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james... you made me happy. soul crushing. hard to hold back my tears

Such a great, fitting ending to wrap up the depressing, oppressive atmosphere of the game.

0:10-0:11 woah James phased through the door wall thing. 😮

I love that James speaks Japanese for no reason here. The fact that Guy Cihi doesn't speak Japanese and sounds very unsure when he says it fits very well to the scene

anytime i wanna cry... i come back here

The cycle repeats!

I love how he just noclips through that door without opening it.

they should make a sh game about laura

9:15 Maria: What is it? Doc: It's not good news.

Just got this ending in the remake, I think the remake is overall good but I got this ending and the reading of this letter doesn't hold a candle to the original. Remains the only thing that has and will continue to make me well up in a game.

While I really like the Remake for what it is, the ending in the Remake didn't hit me as hard, and listening back to this, I've realized why. My biggest issue isn't even just the VA; I do agree with others that, while the new voice acting is serviceable and the VAs did a solid job, the letter reading in the original is just too perfect to top. My main issue with the letter scene in the Remake: I _hate_ the spooky music they put over it. Listening back to it here, I love that it's read in complete silence, text rolling across the screen, against a static background (rather than the kinda cheesy "remember the town you just went through?" montage they put into the Remake). It gives complete, undistracted space and attention to the reading itself. It's also especially poignant because it does this right after the comparatively hopeful music during the last conversation James has with Mary (also replaced with eerie music in the Remake). It was a nice change of pace after a whole game of moody and unsettling music and atmosphere, putting emphasis on the possibility for James to atone and move on. Overall, it just kind of shows a lack of confidence for the reading itself to stand on its own, while also missing the tone of original. Again, I like the Remake, but it was a bit of a disappointing note to end on.

I'm not crying... You're crying... 😭

I love how tragic this story truly is. When you love someone, you both take care of each other. But when you have to take care of the other person and cant rely on the other person to help you, you feel destroyed for carrying both your burder and the other persons. It is hard. My mom and I took care of my granma during her last 3 years. We love her, but we really wanted her to go. She started having some rash behavious and (specially my mom) did spend those years with almost no free time. Does my mom love my granma? Of course, but that doesnt make it easier to give and give and only give. As much as it pains you, you deserve your life and you deserve to have your time be treated as the important thing it is. Take care of the people you love but dont get yourself hurt in the process

oh now I understand why James was speaking Polish in the remake. Cause he spoke Japanese in the OG dog ending. That's actually really funny

BRO WHAT SONG IS HE LISTENING TO

after getting that ending in the remake i had to watch this again, but the way he says it is indeed sinister, i remembered it way more compassionate there´s no doubt in the remake that he means ´i will kill you too´

Killing my self to 8:26 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Efecto mandela, pensaba que al final se escuchaba un splash

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