Silent Hill Heaven

Silent Hill protagonists, at least in the stand-alone games, are generally... morally complex. But playing as someone who is truly evil (especially Cunningham, urghhh) might be a bit much for most. There is a game (I won't reveal the title) where one of the characters you play as is revealed to be t...

SH2's UFO ending was a rehash of the first, I thought.

Yes, there's a definite bittersweetness to "Leave". I actually wrote "director's cut" versions of several of the endings that expanded on James's death in "In Water" and his encounter with Laura in "Leave"... even in the happiest of the lot, his grief remains....

The thing about 'In Water' that I hate is the fact that James has gone through this massive nightmare, even killed another person, fighting to stay alive... then he kills himself. It's like the kid's book 'A Story About Ping' or the movie 'A Few Good Men', stories of a character going through a mass...

Specifically, Mary tells James: "You're suffering because of what you did. It's enough." Even though she does not forgive him per se in either "Leave" or "In-Water", I would say that her forgiveness in both is heavily implied. She told him that she wanted to die (though...

QUOTE: He also can finally be with Mary again, in the afterlife (assuming that there is an afterlife and that he goes to the same place as her).

That's quite an assumption, especially in light of the warning in Bar Neely's.

Just because "In-Water" was James's intended termination point does not mean it's canonical. As an example, I live in the Seattle area. Suppose I get in my car and start driving south, intending to travel to Los Angeles. But I might change my mind and instead drive to Phoenix, Vegas, San F...

QUOTE: The Otherworld often resonates a grab-bag of influences. True enough, because that's what it is. Team Silent changes from time to time, and the Otherworld (and the three-level Silent Hill multiverse) is the sum of each writer's ideas. QUOTE: Darkness does not neccessarily mean evil. In my opi...

The only person we know (from the game itself) that Angela killed is Thomas Orosco, her father. He abused her. she ran away. He kidnapped her and forced her back. She killed him, probably in self-defense. And, by some twisted or overzealous morality, she believes that what she did was wrong. An outs...

QUOTE: I think you can't really call James an equivalent to Eddie and Angela since the story dictates a certain fate for both of them. True, but their fates were the consequences of their choices, it was just the choices that the game said they made. Angela (presumably) dies because she is a non-pla...

Certainly that's the case with James, since each of his possible fates slot neatly with that of one of the other three: Leave - Survival/Moving on - Laura In Water - Self-Destruiction - Angela Maria - Delusion - Eddie However, what do the other characters symbolize for each other? And what does Jame...

I think that the canonical evidence is abundant enough, and ambiguous enough, that you could defend nearly any hypothesis with it. It's like deciding which ending is canon, a question impossible to satisfactorily answer. Pick the one you like. But maybe most questions are like that, if you analyze t...

Interesting digression... It would appear that what is being disputed is: 1. The Otherworld is a realm within Silent Hill and the surrounding area. If James and Maria leave Silent Hill, Maria will vanish. 2. The Otherworld is a complete alternate dimension, but can only be accessed within Silent Hil...

Hmmm... the whole "what is reality" question sounds to me like something out of "The Matrix". I guess we all have to define it our own way. If reality is what you can smell and taste and touch, then the Matrix, Inception, and Silent Hill are all real in their own right. If realit...

The Otherworld isn't reality...but it is for James. And there's no one to tell him otherwise. He's not going nutso in the real world, he's in a world that makes his every delusion a reality. If insanity is being out of touch with reality, then isn't he sane if reality shapes itself to his mind? Hmm...

I tend to have mixed feelings about breakable weapons. They create a unique gameplay experience, and force the player to rely on multiple weapons, but it's often so unrealistic! I mean, you have a pickaxe, designed to break rocks and rated for thousands of uses, or a solid steel wrench, and what hap...

As does mine: since we can't really control our subconscious, and James's subconscious seems to be running things, James does not have the power to consciously manipulate the Otherworld. The more relevant issue is whether the Otherworld (of which Maria is a part) is fantasy or reality. That's anothe...

True. But if he visits "Happy Burger", he could get a double cheeseburger, some onion rings, and a large Sprite.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

QUOTE: Well, not Earth's reality, no. But he decides reality, now. QUOTE: There's more than one way to 'move on'. I'm saying that in the Maria ending, he's over Mary and is pursuing his own solution, because F*** This, He's Got Supernatural Answers To His Problems. Both those statements (the first e...

Assuming it does... maybe James goes under water, takes his final lungful of water... and finds himself staring in the mirror, back at the beginning of his SH ordeal. According to Stephen King, hell is repetition.