James' far out stare at 1:51 is both heartbreaking and haunting. He knows something is wrong but he chooses to ignore it as he is now with mary Ignorance is bliss
@@LittleJohnnyBrown i know you're probably joking but I definitely feel like there is a connection between the red square zone out and this ending. I'm pretty sure Maria even asks James if he's ok after looking at one.
What I think it happens is that he realizes that she didn't cough like she did in the original video. Which means to him he has another opportunity, that's why he smiles saying everything is fine. Because now "EVERYTHING" is at it should had been.
Someone said somewhere that to get this ending you had to find the White Claudia (a drug mentioned in SILENT HILL 1), I don't know if it's true, or what other things were necessary. But even if it is because of the white claudia effect, isn't silent hill an entity that manifests your psyche? If James was able to create a possibility in his head where Mary is healthy, that possibility could also end up being real. It's like using the power of the entity to your advantage, but not by repression (like in the Rebirth ending), but simply by moving to another universe. Even if he never remembers killing her, it doesn't mean he would do it again (since James was never a psychopath, just someone who screwed up terribly once, yeah, but that's it), I don't think he is "inside the VHS", but rather in another reality. Let us remember that SH has a great occult and esoteric base. Televisions, as well as radio, can capture "paranormal activity." Remember the Japanese movie "THE RING" (ringu)?. Where the spirit of a dead girl was recorded on camera, and from the recording came out into the real world? I think that the power of SH, despite seeming completely "diabolical", in a certain way is also neutral, proof of this is that it allows the protagonist to face his guilt directly, and heal. In other endings, Silent Hill allowed James to meet Mary again, have one last talk, and make peace. So, I think in the ending BLISS james finds a way through the Silent Hill power, even if it's with a natural drug, to create his own reality. Sorry for my english.
The Remake is already great but the fact that they are able to make a new ending that totally feels appropriate for SH 2 is absolutely amazing. Props to the team
I think it supposed to be James repressing what he did so thoroughly that he has permanently trapped himself within his deluded fantasy of being with Mary again.
repressing his "intention"?? well that made sense for me as the white claudia drug is just a symbol of his actual antidprsants drug that he long been struggling to take.. and the event never happened, it's just his nightmare being relived again and again cause he still can't accept the fact that Mary is already gone, him feeling worthless, not taking care enough and spending much of his time for his sick wife, as he obliged to maintain his career as an office worker. guilty by his own bad thoughts while holding back his own anger towards emotionally unstable Mary to a state he is in right now, somewhat crazy.. and finally realized that it's not real, then learn acceptance as he said in the VHS, "No.. it's fine. Everything is fine..." its just my own wild thoughts, forgive me for the plot-hole though I liked it this way😅😆
I love how Bloober Team used classic "The Shining" ending motive, where Jack Torrance stayed forever with hotel guests at that photo at the end. This perfectly suits to this game too.
Really impressive that they were able to make a new ending that feels like it could've come from the original game. I see this one as James being absorbed by Silent Hill itself. The White Claudia gives the town dominion over him and keeps him forever inside that video tape
I took this as the tape never showed James killing Mary, thus he never remembers killing her, and gets pulled into the tape since he's no longer in the chair. His soul lives in perpetual ignorance and bliss in Silent Hill.
Basically James decided to stay in this video world where Mary is alive and healthy. Don't know if that world would loop or be stagnant, but it seems James didn't mind and was just happy to be with her again.
@@enexe6229 no, it's not an alternative universe. you see, to do this ending, James has to drink white claudia drug, a local drug used in rituals in the town. it's not that James altered reality, he's just allucinating, refusing to acknowledge the truth, diving deep into madness and denial. it's a sad/bad ending, actually.
People always ask: What is the canon ending to SH2? It's one of gaming's hottest debates: "Team Silent said In Water is their favorite!" "Guy Cihi said Leave is his favorite!" "The novelization uses In Water!" In my opinion, there is no canon ending: Each one represented a different way for James to deal with what he did: Whether he learns to bear the burden of his guilt and move on, like he believes Mary would have wanted - or he can't bear his guilt and goes to join her. Whether he willfully continues living a lie and repeats the cycle that lead him to the town to the first place, or he tries to defy reality to undo his mistakes, possibly suffering a worse fate than any other possibility. Bliss is the perfect addition to these endings: James ends up literally living inside of his last good memory, when Mary was still healthy, the two of them were in their 'special place', and there was no bad blood between them. Just the two of them, forever. He turns off the video before he has to confront what he did, willfully continuing to stay ignorant of what he did to Mary... and ignorance, as they say, is bliss. It's like a combination of the Maria and Rebirth endings, just like Stillness is a new take on In Water. I really can't get over how good these two new endings are.
