Breaking Down Video Game Music: True | Silent Hill 2

True from Silent Hill too is AMAZING, and not scary at all (really).

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[MarcoMeatball]

coming back to this after finishing silent hill 2 is wild.

[drbadha]

SH 2 music has a large variety of emotions. In my opinion, SH 2 main core isn't a horror but depression, loneliness, anger and sadness, but mostly... regret.

"Theme of Laura", "Love Psalm" and "Promise" for example, gives me a feeling of depression and hope at the same time.

If you want horror themed music, "Betrayal", "Terror In The Depths Of The Fog", "Ashes And Ghost" or "Block Mind"

If you're looking for something heavy with anger "Angel's Thanatos" or "Overdose Delusion"

For loneliness, "Laura Plays The Piano", "The day of Night", "Magdalene", "Pianissimo Epilogue" or "Null Moon"

Games after SH 2 have a lot of songs sung by Mary Elizabeth McGlynn but those are play on specific cutscenes or endings, the rest of the ost follows the same feelings than the ones above.

[SaoryEmanoelle]

It's insane just how much can be told through music. Without spoilers, you described the scene where this plays PERFECTLY. Amazing

[hollyday]

In Silent Hill 2, you play a man searching for his wife, who had already died some time before the events of the game. He suddenly receives a mysterious letter in the mail apparently from the aforementioned dead wife, telling him to come to Silent Hill, setting off the events of that game.

[apexzora]

Yamaoka is an incredible composers and one of the most famous of the whole medium definitely give a listen to the whole sh2 OST but tbh all silent hill osts are goated. The first game's main theme is definitely one of the most recognizable pieces of videogame music too

[chanapkis]

01:23 Oh my christ Marco... you continue to comprehend and truly understand the purpose behind every single track you listen to. Spot on how you identify the emotions that the composer wishes to convey with these soundtracks, masterful.

[Never_heart]

Yamaoka is an amazing and very unique composer. Even the rougher games he composed for have really solid osts. It's worth giving a few of the vocal tracks in the various Silent Hill soundtracks a listen, Mary Elizabeth McGlynn is a wonderful vocalist who really skillfully balances ethereal surrealness and the grunge pop themes

[AoiLucine]

God, you nailed the emotions for the scene this song is played during. Its one of my fav songs from Silent Hill 2.

[AR-bjet]

I'd love to see you breakdown Promise as well from SH2. You're so good at picking up the emotional expressions and the storytelling of songs I think you'll really really appreciate that one

[leonsant]

This song plays at a very pivotal moment, and it is meant to trap you in that moment. It is so well composed anytime I have seen someone play this part they just sit there absorbing that moment. It is so well done. Silent hill 4 the room has my favorite soundtrack.

[Fergaruz]

"She was always waiting for you... why...? why...?"

Silent Hill 2 is a master piece, Akira Yamaoka is the goat and THIS scene will live with me forever.

[mdpalfy]

There are no vocal lyrics in the OSTs for SH1 & SH2. Vocal tracks become more commonplace after SH3 and onwards, but the use of melodies is so strong that vocals I think would get in the way of the contemplative nature of SH2 specifically.

Would really love for you to look at Betrayal from SH2, Flower Crown of Poppy from SH3, and Confinement from SH4 back to back, cause they share some really interesting structural similarities, but have very distinct vibes.

[redhawkGmbH]

Silent Hill 2 definitely has one of the best and unique videogame soundtracks ever made🖤. Horror games in general nearly always got such good songs and atmospheric music. If I'm alowed to recomend a few here: CRY OF FEAR (Songs "Crow", "Horror inside", "Simon" and "Anxiety"), SONG OF SAYA (Songs "Schizophrenia" and "Scream")

Love to listening whatever comes up next on your channel🖤! Your analyses are so interesting. Keep up the good work 😃

[fairsaa]

These songs hold a pretty dear spot in my heart, and I hilariously haven't even played the games!

The music from this game kept me sane when studying for exams and writing essays.

[Tung--]

Other Silent Hill tracks I recommend that are pop like and still contain horror:
-Fukuro
-Ki no ko
-Usagi
-Terror in the depths of the fog (SH2)
-Sickness unto foolish death (SH3)
-Remodeling (SH4)
-Eternal Rest (SH1)

[victoriawinsor]

the music from silent hill 2 tickles my brain so wonderfully and having marco break down all of the elements has me losing my marbles. literally on my hands and knees begging for more reactions from the sh2 ost

[sorathesapphirestar]

yessss! one of my favorite soundtracks of all time. i’m glad you’re checking one out that is less popular.

[buddhafied]

Thanks for doing a tune in Silent Hill 2, one of my favourite games of all time. I don't play a lot of survival horror, but Silent Hill 2 was honestly unique on its own. The soundtrack was so haunting!

[WookieWarriorz]

Silent hill 2 in a sense is about characters being trapped in a town that torments them with their trauma. One character we see in an abstract creepy way was abused by her father. The mc has this guilt from his wifes death as well as a sort of sexual deviance. Theres apsect of nietzschean and jungian philosophy in the game for example James is essentially haunted by a true/shadow version of himself in pyramid head. To me tracks like this give this eerie sense of normality and nostalgia like the confused unsettling nature of trauma itself almost, it gives me the feeling that we might make it but the path is going to hurt. Like overcoming the 'shadow'.

[Padre_des_los_penitentes]

Oh please check out Silent Hill 2 Promise and Theme of Laura
Akira Yamaoka is a genius composer
Silent Hill 2 may be a horror game, but it has an immensely tragic story and the music can go from terrifying, to sad to just a bop. It's amazing
I would recommend even playing the game
And no, 2 isn't the same
Actually 2 is completely different from 1, it is actually 1 and 3 which are connected