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Pirat2: silent hill 2 . plot analysis ============================= I ............... What you'll find here II .............. Introduction III ............. Damn Freud IV .............. It's all in James' mind V ............... Monsters VI .............. Character Analysis VII ............. Story Analysis VIII ............ Endings _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ===================== What you'll find HERE ===================== Welcome to my Silent Hill 2 Plot Analysis! :) The main objective of this document is to give this beautiful story a new focus. This focus can be exemplified with the quote above the Intro Notes: that our dearest protagonist James Sunderland did not kill Mary for love. He is a murderer who stopped loving his wife as he found out that she would die from an incurable disease - and he would lose the one thing he was after. To understand and keep track on this theory is easy: you just need to know what happened in the plot twist near the end of the game - that James killed Mary. That's all :) To keep it short: It's a simple theory. ====================================================================== I N T R O D U C T I O N ====================================================================== Your regular protagonist James Sunderland gets trapped in his own nightmare when he suddenly finds out that his wife Mary sent him a letter. Not a bad marriage issue - the thing is, Mary died three years ago. Here are the letter contents: "In my restless dreams, I see that town. Silent Hill. You promised you'd take me there again someday... But you never did. Well, I'm alone there now... In our 'special place'... Waiting for you..." James decides to visit that town, looking for some clues that may help him solve this puzzle. Why would his wife send him a letter, being dead for three years now? His love for the late wife drives him to a nightmare, where he will face his worst fears. His love... Was it really his love? Michaelis dictionary (c) 2003 says: "L.ove (lat amore) 1. Type of feeling that drives people to what they consider beautiful, full of dignity or grandiosity; 2. Grand affection from a person to another; 3. Affection, great friendship, spiritual connection; 4. The object that simply represents this affection; 5. Benevolence, careness, sympathy; 6. Tendency or instinct that drives animals to reproduction; 7. Sexual desire; 8. Ambition; 9. Cultuation, veneration; 10. Charity." So... how to define James' love? In this document, I am going to tell you that James Sunderland killed his wife in a bad way. I am going to show you that there is a total selfish side in James, and the kind side James portrays in the story is nothing but a false personality. There are indications and proofs for that, and we are going to look at them in a simple, understandable way. To define love in Silent Hill 2, we are going with number 7. ====================================================================== D A M N F R E U D ====================================================================== You know, I never liked that guy. I almost always slept in Freud classes at college. But that guy said something that sticked to my mind ever since I heard it: "Men and women lead their whole lives around their basic needs", which is true. As I learned in those classes, a normal human being has basically four physical needs to fulfill during his whole life: the need to eat; the need to sleep; the need of shelter; and the need of pleasure (Freud's favorite). The basic concept of a NEED is: if one human being has been thrown out of one of his needs, you could say that he won't ever live happily - or won't live at all. Of course, happiness can be defined simply by one of the other needs. Like someone that feels happy eating. Well, everyone feels happy eating... it's just that, for some people, this happiness surpasses any other. So, instead of going out with his girlfriend on Saturday night, the man spends the night eating - and loving it. Also, you must assume that every single person in the world is unique and have their own ways of happiness. I, for example, get happy playing Silent Hill. A football player that gets happy playing that sport would just laugh at me and say "CircleXTriangleSquare?". Happiness depends on each person's likes. Understanding that, we can move on to James' needs. We can tell for sure that he's not starving. We can also be certain that he lives in a nice home, with a hot shower and warm blankets. Now remember that the fourth need is called pleasure. Our James here takes the subject too seriously. This is the basic topic of discussion in this theory: To him, pleasure IS physical pleasure. To him, love is defined number 7. Why? Because of every single item that will be analyzed during the document. You will see that his love for Mary was nothing but a cover for a simple human need... and he got tricked by keeping with that. Poor James. Guilt ate him all over. ====================================================================== I T ' S A L L I N J A M E S ' M I N D ====================================================================== Another thing that we must put as certain is that all the happenings in the game are nothing but James' self-punishment for Mary's murder. We cannot tell for sure whether James really experienced all of that or if he's lying unconscious on a bed in a hospital, dreaming all of this... but it's sure that his troubled mind is the master of almost every bizarre creation in this story. If you have any trouble with that, just think logically: for example, James finds a mannequin wearing his dead wife's clothes in the Woodside Apts.. Well, unless someone wore that same outfit in the same way as Mary (impossible), we can tell for sure that James' mind created that there. Remember that James is in Silent Hill, a town that calls for sinners in order to teach them something. Silent Hill could represent the purgatory (as listed in the interesting Kiroptus' theory), where one must be punished for his sins and find his true fate. The only difference to the sacred religious purgatory is that James *appears* to be alive in Silent Hill. Another example to clear this thought - James faces two extremely weird areas in the game: the Labyrinth and the Hotel. The Labyrinth is just showing us that James' mind is going through changes, as if he were just to find out something really bad - notice that the place has no physical coherence with anything, just like the Prison's wacky hallways that precede the Labyrinth. The Hotel appears as it was then, when James visited with Mary. Later then, we see the Hotel as it really is today. After clearing that this whole story is a product of James' actions, needs and of his own mind, we must come up with the game's prime issue. I mean, I set that his principal needs are the physical ones... but in which meaning? To confirm that AND to link the answer with the concept of love used in this game (sexual desire), we must analyze this game's monsters. After all, they are all creations of James' subconscious. ====================================================================== M O N S T E R S ====================================================================== Well, the concept of a monster is well-known. Something, usually with an ugly form, that stalks or scares someone for no appearant reason. APPEARANT reason, I said. Every single monster of this game has a little meaning hidden behind its forms and ways. The man who created those monsters didn't want just to make them look weird. He wanted to make them fragments of James' psyche. Now, we are going to study these monsters to understand what is the *main issue* of James' troubled trip to Silent Hill. We are going to confirm the principal subject implied in this game. When you reach the middle of this section, it will be more than obvious. I am not going to analyze the cockroach, as it has no relevance to the plot - as well as the nurse, but those have a little other meaning to check. ============ Pyramid Head ============ The king of all popular monsters in the series, Pyramid Head makes a difference by his weird looks - he has a metal something covering his head, and walks funny (maybe drunk). These looks are there to resemble executioners from a long time ago - they never showed them their head, as if they had nothing to do with the killing; they are just postmen delivering the message. The weirdest thing about Pyramid Head is that he's supposed to represent... James Sunderland. PH is always shown doing something wrong - even though he is an executioner: killing Maria (a representation of Mary) all the time and performing serious sexual crimes. His metal-something for a head could represent James' shame and guilt, too. You could say, in a short sentence, that Pyramid Head represents James' true