Just the way the camera circles around James as he tries to process what he saw and what he has done. It's almost like the player as well feels the same way, they need time to process what they have witnessed themselves. It's such a simple and powerful moment that I haven't seen any game top since then
There is something about those background 8 notes that go on forever - so hauntingly beautiful and sad on their own, and they never go away. The way I read the song, those 8 notes are his guilt and the other layers of the songs are trying to drown it out and bury it - unsuccessfully. It is ever present, and everything else builds on that foundation. And. You. Can't. Stop. Hearing. It. Just like when guilt becomes what drives you. It would be maddening if it wasn't such a soothing 8 notes.
Moonhermit2 well james lived with the guilt subconciously for so long it would have been a normal part of his daily life even if he did not know it so yes you're totally on the ball with your statement
my God why the hell did I came across this... I still remember that moment. I was 12, sitting with pad in hand and jaw dropped, realizing what he remembered he did. "the mary you know is not here"... "give her back I want her back! give her back to me" memories....
@@joshshrum2764 I think regardless of the ending, James forgives himself. That's what the Pyramid Head boss fight symbolizes. However, each ending represents how he finally deals with the loss. **SPOILERS** In "Leave", he takes Mary's words to heart and moves on, taking care of Laura as a surrogate daughter of theirs. In "In Water", he accepts and forgives himself, but ultimately decides life is not worth living without her and does what he originally went to Silent Hill for, drowning himself. In "Maria" he replaces his late wife with an idealized version of her. This could be interpreted in two ways: either he's coping/in denial and using Maria as a substitute/rebound; or he's atoning for how he feels he gave up on Mary, taking care of Maria they way he should've. This depends on how you interpret his last comment after Maria's cough. The "Rebirth" ending is interesting, because he refuses to give up and it's implied he decides to restart the order to revive her. That's my take, at least. Our endings are just how he copes with Mary's death
I still hold SH4 in high regard for being my first, but SH2 and SH3 are absolute masterpieces. I prefer 3 for some personal reasons, but to me SH2 and 3 are two sides of the same coin. Akira Yamaoka dedicated himself SO much to each and every sound in SH2. Hundreds of different shoes on different floors he recorded for the footsteps. SH3 the visual department got a bit more insane and by the end of the game subtlety had been thrown to the wind. You feel like you're lost in between realities.
This song while expressing the saddest truth in James's life, is not a really sad song, I think it represents a sort of dark/sad relief in James's mind. The kind of relief you have when someone close, agonising for a long time has finally passed away and is not in pain anymore. You're really sad, but in the same time happy that the "problem" is solved, the pain is partially gone with the person. While depply sad, James is relieved in some way that he knows he touches the end of his nightmare, and there are no doubts left for him on what he has done and why he's here, not lost in the mist wandering.
UmbraStellarTV Well 10 years is a big time dude when i was 6 i got my first silent hill game that was for ps1 almost 10 years dude same feels like yesterday...
The first SH game I was able to get my hands on was SH4: The Room. Understandably the weakest of Team Silents SH games, but without ANY experience with M games or system shock types the game creeped me out to my core. My best friend had all the games and by now SH 1, 2 and 3 were not being made anymore and it would be years since their HD releases. I raved to him about my experiences with SH4 and he didn't talk down about the game or anything, he just grinned and handed me 2.
So I'd heard this song at least ten times before, both in the game and the movie. But only just now, when I clicked this video and the music started, I got chill bumps all over my entire body and the hair on my arms rose up. Ah, good old Silent Hill, so terrifying and yet it feels like you're only coming home to where you belong.
I like to make music as a hobby. I think making music really lets you release emotions that you have inside of you. I make 8-bit music, but plan to begin making music using actual instruments once I learn how to use them. ...Still, I'll never compare to the musical genius of Akira Yamaoka. His music just brings something out of you that nothing else seems to be able to do. It's just... so good. I'd die happy if I could make a piece of music that evokes emotion out of somebody. But my self-confidence always holds me back, and I never allow myself to truly release what I'm feeling. I tell myself that nobody will care, that people will think I'm an asshole for trying to make music, for thinking that I'm actually worth something, and that I'm a disgrace and an insult to anyone who actually makes music. I'm just a 17 year old boy who sits in his room, doing nothing with his life. What's going to come out of this? It's such an internal struggle to make music and not just throw it away, saying that nobody's going to like it. That's why I get so envious when I listen to Akira Yamaoka's music; he's able to put an emotion into a song, and truly make the listener feel what he was feeling when he made the song. I shut myself down before I'm able to do anything like that, which is why I have so much trouble making music. It's sad, but hopefully I can overcome it one day and make a piece of music that people will really, truly like and relate to. That's my ultimate goal; I want to make people feel the way I do when I make a piece of music, just like Akira Yamaoka does with his songs. But, alas, that's a far ways away. :-)
When this song played all of James's illusions dissolved and reality began to set in...his love was dead and nothing could bring her back. Really tragic shit.
