I love how they do the scenes for Eddie. When you meet him again you can pick more up on how Eddie is fragile with words. You can see he starts to not like James after he made a comment on his eating.
@@gokusaiyuki7214 He's eating melted strawberry ice cream. It's pretty gross, too. I always wonder, in the original and the remake, where is he getting this food from? Isn't Silent Hill supposed to be this abandoned Ghost Town? Is it serving Eddie this food to show how gluttonous he is?
3:32 I like this little exchange, not only is there a pizza reference from the orignal game but also we get to see a bit more of Eddie’s past here. When James unknowingly comments on his appetite Eddie stops eating like he feels ashamed or offended. It probably reminds him of when some guys used to bully him.
Yeah. I kind of feel pity for him. He probably ate ice cream to help calm himself as I’m sure eating is what copes his problem. But James commenting about him eating reminded him of why he’s mocked being overweight.
Honestly it feels really relatable, I sometimes struggle to eat alone in front of people because I feel like I'll be judged, of course I don't take it as personally as Eddie
I think Eddie was the character who was the most consistently improved from the original. Whereas every other character had at least several scenes I preferred in the original, Eddie's actor just knocks it out of the park here. Absolutely incredible revamp of the character. I always looked forward to encountering him in the remake. His boss fight was phenomenal too, in a way I really wasn't expecting.
@@hotcoldman77 And it's not just James, I myself love the original game more than anything i've ever played. I was scared about the treatment the remake was gonna get. I wasn't buying the new faces at first glance. But, after finishing the remake, I went ahead and reviewed the old story, and it has improved A LOT. OG James seems and sounds stupid af when compared to the remake one. Eddie no longer looks like a bully himself, but a troubled grown up with a psycopathic teenager spirit. New Mary + Maria is the third biggest improvement of the remake, without a doubt. Angela's face is uncanny (not in the same way Eddie is, but as in its weird combination of attributes), doesn't fit the story in the slightest and looks way younger than she should, also her voice and dubbing.. not impressive at all. So all in all, you could say the remake improves on every single aspect of the original game but one. Still I miss the old camera angles.
I like how they hinted at his Otherworld being basically a massive freezer throughout the game. His breath condensating, the table at the prison where the dead guy is being completely frozen over, then bam, full blown Eddie's Otherworld.
@@Demoman1207 probably not, maybe his Fog World is also very cold. Or maybe he doesn't go through the Otherworld at the same time as James. Kinda like Angela, when you meet her at the Blue Creek apartments, her room is in the Fog World, mainly because the room isn't filled with rust and blood, while the rest of the apartment building is in the Otherworld. So maybe Eddie was going through the Otherworld Wood Side apartments while the Blue Creek apartments were in the Fog World for him.
@@eazyc404 Yup, all 4 characters witness the Fog World and Otherworld (3 of them, Laura doesn't have darkness in her heart) at different paces. While James was in the Wood Side apartments, Eddie was in the Otherworld version of them clearly seen by his condensating breath. When James was in the Otherworld Blue Creek apartments, Angela was in their Fog World version (the entire apartment where you find her is still in the Fog World, while the rest of the building is in the Otherworld). Throughout the game James intersects with Eddie's and Angela's respective Otherworlds. The first one is when he arrives at the prison and he sees the dead body and part of the table frozen over. Also, during the Abstract Daddy chase and fight, the labyrinth changes its appearance until we reach the tarped over walls with thrusting pistons. Laura on the other hand probably sees the town much more vividly, without monsters or any unnatural phenomena. Actually, the Fog World for her is probably like a giant playground, that's why we can sometimes see toys in places that they absolutely shouldn't be in (f.e. Brookhaven Hospital).
I thinks he sounds like a psychopath in other way. The “i'm joking, look at your face” line was a texbook psychopath thing. They can mimic human feels and look you straight while lying, thus, create sympathy, even when they don't feel what they said.
some psychopaths are made; most psychopaths have a breaking point they reach before they ever pull a gun on someone, even "jokingly", you just don't realize that they have been approaching that point because it's been some minor inconvenience or perceived slight.
Fun Fact: According to Masahiro Ito, early on in Development Silent Hill 2, there were supposed to be 2-3 protagonists with their own but connected journey. The idea was scrapped because it was too complicated at the time of its production and it culminated with James as the main protagonist and Eddie with Angela as supporting characters, each still with their own separate journey, but meeting with James at some points.
Well, they did it with assignment Ada in resident evil 4 remake, more details which gives players more story info, details that original didnt include, as some of alterations to main story where when you defeat Saddler all enemies are also defeated since they are connected to his plaga, while in original there was no such thing. If they make DLC for Eddie and Angela they will be far shorter than main game, and Angela already has knife so she has weapon for monsters, Eddie has revolver, so they got what they need to make them playable characters.
I just feel so bad for him. This is a boy who was bullied for his entire life, and not lightly. Couldn't catch a break even after graduating. Maybe he should've looked for help, but why would you if the whole world was against you the entire time? He was already in distress from the beginning, and the stress of the town and the hallucinations just broke him.
Eddie is a tragic character, yes, but to me, he isn't completely innocent. He went out of his way to kill a defenseless dog, that basically had nothing to do with bullies and Eddie himself. This is worse than what Angela did to his father and brother, because at least those two ruined her life and actively wanted to capture her. Eddie on the other hand, let his anger and hatred punished an innocent dog. If Eddie only shot that particular football bully's knee, that'd make him more sympathizable. That's not to say Eddie's bullies are any better, they're just as much of losers. So, to me, this is the conflict where no one is better than the other; Eddie's bullies essentially made him who he is as seen in both the OG and the remake, while Eddie's reaction and the way he responded was simply overboard.