I'm sorry to disappoint you, but most likely the ending "in water" is canon, in the 4th part James's father appears and it says that James and his fiancée disappeared in Salent Hill several years ago. And this means that James never left the town.
@@SergeyGordienko No, I'm aware of that. No disappointment here. I guess, IMO, it just really doesn't mean what many want it to mean. For one thing, James disappearing is really the only way to make a reference to SH2's events without outright making an ending canon. For another, SH2 and SH4 weren't written by the same person. The person who wrote for 2 also wrote for 3, and in 3 Douglas says he was investigating someone that disappeared in Silent Hill but the case went cold. Of course the question is, is he talking about James or is he talking about any of the other people that have gone missing there? I think this approach matches the writer's intention for SH2's ending to be up to interpretation. And lastly, simply because James's father doesn't seem to know what happened to James, it doesn't necessarily mean anything. We're talking about a guy who has kept a random (to him) baby's umbilical cord in a rotting, smelly box on his shelf in his living room for 30+ years. It could easily be explained that James is estranged from his father.
@@SergeyGordienko its honestly better if we never know what is cannon there isnt an awnser given by the devs for a reason and sh3 and 4 try to keep it ambiguous and it really doesnt matter because no matter what james story is over and there is no reason it should tie into other sh games beyond breif mentions. It really should be left ambiguous because its more interesting that way. People like puzzles because there is a intelectual engagement. The question which ending is cannon removes what the player thinks. The players will have their personal interpretations of what they beleive is the most fitting fate for james. If there is just one real ending then people obviously wouldnt disregard the other endings but there wouldnt be a discussion that keeps the story in your mind. One could argue In all of the engings james rejects reality in some sort of way except the laurah ending. Laurah reppresents reality subtly guiding james to reality and when he keaves with laurah he accepts and lives with the reality handed to him and actually grows as a person. One could argue: In water is perfect because of how real it feels and it presents james as somebody who loves his wife more than life itself One could argue the maria ending is fitting because theres a poetry to the fact he will repeat the same mistakes again and its a tradgedy that takes more imagination than in water. Point is the several different endings lead to different interpretations and outlooks on the story. People think they want awnsers but if they got awnsers the only thing they would gain is knowing their favorite ending doesnt count or that their ending does count. There is not much to discuss with straight awnsers
@@SergeyGordienko Jame never return to his father doesn't mean in water is canon. It just go with the dev said "canon is what you believe". If Jame return it will be only Leave ending that's canon so they left that out.
"The potential for this illness exists in all people and, under the right circumstances, any man or woman would be driven, like him, to the 'other side'. The 'other side' perhaps may not be the best way to phrase it. After all, there is no wall between here and there. It lies on the borders where reality and unreality intersect. It is a place both close and distant. But sometimes I have to ask myself this question. It's true that to us his imaginings are nothing but the inventions of a busy mind. But to him, there simply is no other reality. Furthermore he is happy there. So why, I ask myself, why in the name of healing him must we drag him painfully into the world of our own reality?"
So since its not shown here I'll just mention that to get this ending James drinks White Claudia which for any that dont know: is a plant refined into a drug used by The Order from SH1. So James is hallucinating during the tape and probably thinks he's living out the good days with Mary. I honestly thought this one was more bittersweet at first and then found out the White Claudia bit and it became very very sad again..
@@loowisk1113 Yeah for sure. My thought was that since he's trippin hard, he's playing out what happens in the tape in reality so after the camera turns off he's packing up and leaving the hotel with "Mary" to live out the good days, in ignorance of what really happened- but in reality who really knows from there, maybe it was a lethal dose or he was attacked or went crazy or something. Either way interpretation is truly the glory of this series I like seeing what others have thought of this one so far.
@@Eizenicus I didn't actually think about how James is outside of the trip... I think you're probably right though, it's definitely a bittersweet ending either way, it's perfect for him until it isn't. Great addition by Bloober Team. Such a beautifully tragic game.
A highly significant and underrated ending. The final overhead shot with the armchair and the turned-off TV implies that everything we've seen in the game never actually happened and that James himself is part of Silent Hill's dream dimension.