I’ve been there ! Keswick in the Lake District in Cumbria England, one of my favourite places in the world ! Wow did it really inspire Silent Hill or is it just a fan used image ?
This music, it's sorrowful, desolate tones really fit the idea of the truth being thrust into your face and shattering the reality you've come to accept.
You would be correct. That is the very same image. Ripped right from the game, too. Although when you see it in the game, the engine makes it seem more disproportionate than the actual image itself is. It gives off an illusion that you are on the opposite end of a larger lake than what is in the picture. Plus the fog in-game covers the image up, along with the trees; making the colors appear duller and less contrasting. I like the image.
Yeah, its quite nice. Heh a couple comments down, someone did some searching and found it was a real place. "Never mind, I did some research and discovered it's a photo of Keswick, England." is what he or she said/
*sit on armchair, head down, hands together and finger grazing forehead* *song starts playing* My mind: (you forgot how nostalgic this song was...) Me: ...Shit ... what have i done with my life these last years...?
This is the instrumental that makes you think about what you've done . I have nothing else to say lol . Fr though all jokes aside . My favorite instrumental . Poor Mary yo
you can try to push the truth away all you want, but the act of pushing it away is already bringing attention to it. the truth will always be there, lurking in the back of your mind, and it may seem easier to deny it, and run... but the longer you run away from it, the more exhausted you will become, because it's impossible to escape. accept the truth before you become too tired to continue on.
Just the way the camera circles around James as he tries to process what he saw and what he has done. It's almost like the player as well feels the same way, they need time to process what they have witnessed themselves. It's such a simple and powerful moment that I haven't seen any game top since then
This song is completely gorgeous. It's so sad but it's so beautiful.
+darkestbeforedawn09
It's like a painting that abstracts the emotions, I completely agree with you.
I am a Male and Man!
But this song... I can't not cry of nostalgia.
My childhood.
@@Леха_Картохаthank you for clarifying you're male and a man because you can be male and a woman or viceversa.
When someone tells you the horrible truth in your face, that melody could be perfect.
Nira Vampity lol soap opera moment.
noestoyfacil Yeah XD
Like when they tell you they actually smothered their wife 😶
***** Thats a good one XD
+Nira Vampity RIP my cat. :(
Silent Hill 2 is such a unique game, with such deep meaning on various standpoints. Definitely a Grade A classic.
No, you're wrong. It's a Grade S classic.
Get out with your "A" when its a well deserved S+ iconic game.
Definitely S+ no doubt
"She was always waiting for you... Why? WHY?"
I hate you i hate you i hate you i hate you
"I'm sorry, Laura. The Mary you know isn't here."
"This town is full of monsters. How could you sit there and eat pizza?!"
"But she said she was fine by herself! She said a fatso like me would just slow her down!"
please i want to see you James,cant you hear me?James please James...James.....James......James
This town is full of monsters, How can you sit there eating pizza?!
Blazey! because u can die if u don't eat nothing?
This town is full of pizza, how can you sit there eating monsters?
@@ivans.5959 This town is full of eating, how can you monster there sitting pizza?
@@Cyberdragon3 This town is full of sitting, how can you pizza there monster?
Joker wrong theme! You gotta aim!
Akira is a musical genius
I cannot unsee James Sunderland throwing it back in a silly dance after learning about the truth on the VHS tape.
silent hill: james throw the thought into the back of your head
james in question:
sh2 is like a drug - once you stop playing it, you wanna live a happy life
or you want it back again and again util you can't let it go
I always like listening to this when I am driving through the fog.
+CharlesLeeRay 😰😰
Have you seen a hole here? Short, black hair, just turned 7 last month. It's gone now.
Wait
This melody expresses my life overall
me too
Yeah me too so sad 😣😣
♥️♥️♥️
Same...
