Have a question about silent Hill 2. I am wondering if I can go back to the start of the town where the greenhouse is and where I found the first map. as I can see There is 3 scribble red sections and I and I only got 2 and missed walking up the street with all the houses and now I'm far into town where I have unlocked that building and now up to find the clock hands. But can I go to town to fixed what I missed ?

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If you put on one of the silly hats it’s in the cutscenes too 💀💀

Hello, I was playing Silent Hill 2 Remake on dx12 just fine a week ago but yesterday the game suddenly just wouldn't launch whenever I double clicked it. I changed it to dx11 and it worked. After researching online, the only thing that helped me was going to Device manager and manually disabling the integrated GPU (Intel in my case) under Display adaptors. I'm on Windows 11.

The only different thing I did that I can think of during the one week I didn't play was clicking on the notifications that I have new Intel driver updates and installing Intel Arc. Weirdly enough I feel like this app just makes things more inconvenient. Could that be the issue, and is it ok if I delete it?

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To me the Angela story is more impactful than that of James... its so disturbingly grim and tragic.

The physical representation in the game is a completely different level of disturbing compared to James manifestation in its detail... The daddy fight, how fast he is, what he says during the fight, the walls falling apart to reveal skin with holes in, pistons pumping, fluid oozing.. the hiding spots, torn pictures, his physical form

10/10 for making me feel uncomfortable AF

She stabbed her dad.. But I see a lot of different interpretations about Angelas story with her mother and brother.. towards the end she is pining for mama.. she wants her mama to be a safety net. But in the scene with James she comes to terms with the fact she isn't.. Angela has nobody

The best anyone can hope for in silent hill is acceptance.

Angela gets this.. she has nobody, she walks up the stairs into her own fate. She may have even stabbed her mother.. but I feel so certain she burned her house down with her family in it...

Like James she's trying to navigate her denial/acceptance of what happened and processing whether to suicide herself...

Absolutely tragic... nobodys saving/helping her.. nobody ever has.

Ok I love the remake I’ve even platinum’d it and I’m currently doing hard/hard and does anyone have a problem with the camera ???

I mean I’ll articulate as best as I can but when ur tryna 1v1 a mannequin the camera moves all over the place it can get so disorienting.

I just defeated the abstract daddy and I’m at the save point on the labyrinths cross roads. How far in the game am I? Please tell me how much farther I have to go. Thanks in advance 😊

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Tho I dont belive that they have much of a connection, i was wondering why the sunderland family plays some sort of role in Walter’s story. I mean Silent Hill is known for its allusions to both previous and future games so I dont hink the newspaper found in SH2 talking about the murder of the twins is nothing more than a silly lore dump but still, the appearance of Walter there is a bit confusing. I also think theres a much deeper reason as to why Frank took the umbilical cord and why he was included in the story of SH4 in the first place (maybe it was because they wanted to add a bit of james to the story but i doubt team silent would add something to the game that doesnt have anything to do with the lore) I know this topic has already been discussed here but i was wondering if anyone else has any new theories about it.

Ok so this may be a long one so stick with me. I've been thinking alot about the way the new silent hill 2 was told, there's alot of background information that I believe answers a age old question that many seem to glance over, How did James get Mary to Silent Hill. He put a dead body in the back seat and drove all the way there with no one being suspicious? My theory is that James kills Mary in Silent Hill. Let's take some steps and look through the game. Ok so as we know Mary is confirmed to be in the back seat stated by the creator and hinted at by bloober in the In Water Ending. I don't believe it would have been possible for James to transport a body very far especially a sick patient who is being kept tabs on. So he takes her to Silent Hill for her only time she has left outside a hospital room, he rents an apartment room from woodside apartment (you know which one) and proceeds to go shop around town, he tries to but flowers for her, and makes multiple stops around town (This can be proven by all the notes stating about the guy that they've been dealing with because clearly it was james). He then returns and has the moment of delusion that he will mercy kill Mary, in the Woodside Apartments (I'd like to prove this by pointing out the small room in room 201 is the same room that's shown in the video of james killing Mary). He then puts her body in his car and decides he wants to go with her so he drives to the lake and out on the overlook of the lake he starts to panic so he runs to the bathroom to compose himself, but it's too late the delusions has taken hold and Silent Hill has pulled him in. My theory is that James was never called by silent hill, he was already there.

