Silent Hill 2 Remake - ENDING

Our time with Silent Hill 2 remake is at an end and some shocking twists will leave you feeling hollow

[artincendi]

The thing with Laura is that mary didn't die 3 years ago. Mary died fairly recently. James just supressed the memory super hard, that he says mary "died" when she was diagnosed 3 years ago.

[ladychelseaofthevoid]

I think James' sexual frustration is far more complicated than "he wants his hot, sexy wife back." He's more three-dimensional than that. He does feel sexually frustrated but he also feels guilty for his urges. People will argue that the Maria ending shows him as a callous sex pest who just wants a hotter Mary. The illness stripped Mary of her beauty and her kindness. James hates himself for his inability to cope with her dying. He is not a selfish, horny man - he is a desperate, grief-stricken, lonely man who has entered a dissociative fugue state.

I don't say this to defend his actions. He's guilty, but he definitely knows it and the town is punishing him accordingly.

[rieJW]

Mary’s line “if that’s true, then why do you look so sad” is such a beautiful line.

It shows that despite James’ admission of hating her, it was proof that he also still loved her very much. James may have been a flawed man but he wasn’t without love. Such an honest and sincere game.

[calvinmcdaniel]

Dude the actor for james deserves an award for his scenes. The way he was able to portray desperation, grief, anger, and some joy was fantastic

[mynameisharry]

Angela's story is f***ing tragic. Even before the reveal of her past, you can tell how anxious and scared she is around James.
It's pretty apparent she has a deep rooted fear, distrust and hatred for men

[Blackchain]

"Is that a bunch of save points? Hah!"

*Walks right past them into the penultimate fight.*

[ShadowedDemonSpawn]

The first boss u fought here in this video, its called Abstract Daddy and its not a portrait. Its a bed frame. And its a bigger figure over a smaller squirming one. Angela's dad didnt just get drunk. He assulted her many times.

[allthenights]

*SPOILERS ALERT*
Skipped to the end of the video to hear your thoughts (as I have already completed the game myself) and here are a few things worth mentioning:
1. Laura and Mary were in the same hospital, but it is likely not a Brookhaven Hospital. It's probably St. Jerome's Hospital located in Ashfield, as Mary often refers to nurse as Rachel and we know from SH4 that Rachel worked in that hospital, not the Brookhaven. Also, Brookhaven hospital is a mental institution and Mary was diagnosed with a skin disease (maybe cancer but not 100%) so it would explain why she would not be in Brookhaven.
2. Laura is very much alive, not dead and definitely not a ghost. She however, does not perceive Silent Hill as James or Angela or Eddie do. For her, SH is most likely looking like a child's playground or something a child would find nice to be in. That's why she locks James in that room with a boss fight, because for her there is no such monster, for her it's just some nice looking room. You got the "Leave" ending where James and Laura probably bury Mary in SH cemetery and afterwards leave that place and James maybe ends up adopting Laura (as she is an orphan) and Mary mentions that if things were different, she would adopt her.
3. Silent Hill consists of 3 parts: The real world (people live normally, all is good), The fog world (covered in fog with monsters walking around), The other world (which is the worst one and basically looks like a nightmare).
4. Silent Hill's backstory is filled with mass murders, "demonic" worship etc. and so the town attracts occultists and lunatics in general.
5. James killed Mary days prior to coming to Silent Hill and her body can be found in the backseat of his car covered with blankets and in one of the endings, you notice he is looking back at the body. For him she died 3 years ago because for him she "died" the moment she got sick.
6. As you said, the remake does not get any better. What an amazing experience it was to play it.

[rumimiko]

“I guess this is the first person we killed, huh James..”

Oh boy…

[annoyingghost]

3:03:38 SO sad you missed the last save point :(
I thought it was cool because it's the first time in the remake where James is not looking at the camera, side-eyeing, like he can't look at himself now that he remembers the truth.

[kenossa]

I think the sequence of the fight with Abstract Daddy has a second meaning too - basically he attacks from nowhere, you expect him but don't know when or where from he will come. Then he disappears, leaving you in silence for some time, just to come back again and do horrible stuff. It's the same as when he actually went to Angela's room and did what he did.

[zachialadams]

18:04 I don't think Angela fully tackled her problems there. Her biggest issue was her guilt over killing her father, even though he very much deserved it. James still had her knife when he encountered Abstract Daddy, which is the core of her trauma. To 'resolve' her trauma, she'd have to be the one to use the knife to kill it, herself. Silent Hill is an amoral force, just reflecting things. It does have an awareness, though. And a sense of irony, even if that irony is deeply, DEEPLY cynical. The way it affects James is pretty clear, too. He's lying to himself. All his enemies are abstract edges of his guilt and repressed desire, but they all lack faces. They aren't 'true' because he refuses to admit to himself what he's guilty over. He abandoned Mary. He wanted intimacy but couldn't bear to tell her he didn't have desire for her anymore.

[Taliesin_]

1:14:28 Yeah, the Born From a Wish DLC re-contextualized Maria in a tragic and horrifying way. She's not just a figment of James' imagination, she's a full-blown person with her own perspective, experiences, and inner thoughts. Created by the town as nothing more than a tool to punish James, she gets killed over and over just to torment him. He's the only living person she's ever met or could ever meet, the person she was created for, and she can't convince him to stay with her. And even in the ending where James tries to leave with her, the town gives her Mary's illness to continue the cycle of suffering. She was doomed, utterly doomed from the start.

[mrbuddy]

3:32:10 - Mary passed away a few days ago, and her body can still be seen in the backseat of the car at the beginning. The thing about three years ago is for James, Mary died for him the moment she was diagnosed with the disease.

[soapssie]

Those who have gone through similar to what Angela has gone through, please know it's NEVER EVER deserved. No matter the circumstances. It isn't your fault for wanting love, it isn't your fault for being naive, or what you wore, or said, or even lack of words that could've been said.
It isn't your fault for trusting somebody. No one should push themselves onto you, it's not okay, it's never okay.
But YOU'RE going to be okay.
I know it feels like all you wanna do is take off your skin, or sometimes you feel like you "miss it".
But you're worth something, something far more than the sun, and no amount of scum can take away the beauty of who you are.
Please take care of yourself, and know it's never, ever will be or has been your fault, never.

[bergtheth]

Jack will now go to Silent Hill so he can overcome his repressed guilt of his broken toe.

[danialyousaf]

I just remembered something about the lying figures and the four legged ones, they arent just a representation of James's sexual frustration, they're also a reminder of Mary's writhing legs as she was suffocated.

[moxxiyt]

People in the comments never dissapoint me, thank y'all for explaining the symbolism and what every detail means. Jack is awesome to watch but with all the lore people have been telling, watching this was such a pleasure!

[lainzero]

So Laura is a real person, she doesn't see any monsters and doesn't see maria in the town due to her innocence, she misunderstood mary's letter about being in a better place. Laura thought it meant Silent Hill so she went there

[ks_ig]

Laura turning 8 years old recently despite Mary dying 3 years ago was when James realized and remembered that he killed Mary only just a few days ago.

Him leaving with Laura follows Mary's wish for James to "go on for yourself and for others"; meaning he decides to possibly adopt Laura as that's what Mary would have wanted.