3 years later its still expressing 💔
There is something about those background 8 notes that go on forever - so hauntingly beautiful and sad on their own, and they never go away.
The way I read the song, those 8 notes are his guilt and the other layers of the songs are trying to drown it out and bury it - unsuccessfully. It is ever present, and everything else builds on that foundation. And. You. Can't. Stop. Hearing. It. Just like when guilt becomes what drives you.
It would be maddening if it wasn't such a soothing 8 notes.
Moonhermit2 well james lived with the guilt subconciously for so long it would have been a normal part of his daily life even if he did not know it so yes you're totally on the ball with your statement
This is an amazing interpreation. I hope you read this 'cause tonight we're apparently getting a SH2 remake :D
Sometimes the more simpler the melody the better.
Such a good comment
my God why the hell did I came across this... I still remember that moment. I was 12, sitting with pad in hand and jaw dropped, realizing what he remembered he did. "the mary you know is not here"... "give her back I want her back! give her back to me" memories....
Mary I fucked everthing up, i suffocated you with a pillow, I know you can't forgive me.* grits teeth*
@@joshshrum2764 I mean Mary does forgive him in the end. The central conflict is really if James can accept that it's what she wanted.
@@genericwhitekidthesecond4330 I guess that comment could be directed towards in water where he never gets that forgiveness.
@@joshshrum2764 I think regardless of the ending, James forgives himself. That's what the Pyramid Head boss fight symbolizes.
However, each ending represents how he finally deals with the loss.
**SPOILERS**
In "Leave", he takes Mary's words to heart and moves on, taking care of Laura as a surrogate daughter of theirs.
In "In Water", he accepts and forgives himself, but ultimately decides life is not worth living without her and does what he originally went to Silent Hill for, drowning himself.
In "Maria" he replaces his late wife with an idealized version of her. This could be interpreted in two ways: either he's coping/in denial and using Maria as a substitute/rebound; or he's atoning for how he feels he gave up on Mary, taking care of Maria they way he should've. This depends on how you interpret his last comment after Maria's cough.
The "Rebirth" ending is interesting, because he refuses to give up and it's implied he decides to restart the order to revive her.
That's my take, at least. Our endings are just how he copes with Mary's death
"I hate you James, I hate you I hate you"
I can just hear Laura in my head, "She was always waiting for you.. why.. why.."
I still hold SH4 in high regard for being my first, but SH2 and SH3 are absolute masterpieces. I prefer 3 for some personal reasons, but to me SH2 and 3 are two sides of the same coin. Akira Yamaoka dedicated himself SO much to each and every sound in SH2. Hundreds of different shoes on different floors he recorded for the footsteps. SH3 the visual department got a bit more insane and by the end of the game subtlety had been thrown to the wind. You feel like you're lost in between realities.
Personal reasons are why I can't choose between either game lol. Each game has somewhere special to me and touches my heart in different ways.
@@joshgroban5291 8 years ago and you're just now replying... do you think they're still active? even still alive?
@@colinblakeslee9163 they're in a place now, that town....Silent Hill.
This has to be one of my favorite songs from the Silent Hill series. It's so beautiful.
This song while expressing the saddest truth in James's life, is not a really sad song, I think it represents a sort of dark/sad relief in James's mind. The kind of relief you have when someone close, agonising for a long time has finally passed away and is not in pain anymore. You're really sad, but in the same time happy that the "problem" is solved, the pain is partially gone with the person. While depply sad, James is relieved in some way that he knows he touches the end of his nightmare, and there are no doubts left for him on what he has done and why he's here, not lost in the mist wandering.
The best SH ever
omg... I made this wallpaper.... in 2006, when i was already three years fan of the Silent Hill... it's been almost 10 years ago, but I'm still...
UmbraStellarTV Well 10 years is a big time dude when i was 6 i got my first silent hill game that was for ps1 almost 10 years dude same feels like yesterday...
Hazar Simsar "...Some things we forget, some things we can never forget..." (c) SH2, Ernest Baldwin
That was a gold answer....
You draw that?!!
@@frakturobsession6044 He didn't. The photo's from Keswick somewhere in England.
The first SH game I was able to get my hands on was SH4: The Room. Understandably the weakest of Team Silents SH games, but without ANY experience with M games or system shock types the game creeped me out to my core. My best friend had all the games and by now SH 1, 2 and 3 were not being made anymore and it would be years since their HD releases. I raved to him about my experiences with SH4 and he didn't talk down about the game or anything, he just grinned and handed me 2.
