Psychological Horror At Its Finest | Silent Hill 2

Silent Hill 2, to me, still is one of tge few trurly horrifying and scary games.
It and Alien Isolation, tobthis day, were the only omes that gave me chills and made me feel actual tension.

Truely magnificent games.

I remember watching my parents playing this game when i was a little kid. This game sure had a tremendous impact on my life. Theyd have a "game night" where my aunt, uncle, and parents would play a puzzle game and all work together to solve it. Silent hill 1 and 2 were part of those games. They sure had great taste.

I cry a little bit every time I hear "James.... You made me happy." Ugh I teared up just typing it.

I disagree, it's ridiculously overrated

Its the otherworldy Japanese to english that makes it awkward and standoffish. That's part of the magic

I'm probably one of the few that didn't mind Troy Baker's work as James in the HD collection, but I definitely agree that the new voice for Mary/Maria was nowhere near as good as the original.

Original voices: Dissasociated and eerie like the town and events themselves

New Voices: Sounds like they're losing their breathe on every line.

Comic sans 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

You mention what if you don't face pyramid head until the very end. From my experience facing of pyramid head throughout the game was really scary, everytime he started chasing me i ran as fast as possible without even thinking about any resistance, which what the devs probably had in mind. James running from his guilt, untill the very end when you are ready to fight back finally. I think making pyramid as a final boss woulden't make him more terrafying. Being followed is enough to make you shit your pants.

Why are the new cast of voice actors, so badly directed & why so echoey

I just finished this masterpiece of a game, all i can say is FUCKING masterpiece

Adding Pyramid Head to Fortnite would be paying for disadvantage. Even if the full head doesn't have a hitbox imagine trying to hide behind things. Lmao

There's also an ending where James takes Mary's body into the boat and says he's going to use the magic of the Cult to ressurect her. It symbolizes to me his desire to run from accountability for what he's done, like he was so close to getting what Silent Hill was trying to teach him and then he rejects it to try to just "fix" his mistake.

A Silent Hill game that springboards off how he further screws up the town in his attempt to bring Mary back would be cool I think.

Silent hill 2 is goat

To this day nothing has matched the emotional ride I had with this game, how it forced me to connect with itself and drown myself into it...

Troy Baker voicing James for SH2 should have been a dream come true, but thanks to devs handling of the project, it fell through to the shitter.

I do think it makes sense that we got two final fights. In the end, the whole story we have two antagonist, one that stands for James’ wish to be punished, and one that stands for his desire to forget.
I think in the end the leave ending is the one that makes the most sense if we consider James freeing himself from either, while the Maria and In Water endings see him falling for one or the other.

There is also a newspaper in the room prior to the hallway in which we find Angela screaming. Though the last name in it is, blurred, it is kind of obvious it refers to her father. It mentions he was killed by stabbing in what seemed a crime of passion.
By the way she acts in her final scene, it makes me think she must have suffered through victim-blaming on her mother’s end. Perhaps so much so that it is what ultimately lead her to feel that she deserved what happened to herself.

to be honest, I love Bakers version of james, Maria vc does not work for me tho

Silent hill 2 is the furthest removed game from the rest of the series Ironically the best received.

I was underwhelmed with the game when I beat it recently, I expected something better, since it is considered the best story in a videogame. However, it has not left my mind for the last few months after beating it. So I guess that despite my emotions while beating it, the story, mystery and the soundtrack make it so memorable. I can't wait to play the remake and for my wife to watch the movie they're making. I hope they can nail both.

Silent Hill 2's definitive version is the ps2 versio

No matter what people do with the PC vsrsion, it will always be inferior. Similar to how the GameCube version of RE 4 is the best one

Please, please. I hope that the upcoming remake is going to be as great..or close at least.