Yes and no. James died with Mary, and even if it wouldn't have been him that ended her, it would've been her sickness. Their love was so deep, that both couldn't go on without the other one. Some bonds can become so powerful that nothing could fill the hole, no matter what. You could go on living, and even enjoying some moments here and there, yet the emptiness and sadness would always linger in the back of your mind. When Mary died, so did James.
Leave ending is what it would be like if James accepted the death of Mary, suffered for the murder of Mary, and lived on for Mary's wishes. I would imagine it would take years to get past the feeling of Mary and the memories.
@@soufitio did you even play the game? To reach this ending James needs to take the white drug that occultists from silent hill 1 used on Lisa that caused her to see else hallucinations. Keep your false interpretations to yourself. Also Mary is already dead before the game started , tf you talking about?
This is just me, but if I connect the dots, this ending should reflect the dead James in front of the TV in Woodside apartment. In reality, he was poisoned by the drug, then the town sprited his body away.
Just noticed that James has his flashlight on him in the tape. That either confirms that he’s pulled into the video tape living a delusion by completely suppressing Mary’s death, or an oversight by the devs.
there is something strange about this scene, during the video tape James' voice doesn't seem to have that VHS recording noise, only Mary's, this ending is very confusing to interpret, if it is meant to be interpreted individually
Sorry for my english. Someone said somewhere that to get this ending you had to find the White Claudia (a drug mentioned in SILENT HILL 1), I don't know if it's true, or what other things were necessary. But even if it is because of the White Claudia effect, isn't silent hill an entity that manifests your psyche? If James was able to create a possibility in his head where Mary is healthy, that possibility could also end up being real. It's like using the power of the entity to your advantage, but not by repression (like in the Rebirth ending), but simply by moving to another universe. Even if he never remembers killing her, it doesn't mean he would do it again (since James was never a psychopath, just someone who screwed up terribly once, yeah, but that's it), I don't think he is "inside the VHS", but rather in another reality. Let us remember that SH has a great occult and esoteric base. Televisions, as well as radio, can capture "paranormal activity." Remember the Japanese movie "THE RING" (ringu)?. Where the spirit of a dead girl was recorded on camera, and from the recording came out into the real world? I think that the power of SH, despite seeming completely "diabolical", in a certain way is also neutral, proof of this is that it allows the protagonist to face his guilt directly, and heal. In other endings, Silent Hill allowed James to meet Mary again, have one last talk, and make peace. So, I think in the ending BLISS James finds a way through the Silent Hill power, even if it's with a natural drug, to create his own reality.
Silent Hill calls people there in order to face reality and their own personal demons, to force them to confront the truth. How they react to it is up to them, but Silent Hill won't rest until you come face to face with the things you've done. If you fail, you'll never leave Silent Hill alive. If the three main endings are each different ways of reacting to this truth (Leave being acceptance, In Water being consumed by guilt, and Maria being to learn the wrong lesson), then I think this ending is a good showcase of never facing that truth. This is the pivotal moment where James is forced to reckon with what he has done, where his fantasy comes crumbling down around him. What's left of the game is how he reacts to this reality. So "Bliss" is him never confronting the truth, him choosing to embrace the fiction he has created for himself, never letting himself confront his sins. He gets to live in a fantasy of his own making, one where he gets to be with his late wife in good health forever. But it's still a fantasy, and one he has fully succumbed to. As a result, he's doomed to be trapped in Silent Hill forever, as a lingering memory in a video tape, blissfully unaware that his life is over.
Silent Hill makes James live the illusion caused by White Claudia of returning to that moment with Mary, losing his mind in that beautiful lie for all eternity.
Idk what this truly represents but to me, he entered an alternate reality where Mary was never sick, James never goes back to SH and they live happily ever after. The empty chair shows that James isn’t at the same Lakeview hotel anymore as in the video tape. And he even pauses, giving an expression like “did this really work?”. SH is always shifting and changing, I think this is what it is.
The most heartbreaking of all the endings. James cut short the moral trajectory of his life, choosing to inhabit a world of memory where his self will never be able to unfold its moral potential as it would do in the real life. He chose to dwell in a world of memories, the world of the past and thus he forever relinquished all present and all future. He chose to be enveloped in a cocoon of solace than to have his self break in a thousand pieces again and again.