@@MoronPluma I believe that Eddie is the foil to James canonically (depending on your ending they might not be so far apart): James comes to Silent Hill because at least some part of him wants to find penance and release from his regrets and the pain he feels inwardly, whereas Eddie came because he's running from himself and others. I'm confident that the devs wanted, at least to some degree, to communicate that Eddie, James and Angela are all people who have been pushed down dark paths by immense trauma, but each of them faces a different reality based on their own damaged psyche, and each reaches different resolutions. While James and Angela both do their best to confront their demons, Eddie instead embraces them. I think this is where most players/viewers completely misunderstand the game, as most people seem to think these are all irredeemable piece of shit human beings, when that couldn't be further from the truth. The point, I believe, is that Eddie's is a cautionary tale about how trauma can itself become a justification for harming others; others have hurt ME, so why can I not hurt THEM? This also ties into why James looks over Eddie's corpse with such guilt: Eddie may have been attacking him, but that doesn't change the tragic nature of WHY he was attacking. The idea behind it is particularly profound, because to me it suggests that we can both try to understand and, with any hope at all, prevent the things that turn people into the bitter, hateful person Eddie was, while still holding him accountable for the wrongs he's done. I find it especially bizarre that people paint James as the villain given the mirroring between the two: Eddie gives in entirely to his hate and fear, while James admits to, feels guilt for, and attempts to atone for his mistakes. It really goes to show how little people think through these characters and how much they simply react to this or that revelation without any of the context; which, of course, is the ENTIRE message behind the game, that we are all human, flawed, and riddled with mistakes and regrets, but we can either live with and try to overcome those flaws, sink into despair like Angela, or surrender to our darker side like Eddie.
You can tell that when James says he can't leave with him, Eddie takes that feeling of rejection extremely harshly as he just says "oh.." and looks down despondently. In that moment when they're not speaking, the music begins to swell, signaling the the heightened intensity of the emotion. James feels that Eddie is upset, which is why he tells Eddie to be careful afterwards, but the damage is already done, as you can tell in the later cutscenes when Eddie flatly rejects the idea of travelling together when James suggests it.
Not me noticing that the pattern of the ribcage on the meat slabs are disturbingly similar to the stripes on Eddie's shirt, reflecting the horrible image he has of himself
6:47 is a masterpiece of tension. The music, the cold dead stare, the heavy breathing, the manic giggle, the dissociated delivery of "I was just joking". This version of Eddie is utterly frightening, I love this so much.
The delivery of the line “AND A CORPSE…CAN’T…LAUGH!” I honestly like more than the original. Kudos to the actor because I’m an obnoxious, purist SH fan. Im eating my words on this remake
I was honestly super nervous about how these folks were going to handle Eddie if they were going to handle him at all. With the acting, dialogue, and line deliveries, he always felt like one of the goofier parts of the original game. I much prefer this more fragile, emotionally disturbed version of the character; he's so much creepier now. And those eyes... He just looks so dead inside.
Yes, he looks more disturbed from start in remake, while in original he was kinda normal guy until you fight him, at that part he got crazy look in eyes
That long pause and response at 6:48-7:18 is probably some of the most convincingly good voice acting I've seen in a video game in a long time. Eddie's VA in general really killed it in this remake.
I like how the remake did these science with Eddie and James. And just James in general. James in the remake feels more empathetic, while still seeming to lacking connection to those around him. But not like he was checked out mentally in the original, but more like he doesn't know how. And yet he tries his best. With Eddie, James is trying to keep calm and have Eddie try and think clearly. He tries to have Eddie remain level headed. I like the remake cause it feels more authentic in what it does for emotions with the characters and how they act. But that's my opinion.
If you see well,when Eddie is talking,he's releasing cold breath. That means that Eddie,like Angela,is always in Otherworld while James doesn't enter until later.
He also has a cold breath in any location where you find him and the Apartments and the Cinema aren't cold places. Maybe the Prison is also a cold place like the Freezer where you kill him but he always spit cold breath. Is only in the original where he has a cold breath in the Freezer but in Remake he always has it.@@1carter756
Well, James enters and leaves the otherworld many times during the playthrough. Maybe hinting at his state of mind clouding himself from the truth, now Angela and Eddie may always be in the otherworld because they know what they did and the only thing they keep getting is more mad and depressed the more time they stay in the town.
Well, its cold and foggy in town, and since heating is for sure off in those building of course they will release cold breath, while if James is not, its probably oversight from developers side.
Coming straight from Kaza's video on Eddie from the original SH2, I can't help but notice that the remake stayed consistent with its use of camera angles to showcase power dynamics between James and Eddie. Each scene before the final confrontation (with the exception of some of the "just put a gun to their head" monologue) has James standing over Eddie in some way, the camera work highlighting that James is in control. He's the mature, responsible adult, whereas Eddie is a pathetic, small coward who shrivels and shrinks away from confrontation. At 8:54, you can see the camera dramatically rotate to the opposite. As Eddie turns around, he suddenly appears large and menacing, looming over James with the revolver in his hand. He's in control of the situation now, squaring up and looking James eye-to-eye, pointing the gun at his face. Absolute masterwork.
Before that, too, when he asked if James wanted to come with him to find a way out of town and James said he couldn't, because he was looking for someone... Eddie looked and sounded so dejected. Almost felt bad for the guy. Probably felt like someone else rejecting him and telling him to fuck off, even if James was being perfectly polite about it.
I feel really sorry for Eddie this time around. He comes off more broken and fragile the first time around. Very sensitive and never learned how to handle it, and then it got to a boiling point. Huge props to his voice actor
Those corpses... they are all dressed up like James. "Just like before!". He's been killing a lot of James for a while, that's why his speech is so irrational when the actual James finds him.
They only look like James, to James. All the corpses aside from the prison morgue are part of james delusion. Theorized to be the town trying to make him remember his real reason for driving to silent hill. They don’t look like James to Eddie. Just like abstract daddy looks differently to Angela. Chances are that Eddie making the statement “how many times do I have to kill you?” Is referring to his long time bully (that he shot in the knee) continuously being brought back by the town the torment him.
I never realized eddie breaths smoke likw its always below freezing for him until someone pointed it out. Crazy detail especially after u see eddies "hell", like a bigass walkin freezer.. i think eddies versiom of silent hill is alot colder than james remembers it, wheras with angela everything is on fire EVERYWHERE!! They all have vastly different interpretations of the same place and the town manifests things accordingly to each persons "sins"
The hell James has is arguably unique as well, in that its wet and damp. Its always either raining or foggy. Silent Hill 1 didnt have fog, it had super heavy snow. His hell is water.
@@kristoffarkas9909 No, he only shot him in the leg. He never killed anyone except the dog, but a lot of players think he's a serial killer. He's just a scared kid on the run, because he snapped and did something horrible.