personality. ============= Demon Patient ============= aka Lying Creature or Straight-Jacket, the Demon Patient represents simply a trap, a prison - for Mary. They represent Mary's disease condition. Primarily, because the jacket thing is something present in illness conditions (normally mental, but Brookhaven is not there for nothing). Finally, because it's something that she is trapped to, that she won't ever recover. Also, I see them as female, as we encounter Pyramid Head raping one of them (no discrimination there, just the deduction of James' sexuality implied to Pyramid Head's actions). ========= Mannequin ========= Probably the clearest sexual reference of the game. The mannequins here are simply two female legs glued to two female legs. There's our first start to how James' physical needs surpass his so called love for Mary: on the place where you get the Flashlight, you bump into this regular mannequin model (whole body, no head) that clearly points James' sexual desires. Note: the mannequin is wearing Mary's clothes. See where I'm going? Plus, the mannequin is another monster raped by Pyramid Head, which makes James' true nature stronger. ===== Nurse ===== Well, there's nothing to say about the nurse, except the famous male sexual fantasy concept that this work implies ("Hellooooooo, Nurse!"). The nurse is in this game to keep tradition, anyway. Maybe it represents something in a bigger scale - like everyone's mental condition in Silent Hill. ======== Mandarin ======== The Mandarin, known as previewed Closers from SH3 (I don't see that), are plain chasers. They represent the perseverance in James' purpose in Silent Hill - to reach for a certain (wrong) goal. Theirs is to kill; James' is to find Mary. The only unique thing about them is that they are trapped in a level that they can't go through (the ground). They will always be on the under level and won't ever acchieve their objectives - kinda like James. ======== Door Men ======== Well, everyone's tired to say that, but Angela's papa represent sexual obsession. Now try not to look at his side before the "bed" or "door" or "frame" thing. Try looking UNDER it. Now imagine Angela looking at that. It's a door, a rectangle-shaped wood piece made for Angela not to see her dad - but, still, get raped. This represents her pain in being abused by someone loved. Now where does that fit into James' mind? Because James is the same as her father (Angela even says that to him). He just didn't force Mary at any time. The need is still there. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I will analyze the bosses in the story part. I analyzed Pyramid Head because he is the main antagonist, supposed to represent James. With the main monsters analyzed, we can tell for sure that the principal issue in this story is called S*E*X. Now link that to James' murder and you got yourself the whole theory basis. After confirming James' main issue in the story, let's take the principal characters of the game and cross-info their personalities and actions with the mentioned James' issue. Don't blink in this section, as it is the most important of the analysis. ====================================================================== C H A R A C T E R A N A L Y S I S ====================================================================== You will see here that every character of this game has a sexual issue behind their masks - except for Eddie (even Laura has it. I will try and prove that later). I am going to briefly list who are those characters and what are their main objectives in Silent Hill. Then, I'll analyze those objectives in the story section, crossing info learned in the game's happenings with the characters' personalities. Simple as that. Please note that I didn't prove (or indicate) anything yet. Take these descriptions below as if I ALREADY HAD written the whole analysis and got to 'those conclusions' about each character. I will, however, prove everything during the next section, the Story Analysis. These descriptions below should stay in your head as you read the analysis, because those are the main conclusions. ** IMPORTANT: If I were a teacher, I would hand every single person that reads this document a piece of paper, containing the information below about each character - to keep track on the analysis. That is important, as the theory is understood like this: 1 - You will read the story analysis (next section); 2 - You'll confirm every single item with the descriptions below. To talk more practical: I would select the brief section below and print it, to avoid going back to this section all the time amd compare every single info with every single character, damaging your patience level (?). Or, easily enough, copy/paste it to a new doc and just alt+tab them during the story analysis. It's simple and easy. :) I strongly recommend one of those because there might be a point in the analysis where you will read my arguments and forget what they mean to the theory, and say "why the hell is he saying that?" ;) To make things easier, right after the character analysis section there's a PRINT POCKET VERSION of the descriptions, for print or copy/paste. So please, keep the character analysis in your hands all the time. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ================ James Sunderland ================ * WHO IS HE?: A recently middle-aged man that just killed his wife out of selfishness, to have his life back. He couldn't stand the fact that she was sick and ending with his happiness (which are defined by his needs... which are defined by physical pleasure... which is defined by sex). He is not a two-dimensional character, nor a serial killer. He is just selfish, he just wants what's best for himself. He murdered once (well, twice) for reasons of his own, that we are not supposed to judge, but simply understand. He did treat his wife as an object, but didn't realize that until she got sick. He realized Mary was not as perfect as he would like. After he killed her, he hid that gruesome personality behind this kind man, who would do anything to be with his wife again. * WHY IS HE IN TOWN?: He is in Silent Hill to receive punishment. He felt guilty for what he did - even though he wanted to kill her - and deserves to learn the truth. James created this wrong new personality of a man that is not selfish and just wants his wife back... and Silent Hill will uncover this personality as he advances in the story and realizes what he did. James is ashamed of his true self. --- To make it short, James is in Silent Hill to receive punishment from murdering his wife. Plus, he needs to remember two things: that he commited that act of murder and that this personality he is showing is false (he treated his wife as an object). He created a new personality to hide these two things mentioned right before now. ==== Mary ==== * WHO: The lovely and innocent wife got sick and died years ago. She didn't die from the disease, she was murdered by her own husband. She did not want to die at all. She thought James was acting weird with her during her disease. Mary was a happy woman who didn't want to die at all. Of course, she wanted the pain to end... but she didn't want to die like that. * WHY: She is in Silent Hill to prove James that he commited a gruesome act AND that he didn't treat her well (he was not a good husband). Using a different method, she will make James understand that he has lost her by dividing herself into two different entities: Maria and Laura. Maria stands for Mary's wild and 'James like' side (the one that James thinks it's perfect) and Laura stands for her innocent and pure side (add annoying to that). Maria is there to show James the truth (about his personality and the murder) and Laura is there to treat him bad, to tell him that he was not a good husband and to trick James. To hate him, simply. --- To make it short: Mary is in Silent Hill divided into two entities: Maria and Laura; to prove James that he commited a gruesome act, that he is not the way he's acting (both Maria's missions) and to tell him that he was a lousy husband and abandoned her (Laura). ===== Maria ===== * WHO: Maria is James' perfect version of his wife Mary. Maria is what James wanted Mary to be all along: beautiful, wild, naughty, slutty and fun - just for him, of course. She has different clothes and hair from Mary (proof that James is shallow and noticed only that about Maria in the first place) and has a totally different personality. * WHY: She is in Silent Hill to prove James that he is a murderer and that he did not love Mary at whole - he just loved one side of her, the side that he could have fun with: Maria. In other words, to reveal his true personality and make him remember that he treated his wife as an object. The James that is in Silent Hill (the false one, the kind one that he created to block his memories from the past) doesn't