*"Laura... I'm sorry..."* 😔
The Mary you know, isn't here
TheKrustaceox I hate you I hate you !!
This music is played when truth is revealed in Silent Hill 2 and I was so shocked listening to this.
Even the movie knew you had to keep the original silent hill soundtrack
didn't know that. cool.
Except revelation.
@@myaamgs we don't talk about that THING!
.
"She was always waiting for you... Why..? Why!?"
Silent hill would be an excellent vacation spot if only there wouldnt be monsters roaming the streets....
I suppose that depends on what type of person you are. Or what you've done in the past.
+Raiken Leo | Oh, I`d spent my honeymoon there. Except maybe without killing my wife and returning to face her again after a few years...
+Raiken Leo
I guess the things you can appreciate are the loneliness and the dead silence on viewing the fog.
That's already how it is. It's was resort town, or a "vacation spot".
There are a lot of places in the New England area of North America that feel exactly like the town in Silent Hill 2.
So I'd heard this song at least ten times before, both in the game and the movie. But only just now, when I clicked this video and the music started, I got chill bumps all over my entire body and the hair on my arms rose up. Ah, good old Silent Hill, so terrifying and yet it feels like you're only coming home to where you belong.
I almost get an 'Exorcist theme-meets-Goosebumps theme' feeling from the piano/drum intro vamp
Great comparison!
in my restless dream i see that town.. i want to go to that place to solve my mystery in myself that cannot explain..
best song from the soundtrack
I miss you so much...
Best game
+AnEternalSoul XYZ and still is
AnEternalSoul XYZ and always will be !
I like to make music as a hobby. I think making music really lets you release emotions that you have inside of you. I make 8-bit music, but plan to begin making music using actual instruments once I learn how to use them.
...Still, I'll never compare to the musical genius of Akira Yamaoka. His music just brings something out of you that nothing else seems to be able to do. It's just... so good. I'd die happy if I could make a piece of music that evokes emotion out of somebody. But my self-confidence always holds me back, and I never allow myself to truly release what I'm feeling. I tell myself that nobody will care, that people will think I'm an asshole for trying to make music, for thinking that I'm actually worth something, and that I'm a disgrace and an insult to anyone who actually makes music. I'm just a 17 year old boy who sits in his room, doing nothing with his life. What's going to come out of this? It's such an internal struggle to make music and not just throw it away, saying that nobody's going to like it. That's why I get so envious when I listen to Akira Yamaoka's music; he's able to put an emotion into a song, and truly make the listener feel what he was feeling when he made the song. I shut myself down before I'm able to do anything like that, which is why I have so much trouble making music. It's sad, but hopefully I can overcome it one day and make a piece of music that people will really, truly like and relate to. That's my ultimate goal; I want to make people feel the way I do when I make a piece of music, just like Akira Yamaoka does with his songs. But, alas, that's a far ways away. :-)
i feel ya man
You are actually able to put a feeling into your songs 💪
Another one of my favorite songs. Thanks for extending :)
It fills up with such sweet and melancholic feelings, I love it mery much, it makes you think and feel like the happiness beyond the sadness.
such a great track
Try it at 2-speed. If Silent Hill 2 were available for Nintendo, maybe would sound like this.
+Crime Videogames castlevania
+Crime Videogames i like it rsrsrs
+Crime Videogames 1.5 speed too
sounds better than 1.0 i like it
Are you kidding me? Normal speed is much more compelling. Double speed sounds ridiculous. Though it would be fitting for an NES version of the game.
Beautiful sound
This is just epic. Thanks for posting this up! :)
9 years! I from Brazil 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
This song is freakin' badass!
the best song, and sad ;')
well I'm alone there now.. waiting for you
When this song played all of James's illusions dissolved and reality began to set in...his love was dead and nothing could bring her back. Really tragic shit.
Is this picture from a real place?
Update: Its England, Keswick. And the lake name is Derwentwater.
wait this place exists? cool
So it's not Maine? What a lie!!!!!
@@vvc15081985 Because that's where Silent Hill is supposed to be
I’ve been there ! Keswick in the Lake District in Cumbria England, one of my favourite places in the world ! Wow did it really inspire Silent Hill or is it just a fan used image ?