@@cayoonnaise He's a budding serial killer who just graduated from killing dogs to hurting people. James would've been his first human victim. He wasn't going to stop, ever.
Eddie asking Laura "did you hear that, too?" Makes me think he's seen monsters with Laura and possibly noted she didn't see them. Probably overthinking it, though
When I watched nitro rad, talk about this remake, he pointed out something that’s really clever when James says to Eddie “at least you got your appetite back”, Eddie stops eating and looks annoyed, we the player know James said that out of comfort like “I’m glad your ok now”, while in Eddie’s mind James is making fun of him.
6:22 this is a masterpiece of acting and a double entendre on Eddie’s “joke” Not the type of statement you want people to be convinced by; also James almost being in the position as Eddie’s victims(which is all James through the game, apparently)
I'm kinda sad they did away with the "Eddie, have you gone nuts?!" line (lmao) but it makes sense if they wanted a more serious tone for the characters.
@@JimboMarsh It is kinda funny how James is one of the characters that has it considered an upgrade if his character sounds more dead inside. They nailed the "Dude has checked out like 2 hours ago. Lights on nobody home" vibe with his delivery.
@@rosenrot234 Definately but he also sounds endearing and does seem to give an ounce of care too. The old James is amazing for being corny but this James seems way more relatable and genuine, which I really respect the voice actor for making me feel so.
I love how the remake reinvented Eddie. The VA did an amazing job. You can feel the cold, blistering rage bursting out of him in that final scene before the fight.
I think the city itself has made it for him, but without the spoon, so he could look disgusting on purpose and find joy in eating, at least that's what im thinking but maybe im over analyzing
That couldnt have been a more perfect way to describe that incredibly sinister smile on his face, glad I wasnt the only one who got Billy Kincaid vibes from it
In the first enounter I love this detail: Eddie asks James to go together with a glimpse of hope. But James refuses. Then Eddie gets disappointed but not surprised as he is used to be being an outcast an noone wanting him. Then for the rest of the dialogue Eddie is obviously sadder.
I am tired of how society treats people like Eddie. People often project their negative assumptions on people like him for either being a weirdo, a pervert or an incel without any proof.
I genuinely feel sorry for Eddie.. Pushed to the absolute limit. Even when he's acting out and bordering on being sadistic it's still just him deep down being hurt.
I think not many people have noticed that James, Angela and even Eddie have their own separate "journeys" through Silent Hill. It's not just a place made for James, but for the two too, and while James has at least one "good" ending, i mean that one with going away with Laura, Eddie sinks in his evil insticts and loses the fight with himself, and then with James, and joins to the legions of ghosts. While Angela... well, it's deep
Sinister? More like a more of drama queen. At least og eddy was more sharp and gangsta and dominant but this new one causing whole *ss messy cheap teenage soap drama. Wasting his bullets on a corpse when you about to kill james and let james approach and hit him when he had a gun? Even og eddy is more threatening by shooting at james with no proper aim and immediate shot ( even though the bullet missed james) it made a clear warning to james.
I love how Eddie sounds SO pathetic that you genuinely do feel bad. Then he brings up the dog he killed and everybody breaks out the shotgun hearing that.
I completely understand Eddie. Being bullied ALL the TIME makes a person bonkers to the point of developing severe PTSD. I have a facial anonminally and I'm bullied every day :( sucks. Planning to take action to get rich so I can fix myself up and get a degree in something.
Me too. I'm very thin and short, I have a big nose and big lips, a weird face The biggest bullies in my life were my father and my brother My father, especially, always beat me until I cried. He hit me for no reason, he said he hated me and that I ruined his life, he never stopped making fun of me whenever he had the chance. He also physically abused my mother, always hitting her in front of me, ever since I was a child. I still remember the things he said to her and to me, the threats. He tried to stab her in front of me too I was bullied more in my family than at school My classmates treated me with a certain amount of respect, and no one ever talked about my face or the way I acted. Thank God he's dead now, but I still have a lot of insecurities and trust issues. Traumas like this can really shape your mind, for the worse. Sorry for my outburst, your comment brought me back these memories (Sorry for my Bad English i'm using a Translator)
For the serious jowls on this guy I think he needed to wear his weight a little heavier He’s definitely hefty but for that kind of facial ballooning you’d expect his key to be rounder
12:05 yo when eddie says "its going to feel great! Just like before!" Implys that Eddie has "killed" James before! Implying that those corpses you see around Silent Hill of that seem to resemble James are actually times Eddie has killed a copy of James!!! Yooooooooo thats crazy if true
when you first meet eddie, he is puking in a toilet when you last meet him, you kill him when you remember the time loop theory, eddie story reset, but the shock from his death, even if he dont remember it, is why he is puking his guts out
I want to see Eddie's monsters. Just scary people mocking him and chasing him. Sound like a nightmare. I'd assume Eddie killed a monster in the cafeteria, that was just trying to psyche him out.
Nah, his monsters are just his biggest bully. He says, "How many times do I have to kill you?" and his backstory has the guy bully him so hard he had to beg for his life once.
@@Minchken He's the owner of the dog Eddy killed and then shot him in the knee and ran away and got called to Silent Hill . Seems like the town called tragic people who crossed a line to test them by traumatizing them.
@@TheJewishAzovMember Eddie sees Monsters The bully is probably a manifestantion of his mind, just like Maria is to James or Thomas is to Angela His Bully keeps coming back
They both build up super well into ticking time bombs, but I'll always remember the pit I felt in my stomach after James said "Eddie, have you gone nuts?"
Not a popular opinion, but is there a chance Eddie could’ve made it out alive? Maybe he didn’t actually die after the fight, or perhaps the town manipulated James into believing Eddie was dead. I’m really curious to see more from his perspective-a DLC focused on Eddie, similar to Born from a Wish, would be fascinating. Considering he was never a playable character in the original game, this could be a fresh and compelling angle.
Yes he's too cartoony maybe it's pc portion cause pc portion was so *ss. Also i rolled my eyes when this new eddy caused some cheap soap drama at the end haha. Like wtf is this teenage drama? Let james approach him and let james punch him when he had a gun?