It doesn't really answer the question. We can assume he probably got sucked into the TV as the game purposefully shows James being absent on the couch, and his voice sounds different compared to the tape voice effect like Mary.
my theory is that he became a drug addict and is stuck in Silent Hill if you follow this ending (White Claudia is the primary reason which may cause hallucination)
since the rebirth ending was directly inspired by stephen king's pet sematary, it feels very fitting that this one is potentially inspired by the shining
the best new ending added, very silent hill and very fitting for the game as an addition, much better than stillness. whoever wrote that needs firing. really. "TRUST ME GUYS, I CAN DO IN-WATER AGAIN, BUT BETTER, I'M MUCH BETTER THAN THE ORIGINAL WRITERS HEHE"
James refuses to move on or suicide,so Silent Hill did the only thing it could for him...sucking him into the VHS. James is trapped forever in a 3 minutes video but he's happy with that as he's with Mary
@@enexe6229 I don't know if that's true. I mean,Mary has that recording filter voice with Mono audio all the time while James sounds like always with a Stereo audio. For me at least,James decided to enter into the VHS as inside is Mary exactly how he remembered her. That's his true Mary,before the sickness and the frustration that ended up forming Maria. I don't see Silent Hill giving James a happy ending without a twist also,that would be very heartwarming from its part. James has to suffer no more but in exchange,he's bound forever to that VHS that could be another universe or not.
No. Even if it is because of the white claudia effect, isn't silent hill an entity that manifests your psyche? If James was able to create a possibility in his head where Mary is healthy, that possibility could also end up being real. It's like using the power of the entity to your advantage, but not by repression (like in the Rebirth ending), but simply by moving to another universe. Even if he never remembers killing her, it doesn't mean he would do it again (since James was never a psychopath, just someone who screwed up terribly once, yeah, but that's it)
James' far out stare at 1:51 is both heartbreaking and haunting.
He knows something is wrong but he chooses to ignore it as he is now with mary
Ignorance is bliss
He's probably looking at a red square
@@LittleJohnnyBrown i know you're probably joking but I definitely feel like there is a connection between the red square zone out and this ending. I'm pretty sure Maria even asks James if he's ok after looking at one.
What I think it happens is that he realizes that she didn't cough like she did in the original video. Which means to him he has another opportunity, that's why he smiles saying everything is fine. Because now "EVERYTHING" is at it should had been.
The one time we see James happy is heartbreaking.
My interpretation is that Silent Hill gave him what he wanted. But at the price of living in fantasy. Stuck in place. Never progressing.
I guess he's completely OK with it, consider what "progression" has led to
relatable
Someone said somewhere that to get this ending you had to find the White Claudia (a drug mentioned in SILENT HILL 1), I don't know if it's true, or what other things were necessary.
But even if it is because of the white claudia effect, isn't silent hill an entity that manifests your psyche? If James was able to create a possibility in his head where Mary is healthy, that possibility could also end up being real. It's like using the power of the entity to your advantage, but not by repression (like in the Rebirth ending), but simply by moving to another universe.
Even if he never remembers killing her, it doesn't mean he would do it again (since James was never a psychopath, just someone who screwed up terribly once, yeah, but that's it),
I don't think he is "inside the VHS", but rather in another reality. Let us remember that SH has a great occult and esoteric base. Televisions, as well as radio, can capture "paranormal activity." Remember the Japanese movie "THE RING" (ringu)?. Where the spirit of a dead girl was recorded on camera, and from the recording came out into the real world? I think that the power of SH, despite seeming completely "diabolical", in a certain way is also neutral, proof of this is that it allows the protagonist to face his guilt directly, and heal. In other endings, Silent Hill allowed James to meet Mary again, have one last talk, and make peace.
So, I think in the ending BLISS james finds a way through the Silent Hill power, even if it's with a natural drug, to create his own reality. Sorry for my english.
Agreed, he traded his soul for fantasy
that makes a lot of sense @@yasajatsuautopsia
The Remake is already great but the fact that they are able to make a new ending that totally feels appropriate for SH 2 is absolutely amazing. Props to the team
I think it supposed to be James repressing what he did so thoroughly that he has permanently trapped himself within his deluded fantasy of being with Mary again.
relatable unfortunately
That's basically the rebirth ending I think this one is much happier.
repressing his "intention"?? well that made sense for me as the white claudia drug is just a symbol of his actual antidprsants drug that he long been struggling to take..
and the event never happened, it's just his nightmare being relived again and again cause he still can't accept the fact that Mary is already gone, him feeling worthless, not taking care enough and spending much of his time for his sick wife, as he obliged to maintain his career as an office worker.
guilty by his own bad thoughts while holding back his own anger towards emotionally unstable Mary to a state he is in right now, somewhat crazy..
