Poll of the Day > Silent Hill 2 fans be like

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"Oh, you see that truck over there? The left taillight is broken. That represents the one time James got mad and he stomped on Mary's left foot, and she had to tell her friends that she stubbed her toe real bad."

That is probably unironically true tho.

it's never true

Yes finally someone calls out the fandom for this, I've brought this up on places related to the game but everyone is so obsessed with theory crafting I get blasted for it. Everything needs to be metaphor for some reason.

Cruddy_horse posted...

Yes finally someone calls out the fandom for this, I've brought this up on places related to the game but everyone is so obsessed with theory crafting I get blasted for it. Everything needs to be metaphor for some reason.

And you just wont stand for that

MICHALECOLE posted...

And you just wont stand for that

His rage is probably an allegory for that one time in second grade when his mother told him she wished he was never born.

So I'm moderately familiar with Silent Hill lore (I've read the Wikipedia page) but I don't really understand how Silent Hill the town connects with the Silent Hill 2 dude. Like, this is the base of a satanic cult that wants to resurrect the devil or something (I think?) and it has nothing better to do than make people feel bad for being shitty husbands? Do people actually live there or does it just do this stuff of its own accord?

Blightzkrieg posted...

So I'm moderately familiar with Silent Hill lore (I've read the Wikipedia page) but I don't really understand how Silent Hill the town connects with the Silent Hill 2 dude. Like, this is the base of a satanic cult that wants to resurrect the devil or something (I think?) and it has nothing better to do than make people feel bad for being shitty husbands? Do people actually live there or does it just do this stuff of its own accord?

"Magic shit, fucks with your brain" is a pretty good summary of the entire setting.

More specifically, evil magic shit happened and kind of seeped into the ground, so now there's kind of "psychic fallout" and the town is kind of like a corrupted nightmare that fucks with people. Not everyone, not all of the time, but if you've got psychological issues and repressed crap in your subconscious, it's probably going to start digging it out and forcing you to confront it.

How well this is handled depends on which game you're playing, who wrote/developed it, and how much Konami gave a shit at the time, because it varies.

Normal people used to live there, but that's because the town as a whole used to be fairly normal. Once the really crazy crap started happening, most normal people moved out, so the people who are left are mainly evil, crazy, outsiders drawn in, or hallucinations.

But like most Japanese horror, there aren't really a ton of solid consistent explanations, because having no clue what the fuck is going on makes the horror scarier. Needing everything spelled out and explained is more of a Western thing (and considering it usually results in stupid explanations, it's not necessarily a good thing anyway). Never being entirely sure what's real and what isn't, what's happening or why, all tend to make things feel more unnerving.

Kyoko once kissed me in a dream. Fans will say that squares above the nurse mouth's are a symbol for those suffering in silence and it's not just technical error.

It's all a metaphor for circumcision, obviously.

https://archive.ph/2015.12.16-042019/https://storify.com/jasperrolls/the-silent-hill-wiki-circumcision-meltdown-of-2015

ParanoidObsessive posted...

But like most Japanese horror, there aren't really a ton of solid consistent explanations, because having no clue what the fuck is going on makes the horror scarier

What if Wesker just showed up and maybe he committed the domestic abuse but used the p-virus to rewrite the protagonists memories and maybe Pyramid head is like a clone of his wife or something

Blightzkrieg posted...

So I'm moderately familiar with Silent Hill lore (I've read the Wikipedia page) but I don't really understand how Silent Hill the town connects with the Silent Hill 2 dude. Like, this is the base of a satanic cult that wants to resurrect the devil or something (I think?) and it has nothing better to do than make people feel bad for being shitty husbands? Do people actually live there or does it just do this stuff of its own accord?

Sort answer, they don't. Both games just take place in the same town. No actual connection.

Long answer:

*Redacted hour long rant about how Silent Hill 1 and 2 exist.*

Alessa was so angry with what happened she started drawing in the darkness of everyone into Silent Hill.

The hill is silent because this is a representation of how hills don't have mouths since they are not sentient beings.

Salrite posted...

The hill is silent because this is a representation of how hills don't have mouths since they are not sentient beings.

They do have eyes though

Just finished the remake. I haven't played SH2 in long time but I've come to the conclusion that my old self was basically illiterate and most fans completely misinterpreted Silent Hill 2.