James: what? Eddie: I should be just allowed just to kill people. (ok twitter won't like that) James: Why would you even wanna do that eddie? Eddie: %&!@ you JAAAAMES! *readies gun* James: OH OK UH-
This character is such a psycho due to his past trauma yet I couldn’t help but feel so bad when James punched him Felt like we saw a short reenactment of him getting bullied :(
I love how they do the scenes for Eddie. When you meet him again you can pick more up on how Eddie is fragile with words. You can see he starts to not like James after he made a comment on his eating.
Hell I would say Eddie stopped liking James after James agreed to not tag along with him in the apartments. You can tell how much that hurt him.
@@SillyAIMan do ya know what is Eddie eating from that bucket?! 😮
Strawberry ice-cream?@gokusaiyuki7214
@@gokusaiyuki7214 He's eating melted strawberry ice cream. It's pretty gross, too. I always wonder, in the original and the remake, where is he getting this food from? Isn't Silent Hill supposed to be this abandoned Ghost Town? Is it serving Eddie this food to show how gluttonous he is?
@@SillyAIManFellow CoBro! Twu!!! 🐍
3:32 I like this little exchange, not only is there a pizza reference from the orignal game but also we get to see a bit more of Eddie’s past here. When James unknowingly comments on his appetite Eddie stops eating like he feels ashamed or offended. It probably reminds him of when some guys used to bully him.
Also him saying “Now you want me to come with you?” He was upset that James never offered for them to stick together the first time they met.
Yeah. I kind of feel pity for him. He probably ate ice cream to help calm himself as I’m sure eating is what copes his problem. But James commenting about him eating reminded him of why he’s mocked being overweight.
Honestly it feels really relatable, I sometimes struggle to eat alone in front of people because I feel like I'll be judged, of course I don't take it as personally as Eddie
I think Eddie was the character who was the most consistently improved from the original. Whereas every other character had at least several scenes I preferred in the original, Eddie's actor just knocks it out of the park here. Absolutely incredible revamp of the character. I always looked forward to encountering him in the remake. His boss fight was phenomenal too, in a way I really wasn't expecting.
Remake James clears original and it ain't even close
@@hotcoldman77 And it's not just James, I myself love the original game more than anything i've ever played. I was scared about the treatment the remake was gonna get. I wasn't buying the new faces at first glance.
But, after finishing the remake, I went ahead and reviewed the old story, and it has improved A LOT. OG James seems and sounds stupid af when compared to the remake one. Eddie no longer looks like a bully himself, but a troubled grown up with a psycopathic teenager spirit. New Mary + Maria is the third biggest improvement of the remake, without a doubt. Angela's face is uncanny (not in the same way Eddie is, but as in its weird combination of attributes), doesn't fit the story in the slightest and looks way younger than she should, also her voice and dubbing.. not impressive at all.
So all in all, you could say the remake improves on every single aspect of the original game but one. Still I miss the old camera angles.
@@Sankurot what the hell are you talking about bro
Angela is comfirmed to be a Teenager since the original game
@@Sankurot Angela is 19 years old
I like how they hinted at his Otherworld being basically a massive freezer throughout the game. His breath condensating, the table at the prison where the dead guy is being completely frozen over, then bam, full blown Eddie's Otherworld.
Omg I just noticed that. U can see his breath in his very first scene. So he was basically in his otherworld the entire time??
@@Demoman1207 probably not, maybe his Fog World is also very cold. Or maybe he doesn't go through the Otherworld at the same time as James. Kinda like Angela, when you meet her at the Blue Creek apartments, her room is in the Fog World, mainly because the room isn't filled with rust and blood, while the rest of the apartment building is in the Otherworld.
So maybe Eddie was going through the Otherworld Wood Side apartments while the Blue Creek apartments were in the Fog World for him.
@@carljohnson621 so many details I've missed
i’m confused lol so eddie is in his own other world yet the same layout? like his is cold but james is not yet they’re in the same place
@@eazyc404 Yup, all 4 characters witness the Fog World and Otherworld (3 of them, Laura doesn't have darkness in her heart) at different paces. While James was in the Wood Side apartments, Eddie was in the Otherworld version of them clearly seen by his condensating breath.
When James was in the Otherworld Blue Creek apartments, Angela was in their Fog World version (the entire apartment where you find her is still in the Fog World, while the rest of the building is in the Otherworld).
Throughout the game James intersects with Eddie's and Angela's respective Otherworlds. The first one is when he arrives at the prison and he sees the dead body and part of the table frozen over. Also, during the Abstract Daddy chase and fight, the labyrinth changes its appearance until we reach the tarped over walls with thrusting pistons.
Laura on the other hand probably sees the town much more vividly, without monsters or any unnatural phenomena. Actually, the Fog World for her is probably like a giant playground, that's why we can sometimes see toys in places that they absolutely shouldn't be in (f.e. Brookhaven Hospital).
I feel sad for this version of Eddie, is just so broken he really needs help
In OG he feels like a psychopath, not a broken person
Yeah in the remake he’s more sympathetic and not as evil as in the original
In the original he killed a innocent dog for no reason
I thinks he sounds like a psychopath in other way. The “i'm joking, look at your face” line was a texbook psychopath thing. They can mimic human feels and look you straight while lying, thus, create sympathy, even when they don't feel what they said.
some psychopaths are made; most psychopaths have a breaking point they reach before they ever pull a gun on someone, even "jokingly", you just don't realize that they have been approaching that point because it's been some minor inconvenience or perceived slight.
@@DX_YT_01he killed a dog in this one
@@philipgodsworth4764 No he didn’t
I like how Eddie is a lot more dissociated in this one
And I'm about having dinner before midnight yet, i´m hungry.
What do you mean by that
Well i can read 454 "dissociated" people right now just before Christmas. :)
@@Bwagi i don't get it
@@DinossaurodaAmazonia you don't? google it.
Fun Fact: According to Masahiro Ito, early on in Development Silent Hill 2, there were supposed to be 2-3 protagonists with their own but connected journey. The idea was scrapped because it was too complicated at the time of its production and it culminated with James as the main protagonist and Eddie with Angela as supporting characters, each still with their own separate journey, but meeting with James at some points.