and finally realized that it's not real, then learn acceptance as he said in the VHS,
"No.. it's fine. Everything is fine..."
its just my own wild thoughts, forgive me for the plot-hole though I liked it this way😅😆
He’s trapped in a fentanyl dream
I love how Bloober Team used classic "The Shining" ending motive, where Jack Torrance stayed forever with hotel guests at that photo at the end. This perfectly suits to this game too.
its funny you mention the shining since the hotel itself is modelled after the stanley hotel that inspired stephen king to write the shining
Doesn’t feel like the shining ending
Really impressive that they were able to make a new ending that feels like it could've come from the original game. I see this one as James being absorbed by Silent Hill itself. The White Claudia gives the town dominion over him and keeps him forever inside that video tape
The saddest, most haunting conclusion this tale could have had. . . Bloober knocked it out of the park
I took this as the tape never showed James killing Mary, thus he never remembers killing her, and gets pulled into the tape since he's no longer in the chair. His soul lives in perpetual ignorance and bliss in Silent Hill.
James briefly pauses to think. He knows that something is wrong.
"Everything is fine"
*Knows he's trapped forever in a VHS yet accepts that fate as is the only way to be with Mary*
I like the detail of James' voice being more clear in comparison to Mary's
Basically James decided to stay in this video world where Mary is alive and healthy.
Don't know if that world would loop or be stagnant, but it seems James didn't mind and was just happy to be with her again.
probably it wouldn't loop or repeat itself since she even asks him "did something happen" on her own? it's an alternative universe.
@@enexe6229 no, it's not an alternative universe. you see, to do this ending, James has to drink white claudia drug, a local drug used in rituals in the town. it's not that James altered reality, he's just allucinating, refusing to acknowledge the truth, diving deep into madness and denial. it's a sad/bad ending, actually.
@@Allanfeijoada he still dissapears from the room
@@Allanfeijoadahe disappeared, I’m pretty sure he’s in another universe 😊
@@jeshuarestituyo284 how? By drinking white claudia? How a drug would be capable of changing the reality he's in?
This is probably the saddest ending they could have given this game
Stillness made me teared up too ;(
at least . .he is happy now
People always ask: What is the canon ending to SH2? It's one of gaming's hottest debates: "Team Silent said In Water is their favorite!" "Guy Cihi said Leave is his favorite!" "The novelization uses In Water!"
In my opinion, there is no canon ending: Each one represented a different way for James to deal with what he did: Whether he learns to bear the burden of his guilt and move on, like he believes Mary would have wanted - or he can't bear his guilt and goes to join her. Whether he willfully continues living a lie and repeats the cycle that lead him to the town to the first place, or he tries to defy reality to undo his mistakes, possibly suffering a worse fate than any other possibility.
Bliss is the perfect addition to these endings: James ends up literally living inside of his last good memory, when Mary was still healthy, the two of them were in their 'special place', and there was no bad blood between them. Just the two of them, forever. He turns off the video before he has to confront what he did, willfully continuing to stay ignorant of what he did to Mary... and ignorance, as they say, is bliss.
It's like a combination of the Maria and Rebirth endings, just like Stillness is a new take on In Water. I really can't get over how good these two new endings are.
I'm sorry to disappoint you, but most likely the ending "in water" is canon, in the 4th part James's father appears and it says that James and his fiancée disappeared in Salent Hill several years ago. And this means that James never left the town.
@@SergeyGordienko No, I'm aware of that. No disappointment here. I guess, IMO, it just really doesn't mean what many want it to mean.
For one thing, James disappearing is really the only way to make a reference to SH2's events without outright making an ending canon.
For another, SH2 and SH4 weren't written by the same person. The person who wrote for 2 also wrote for 3, and in 3 Douglas says he was investigating someone that disappeared in Silent Hill but the case went cold. Of course the question is, is he talking about James or is he talking about any of the other people that have gone missing there? I think this approach matches the writer's intention for SH2's ending to be up to interpretation.
And lastly, simply because James's father doesn't seem to know what happened to James, it doesn't necessarily mean anything. We're talking about a guy who has kept a random (to him) baby's umbilical cord in a rotting, smelly box on his shelf in his living room for 30+ years. It could easily be explained that James is estranged from his father.
@@SergeyGordienko its honestly better if we never know what is cannon there isnt an awnser given by the devs for a reason and sh3 and 4 try to keep it ambiguous and it really doesnt matter because no matter what james story is over and there is no reason it should tie into other sh games beyond breif mentions. It really should be left ambiguous because its more interesting that way.