remember that he killed Mary OR that he just loved her body/fun side. She is there to make him remember those, by seducing him and by getting killed all the time by Pyramid Head (who is a representation of James' TRUE cruel and selfish personality). Only there's something to teach him now: he created Maria and Laura to differ the nice and boring sides of his wife. Maria is the side that he wants to be with. She is always remembering him of the good times and wanting to touch him. He just didn't expect to see that the side that got sick IS the fun side, and not the boring one. It's Maria who starts to get sick along in the journey, not Laura... which points us that James can't have a perfect Mary - he would just have to accept her as she is (as seen in the Maria ending). --- To make it short, Maria is in Silent Hill to show James the truth about his personality and the murder. ===== Laura ===== * WHO: Little Laura is a creation of Silent Hill in James' quest. His mind-created Mary divided herself into two different people. Laura got the annoying and innocent part. She is even portrayed as a child, to assure James himself that he doesn't want her in his life beside him (that is the thing that puts Laura in the sex issue of the story. She is a sexual temptation for a psychotic killer or pedophillic, but not for James. To him she is the opposite of sex, as she still does represent Mary). To him, children are only good as sons and daughters. There's a lot of discussions regarding whether Laura is real or not. I believe she is not real and I will list several reasons for that. By the way, did you notice that the unreal characters (Laura and Maria) are the only ones that don't have a last name? :) * WHY: She is in Silent Hill to show James that he hasn't been a nice husband. She is portrayed in one of Mary's letters as a girl who doesn't like James at all (with Laura being part of Mary, you should assume that Mary didn't like James' latest actions). She is constantly being rude to James without even knowing him. She does not trust him, she is there to make James' guilt side appear. She is in Silent Hill primarily to lead James to his punishment, along with Maria. Notice that, unlike Maria, Laura is NOT leading James to the truth. She is there, also, to find Mary (her innocent self led her to believe that she is real, and that her relationship with Mary did exist... so she looks for her the entire game). Maria is constantly showing the truth to James, but never does anything to advance in that concept (she just keeps getting killed and killed, being slutty and slutty). Laura does advance in the plot, but without noticing that - with the letters and the places she run to - including the Hotel. Laura does not see any monsters because she is invulnerable to everything - she is Mary's pure side. That fact is there to prove that if James wanted to have Mary, he couldn't have just Maria. He should take Laura with him too. To resume, Laura is in Silent Hill to revenge James' way of treating Mary, by treating him badly and tricking him all the time. Also, her innocence also made her allow James' new personality to gain her trust, so she treats James a little better at the end of the game. --- To make it short, Laura is in Silent Hill as a creation of the town, as Mary's sweet, innocent side. She's there to tell James that he hasn't been a good husband, and to hate him. The thing about her is that her innocence led her to believe that she IS real and that she really DID meet Mary. The memories created for her (plus the letter and James' hate) took control of Laura. So she starts looking for Mary. ================ Eddie Dombrowski ================ * WHO: This is the only character in this game that doesn't have a sex issue. Eddie is a fat man who spent his whole life taking mockeries from the people around him. They all call him fat all the time, and Eddie just kept that unswallowed in his throat. The trigger happens when he gets in Silent Hill. He starts to kill (or 'just' hurt badly) every person that tries to mock him, in any way - including James, who is set for one of the most stupid lines of the VG world (Eddie: "From now on, anyone that makes fun of me, I'll kill them, just like that!" James follows like this: "Eddie, have you gone nuts?"). I could swear that everytime I hear that, sitcom electronic laughs come right after. * WHY: The Dombrowski fatty is in Silent Hill to make James meet his alias in real life - at least in attitude. Well, just like Eddie said, he and James are the same for the simple fact that they both have been called to Silent Hill to the reason of murder. He's one of the 3 alive and real people in town - along with James and Angela. His reason is simple as that, and it's just to guide James to the truth. Eddie kills for a dumb reason and James contests that. The tables turn later after the tape, when James realizes that he and Eddie are the same. --- To make it short, Eddie is in Silent Hill to (along with HIS OWN reasons) help James find the truth about what he did. They are both the same (murderers) and were called to town for the same reason. Eddie is one of the 3 real people in SH, along with James and Angela. ============= Angela Orosco ============= * WHO: To me, this character should be better used in the game. Angela could be even a richer character than James or Mary. Angela is a woman who has been sexually abused by her father, her whole life. Not only that, he beats her up all the time. This got her to grow a horrible vision about life as years passed by. Angela is scared of James because she sees him as her father, as the same entity as her father. She sees him as a perverted. * WHY: She is in Silent Hill to give James a real example of suffering, along with Eddie. Let's remember again: there are two main things that James finds out in the game: 1 - that he murdered a human being; 2 - that he takes sexual desires too seriously and sees his wife as a mere object. When Eddie is there to prove number 1 to James, Angela is in Silent Hill to indicate the second one. Also, she has the life issue mentioned above. She has no life to live, so she feels free to make a choice and kill herself. I believe that, in HER OWN WAY, she is in Silent Hill to get the allowance to kill herself. Her life issue is there to make James notice that Mary didn't want to die at all - that she was happy before the disease, and he shouldn't end her like that. You get her knife to examine and determine your ending: if you examine it too much, you think about it too much and end up "in water" with the answer figured out. --- To make it short, Angela is in Silent Hill to (along with HER OWN reasons) make James remember that he is selfish and treats women like objects... to show him that he did not love Mary. Plus, she is there to indicate James that Mary didn't want to die - because she had memories and a life before the disease. Angela does have true reasons to want death. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ With the section above in mind (if you didn't read it well, read it again carefully), keep a copy of that with you (or in your memory, who knows!) and just cross the information from the whole next Story Analysis with the character info you've got in hands. Here's a little printable Pocket version of the analysis from above. Good Luck! :) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ POCKET ANALYSIS _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** JAMES - Murdered Mary in an act of selfishness. He created a false personality (the one seen in the game) to cover his memories from the happening. This personality is uncovered as he finishes watching the tape. He is in Silent Hill to be punished for the murder AND to remember two things: the murder itself and that he does not have this new personality: he treats women badly, is shallow and selfish. Keyword: BODY HUNGRY *** MARY - Murdered by her own husband, Mary did not want to die. She was happy before the disease and wanted to continue living. She is in Silent Hill divided into two entities: Laura and Maria. They are meant for James to discover that he is a murderer and that he is not like this person portrayed in the game. Keyword: REVENGER *** MARIA - knows the truth and keeps showing it to James all the time (getting killed and being slutty), but can't get him to figure it out. So, she'll need Laura's unintentional help. Keyword: TRUTHFUL HALF *** LAURA - created by Silent Hill to tell James that he hasn't been treating Mary nice at all/and to mess with him, trick him for that. In resume, Laura was created to hate James. Is Mary's annoying and innocent side. Because she was created with freedom and as a real girl with memories, her innocence led her to believe that her made up relationship with Mary is true, and keeps looking for her. Doesn't know that Mary was murdered. Her innocence ends up helping James to