This would have been so much fun if they did this! Maybe they can make DLCs for their characters in the remake
@@lanoosaurusrexyeah, like what they did with Maria in "Born From A Wish"
Sounds like Pathologic
I don't mind if they do the DLC to each of them, even Laura as well although with limitations, its also a good chance to earn more money
Well, they did it with assignment Ada in resident evil 4 remake, more details which gives players more story info, details that original didnt include, as some of alterations to main story where when you defeat Saddler all enemies are also defeated since they are connected to his plaga, while in original there was no such thing.
If they make DLC for Eddie and Angela they will be far shorter than main game, and Angela already has knife so she has weapon for monsters, Eddie has revolver, so they got what they need to make them playable characters.
I just feel so bad for him. This is a boy who was bullied for his entire life, and not lightly. Couldn't catch a break even after graduating. Maybe he should've looked for help, but why would you if the whole world was against you the entire time? He was already in distress from the beginning, and the stress of the town and the hallucinations just broke him.
"Boo hoo. Everyone hates me. I'll shoot a dog and let it die slowly, just for fun."
Fuck Eddie.
Eddie is a tragic character, yes, but to me, he isn't completely innocent. He went out of his way to kill a defenseless dog, that basically had nothing to do with bullies and Eddie himself. This is worse than what Angela did to his father and brother, because at least those two ruined her life and actively wanted to capture her. Eddie on the other hand, let his anger and hatred punished an innocent dog. If Eddie only shot that particular football bully's knee, that'd make him more sympathizable.
That's not to say Eddie's bullies are any better, they're just as much of losers. So, to me, this is the conflict where no one is better than the other; Eddie's bullies essentially made him who he is as seen in both the OG and the remake, while Eddie's reaction and the way he responded was simply overboard.
@@MoronPluma I believe that Eddie is the foil to James canonically (depending on your ending they might not be so far apart): James comes to Silent Hill because at least some part of him wants to find penance and release from his regrets and the pain he feels inwardly, whereas Eddie came because he's running from himself and others. I'm confident that the devs wanted, at least to some degree, to communicate that Eddie, James and Angela are all people who have been pushed down dark paths by immense trauma, but each of them faces a different reality based on their own damaged psyche, and each reaches different resolutions. While James and Angela both do their best to confront their demons, Eddie instead embraces them. I think this is where most players/viewers completely misunderstand the game, as most people seem to think these are all irredeemable piece of shit human beings, when that couldn't be further from the truth.
The point, I believe, is that Eddie's is a cautionary tale about how trauma can itself become a justification for harming others; others have hurt ME, so why can I not hurt THEM? This also ties into why James looks over Eddie's corpse with such guilt: Eddie may have been attacking him, but that doesn't change the tragic nature of WHY he was attacking. The idea behind it is particularly profound, because to me it suggests that we can both try to understand and, with any hope at all, prevent the things that turn people into the bitter, hateful person Eddie was, while still holding him accountable for the wrongs he's done. I find it especially bizarre that people paint James as the villain given the mirroring between the two: Eddie gives in entirely to his hate and fear, while James admits to, feels guilt for, and attempts to atone for his mistakes.
It really goes to show how little people think through these characters and how much they simply react to this or that revelation without any of the context; which, of course, is the ENTIRE message behind the game, that we are all human, flawed, and riddled with mistakes and regrets, but we can either live with and try to overcome those flaws, sink into despair like Angela, or surrender to our darker side like Eddie.
@@MoronPlumafrom what I understood the dog attacked him when he was intending to kill his bully. It was self defense, but doesn’t make him not wrong.
He killed people before coming to Silent Hill dude
You can tell that when James says he can't leave with him, Eddie takes that feeling of rejection extremely harshly as he just says "oh.." and looks down despondently. In that moment when they're not speaking, the music begins to swell, signaling the the heightened intensity of the emotion. James feels that Eddie is upset, which is why he tells Eddie to be careful afterwards, but the damage is already done, as you can tell in the later cutscenes when Eddie flatly rejects the idea of travelling together when James suggests it.
Not me noticing that the pattern of the ribcage on the meat slabs are disturbingly similar to the stripes on Eddie's shirt, reflecting the horrible image he has of himself
And the slabs are wearing shorts
THANK YOU for this, love when people notice details like this I haven’t picked up on yet!
@@mywifesboyfriend5558WHAT
6:47 is a masterpiece of tension. The music, the cold dead stare, the heavy breathing, the manic giggle, the dissociated delivery of "I was just joking". This version of Eddie is utterly frightening, I love this so much.
The delivery of the line “AND A CORPSE…CAN’T…LAUGH!”
I honestly like more than the original. Kudos to the actor because I’m an obnoxious, purist SH fan. Im eating my words on this remake
Agreed. You can feel his rage way more in the remake. In the original he just seemed kinda crazy.
I was honestly super nervous about how these folks were going to handle Eddie if they were going to handle him at all. With the acting, dialogue, and line deliveries, he always felt like one of the goofier parts of the original game. I much prefer this more fragile, emotionally disturbed version of the character; he's so much creepier now. And those eyes... He just looks so dead inside.
Not only they nailed the character, but the bossfight is also very good now!
Yes, he looks more disturbed from start in remake, while in original he was kinda normal guy until you fight him, at that part he got crazy look in eyes
That's what all blue-eyed "people" look like, to be fair.
Dead... But also very sad and fragile.
@@imthecoolestguyalive people with boring brown eyes are usually jealous of our awesome blue eyes.
I love the VA’s line delivery. He sounds so beat down and upset, it actually made me feel really bad for him.
That long pause and response at 6:48-7:18 is probably some of the most convincingly good voice acting I've seen in a video game in a long time.
Eddie's VA in general really killed it in this remake.
This town is full of monsters! How can you sit there and eat pizza!?
I'm so sad they didn't bring that back, the only black mark on an otherwise perfect and faithful reinterpretation
IKR no ill kill you james? no LETS PARTY ! ..
Anxiety?😊
@@everydaycompress4259 worst sin was removing "Eddie, have you gone nuts?" 😂
@@basedbattledroid3507 No, it's still in the game. James will make a comment on looking at a pizza box.
It’s crazy how much of a goof and meme he was in the OG and here he is one of the most psychotic and popular characters the remake has provided
I like how the remake did these science with Eddie and James. And just James in general.