People like puzzles because there is a intelectual engagement. The question which ending is cannon removes what the player thinks.
The players will have their personal interpretations of what they beleive is the most fitting fate for james.
If there is just one real ending then people obviously wouldnt disregard the other endings but there wouldnt be a discussion that keeps the story in your mind.
One could argue In all of the engings james rejects reality in some sort of way except the laurah ending. Laurah reppresents reality subtly guiding james to reality and when he keaves with laurah he accepts and lives with the reality handed to him and actually grows as a person.
One could argue: In water is perfect because of how real it feels and it presents james as somebody who loves his wife more than life itself
One could argue the maria ending is fitting because theres a poetry to the fact he will repeat the same mistakes again and its a tradgedy that takes more imagination than in water.
Point is the several different endings lead to different interpretations and outlooks on the story.
People think they want awnsers but if they got awnsers the only thing they would gain is knowing their favorite ending doesnt count or that their ending does count. There is not much to discuss with straight awnsers
@@SergeyGordienko Jame never return to his father doesn't mean in water is canon. It just go with the dev said "canon is what you believe". If Jame return it will be only Leave ending that's canon so they left that out.
Honestly hoping Stillness is the true ending if they ever want to do anything with James again.
"The potential for this illness exists in all people and, under the right circumstances, any man or woman would be driven, like him, to the 'other side'. The 'other side' perhaps may not be the best way to phrase it. After all, there is no wall between here and there. It lies on the borders where reality and unreality intersect. It is a place both close and distant.
But sometimes I have to ask myself this question. It's true that to us his imaginings are nothing but the inventions of a busy mind. But to him, there simply is no other reality. Furthermore he is happy there.
So why, I ask myself, why in the name of healing him must we drag him painfully into the world of our own reality?"
That is one "Shining" moment of an ending.
I was refencing the Stephen king / Stanley Kubrick movie
I love it when James said "Its Shining time" and proceed to make himself even more depressed. True cinema moment
@@johans3164almost as good as when Bloober said “it’s Pol’ing time” and proceeded to make my Japanese game Polish
Not sure if be happy or sad.
Only sure this hit me like a truck
Its so perfect... geniunely tthe best ending they could have added
i think its cool how the camera pans around the chair just like it did in the original ps2 game
So since its not shown here I'll just mention that to get this ending James drinks White Claudia which for any that dont know: is a plant refined into a drug used by The Order from SH1. So James is hallucinating during the tape and probably thinks he's living out the good days with Mary. I honestly thought this one was more bittersweet at first and then found out the White Claudia bit and it became very very sad again..
yeah but those hallucinations become the reality since james dissapears. its hallucinagenic nature is the key to many rituals.
@muslimayupov That's a good point, I like the idea of the White Claudia OD, but it doesn't explain why he's just gone.
@@Eizenicus Probably left to interpretation but I guess he's not in the chair once the VHS ends because in his mind he is inside the VHS.
@@loowisk1113 Yeah for sure. My thought was that since he's trippin hard, he's playing out what happens in the tape in reality so after the camera turns off he's packing up and leaving the hotel with "Mary" to live out the good days, in ignorance of what really happened- but in reality who really knows from there, maybe it was a lethal dose or he was attacked or went crazy or something. Either way interpretation is truly the glory of this series I like seeing what others have thought of this one so far.
@@Eizenicus I didn't actually think about how James is outside of the trip... I think you're probably right though, it's definitely a bittersweet ending either way, it's perfect for him until it isn't. Great addition by Bloober Team. Such a beautifully tragic game.
Gosh, the music man! Something about this soundtrack just conveys so much sorrow. James was finally able to feel happy, even if it’s very brief
the music in this one is fucking incredible, especially towards the end. amazing how something so simple can hit so hard.
A highly significant and underrated ending. The final overhead shot with the armchair and the turned-off TV implies that everything we've seen in the game never actually happened and that James himself is part of Silent Hill's dream dimension.
It does make the player wonder if James is a person who deserves a happy ending to his story.
Yes and no.
James died with Mary, and even if it wouldn't have been him that ended her, it would've been her sickness.
Their love was so deep, that both couldn't go on without the other one.
Some bonds can become so powerful that nothing could fill the hole, no matter what.
You could go on living, and even enjoying some moments here and there, yet the emptiness and sadness would always linger in the back of your mind.