@@mattevans923 image is real, was used Silent Hill 2 as a background
Como eu amo silent hill 2 e 3, jogos perfeitos e com trilha sonora perfeita, bons tempos que eu alugava isso pra jogar
that hospital :O
Nope, this music plays at the Lakeview Hotel
rainy mood + anything
Akira yamaoka es un genio dios mio este soundtrack me encanta siento algo en mi corazon cada vez que la escucho
5 people dislike the truth
Now its 14 lol
Hugh MacEachern ...and 17 now. Why do people hate the truth?
They can't handle the truth!
Hugh MacEachern They are scared!!!!
أحلى سايلنت هيل 😍😍😍👍👍
the mary you know.... isn't here
Rainy Mood + this is just awesome.
i love this song
Silent hill 2 is like wine older the better!!
“why do they call it oven when you of in the cold food of our hot eat the food”
**yes**
This music, it's sorrowful, desolate tones really fit the idea of the truth being thrust into your face and shattering the reality you've come to accept.
This was the first song I perfected on piano... Memories :')
Definitely try it for yourself if you haven't.
Masterpiece!!!👌🏻👌🏻👏🏻👏🏻🎶🎵
Toluca lake looks all so familiar
Toluca not Tuluka
that dog had it coming to
LOVE SILENT HILL
I remember hearing this for the first time and I was like DAMNNNN THIS SONG IS GOOD
""I like you as a friend""
Oh my heart, I love this song
This one will surely push you to end everything sooner or later..
The best game ever
James sure does have a nice background soundtrack for his visit to Silent Hill
this song is nice i like it. but it sometimes make me sad.
Guys, I think Silent Hill is finally coming back
it is now
it happened
it really did
Cant help but remember that edit where james starts twerking like his life depends on it 💀💀
he was hitting the griddy 😂
toque perfeito silent hill 2 o melhor de toda a saga...
Sh2r is true
This track way very ahead of its time, to fans
pretty sure ive been to the place in the picture
In my restless dreams, i see that lake... Toluca...
Give this man a: Silent Hill 2 - True (Extended)
Perfect
¡Esto es hermoso! construiré un mundo así.
the scenery needs more clouds please...
...relaxing...
Yes... fine 😊😊😊
Thank you ❤
The image...isn'T that the same like on the parking deck before you enter the forest in Silent Hill 2?
You would be correct. That is the very same image. Ripped right from the game, too. Although when you see it in the game, the engine makes it seem more disproportionate than the actual image itself is. It gives off an illusion that you are on the opposite end of a larger lake than what is in the picture. Plus the fog in-game covers the image up, along with the trees; making the colors appear duller and less contrasting. I like the image.
Iswallowmoths me too! I wonder if this is an actual image! FOund in the real world
I feel like it is, but i too wonder.
Ash Mckain it looks so believable! The lake, the town and the hills... everything falls into places!
Yeah, its quite nice. Heh a couple comments down, someone did some searching and found it was a real place.
"Never mind, I did some research and discovered it's a photo of Keswick, England."
is what he or she said/
we need one hour version!!
*sit on armchair, head down, hands together and finger grazing forehead*
*song starts playing*
My mind: (you forgot how nostalgic this song was...)
Me: ...Shit ... what have i done with my life these last years...?
here i can experience guilt, pain and suffering pretty comfortable
This song plays very briefly in the game. :
For some reason I knew the lake was like this without having seen or played the game.
brainsplatters
This is the instrumental that makes you think about what you've done . I have nothing else to say lol . Fr though all jokes aside . My favorite instrumental . Poor Mary yo
Best game ever
Developed by the worst company ever. Funny how that works.
LA MARY QUE CONOCES, YA NO EXISTE...........
you can try to push the truth away all you want, but the act of pushing it away is already bringing attention to it. the truth will always be there, lurking in the back of your mind, and it may seem easier to deny it, and run... but the longer you run away from it, the more exhausted you will become, because it's impossible to escape. accept the truth before you become too tired to continue on.
This retro type of realism should have been the remakes art direction
i love it
RIP dear dear friend.
This makes a good horrorcore song/beat
i wanna used this song for the haunted house in the school, it's perfect to a scary ambient
there was an old flash game that used this theme, does someone remember the name ?
brainsplatters
In my restless dreams I see that town, Silent Hill.
Me to my Dog: You're adopted.
My Dog: 00:01
0:25
Son: "Dad.....I'm gay."
Father: *Music starts playing* 🙁
I can't believe the dog was behind everything. 🐶
Blame Eddie