James in the remake feels more empathetic, while still seeming to lacking connection to those around him. But not like he was checked out mentally in the original, but more like he doesn't know how. And yet he tries his best. With Eddie, James is trying to keep calm and have Eddie try and think clearly. He tries to have Eddie remain level headed.
I like the remake cause it feels more authentic in what it does for emotions with the characters and how they act. But that's my opinion.
sometimes it’s a bit overdone, the kind of vagueness of the original sold it more
If you see well,when Eddie is talking,he's releasing cold breath. That means that Eddie,like Angela,is always in Otherworld while James doesn't enter until later.
He also has a cold breath in any location where you find him and the Apartments and the Cinema aren't cold places. Maybe the Prison is also a cold place like the Freezer where you kill him but he always spit cold breath. Is only in the original where he has a cold breath in the Freezer but in Remake he always has it.@@1carter756
@@1carter756 Well.. it is on the toilet scene as well :) and in the cinema at 4:04.
Well, James enters and leaves the otherworld many times during the playthrough. Maybe hinting at his state of mind clouding himself from the truth, now Angela and Eddie may always be in the otherworld because they know what they did and the only thing they keep getting is more mad and depressed the more time they stay in the town.
Well, its cold and foggy in town, and since heating is for sure off in those building of course they will release cold breath, while if James is not, its probably oversight from developers side.
@@Dominik40301no, to Eddie silent hill is a frozen hell meanwhile to Angela everything's on fire all the time
Coming straight from Kaza's video on Eddie from the original SH2, I can't help but notice that the remake stayed consistent with its use of camera angles to showcase power dynamics between James and Eddie. Each scene before the final confrontation (with the exception of some of the "just put a gun to their head" monologue) has James standing over Eddie in some way, the camera work highlighting that James is in control. He's the mature, responsible adult, whereas Eddie is a pathetic, small coward who shrivels and shrinks away from confrontation. At 8:54, you can see the camera dramatically rotate to the opposite. As Eddie turns around, he suddenly appears large and menacing, looming over James with the revolver in his hand. He's in control of the situation now, squaring up and looking James eye-to-eye, pointing the gun at his face. Absolute masterwork.
3:34 You can tell that comment really hurt Eddie deep down
Before that, too, when he asked if James wanted to come with him to find a way out of town and James said he couldn't, because he was looking for someone... Eddie looked and sounded so dejected. Almost felt bad for the guy. Probably felt like someone else rejecting him and telling him to fuck off, even if James was being perfectly polite about it.
I like that Eddie still has those very pale blue eyes. Theyre very disconcerting. I like the voice acting more than I thought I would.
Like a human Majin buu
James - Water
Angela - Fire
Eddie - Ice
Sounds like a disco band.
Guys…you can see his breath. HIS BREATH IS ALWAYS VISIBLE FROM THE START.
I feel really sorry for Eddie this time around. He comes off more broken and fragile the first time around. Very sensitive and never learned how to handle it, and then it got to a boiling point. Huge props to his voice actor
The mocap acting for the mannerism is incredible too.
Those corpses... they are all dressed up like James. "Just like before!". He's been killing a lot of James for a while, that's why his speech is so irrational when the actual James finds him.
They look more like Leon Kennedy to me. He was just playing Resident Evil and seeing how handsome he was
This take suuuuuuucks
He's saying he'll like how it feels to kill James, just as he liked how it feels to kill that rando.
@@n0vi Homie check the corpses again.
Play the game, literally every single male corpse in the game is dressed like James lol
They only look like James, to James. All the corpses aside from the prison morgue are part of james delusion. Theorized to be the town trying to make him remember his real reason for driving to silent hill.
They don’t look like James to Eddie. Just like abstract daddy looks differently to Angela.
Chances are that Eddie making the statement “how many times do I have to kill you?” Is referring to his long time bully (that he shot in the knee) continuously being brought back by the town the torment him.
James decking Eddie made me laugh
i like the little extra detail of how the guy Eddie shot seems to come back again and again to torment him
I thought the dead guys looked like James. Same clothes and haircut just frozen over
So cool to see my favorite comedian Shane Gillis finally breaking into the gaming industry
Damn. XD
In Silent hill making Cheese Sandwiches.
😂
I never realized eddie breaths smoke likw its always below freezing for him until someone pointed it out. Crazy detail especially after u see eddies "hell", like a bigass walkin freezer.. i think eddies versiom of silent hill is alot colder than james remembers it, wheras with angela everything is on fire EVERYWHERE!! They all have vastly different interpretations of the same place and the town manifests things accordingly to each persons "sins"
The hell James has is arguably unique as well, in that its wet and damp. Its always either raining or foggy. Silent Hill 1 didnt have fog, it had super heavy snow.
His hell is water.
I feel bad for Eddie. He was never a bad person in the first place and being bullied driving him insane
I agree. I was bullied at school too, and it was driving me instane, and it wasn't even close to the bullying Eddie got. Poor guy.
i don't think Eddie share the same level of sin as Angela and James, he killed only an animal not murdered a person
He killd the dog owner too
@@kristoffarkas9909 No, he only shot him in the leg. He never killed anyone except the dog, but a lot of players think he's a serial killer. He's just a scared kid on the run, because he snapped and did something horrible.
@@cayoonnaise He's a budding serial killer who just graduated from killing dogs to hurting people. James would've been his first human victim. He wasn't going to stop, ever.
Voice acting is amazing in this game
Way better than the original
Eddie sounds like the same on Jimmy(Michael son) from GTA V
And they bot are freaking fat
@@HauntFreak13 the original had a different vibe, it felt like it was a dream when they would talk to each other
@@hollowinside1962 Sounds like an excuse. The game would be buggy as hell and people would say it added to the surrealism.
Eddie asking Laura "did you hear that, too?" Makes me think he's seen monsters with Laura and possibly noted she didn't see them. Probably overthinking it, though
He probably has. Laura doesn't see any of the monsters because she's just a kid.
He says in the Theather
"I've blocked the entrances so those weird monsters can't get in"
Man the first scene with eddie is so incredibly sad. Then to watch him descend into madness. Incredible game
“You’re going out there alone?” “Yeah.” I loved Eddie’s transformation
Yes, the way he delivered that “yeah” with the expression on his face was so perfect
Love that Eddie's breath is always visible, like his Silent Hill is just as cold as that fated meat frezer.