When Mary died, so did James.
Leave ending is what it would be like if James accepted the death of Mary, suffered for the murder of Mary, and lived on for Mary's wishes. I would imagine it would take years to get past the feeling of Mary and the memories.
He's so high off the white claudia that he falls into the TV
After 23 years, James if finally happy and with his wife.... truly heartbreaking :c
Lol no this is all just his hallucination. This is more like delusiional ending
@@alpcankarademir1991 you can interpret this ending as you want, so let me be thanks
@@soufitio did you even play the game? To reach this ending James needs to take the white drug that occultists from silent hill 1 used on Lisa that caused her to see else hallucinations. Keep your false interpretations to yourself. Also Mary is already dead before the game started , tf you talking about?
@@alpcankarademir1991 ok
@@alpcankarademir1991I don't think there can ever be a happy ending to Jame's story.
Very emotional. Made me tear up a bit, well done Bloober team you got the SH vibes down 100%
Do SH3 please
The new "Harry Died" ending.
Ignorance is bliss
What an incredibly depressing ending. I'm ngl tho, if this happened to me, I would do the exact same thing as James
If the looping theory is true, I believe the bloodied body on the chair in Woodside Apartment is James after this ending.
So the drug killed him?
The price of being happy, ignore all reality and be stuck in a moment forever. Silent Hill really gave him what he wanted at a high price
Plot Twist: He got up and left.
Notice how Mary did not cough at all?
It’s her when she was healthy and happy, just like James wanted(before she fell deathly sick)
I get the distinct feeling that Silent Hill ate his soul in return for granting his wish.
So he literally sells his soul to Silent Hill just for the chance to be with his wife one last time.
This is just me, but if I connect the dots, this ending should reflect the dead James in front of the TV in Woodside apartment. In reality, he was poisoned by the drug, then the town sprited his body away.
I take this ending as a visual representation of James completely repressing what he did and choosing to be ignorant towards it.
This ending requires you to drink a heavy hallucinogen, so yes
This is my new favourite ending
People have varying opinions on this remake and remakes in general, but maaan, they so objectively killed it with these 2 new endings
Just noticed that James has his flashlight on him in the tape. That either confirms that he’s pulled into the video tape living a delusion by completely suppressing Mary’s death, or an oversight by the devs.
there is something strange about this scene, during the video tape James' voice doesn't seem to have that VHS recording noise, only Mary's, this ending is very confusing to interpret, if it is meant to be interpreted individually
This is cool
(Ryo from shenmue) this is cool!!
Different people have varying opinions on this remake and remakes in general, but you gotta admit, they KILLED it with these 2 new endings
Sorry for my english.
Someone said somewhere that to get this ending you had to find the White Claudia (a drug mentioned in SILENT HILL 1), I don't know if it's true, or what other things were necessary.
But even if it is because of the White Claudia effect, isn't silent hill an entity that manifests your psyche? If James was able to create a possibility in his head where Mary is healthy, that possibility could also end up being real. It's like using the power of the entity to your advantage, but not by repression (like in the Rebirth ending), but simply by moving to another universe.
Even if he never remembers killing her, it doesn't mean he would do it again (since James was never a psychopath, just someone who screwed up terribly once, yeah, but that's it),
I don't think he is "inside the VHS", but rather in another reality. Let us remember that SH has a great occult and esoteric base. Televisions, as well as radio, can capture "paranormal activity." Remember the Japanese movie "THE RING" (ringu)?. Where the spirit of a dead girl was recorded on camera, and from the recording came out into the real world? I think that the power of SH, despite seeming completely "diabolical", in a certain way is also neutral, proof of this is that it allows the protagonist to face his guilt directly, and heal. In other endings, Silent Hill allowed James to meet Mary again, have one last talk, and make peace.
So, I think in the ending BLISS James finds a way through the Silent Hill power, even if it's with a natural drug, to create his own reality.
Damn that's an eerie ending
sobbing
Silent Hill calls people there in order to face reality and their own personal demons, to force them to confront the truth. How they react to it is up to them, but Silent Hill won't rest until you come face to face with the things you've done. If you fail, you'll never leave Silent Hill alive.
If the three main endings are each different ways of reacting to this truth (Leave being acceptance, In Water being consumed by guilt, and Maria being to learn the wrong lesson), then I think this ending is a good showcase of never facing that truth. This is the pivotal moment where James is forced to reckon with what he has done, where his fantasy comes crumbling down around him. What's left of the game is how he reacts to this reality.
