Comments on: Spoiler Friday: Silent Hill 2

By: Follower

Follower — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:23:04 +0000

Dang, I cried so much when I played this game.

By: Follower

Follower — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:23:00 +0000

Dang, I cried so much when I played this game.

By: Dision

Dision — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 20:19:48 +0000

I’d like to add that much of the beauty in the ending comes from uncommonly good voice acting on the part of Mary’s voice actor as she reads the letter aloud.

By: Dision

Dision — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 20:19:00 +0000

I’d like to add that much of the beauty in the ending comes from uncommonly good voice acting on the part of Mary’s voice actor as she reads the letter aloud.

By: Dision

Dision — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 20:14:46 +0000

This analysis is quite right. Silent Hill 2 is frightening because it’s a game of emotional horror, not instinctual horror. Subsequent Silent Hill games have been disappointing because they don’t have the same emotional impact; they have the same look and sound, but what’s missing is the terrifying prospect of emotional trauma taking physical form.

But I disagree with this post with respect to the ending. The ending in which James leaves with Laura does more than approach a happy ending; it is a happy ending. Certainly, it isn’t happy in the rainbows-and-lollipops sense, but the full version of Mary’s letter provides a beautiful catharsis.

By: Dision

Dision — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 20:14:00 +0000

By: rootbeerking

rootbeerking — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:02:37 +0000

God I played like 30 mins of the first Silent Hill and I was too scared to go on.

So Silent Hill is Hell huh?

By: TheRootBeerKing

TheRootBeerKing — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:02:00 +0000

God I played like 30 mins of the first Silent Hill and I was too scared to go on.

So Silent Hill is Hell huh?

By: UberNoCrono

UberNoCrono — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 00:35:30 +0000

Dog ending is the best damn ending ever for a videogame….

By: UberNoCrono

UberNoCrono — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 00:35:00 +0000

Dog ending is the best damn ending ever for a videogame….