Angela's version is always on fire, so it makes sense in contrast.
When I watched nitro rad, talk about this remake, he pointed out something that’s really clever when James says to Eddie “at least you got your appetite back”, Eddie stops eating and looks annoyed, we the player know James said that out of comfort like “I’m glad your ok now”, while in Eddie’s mind James is making fun of him.
6:22 this is a masterpiece of acting and a double entendre on Eddie’s “joke”
Not the type of statement you want people to be convinced by; also James almost being in the position as Eddie’s victims(which is all James through the game, apparently)
Every corpse in the entire game looks like James, not just those. Its a detail from the original as well.
9:21 James Sunderland,former Boxer
He does have the makings of the varsity athlete
@@ddfdfufff9170 Man,I wanted to like this game but James didnt suplex Eddie.
6/10 best game ever
No Tiger Uppercut or Falcon Punch?
5/10
No boulder punching?
3/10
@Dusty-69420 Unfortunately no
Of all the things they changed from the og, I think Eddie was an improvement and turned out the best.
"And a CORPSE. CAN'T. LAUGH!"
I'm kinda sad they did away with the "Eddie, have you gone nuts?!" line (lmao) but it makes sense if they wanted a more serious tone for the characters.
Same With "Let's party!"
I do at least like the more tired but still concerned "You need help, Eddie". Fair trade
@@rosenrot234 Yeah, the guy who voices James in the remake did an amazing job.
@@JimboMarsh It is kinda funny how James is one of the characters that has it considered an upgrade if his character sounds more dead inside. They nailed the "Dude has checked out like 2 hours ago. Lights on nobody home" vibe with his delivery.
@@rosenrot234 Definately but he also sounds endearing and does seem to give an ounce of care too. The old James is amazing for being corny but this James seems way more relatable and genuine, which I really respect the voice actor for making me feel so.
Eddie doesn't deserve this, he deserves much better.
That's the point of Silent Hill. Either you overcome your trauma, or it eats you alive (sometimes literally)
I love how the remake reinvented Eddie. The VA did an amazing job. You can feel the cold, blistering rage bursting out of him in that final scene before the fight.
eddie eating melted ice cream with his hand is so disgusting
It's not like he could find a spoon in that place, it's already wierd that the ice cream is there
I think the city itself has made it for him, but without the spoon, so he could look disgusting on purpose and find joy in eating, at least that's what im thinking but maybe im over analyzing
@@kobz2862 You wouldn't be far off given how much of a troll Silent Hill can be with their therapy lol
It really is. Why not just sip it?
His version of Silent Hill is cold and freezing. The ice cream likely isnt melted from his perspective.
I love how he smiles like Billy Kincaid at the start of phase 2. Really good way of showing how hard he's snapped.
That's who this model kept reminding me off.
He made boys scream
He made girls scream
So I made him scream
And scream
And scream...
That couldnt have been a more perfect way to describe that incredibly sinister smile on his face, glad I wasnt the only one who got Billy Kincaid vibes from it
Love seeing a spawn reference 👌
Eddie was hilarious in the original but now he’s so damn scary, they did an amazing job
I honestly feel for Eddie a lot more in the remake. You can tell he was hurt when James didn't come with him. Maybe he could have been helped.
Anyone else notice there's a new dead body in the room before the Eddie fight after each playthrough/ending?
Eddie is basically the result if Jimmy went the Trevor Philips path
Who's Jimmy
@@PaulaNaBussa-x1nmaybe jimmy from GTA V?
Sounds like him too.
In the first enounter I love this detail: Eddie asks James to go together with a glimpse of hope. But James refuses. Then Eddie gets disappointed but not surprised as he is used to be being an outcast an noone wanting him. Then for the rest of the dialogue Eddie is obviously sadder.
I am tired of how society treats people like Eddie. People often project their negative assumptions on people like him for either being a weirdo, a pervert or an incel without any proof.
Unless you’re like Chris Chan or any internet Lolcow.
I always sympathised with Eddie. It would be great to play as him in a bonus scenario, kind of like Maria's Born From a Wish.
Silent Hill broke Eddie real fast. Emotional vulnerability has to be the worst trait to have when entering this town.
Is that me or is it the same voice actor as Jimmy De Santa from GTA 5 ?
He sounds just like him
Same exact thoughts😂
Yeah i think
i looked it up and no, it isn't. this is someone else entirely.
Pffft. Definitely not.
The VA of Eddie sounds much like Jimmy in GTA V.
I genuinely feel sorry for Eddie.. Pushed to the absolute limit. Even when he's acting out and bordering on being sadistic it's still just him deep down being hurt.
I love how Luke Roberts kept Guy Cihi's pacing and intonation in the first cut scene. Reminds you of the OG James.
I think not many people have noticed that James, Angela and even Eddie have their own separate "journeys" through Silent Hill. It's not just a place made for James, but for the two too, and while James has at least one "good" ending, i mean that one with going away with Laura, Eddie sinks in his evil insticts and loses the fight with himself, and then with James, and joins to the legions of ghosts. While Angela... well, it's deep
Its a personal hell for all who enter, or at least after Cheryl left and her own personal hell vanished.
@@CatManThree but this concept only applies to Silent Hill 2
you can see his breath whenever you meet him cause his world is colder then james's
Seems like the new Eddie is a lot more sinister than the 2001 Eddie, and that's saying something...
Sinister? More like a more of drama queen. At least og eddy was more sharp and gangsta and dominant but this new one causing whole *ss messy cheap teenage soap drama. Wasting his bullets on a corpse when you about to kill james and let james approach and hit him when he had a gun? Even og eddy is more threatening by shooting at james with no proper aim and immediate shot ( even though the bullet missed james) it made a clear warning to james.
@@amornoro2076 Lol this is delusional, original eddie was as pathetic, do I need to remember you how much Laura was roasting him when you found them?
@@amornoro2076 How the fuck was OG Eddie "gangsta" and "dominant"? Have you lost your mind?
@@amornoro2076you’re just all over the comment sections old Eddie was more of a meme character
@@amornoro2076og Eddie was a dork
In just one scene Eddie mental state as well as his facade deteriorate alot. It get significantly worse each time james met him again.