So "Bliss" is him never confronting the truth, him choosing to embrace the fiction he has created for himself, never letting himself confront his sins. He gets to live in a fantasy of his own making, one where he gets to be with his late wife in good health forever. But it's still a fantasy, and one he has fully succumbed to. As a result, he's doomed to be trapped in Silent Hill forever, as a lingering memory in a video tape, blissfully unaware that his life is over.
Silent Hill makes James live the illusion caused by White Claudia of returning to that moment with Mary, losing his mind in that beautiful lie for all eternity.
Wow, a Silent Hill within a Silent Hill- now that's deep!
This is the Canon ending for me....idc wat anyone says.
ignorance is bliss
so beautiful ending
Whats the name of the song?
This is a bittersweet ending. All in all it was beautiful to see them happy and together again
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Idk what this truly represents but to me, he entered an alternate reality where Mary was never sick, James never goes back to SH and they live happily ever after. The empty chair shows that James isn’t at the same Lakeview hotel anymore as in the video tape. And he even pauses, giving an expression like “did this really work?”. SH is always shifting and changing, I think this is what it is.
holy cow this is sad
James entered a new timeline and they go on to adopt Laura. That's my interpretation. (Absolute cope yes, but who cares?)
so real
The most heartbreaking of all the endings. James cut short the moral trajectory of his life, choosing to inhabit a world of memory where his self will never be able to unfold its moral potential as it would do in the real life. He chose to dwell in a world of memories, the world of the past and thus he forever relinquished all present and all future. He chose to be enveloped in a cocoon of solace than to have his self break in a thousand pieces again and again.
Man I love Persona 4
Ignorance is Bliss; James ignored that his actions contributed to Mary's passing, never to face the truth in blissm
finally the good ending
Silent Hill 2 Golden
Im never taking drugs in Silent Hill again 😢
Mary's finger, damn they are all same length
I'm genuinely unsure if that was the town's doing or just James having a regular hallucination from White Claudia, either way he forgot what he did
It doesn't really answer the question. We can assume he probably got sucked into the TV as the game purposefully shows James being absent on the couch, and his voice sounds different compared to the tape voice effect like Mary.
my theory is that he became a drug addict and is stuck in Silent Hill if you follow this ending (White Claudia is the primary reason which may cause hallucination)
since the rebirth ending was directly inspired by stephen king's pet sematary, it feels very fitting that this one is potentially inspired by the shining
butterfly effect reference
nope
the best new ending added, very silent hill and very fitting for the game as an addition, much better than stillness.
whoever wrote that needs firing. really. "TRUST ME GUYS, I CAN DO IN-WATER AGAIN, BUT BETTER, I'M MUCH BETTER THAN THE ORIGINAL WRITERS HEHE"
I like the leave ending better this one was bitter
How?!
James refuses to move on or suicide,so Silent Hill did the only thing it could for him...sucking him into the VHS. James is trapped forever in a 3 minutes video but he's happy with that as he's with Mary
@@leddarklight7566 it's more than just a 3 minutes video because she even asks him "did something happen?" on her own. it's a parallel universe.
@@enexe6229 I don't know if that's true. I mean,Mary has that recording filter voice with Mono audio all the time while James sounds like always with a Stereo audio. For me at least,James decided to enter into the VHS as inside is Mary exactly how he remembered her. That's his true Mary,before the sickness and the frustration that ended up forming Maria. I don't see Silent Hill giving James a happy ending without a twist also,that would be very heartwarming from its part. James has to suffer no more but in exchange,he's bound forever to that VHS that could be another universe or not.
@@TheJerbro69well the point is she still reacts to his actions
No. Even if it is because of the white claudia effect, isn't silent hill an entity that manifests your psyche? If James was able to create a possibility in his head where Mary is healthy, that possibility could also end up being real. It's like using the power of the entity to your advantage, but not by repression (like in the Rebirth ending), but simply by moving to another universe.
Even if he never remembers killing her, it doesn't mean he would do it again (since James was never a psychopath, just someone who screwed up terribly once, yeah, but that's it)
and then what, he kills her again?
Not necessarily, she doesn't look sick there.
No because she is not sick
Mary doesn't look like she's sick, but this could be because he's hallucinating the whole thing.
everything's fine... (relief smile)
that segment struck the very core of my brain
James is still trapped in a fentanyl dream, 😢 (love this ending)
great and i thought the endings couldn't get any sadder 😢