find the truth - the places she visit and the stuff she says and shows him. Her innocence also allowed James' new personality to gain her trust, so she treats James a little better at the end of the game. Keyword: INNOCENT HALF *** EDDIE - a real man with real issues. His problems concern people that mock him all the time for being fat and useless. His solution was to kill every one who makes fun of him. He ends up saying that he and James are the same - which is true. They are both murderers that were called to the town to be punished. He is in Silent Hill to remember James that he too is a murderer. Keyword: MURDERER 2 *** ANGELA - a real woman with real issues. She has been sexually abused by her father, her whole life. She is there to tell James that he is (I'm sorry) a pervert, and to show him that she is not like Mary. She does have a reason to want death. Keyword: ABUSED _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ POCKET ANALYSIS _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Got the Pocket Analysis? Then let us cross all that character information with the ones given in the story chronologically. Let's make one simple thing clear - every single fact or character is in this story to either one of these two things: 1 - To show James that he is a murderer 2 - to show James that his new personality is false, he is selfish and uses women as objects to fulfill his prime needs. ====================================================================== S T O R Y A N A L Y S I S ====================================================================== In this section you will find every single piece of metaphor and little references to anything. Here is the place for the analysis of the game, as it goes by. I am going to list over 50 notes that I made when playing Silent Hill 2 last time. The order of events is the same as the game's. ========== South Vale ========== 01. JAMES' REFLECTION - Let us start from the first single frame of animation seen in the game. James already starts the game looking for an answer. A mirror is a sign of duplication (representing James' new false personality, created to drive him away from his acts in the past), but it also can show signs of doubt and self-analysis. James is uncertain of what is going on since the very first beginning. 02. MARY'S LETTER - "In my restless dreams, I see that town. Silent Hill. You promised you'd take me there again someday... but you never did. Well I'm alone there now. In our 'special place'... Waiting for you". Spooky, huh? Imagine yourself receiving a letter from your dead wife. This is the first place where James starts questioning his sanity ("Dead people can't write a letter"). What's to analyze here? Well, James thinks he is in Silent Hill to find his dead wife. That's it. But he is in Silent Hill to take off the mask that he put on, to hide the fact that he is a murderer and a ladies man. After a little intro on his relationship with his wife (and the mentioning of the Park as a possible 'special place'), you get to control him again. You grab the map and go on the direction of Toluca Lake. 03. CEMETERY TALK - On the first meeting with Angela, you talk with her about your reasons why you're going to Silent Hill. She warns you that it's not safe. Then, she mentions that she is looking for her mother, and that her father and her brother are missing, too (which is weird, because later on you'll find a paper saying that her father died). Notice that during all her conversations she says a lot of "I'm sorry", which practically shows that she is an easy going, passive person. You see that there's something wrong with her. 04. MONSTER SIGHT - James reaches the streets for the first time and sees someone walking away. He decides to follow it. Knowing that this monster is a representation of Mary's disease, you could see the first sign of James' connection with that. 05. RADIO STATIC - When finally facing the first monster of the game, you get your first weapon and a weird Radio, transmitting only this weird white static noise. You can hear Mary's voice saying a lot of unclear things. Among them, you can understand by deduction "James, I'm here", "Waiting for you" and the most important of all: "Why did you kill me?". This is the first sign that Mary didn't want to die at all - and, of course, that James actually killed her. It's amazing how they easily make you figure out that quote on the second play - but never on the first one. =================== Woodside Apartments =================== 06. MANNEQUIN CLOTHES - You first enter the apartment building and then a room with a light catching your attention. Here is the first clear sexual reference of the game: the mannequin model is wearing James' dead wife's clothes and holding a Flashlight. The mannequin has no head, which drives us to the obvious sex reference of woman object. A body with no face is meant for a man with no heart. Right after that, we encounter the first Mannequin monster (female legs and female legs, glued). That is, of course, a live sexual repression: James sees that "person" or "being" as a double pair of legs. 07. FIRST MEMO - Same room as above. The first memo we get from the game (not counting the corpse #ed memos, which are merely survival tips) is the first with plot relevance. I should say that I always get so nervous in that room that I never noticed the memo until very recently. The memo is entitled "How to be a happy couple". One of their tips is to "never turn to another woman", a clear hint for James to stay away from Maria, because he will never be able to have her alone. This, also, has intention to warn James that he should never abandon someone that he loves / that loves him. 08. LAURA, 1ST ENCOUNTER - Now that is a bratty little girl. Stupid, I'd say. Here's the first sign to Laura's unreal condition: she kicks away James' key for nothing. It's as if she already knew him (well, she does, but that is because she is one of Mary's halfs after all). Not only that, she still mocks him ("Ha-Ha"), as if she really wanted that and knew exactly what she was doing. She WANTS him to fail his quest. It's her meaning to the story. 09. PYRAMID HEAD FIRST SIGHT - You first see Pyramid Head with a deadly red glow. This is intended for James to deal with his guilt and his executioner identity for the first time. Notice that PH stands still and, if you are looking directly at him, you should be standing still too. So it is like one big real-time mirror. It's the first time that James confronts his true personality - his murderer/perverted side. Notice also that they are separated by what looks like prison bars. 10. PYRAMID HEAD RAPE SCENE - The first rape scene from Pyramid Head is meant for James to indicate his true nature self. I am sorry to say this, but he is one perverted man. If Pyramid Head represents James, and PH is raping a monster (<- who also has sexual meaning), we assume that James is no different than a man that rapes a woman. Well, obviously enough, PH is raping a Mannequin, that had one of its comrades dressed as Mary just before. Watching Pyramid Head raping the monster really messes with James' psyche, because he is sexually repressed. 11. WALTER SULLIVAN - When you check the garbage downstairs, you'll find out about this man, Walter Sullivan, who murdered two people and got arrested. Well, this man claims to have seen a Red Devil, right before killing himself with a spoon. From this, you could assume either one of two things: 1 - he saw Pyramid Head and just couldn't stand being chased by his own guilt... and killed himself; 2 - or, this Red Devil wasn't Pyramid Head, and he just couldn't stand being chased by his own guilt... again. The only variable item here is whether PH appeared or not for Walter. But I believe his actions were the important thing here, as Walter is like a mix of James (murderer) and Angela (suicidal). 12. EDDIE IS PUKING - You find Eddie and, right after that, he claims not to be guilty of murder - his first connection with James. He clearly killed that person in the kitchen and is just dealing with that. We don't get to know anything about him, except that he does have a lot of food to throw up. He is not from Silent Hill, just like James. A quote to analyze is: "Something brought you here too, right?". Notice the guilt in that sentence. After you finish the game, it gets clear that they both needed to be punished and were "invited" to town for that. 13. RESORT MEMO - Here is a little reference to James' fate by creating a false personality to the rest of his life. On the Silent Hill promotion memo there is a phrase that goes like this: "I hope your memory last forever". Stupid editor Roger. :) He predicted the whole thing and doesn't even know it. The flyer was about Silent Hill's vacation pros, like spending your time in Lakeview Hotel or the Lake. If you cross those informations, you get the final area of the game: the Hotel as it is in James' memory. 