A Prisoner's Last Taste of Freedom
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A Prisoner's Last Taste of Freedom
Perhaps this has been said before but as I was playing through the game again last week I came to the picture which says that prisioners can choose their death as a last taste of freedom. The only two choices on the list are being skewered (which I also considered stabbed) and strangling.
In a (not so startling way) these are the only two attacks which the final boss can inflict upon James at the end of the game (excluding moths which...are clearly not deadly). I'm not sure entirely where I'm going with this idea but perhaps James is picking both as his punishment as the prisioner of his own mind?
Please excuse my stumbling in the dark.
In a (not so startling way) these are the only two attacks which the final boss can inflict upon James at the end of the game (excluding moths which...are clearly not deadly). I'm not sure entirely where I'm going with this idea but perhaps James is picking both as his punishment as the prisioner of his own mind?
Please excuse my stumbling in the dark.
as the jail is quite old (out of use in the real silent hill) it was probably just a way of how the executenors killed the prisoners, however pyramid head (who was made by james to punish himself) does have both those attacks( first fight he can either strangle you or just cut you up with the great knive)
I don't think the marydemon had a strangle attack though I never let her close to try anything, only those moths kept hitting me , as far as I know she only hits with this tentacle thingy and the moths
I don't think the marydemon had a strangle attack though I never let her close to try anything, only those moths kept hitting me , as far as I know she only hits with this tentacle thingy and the moths
well I finished SH2 2 times now and currently playing SH3
both times I played normal setting so uh as the pyramid heads hurt like crazy I just didn't want to risk having mary get close to me, I fisished the second marydemon fight without getting hit once( also no moth hurt me , tbh for the last boss this is way too easy ) well as the last place is indeed made like a courthouse (marydemon being the "judge") it would make sense that she can do the last "rights" a prisoner has (which james is in a way, prisoner of his own warped mind)
to me the PH seemed more like the executenors (well they where in the real silent hill ages ago , just ofc not immortal, prolly some normal humans who had those scary outfits on )
both times I played normal setting so uh as the pyramid heads hurt like crazy I just didn't want to risk having mary get close to me, I fisished the second marydemon fight without getting hit once( also no moth hurt me , tbh for the last boss this is way too easy ) well as the last place is indeed made like a courthouse (marydemon being the "judge") it would make sense that she can do the last "rights" a prisoner has (which james is in a way, prisoner of his own warped mind)
to me the PH seemed more like the executenors (well they where in the real silent hill ages ago , just ofc not immortal, prolly some normal humans who had those scary outfits on )
Theey are, just not for james.Chibi wrote:well I finished SH2 2 times now and currently playing SH3
both times I played normal setting so uh as the pyramid heads hurt like crazy I just didn't want to risk having mary get close to me, I fisished the second marydemon fight without getting hit once( also no moth hurt me , tbh for the last boss this is way too easy ) well as the last place is indeed made like a courthouse (marydemon being the "judge") it would make sense that she can do the last "rights" a prisoner has (which james is in a way, prisoner of his own warped mind)
to me the PH seemed more like the executenors (well they where in the real silent hill ages ago , just ofc not immortal, prolly some normal humans who had those scary outfits on )
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Strangulation and Skewering are both big themes within the game.
I always thought it was interesting that PH can strangle you, and he skewers Maria, and you if you aren't careful. And how did James kill Mary? He suffocated her, which is similar to strangulation in that it cuts off the airflow to your lungs. I have been thinking that James conjured up his "demons" because he identified with what he read about in the history of the town (possibly about the executioners and their means for execution) after he killed Mary.
I always thought it was interesting that PH can strangle you, and he skewers Maria, and you if you aren't careful. And how did James kill Mary? He suffocated her, which is similar to strangulation in that it cuts off the airflow to your lungs. I have been thinking that James conjured up his "demons" because he identified with what he read about in the history of the town (possibly about the executioners and their means for execution) after he killed Mary.
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So basically, he made his own version of Silent Hill based on his crimes??
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I'm interested about further explanations then, since this was a theory I came accross several times and that I tend to identify to.... But hey I guess I can't be always right about what I feel about something......
I'm interested about further explanations then, since this was a theory I came accross several times and that I tend to identify to.... But hey I guess I can't be always right about what I feel about something......
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I don't know what you'd expect: Everything in Silent Hill 2 happens. The events were not "just his insane interpretation of a random ghost town," but rather the manifestations of his guilt & contrition.
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St. Thomas wrote:I don't know what you'd expect: Everything in Silent Hill 2 happens. The events were not "just his insane interpretation of a random ghost town," but rather the manifestations of his guilt & contrition.
Exactly. The town manifests the guilt of James. It makes it whole and tangible. So in other words, it isn't just 'in his head'. While the town does function on some level...the world where we wander as James does exist on some plane of reality. So events that have influenced these manifestations were real, but now are just shifting to fit into the world SH and James' subconcious have created for his punishment.
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St. Thomas wrote:I don't know what you'd expect: Everything in Silent Hill 2 happens. The events were not "just his insane interpretation of a random ghost town," but rather the manifestations of his guilt & contrition.
Please expand on that, as I'm finding everything a bit confusing.
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