The just lately launched remake of Silent Hill 2 is one among 2024’s greatest horror video games and a incredible adaption of the unique 2001 traditional. Because the recreation’s launch, one thriller involving a sequence of unusual Polaroid pictures has remained unsolved…till now. Apparently, the reply appears to verify a fan idea, too.
Silent Hill 2‘s remake is a reasonably devoted adaption of the OG PS2 recreation. It as soon as once more stars James Sunderland as he explores the creepy, fog-filled city of Silent Hill after receiving a letter from his supposedly useless spouse. Whereas the sport is marketed as a remake, there are hints within the recreation—out there now on PS5 and PC—that this remake is definitely a loosely related sequel. And after fixing a puzzle involving mysterious pictures within the Silent Hill 2 remake, a Redditor has seemingly confirmed this in style idea.
Warning! Spoilers beneath for Silent Hill 2!
Within the Silent Hill 2 remake, gamers can discover 26 pictures scattered round varied locations within the recreation. Every picture reveals totally different, seemingly unconnected issues—like flowers or damaged glass. These pictures even have a quantity on them and hand-written sentences that don’t appear to connect with something within the picture. Some gamers puzzled if these had been simply creepy notes meant to make gamers confused and anxious. However others assumed they had been a part of a yet-to-be-solved puzzle.
On November 3, Dale Robison posted on the Silent Hill subreddit that they’d seemingly solved the picture thriller. They checked out every picture and counted any peculiar or noticeable issues throughout the picture, like open home windows or birds within the sky. They then regarded on the sentences on the photographs and matched the quantity with a letter. So, for instance, picture 1 options 6 home windows. And that picture has the notice “SO MANY PEOPLE HERE!” on it. The sixth letter is “Y.” They then used the picture numbers to order the letters, beginning with 1 and ended up with this message:
“YOUVE BEEN HERE FOR TWO DECADES”
In case you’re questioning if this individual is mendacity or if that is the proper answer, Silent Hill 2 remake’s artistic director and lead designer, Mateusz Lenart, confirmed this was the correct answer on Twitter.
So, what does the Silent Hill 2 picture puzzle answer imply?
Effectively, it appears to verify a well-liked fan idea that means James Sunderland, who killed his spouse and mentally blocked that out as he returned to Silent Hill to be punished by the city, is caught in a time loop. That is seemingly referenced within the recreation by the truth that all through Silent Hill 2 (the OG and the brand new one), you will discover corpses that resemble James Sunderland dotted across the city of Silent Hill.
Additional including proof to this interpretation of the story is that the Silent Hill 2 remake comprises moments the place James and the participant can encounter glimpses of the previous, that are moments that occurred within the unique recreation however had been modified within the remake. Virtually like James is caught in a time loop that modifications barely however at all times ends in the identical method.
In fact, others level out that the message may very well be a direct reference to how lengthy folks have been enjoying Silent Hill 2. Or, as some counsel, each choices are true, and this can be a affirmation of the time loop idea and a reference to folks nonetheless enjoying Silent Hill 2 in 2024. It will be very on-brand for a Silent Hill 2 puzzle to be a meta-commentary that confuses the participant and results in extra questions. Both method, the picture thriller is lastly solved!
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