This is the only direct tie-in I’ve found with SILENT HILL in SILENT HILL 2: REMAKE outside of the Virun VII Crest being depicted (again) in the dual Pyramid Head battle.

James giving Laura the letter in leave ending.

In the leave ending Mary gives James a letter. This is (supposedly) the same letter that Laura took from the nurse Rachel but then accidently lost it somewhere in the hotel. We all know that Laura is not affected by the Silent Hill and sees the town as is, which means she lost the letter in the real Silent Hill. After that, James gets (supposedly) the same letter from Mary, but James is still under the effect of Silent Hill. Mary's final cutscene and the letter that she gives to James are still hallucinations created by Silent Hill. This means that the letter is also not real. Well if that's the case, how does James give that letter to Laura? She's not affected by the town so she shouldn't be able to see it, should she?

Possibly explanations:

1. Laura is affected by the town, she just doesn't see any monsters. She might be in the peaceful, possibly foggy version of SH and likely doesn't see the town residents either. Which means the letter is SH's creation, and the real letter is still somewhere in the hotel.

2. After beating the final boss, SH releases James and he is no longer under the effect of the town. The final cutscene with Mary is where Laura actually lost the letter and this is how he finds it.

Any thoughts? Am I overthinking this?

The lack of loading screens. If you can make a game that completely cuts out loading screens and make the whole game one seamless playthroug, the game just becomes so much more immersive. It's a big reason why games like Dark Souls 1 and God of War 2018 did it, it makes the story flow so much better and dettaches one layer lower in the "I'm just playing a video game" barrier. Obviously it came with some issues as a lot of the time it sturrers when then player loads in a new section ahead of time but for the most part I think they did an amazing job. Every transation to different areas are in world cutscenes or Jame actually walking there. It takes a lot of work to make that possible and I applaud bloober team for that.

And not in a bad way! I'm absolutely in love with the game. Despite the fact that I don't like horror games, I'm super into silent hill. I just finished the flesh lip boss fight and entered the otherworld version of the hospital. And saw the map, everything is unexplored. Gotta do it all over again. And I'm very tired and exhausted. But at the same time I'm super excited to see what comes next. But this lingering exhaustion. It feels like it's increasing the more i progress. There's no end to the horror. Is this what James' mind is like? A neverending vessel of disgust, despair, fear, and most of all exhaustion and terror. Does anyone else feel exhausted playing?

I have all except for In Water. I have followed every detail available online, after my now 5th playthrough of the game... I'm saying f**k it.

I appreciate that the multiple ending are cool but to make them trophies and then have them be so damn inconsistent is really annoying. Like literally you read online and two people who did the opposite things get the same ending, then I do both of those and don't get it with either. So frustrating.

Anyway, loved the game, ending requirements are dumb, rant over.

I’m just wandering around the first area and messing with the graphics (ps5) and just can’t seem to get it right. I see a lot of people go back and forth about which settings to use, but I’m having a hard time liking any combination of settings 😂

I’ve turned motion blur on/off & have been switching between quality and performance mode. Both are just so blurry and hard to look at when moving around. Do I just have unrealistic expectations or am I overthinking it?

how fucked am i???? (no spoilers please, this is my first ever SH2 playthrough.) i was tantalized early on by the melee only achievement and now i fear the worst. btw i have 564 pistol bullets if anyone needs sum

I've tried literally everything that guides have told me to get the in water ending, with no success. I've been reading that other people are having this issue, is it a bug? Or skill issue? 😞

I checked the knife very often. Health was low most of the game. Sat in critical staring at the knife for 11 minutes. Went thru the rusty door Listened to Mary in the hallway.

Maybe I'm missing something? Thanks in advance!

Ok now hear me out...a mod where instead of the wooden board or the steel pipe as James's weapon he's using a pillow instead...

Just me?