14. PYRAMID HEAD FIGHT #1 - The first boss battle of the game starts with yet another rape scene by PH. That seems a lot more like oral sex than penetration, but that's the same cruel act, of course. After that, you get to fight him. He has this big great knife, which will be an important analysis item later in the Labyrinth section. After some time, a huge SIREN sound calls for Pyramid Head - this sound being the most discussed and mysterious of all. My vision of the siren, in this game, is merely an evil indicator that James is the same as Pyramid Head... as, when PH hears it, he goes in that direction; James hears the Siren in the Historical Society and goes for it, too. That is used to connect James and Pyramid Head once more. =================== Silent Hill Streets =================== 15. LAURA ON THE WALL - That weird girl comes back even weirder. She comes saying that "maybe she did kick the key", wanting to make fun of James. She shows herself even more unreal: when James asks her for a reason to why is she in town, she just answers "huh? Are you blind or something?". She thinks he KNOWS about her purpose in the story, but he doesn't. The climax comes right now, when you can easily say that she is NOT real and is a part of Mary: out of nothing, she just 'launches' the following: "You didn't love Mary anyway". This proves that Laura is in Silent Hill to hate James. 16. MARIA AT THE PARK - So, James gets to their so called 'special place'. This will be one of the most controversial items of this analysis: James received a letter from one who he thinks is the love of his life. He finds Maria, who proves to be the person he loved all along. So, logically, you could say that the letter was from Maria all along. But let's start from the beginning: James sees this woman that looks exactly like Mary, "only hair and clothes are different". This is where you notice how shallow James is. He pictures this woman as a hot girl, with slutty clothes and weird hair dye. This is not something that he notices only on the first sight... he keeps going with that thought later on. There are a few things to analyze in their talkings. "I'm no ghost", says Maria. The woman comes with a whole new personality, a personality that James wanted Mary to have all along. She is forward. The ghost saying means that Maria is tempting James to believe that he can have her, to make him believe that she's real. Now things start to get weird. As you're about to leave, Maria stops you and accuses you of abandoning her right away. This is leading James to the truth right away - which is one of Maria's reasons to be in Silent Hill. Now she asks to go with him... the argument she uses? The most shallow ever, and it works: "I look like her, don't I?"... well, it's James. Not only that, Maria also says the following: "Maybe you hated her", predicting the truth again. James is going to be fooled, because Maria isn't as perfect as he thinks. 17. PROTECT HER! - Well, shouldn't be Maria a representation of his wife Mary? So your actions on how you protect Maria during this time being will have influence in your fate. You must protect her in the streets. If you stay close to her and protect her all the time, the closure of the game focuses on Maria and how she's cursed to live just like Mary.
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Pirat2: 18. BOWLING WEIRDNESS - James hears a conversation between Laura and Eddie. Knowing that Laura is a creation of Silent Hill, it's perfectly understandable that she is visible for Eddie, as her personality is also part of Eddie's dilemma (she curses and mocks him). Also, another thing that proves her unreal status is the question that she asks him: "So, why are you here?". She knows about the town. Now we could assume that all of that heard conversation is nothing but James' subconscious. But let's not do that. I believe she really did talk to Eddie, but that doesn't make her real. She is real in Silent Hill, to those who are called to Silent Hill. Let's focus on the weird part of that conversation. Eddie asks Laura if she found Mary yet. So now we discover that Laura isn't the one half who knows the truth (she doesn't know that James killed Mary). The one who knows the truth (and should show that to James) is Maria. Laura is in Silent Hill with her limitations, to mock James and piss him off. She is also looking for Mary because, in Silent Hill, she gains life as a real little girl, who has a purpose and a memory - a false memory, created for James to think about. She is trying to find Mary because that is her innocent desire in the town: she doesn't know that she's Mary's half... she just knows that James treated her badly and is not a nice person. She doesn't know that he killed her, she's just an innocent child. Laura was created and given life in Silent Hill. She wants to find Mary not because the town led her to it, but because those memories implied to her about Mary are constantly messing with her mind, making her really think that she actually met a woman named Mary in a terminal patient aisle. The town gave her some proofs that James is a lousy husband, and she ended up using those proofs to help her claim that she actually met Mary. Always remember that the truth is held with Maria, not with Laura. Laura HELPS you to find the truth, unintentionally. She was created to mess with your life and call you names. 19. HEAVEN'S NIGHT - "What does your mom do for a job?", K. Gordon asks Maria's son. "She is a stripper in a Night Club!". Now tell me if that isn't a work of a DREAM, of a man who fantasizes too much? When would James want him a woman that takes off her clothes to tons of men? That is just a fantasy, a perfect woman that he would like to TOUCH in a Night Club. Maria is the essence of the perfect woman for James. It is the fun side that Mary never gave that importance. Maria is a woman who just wants to have fun with James. Heaven's Night is the biggest indication that Maria is James' sexual fantasy come true. =================== Brookhaven Hospital =================== We get to Brookhaven Hospital by following Laura. She has some evidence that Mary is there, so she enters there on her own. It's her first unintentional help to James. 20. MARIA RESTS AT S3 - When James gets at the S3 Room, Maria asks him to rest for a while. You can see that she starts giving signs of being sick, which drives us to confirm that James will never have a perfect Mary. It's interesting to notice her reason to the headache: "It's just a hangover". She got too much into her personality :). 21. DIARY ON THE ROOF - How did the night come so quickly? Well, whatever, James looks at this diary on the roof. Here, his selfish roots are teased: along with some pain words, we read "Can it be such a sin to run instead of fight?", meaning: James gave up taking care of Mary; and the other one: "It may be selfish, but that's what I want". No explanations needed. 22. JAMES FINDS LAURA... - ... playing with some dolls, focusing on her innocent side. This is the first time we learn that she never saw any monsters ("why should I?"). That is because she is Mary's innocent side, who just wants James to know that he treated her badly. Note that every time Laura wants to say that he's a bad husband, she just says it. She doesn't have any line of concept in her thoughts (unreal nature). Also, she remembers his old personality when she says "You gonna yell at me if I don't?". 23. THE LOCKED JAMES - Laura tricks him once more into another trap. Claiming to go look for a letter from Mary, she leads James into a room and locks him in. Not only that, he faces three monsters that appear to be inside cages, and hanged... which drives us to the issue of Mary's death (she died and was trapped in her disease condition). The monsters also grab James by their legs, meaning another sexual subtle reference in this game. 24. THE ALTERNATE SILENT HILL - Many people believe that James visits the Alternate world in Silent Hill twice (in the hospital and on the hotel). I'd have to disagree with that. I'll explain the hotel part later, let's focus on telling that this Alternate Silent Hill is your regular alternate, just like in Silent Hill 1 and 3. This was not created by James' mind. As much as Harry and Heather live this alternate SH, it doesn't come from their heads. 