I've only been able to play the first SH. I want to experience this one SO BAD but there's no way. Only have ps4

So I always thought the elevator game show audio was rubbish. But it occured to me that this could just be James remembering in a real grim way, the TV he'd be watching at Marys bedside while in hospital. Makes sense since it's in the hospital segment

Oh man oh man. I stopped like 14 minutes in on the Angela scene. Seeing that cutscene really made me feel something, and I just knew I had to stop watching and play the rest of the game myself. So I did what I had to do and had a go at it. Holy hell, I've never seen story telling like Silent Hill 2 in gaming EVER. Some real and heavy topics are covered in this game, and Angela's story had me feeling broken. I feel so bad for her. That final line of hers in the fire, about it always being like this for her. Man. Really good video! Thanks for getting me into Silent Hill !

The FMVs in this game are just down right spooky the way they are shot and the rendering process they used. Especially the one with Maria locked in the cell

maria is pulled off very well as a character

I liked the original game but I never got a ps2 so I never did get to play this. I got an Xbox instead.

Edit: evidently it was released to the Xbox as well but I guess I never knew that. It’s probably because by the time this came out I was burnt out on survival horror games. After Re 1, 2, 3, Dino crisis 1, 2, Silent Hill, Galerians, and Fear Effect 1 and 2I was a bit ready to move on.

I thought part one was better

SH2 gave me that “there is no going back” vibes. Id play this during sleepovers w my buddies in middle school. Playing the game not knowing if we were playing it correctly.
Lights off, huge box tv, pizza, good times hahah

The whole "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar" relates purely to psychology, while exposing Freud to be hypocritical. He argued that people smoking cigars is related to someone lack confidence. When someone pointed out that he also smokes cigars he dismissed it saying that quote.

The whole "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar" relates purely to psychology, while exposing Freud to be hypocritical. He argued that people smoking cigars is related to someone lack confidence. When someone pointed out that he also smokes cigars he dismissed it saying that quote.

I’m sorry. The best way to play it is in it’s OG form on PS2.

Much ❤ to this great video.

Genius, heavy, brilliant, terrifying, memorable and gets under your skin so easily. So many things about this game are impossible to best - the freaking soundtrack alone is just stellar. There will never be a game as good as this one.

SH2's interpretation of "5 Stages of Grief" on each Characters:
James - Denial
Eddie - Anger
Maria - Bargaining
Angela - Depression
Mary/Laura - Acceptance

I remember playing this on PS2 when it came out and I thought the gameshow moment was really scary at the time.

A really interesting and thoughtful analysis! I disagreed slightly with your idea that Pyramid Head would be more impactful if we only fought him at the end, though. The previous boss fights and hallway encounters made him feel more viscerally terrifying because it's YOU as much as James who's failing to defeat him permanently.

It also added to the theme that he's James' punishment for his sins, and it's only after James has confronted those sins that he can successfully confront Pyramid Head. If he was relegated to just cutscenes, he'd have felt too distant.

Silent Hill 2 is one of the greatest and scariest psychological horror video games of all time. The story, music, images, astomphere, tension, direction, metaphors, symbolism, graphics, sound designs, monster designs, taboo topics, and cinematography was absolutely and positivity horrifying and terrifying. 😱😰 It really identifies and analyzes the boundaries between reality and fiction as it questions your sanity. It also gives a insightful and articulate representation of grief, guilt, and punishment. To this day I still play it and I consider it a classic. It was decent. Silent Hill 2 is a true blue ultimate masterpiece in horror gaming. Konami created a classic that will be in our hearts forever. It never gets old. 😍💯👍😎

Amazing

Me and my girlfriend were playing sh2 for the first time and the pizza line is hands down one of the funniest lines in the game but it makes perfect sense for James to say it what a great line

Nothing scares me more than comic sans

Dont you need a copy of silent hill 2 on pc to play the enhanced version? Its impossible to find. The only way to play this game now is through the hd collection unless you wanna dish out 200 bucks on a ps2 copy.

Dude I know you made a video, but a lot of us listen to content like this while working or driving. Putting in Japanese clips without at least explaining what they're saying is bad form

Now this is ART.
To this very day I still play this.
I even have the music.