13:48 Poor Eddie
Nah 😂
@@BlackNoir_7yup lil 🥷
@@Venom-v7l you better be black or else I'm calling Diddy
@@BlackNoir_7 I’m white 🥷. Call him 🥷.
@@BlackNoir_7BRO💀
I feel both pity and disgust for Eddie.
No dumb question like last time after defeating Eddie. "Eddie?" After shot gunning him😂
I love how Eddie sounds SO pathetic that you genuinely do feel bad. Then he brings up the dog he killed and everybody breaks out the shotgun hearing that.
Eddie got that Dan Schneider aesthetic
That's what I thought as well!! The resemblance is uncanny!
I completely understand Eddie. Being bullied ALL the TIME makes a person bonkers to the point of developing severe PTSD. I have a facial anonminally and I'm bullied every day :( sucks. Planning to take action to get rich so I can fix myself up and get a degree in something.
Me too. I'm very thin and short, I have a big nose and big lips, a weird face
The biggest bullies in my life were my father and my brother
My father, especially, always beat me until I cried. He hit me for no reason, he said he hated me and that I ruined his life, he never stopped making fun of me whenever he had the chance. He also physically abused my mother, always hitting her in front of me, ever since I was a child. I still remember the things he said to her and to me, the threats. He tried to stab her in front of me too
I was bullied more in my family than at school
My classmates treated me with a certain amount of respect, and no one ever talked about my face or the way I acted.
Thank God he's dead now, but I still have a lot of insecurities and trust issues. Traumas like this can really shape your mind, for the worse.
Sorry for my outburst, your comment brought me back these memories
(Sorry for my Bad English i'm using a Translator)
For the serious jowls on this guy I think he needed to wear his weight a little heavier
He’s definitely hefty but for that kind of facial ballooning you’d expect his key to be rounder
I noticed that too. For a guy who's whole character is that he's been bullied for his weight, he really isn't that big
Poor eddie, A lost soul in silent hill
12:05 yo when eddie says "its going to feel great! Just like before!" Implys that Eddie has "killed" James before! Implying that those corpses you see around Silent Hill of that seem to resemble James are actually times Eddie has killed a copy of James!!! Yooooooooo thats crazy if true
Each one of the 3 characters have their own "Marias"
James= Maria
Angela = Thomas
Eddie = His Bully
They keep coming back to Torment them
Thats what she said
4:05
eddie looks more traumatizing in the remake, you can see it in his eyes
when you first meet eddie, he is puking in a toilet
when you last meet him, you kill him
when you remember the time loop theory,
eddie story reset, but the shock from his death, even if he dont remember it, is why he is puking his guts out
The time loop theory makes zero sense outside the possible implications of the Maria ending.
I want to see Eddie's monsters. Just scary people mocking him and chasing him. Sound like a nightmare. I'd assume Eddie killed a monster in the cafeteria, that was just trying to psyche him out.
Nah, his monsters are just his biggest bully. He says, "How many times do I have to kill you?" and his backstory has the guy bully him so hard he had to beg for his life once.
@@TheJewishAzovMember it sounds like the guy really had it coming then.
@@Minchken He's the owner of the dog Eddy killed and then shot him in the knee and ran away and got called to Silent Hill . Seems like the town called tragic people who crossed a line to test them by traumatizing them.
@@TheJewishAzovMember Eddie sees Monsters
The bully is probably a manifestantion of his mind, just like Maria is to James or Thomas is to Angela
His Bully keeps coming back
Bro Eddie is TERRIFYING in the remake
Why did i tried to google how to spare eddie??
This Eddie is eerily looks more like the late Chris Farley, God bless his soul, rather than resembling Jack Black from the OG.
They both build up super well into ticking time bombs, but I'll always remember the pit I felt in my stomach after James said "Eddie, have you gone nuts?"
How is it this was the one remake that was good this year???
That boss fight was scarier than it had any right to be, especially with surround sound lol
The look of Dan Schneider and the voice of Andrew Ditch, truly the most frightening Eddie.
4:05 Michael Scott
😭
Imo James and eddie are way more better in this game then the original
I enjoy how Eddie slowly turns into a cold blooded psychopath in this game.
Not a popular opinion, but is there a chance Eddie could’ve made it out alive? Maybe he didn’t actually die after the fight, or perhaps the town manipulated James into believing Eddie was dead. I’m really curious to see more from his perspective-a DLC focused on Eddie, similar to Born from a Wish, would be fascinating. Considering he was never a playable character in the original game, this could be a fresh and compelling angle.
Is it just me or does Eddie look more cartoony here than in the OG?
Yes he's too cartoony maybe it's pc portion cause pc portion was so *ss. Also i rolled my eyes when this new eddy caused some cheap soap drama at the end haha. Like wtf is this teenage drama? Let james approach him and let james punch him when he had a gun?
@@amornoro2076for the punches, is probably just him saving ammo or they don’t want the player to spam melee like the original
I think he looks like an average american
His face looks way too fat and it’s almost unrealistic but everything else about it looks pretty photorealistic especially his eyes and his hair
I think they over exaggerated him too much
James Sunderland be like “there is something wrong with this town, I cant quite put my finger on it” 😂😂
I like the way Eddie in the remake appeared more so much as one of the Seven Deadly Sins, Gluttony
The voice actor of Jimmy from GTA V
"Murder should be legal!"
James: what?
Eddie: I should be just allowed just to kill people. (ok twitter won't like that)
James: Why would you even wanna do that eddie?
Eddie: %&!@ you JAAAAMES! *readies gun*
James: OH OK UH-
Ayyyy!
@@DoobusGoobus OH MY GOSH!
@@DoobusGoobus . . .
"I don't want to make a joke about this one..."
@@elzorrothefox"You look exactly like my wife. A-Are you really Mary?"
Eddie sounds like Jimmy the one in GTA 5?
9:21 James punches Eddie like Mike Tyson the legendary boxer
Oh no, Benny
What have they done to Benny?
@@GuyOnAChairholy shit y do u appear randomly
Let's party!
This character is such a psycho due to his past trauma yet I couldn’t help but feel so bad when James punched him
Felt like we saw a short reenactment of him getting bullied :(
Such an amazing job by the actor/ voice actor
i kinda like the new models, they look weird but they help give off a surreal feeling, especially eddie
He slightly look more muscular and now he’s wearing sleeves