25. MARIA ON BASEMENT - Maria starts acting like Mary all over again. With her fragileness and fear, she screams at James for abandoning her, again (much like on the park, only this time she's rude). She also mentions James' other personality issue when she says "Don't ever leave me alone" and "You're supposed to take care of me". Other than that, Maria also feels that she must find Laura (without even knowing her, just to add... which prove their connection). That is simple: Maria knows that she's not being able to make James figure out the truth yet. What's her main purpose of being in Silent Hill? Check your pocket analysis. She is always trying to say the truth to James, but can't make him figure it out. So what does she plan? She wants to follow Laura, as she may help her on that thing. She feels that Laura may find an innocent way to make James remember that he killed Mary... which is what happens, since we follow Laura to the hospital and then on the Hotel - two of the most important places in the plot. Of course it's up to Maria to take care of Laura... they are the same friggin person. But if that didn't work, Maria already had a backup plan. Hint: you're about to get to that loooong hallway. She did try to show him the truth by being slutty and showing him his true desires... but she didn't try to show him that did he kill Mary. Not yet. 26. TRICK OR TREAT - One of my favorite parts of the game. The main conversation is pure "James": about murder and punishment. One of the questions is about a gruesome murder. I believe this is not relevant to the plot (as the "prize" tells us), but it had a reference to murder, so I considered important. 27. PYRAMID HEAD KILLED MARIA - The first real reflection of James' unfair murder happens here. In a long, long hallway, you are supposed to protect Maria from... yourself. Pyramid Head. Now you may reach that elevator in time, but Maria ends up being killed. This is Maria's first attempt to show James the truth about the murder.
Pirat2: ============================= Alternate Silent Hill Streets ============================= 28. JAMES GETTING OUT OF BROOKHAVEN - "I couldn't protect Maria. Once again, I couldn't do anything... Mary, did you really die three years ago, or is this just your way of taking?". I believe this talks alone. James is starting to understand something - that he did not protect his wife while she was sick. He was not good for her. 29. NEELY'S BAR ALTERNATE - My favorite quote of the game is the one found here, and it's the one that mostly explains this theory alone. "If you want to see Mary, you should just die. But you might be heading to a different place than Mary, James". This is the perfect accusation. James IS going to hell for what he did, and will never find Mary again. Why? Because he did not kill her for love. He killed her to get his life back. He murdered her. 30. THE ABYSS - This is another well-known topic of discussion. We read this on the "direcktor"'s message: "He who is not bold enough to be stared at from across the Abyss is not bold enough to stare into it himself". Let's understand this. What the director is talking about (by the way, one crazy director) is a mask. James did not have the courage to face the Abyss (the fact that he is a murderer). So he ends up fooling himself. James is not able to look into the Abyss because, in order to do that, he needs to be stared from across it. Meaning: if James can't be true to his wife or anyone else, he'll never be true to himself. "Part of that Abyss is in the Society", he says. Well, this obviously means "Historical Society" and it's there my next observations - including one from the Abyss. ================= The Toluca Prison ================= 31. THE SIREN - The way to the Toluca Prison starts in the Historical Society. When we get there, we look at these paintings from Silent Hill, plus one of Pyramid Head. We hear scary sounds down the stairs. James decides to go down the stairs. We hear a SIREN that appears to be the one used to call Pyramid Head into that pool of liquid cement, or whatever. This brings an even bigger connection into James and PH, referring to them as the same evil entity - called on the same way. By the way, the whole infinite stairs thing is meant to be James' way of facing the Abyss for the first time. His first step into recalling his true personality. 32. SCREWY HOLES - The place seems to be a prison under the sewers, judging by all the smelly water that runs around the place. Going forward, you must follow a sequence of some very doubting holes to jump into. I didn't jump in that hole on my first playthrough. I was scared, I just did it when I saw that there was nothing else to do. This is James facing the Abyss again. Going under. Jumping into a dark hole means taking risks to find the truth. Notice that the place starts to get screwy, with the rooms upside-down. This is a prediction of the Labyrinth, which shows that James' mind is changing, and he is beginning to understand that not everything is like he thought. His mind is finally open. 33. EDDIE KILLED AGAIN - On the prison entrance, we see Eddie holding a Revolver, a man killed with bullet holes in his head and the fat still claims to have killed him; "he made fun of me". He then pulls a Laura on James and tells him that he was only joking about having killed the man. Which, obviously, is not true. This shows James that Eddie's nature is not normal, and James starts connecting to him right now - when he's beginning to understand stuff beyond reason. Remember that he just jumped down the Abyss. 34. HOTEL ON FIRE - This predicts the Hotel existing only in James' memory. The hotel that he enters is nothing but the Hotel as it existed when he and his wife were there. The painting tells us what happened to the hotel, to get the conclusion of what does it look like today. ========= Labyrinth ========= 35. NO MAN'S LAND - Well, this is when James' mind gets really screwed up. His mind created a literal Labyrinth, from which he must find his way out. We can tell for sure that this place does not exist in real life and is only a fragment of James' mind, working on a solution to the puzzle he's been through. Hence, a mind Labyrinth. 36. PYRAMID HEAD'S ROOM - James faces his twin antagonist twice in the Labyrinth. One of these times are in a round corridor, with the Mandarin monsters chasing James. So, he goes around that corridor and enters what it looks like a psychotic's room. There are corpses, there are those cages used to wrap the Hanged monsters in the Hospital, there is a huge fan (as in all SH's) and the room is red. More importantly, James finds the weapon that Pyramid Head was using before - the great Knife. There is the chance for James to truly understand that he is a murderer just like Pyramid Head - selfish and without any feelings attached to the act. On the moment that you read "You got a Great Knife", James faces his greatest connection with Pyramid Head's existance nature. They are both the same, so... why not use the same weapons? 37. THE CELL CONVERSATION - For James' surprise, there is Maria at the prison cell. She is alive and kicking. This conversation is the most important one of the whole game, as it clears James' naughty nature. Maria points out that she is NOT Mary (to make James believe that she is real and could be his), making James grow a little hope inside him, when she mentions a videotape they made at the hotel. She does this because this is what the real James personality wants at this moment to come back: real memories. Maybe by doing this she triggered the Hotel in James' memory as we see it. Then, she says like four or five things that indicate James' shallow self ("I am... if you want me to be"; "Touch me"; "See... I'm real"; "It doesn't matter who I am"; and the most obvious one, "I can't do anything through these bars"). One of the game's lessons (about James' true self) is being taught now. He says that he'll be right back, which triggers Maria to die again later. Why? Because he insists on trying to save and protect her. Doesn't he understand? That's the reason why Mary is so upset with him! He didn't protect her. There is nothing he can do about that. There is no turning back. Maria being Mary's representation, she knows that James won't be back in time to protect her. What happens? She tries to tell him the truth again - she dies. 38. THE NEWSPAPER - Dated "today" (not a year ago, nor three years ago, but today, as in three years after Mary's death), the newspaper tells us a story about this man Mr. Orosco, who had a history of drunkeness and violence with his daughter. He died. By the way: isn't sad to notice that Angela STILL has visions of her father, even though he is dead? She doesn't even know that he is dead, because she mentioned him as "missing" in the cemetery. Well, as she just entered the next room, she must've read that paper. God rest his stupid, cruel and selfish soul. 39. THE UTERUS - We enter this room that looks like a coccoon, an uterus, if you like (those round things remind the penetration movement, don't they?). There is a monster trying to rape Angela Orosco, the daughter of that man listed above. Well, that's not her dad, as he died long ago... this is a monster, and Angela sees the monster as her father. Simple enough. What James sees is a man merged to a door, or a bed. After you kill the monster, she starts