

Just finished this today on PS2. Its *the* survival horror. It is the bar on which every horror game should be measured. Its as close to perfect as we're ever likely to see in this life. I got "in the water" ending, and it fit. Its heartbreaking but this is hardly a happy go lucky tale. The acting of this final scene is phenomenal and i just know future plays im going to end up tearing up at it.

Seen it after play Silent Hill 2 remake, i can see how well was done the remake. It expanded the ideas and made clear what they are meant to. Its so sad that how a person full of love can be transtorned. Beautiful, sad.

This is off the cuff and kind of disjointed, but here is my own interpretation: -Loop Canon accepted (James is looping over and over, until you get the Leave ending) -Mary really did die 3 years ago. Whether or not James "came" to Silent Hill *right* after she died and it's been 3 years of him looping there, or it really actually has been 3 years in reality and he finally came to Silent Hill to confront his feelings, either works. -James was never charged as doctors assumed she died from the disease. Probably not enough suspicion to look into an autopsy/cause of death. -I believe James is dead before the story starts, and his soul is entrapped by the town. The town is feeding off of him, putting him through loops of his own mind, memories, and feelings -Mary's body in the back of car is figurative, not literal. James hasn't "buried" Mary, hasn't let go of that guilt, hence the body in the back of the car. Although I suppose you could argue it's actually there if you believe he came to Silent Hill right after she died, but I personally think it's not literal. -James came to Silent Hill to off himself (drive into the lake). He had not been able to live with the guilt of what he did, even though he didn't fully realize it (being his trauma morphed his memory). -For that matter, I believe everyone in Silent Hill is dead and their souls are trapped there, all in their own personal versions of hell -Laura died soon after Mary, three years ago. Her soul haunts Silent Hill because that's where she thought she'd find Mary (in life/after life) -Everyone trapped by the town is gray, far from black and white. What James did wasn't right, but it wasn't evil either. Eddie is a bit less nuanced, but in my personal opinion, the dog thing feels tacked onto Eddie to make us hate him more. It robs too much sympathy/empathy from his situation (makes the bullies feel justified in taunting him). Regardless, bullying leads to self hatred, which can lead to violence towards others, even the innocent (cycle of abuse kind of thing). Angela's situation is just heartbreaking, and she in unable to move on and forgive herself (despite it being justifiable). This is because she feels like she deserved all that happened to her, thus she believes it was wrong to strike back and kill her father and brother. -Maria is a manifestation of the town, conjured from James memories/feelings/desires towards Mary. The town wants James to stay there forever, in a loop, feeding off of him, so she constantly tries to get James to give in to her. The Maria ending shows that the cycle repeats itself successfully. -I believe the real Mary is trying to rescue James from the town/himself. Mary wants James to forgive himself and let his soul rest. She is trying to reach out to him, as she does in a couple of the endings -The In Water and Stillness Endings are James reliving his suicide, which inevitably leads to the cycle repeating. In Water shows him actively barring himself from Mary's forgiveness, while Stillness is him starting to accept it. Regardless, both lead to the cycle repeating -The Leave ending is James finally overcoming the town, accepting Mary's forgiveness and putting his own guilt to rest. This also frees Laura from Silent Hills grasp, as she understands Mary isn't there any more. Both her and James can move on, and rest -Mary will be waiting for James in the after life, having forgiven him.

HAHAH, when I saw this weird endings it made it clear, that the all thing was in his head. James went crazy.

Out of all scary games I've played I may have cried when getting scared by basic noises and jumpscares. But Silent Hill 2...was the first time I've ever cried out of completely emotional pain.

This is what I missed in remake: Amazing voice acting and beautifully made character models 😭

sobbing

I'm here because silent hill 2 remake

The model contrast is evident here.

Although the recent remake is absolutely phenomenal, this particular ending in 2024 doesn’t hit like the 2001 one. The voice acting in the original, plus the beautiful and sad melody really crush me. In the new one, James isn’t as emotional and the music isn’t as strong (only a glimmer of the original melody is present). The two new endings in 2024 do truly stand out and are amazing performances though. What a time to be alive…

There's still no where had the same punch or prowess... the first time I ever heard it on the TurboGrafx it sounds completely different and have some real punch to it

Almost a full 16 seconds between "do what's best for you" and "James, you made me happy". God the remake does not understand

They really did not get why this ending was great in the Remake.

In Remake version, using Japanese voice is same dialogue 😂

I knew from the moment the remake was announced that they would never top this. Just finished it and of course i was right. It's a great remake, but I feel like it would have been the best choice to just put the original recording as the ending.

Where are you?

More games should have goofy endings like this.

Best doggy

I can't believe the dog used facebook in the 90's

Imma be honest I came back after seeing the remake version and that one was so tame in comparison to this.

The UFO ending from the remake is a sequel of this

remake completely butchered this unfortunately

No Harry Mason in Remake?! WTH!?

This was the best and most impactful ending in the game. They totally butchered it in the remake by cutting the talk with Mary, I couldn't fucking believe it when I saw it wasn't there.

Sorry, Salome. You were great but you couldn't top this.

I just watched the ending of the remake and the VA was good but the gal who did the original blew it out of the water on the letter reading.

Remake isn't as impactful as the OG.

If there's one good thing about the remake, It's realising how masterfully executed this scene is!

I wondered if he spoke in English or it was always in a different language

Honestly? Nothing could beat that voice, even the most beautiful remake we ever had..

0:12 better than remake, he speak gibberish japan that makes me confused

Seems Canon

Couldn’t take the remake one seriously lol

I love how they also did this dog ending in remake with including James somehow speak in Polish and the low quality dog model. Too bad the remake didn't include the funny picture during credit roll.

They have a good Job.

the reading of the letter in the remake is so bad...

This end is makes the most sense, the final part of the puzzle.

2001

I'm back here after watching the shot for shot remake of the trailer for the new game. If any game deserves the makeover treatment, it's this absolute masterpiece. I think this is the first game I played back in the day that really opened my eyes to how great storytelling in games could be. I just hope so much that they will do justice to this absolute treasure of video game history.

the dog sadly died, but was reincarnated into a husky controlling a giant war machine that looks like a giraffe capable of destroying cities with a single blast of its railgun

Someone should hire the dog to make more video games.

Can't wait for remake... if released faulty, then just for this ending.

He was so shocked, he had to respond in a different language

The voice actor is the same who German dubs inspector Megure from Detective Conan

1/5/2010

Why do i remember seeing the car lower into the water.

This has to be the worst ending. James learns his lesson, but TOO MUCH! He cannot live without Mary, so he gives up his life to the Old Gods (going against Mary's wishes in her letter to live for himself) and SELFISHLY STEALS Mary's soul from the AFTERLIFE. This is by far the worst, even considering the Maria ending, because at least he's only truly harming himself in that one.