doubting James' integrity: "What do you want? I know, you're only after one thing" (sex, of course); "You could just force me, beat me up like he always did"; and ends the conversation saying "You only care about yourself, anyway. Didn't want her around anymore. Probably found someone else", which is what really happened. Even Angela gets that James is one selfish perverted man, and he keeps going with the false personality. You know, you could easily say that this theory about James' new personality is made up, but there ARE evidences for that, like the Abyss, Maria's existance and his murder. Now remember Angela's objective listed in the pocket analysis. It's the same as Maria's - to make him remember that he is not this James portrayed here. But that's ok, he's about to kill Eddie... :) 40. MARIA DIES AGAIN - That pretty much is all explained on the cell conversation topic (#037). James' insistance on trying to protect Maria got him that. 41. CATACOMB - Well, here we see several tombstones for different people that really existed, like Walter Sullivan - the murderer. Also, there is a Miriam K. that is labeled as "Traitor" in the stone. If not that weird, we get to see three empty holes - one for James, one for Eddie and one for Angela. Also, did anyone notice that the empty tombstones are only for those who are real characters in the game? There is no tombstone for Maria or Laura. So you could say "ah, but Laura doesn't have a tombstone because she's not a sinner!"... and Angela is a sinner? I don't think so. That tombstone is not there because she did something bad... it's just an allowance for her to kill herself. It's like your bed calling you when you're sleepy. Cruel analogy. 42. EDDIE FIGHT - James reaches Eddie, as he killed some dude that made fun of him with his eyes. James gets crazy. "James, you can't kill someone cause of the way they looked at you!", he says. Eddie's response is beautiful: "Don't get all holy on me James. This town called you, too. You and I are the same". This practically put James in the killer level. Then, the most stupid line in history of the videogames (well, maybe except the "Jill Sandwich" quote in Resident Evil gets that prize, but this one must come in second): "From now on, anyone that makes fun of me, I'll kill 'em! Just like that!". The conversation is followed: "Eddie, have you gone nuts?" (sitcom laughs take place), and the battle starts. Then, we move to another room (ironically full of "dead meat") where Eddie says something pretty cool - "Doesn't matter if your ugly, pretty, smart, dumb. It's all the same once yer dead". When James finally kills Eddie, he just loses it. "I KILLED A HUMAN BEING!", he says. Well, James, you did kill another one. This happening, along with like 35 other ones, exists for you to get in your stupid head that you killed your wife for a selfish reason and IS a murderer, just like Eddie. Also, notice that the weapon that Eddie is weak to is primarily the Great Knife, which puts James in the same level as Pyramid Head again. If Pyramid Head is one to punish for someone's sins, James had just punished Eddie like PH, with his own weapon. Eddie's part in the story ends now. ============== Lakeview Hotel ============== After that stupid boring boat trip, you finally get to the best part of the game: the Hotel James and Mary stayed when they were in Silent Hill. Enjoy, this is the most beautiful area (in terms of stuff that occur) of any SH game. A message to those who think Laura is real: I'm not trying to bash that, but how the hell did Laura get to the hotel alone? 43. MARY'S LETTER - Behold, the longest post of the Story Analysis. Did you notice that Laura has been mentioned too much and appeared too few? Well, that's the concept of a perfectly well written character. We face this little girl for the third or fourth time here, and she's more sensitive about James - because her innocence made that happen. Mary hands a letter to Laura (remember that all the evidences that Laura gets are all made up - not the facts, the evidences, like the letters -, for her to tell James and frame his actions as an awful husband... remember, also, that Laura's innocence made her believe that she's real and those evidences are for HER, not for James). This letter tells us that Laura hates James for how he have been treating his wife lately, and the so commented info about her birthday. Also, this letter doesn't tell Laura that Mary is going to die. It says that she'll be in a quiet, beautiful place, and that she is just "gone". Laura's innocence led her to believe that Mary isn't dead at all, and that she's right there in the Hotel. One thing about the birthday issue: we can't tell for sure how long it has been since Mary died. Yes, the 8 theory may have depth and sense alone, but it's just incoherent when considering the theory. To assume that this theory is true, we must assume that Laura is real. And Laura can't be real... she is too weird to be real, I think I listed enough indications of her nature. Here's my opinion on the birthday thing: just like the Hotel from years ago is there, Laura could be one from years ago, too. So, when you enter the office (1st floor) and read "this schedule is set for one year ago", you must notice that the Hotel that we see already IS from the past and that is proved in the end of the game and with the hotel picture in the prison. So "one year ago" is read "one year ago plus the time Mary has been sick", which is set to be more than three years! When Laura says she talked to Mary last week, she could have, because to her, it's just one week since Mary was "gone". When JAMES hears it, he shouldn't interpret it like "Oh my God, Mary died last week", but like this: "this Hotel is NOT real. Laura is NOT real", which I think are the riddles the game wants us to solve in the first place! Don't you agree that is too much of a simple plot twist to say that she died last week? What's great about that? The real plot twist is that James murdered Mary. The rest are just informations and indications. The Hotel riddle is more than known, with the fire and stuff... well, I'm not bashing other theories, just to double-check... it's just my opinion, as I don't see any logic in Mary being dead for just a week. If you want a simple conclusion: Laura is IN the Hotel from years ago. She even plays the piano and draws in the glass. If she were to see the Hotel as it is today, if she were in Silent Hill as it exists today, she wouldn't be able to interact with those objects, which would be burned down, most likely. 44. THE VIDEOTAPE - That videotape mentioned by Maria appears on a note in the Reception desk. It says: "Mr. James Sunderland, the tape you forgot here is been kept in the office, (...)". Then, you find that tape. 45. THE ROOM 312 - The long wait is over. After experiencing hell in the hotel with items on the shelf, we get to the Room 312. It is a normal Hotel room, with a clear view outside. James watches the videotape, which shows Mary having her first signs of the illness (meaning that this was their last good memory, as Mary's sickness launched ever since) and, of course, James killing her. Now that was no euthanasia. That was cold-blood murder. You know, maybe I judge James' actions too much when I say that he is a murderer... it's just that I can't imagine myself killing someone I love. OR anyone. But well, I'm not James, he's a murderer. He suffocates her with a pillow and we even get to see her struggle a little (the video is not that clear). NOW -> James' world just falls. His true personality is revealed. And so, Maria and Laura's prime objectives are accomplished here. They led James to the truth. With a little help of the lucky item, but whatever. Laura helped him without knowing and he finally made it to the end of that videotape. He FINALLY understands that he is a murderer. He finally goes back to his old selfish personality, as he (as shocked as he was) acted like he understood all of that. Meaning: he didn't go berserk "I killed a human being" again. This is the real James that appeared now. His guilt of killing someone for selfishness has finally beaten him. That's why Mary was waiting for him in the Room 312. For him to find out the truth. To remember the way he treated her and killed her. He needed their one LAST good memory to interact with the real evidences of his murder. Laura enters the room. Destined to find Mary, with hope in her heart, she hears something from the one man she hates: "I killed her". Now, Laura plays her part in the story. All she did until now is tied to this occurance: "You didn't care about her! She was always waiting for you! Why? I hate you, I hate you, I hate you, I hate you...". She told James what he needed to hear. Plus, she'll never find Mary again. So, we can tell for sure that: Laura's part in the story ends now. James finally woke up. 46. THE ACTUAL STUFF - After James discovers his true self, after Laura and Maria's mission are accomplished, James sees the Hotel as it is right now: destroyed and soaking wet from the Fire Dept. The water has runned down to the basement, which is more of a pool right now. There are Fire Dept. banners blocking your way to some rooms. This is simple to understand, as James has just brought back from his false personality, his "false world" he created to dodge his past actions. 47. ANGELA'S ASHES - We finally get to see Silent Hill in Angela's point of view. Destined to walk on the stairs of doom, she confuses James with her mother. When she feels his face, she knows it's James. What's that about? Did she get blind or something? Even so, she talks to him wanting her knife back. "Keeping it for you, huh?". "No, I'd never kill myself!". Of course not. You are a selfish man. Even if you KEEPED and examined it several times, you'd end "in water", which still means a selfish act. Angela then says: "Will you take care of me? Love me? (James' selfish thoughts come now. He doesn't want another wife to take care. He learned his lesson, he wants to be alone now, in peace)... that's what I thought". Then she goes up the flames, in one of the most beautiful game scenes ever designed. Angela's part in the story ends now. 48. DUAL PYRAMID HEAD FIGHT - Maria is on a platform, upside-down. Two Pyramid Heads are now staring at James, as if they were just waiting for him, to then do something. Maria screams, and one of the Pyramid Heads kill her. Again. Then, James just drops on his knees. Now that he has finally awakened, he understands that act: James: "I was weak. That's why I needed you.... needed someone to punish me for my sins.... but that's all over now.... I know the truth.... now it's time to end this." Now here we may have a doubt of who was he talking about. I believe he was talking about both Pyramid Head and Maria, because they were both used to punish him for his sins. Now it was time to end this... and he did. Why were two Pyramid Heads? Well, that's up to you. Many people believe that another one showed up in order to punish him for Eddie's death (like me), others say it's just to make the game cool, others say it's just to raise his sinner condition after watching the whole videotape thing. I believe it's the Eddie thing (and it's the most pertinent to the theory). Well, James defeats the PHs and doesn't need them anymore, because he already took off that mask. He is the old, selfish James. By the way, the song in this fight is the most apocalyptical song I've ever heard in my life. Even more apocalyptical than the "2001: A Space Odyssey" one. And so, Pyramid Head's part ends now. 49. HALLWAY CONVERSATION - This is the perfect ending for the game, at least in my opinion. By reading this or not, you should be able to understand every single feeling and fact in this story. Mary: "What do you want, James?" James: "I, uh, I brought you some flowers..." Mary: "Flowers? I don't want any damn flowers. Just go home already." As far as I understood, Mary got tired of how pitiful she was looking with the disease and stuff (she really was sad knowing she's about to die and no one has been able to do anything to help her). BUT, also, she was tired of having James, a husband that doesn't take care of her and thinks that an action of love in a situation like that is to bring flowers. Of course that is wrong. Mary: "James.... Wait.... please don't go.... stay with me. Don't leave me alone. I didn't mean what I said. Please James.... tell me I'll be okay. Tell me I'm not going to die. Help me..." She is desperate. She is begging for him to understand her disease condition, and that all she needs is James himself. I can't imagine Mary's face when James left that room, it just makes me wanna cry. I think a true husband that loves his wife would never abandon her like he did. But, on the other hand, you begin to understand James' feelings too. Imagine yourself entering a hospital room every single day for years, to see a person that made you happy for so long. That's why I said that in the beginning of the analysis: you're not supposed to judge James' selfishness... you're supposed to understand it. This is also why I didn't analyze the Recording. James had just asked for how long did his wife have to breathe. It doesn't matter if the doctor "mentioned" three years of disease. What did matter were James' feelings at that time, not the clue for "Mary's death time". Those did not mean feelings of one person that loves another. If he loved Mary, he wouldn't have given up taking care of her. He said like someone that cared for Mary... but he did not ACT like that. I still think it's irrelevant whether she died three years or not, but it's certain that she did not die last week. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ And so, this brief analysis reaches its end. As I said in the character analysis section, the conclusions of this story are written in your pocket analysis (or that section) that you printed (or copied to another document, or neither). Every fact that has been written here is confirmed as conclusion in each character's analysis. The end of this story, the part where it's up to multiple conclusions, is above. All that comes after, including the last boss, are just meant for the game itself, to have multiple endings to unlock. You'll see why I said this, right here:
Pirat2: ====================================================================== E N D I N G S ====================================================================== To "analyze" the endings, just grab the character analysis (pocket analysis), check the involved items to gain that ending (below) and compare them to the characters. This has no relevance to the theory whatsoever, it's just a fun thing to do with your pocket analysis that you'll surely throw at the garbage. For example: in order to understand the "in water" ending, just look at what do you need to accomplish during the game for it (thanks to Matt Clark's Endings FAQ for those below): ======== In Water ======== - examine Angela's knife often - read the diary on the hospital roof - read the second message to James in Neely's Bar - stay at low health - listen to the headphone and hallway conversation What do we get from that? By examining Angela's knife, James thinks more and more about Angela's way of taking the suffering: she wants to kill herself. By examining a suicide weapon, James' chances of killing himself grow. If you read the diary on the roof, you are going to notice two messages: "Can it be such a sin to run instead of fight?" and "It may be selfish, but that's what I want"... both mean a leaning to giving up life. Reading the second message at Neely's bar gives James a feeling that he doesn't have much to do anymore. He's about to go to hell, what else should he do? Well, staying at low health is pretty self-explained, you just don't care about your life anymore. Finally, listening to the headphone and hallway conversation, your guilt is added to those elements accomplished before, so James practically makes his decision to kill himself there. This is the selfish ending. Now do that with the other endings. ===== Maria ===== - try to return to Mary's cell after she's dead - stay close to Maria - revisit the S3 room when she's resting - make sure Maria receives very little damage DON'T: - examine Mary's picture and letter - bump into Maria - examine Angela's knife If you don't feel like doing the thing, I'll explain it. If you stay close to Maria and protect her, you are obviously getting one second chance. As we see in the ending, James is really receiving a second chance because Maria WILL start developing Mary's disease all over again. So, it's up to him to take really good care of her this time. He chooses to be happy with Mary's nice and fun side, even though he knows that she'll end up getting ill. This is the ending where James really concerns about Maria's health, besides remembering Mary's best memories together. This is a beautiful ending, in my opinion. It's the love ending. ===== Leave ===== - listen to the entire hallway conversation - examine Mary's picture and letter once in a while - stay always at max health DON'T: - stay close to Maria This is the hard one. By choosing Laura, James realizes, in my opinion, that Mary was right all along and needed to warn him, even though it was by Laura. So, by "adopting" Laura, James is just accepting a new way of punishment - to stay with the side of his wife that he most hated, to the rest of his life. It's a nobel action. This is the punish ending. So that's simple after all: all the endings just depend on which character did James give more attention in the whole game - Angela, Maria or Mary (Laura). _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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