My wife hates video games. She wants nothing to do with them. She happened to glance at this one when I first starting playing it. It somehow intrigued her and she asked me what it was all about. After I explained the story to her, she was intrigued even more. From that point on, she obsessively watched as I continued to play. She was so hooked on the story to a point where we actually planned out my game time so she could be there to watch. This is a true testament to an awesome game.
"Theme of Laura" I never skipped the intro of Silent Hill 2 no matter how many times I've played and finished it. There's something about the tune, melody and the crying guitar riff that just always pulls me in. A melancholic masterpiece of an opening to an amazing and timeless game. God bless Team Silent and Akira Yamaoka.
@@lawea9113 no she isn't. She's never seen interacting with any of the other characters. Plus when you talk to eddy in the bowling alley she refuses to go in. Maria is a monster created by the town to punish James. Almost kinda like pyramid. She's there to constantly remind him of what he did.
That voice acting, those graphics, that atmosphere, that soundtrack, that scenario, that plot, that intro.....everything about this game was just VERY VERY VERY GOOD.
I thought i was the single dude that found that small dialogue touching. Guys, i played this game in 2021 and found it touching. I can’t imagine how was it for all of you that played it back in 2001. Anyway, thanks for your comment
Just my opinion but I think at some point, James truly likes Maria for being Maria, and not because she's a hotter version of Mary. This is why at the end of the game when pyramid kills her, he ends up realizing the truth about her, he breaks his own spell and he has to let her go, so he kills her himself. So when she appears again looking like Mary, he feels nothing.
No other game can effect you this emotionally as silent hill 2, in other games most of the time it's either a tragic story in a middle of a zombie apocalypse or a serial killer type but silent hill is like a therapy session that constantly reminds you of your past mistakes and the horrible things you've done and you either have to fight it and accept the truth or die and become a monster
This is the original intro from the original game disc I got in 2001. The only things that I have changed is that I tried hard as hell to scale it up to 720p without losing much quality and did some color correction.
I remember my childhood playing this in the afternoon after school, trying to unlock all finals with an english dictionary by my side, such a lovely and peacefull moments.
This wasn't the version of this I was looking for, but the fact that I can still hear all of the dialogue in my head is a testament to how fantastic this was.
To this day, nothing has ever unnerved me more than trying to power through this game every night at the age of 13. Still haven't beaten it. Always got up to the lake hotel and "took a break". Its been 19 years.
Arthaslepeureux However, as much as I hate CoD, you have to admit it serves a purpose. There's just a ton of more people who would rather play a "soldier fantasy" than a cerebral horror game. As long as we can all agree that Silent Hill 2 is the best-told story in gaming, I don't care what other people play in their free time when they need to wind down. It's just sad that there's so many people out there who will only play what other people are playing, and will never go back and experience the classics due to their obsession with graphics and guns. Oh, well.
Used to watch this intro a lot when I was younger. This series really captured my mind and heart. It speaks deeply to the human experience - mostly pain - and makes it seem so beautiful. The music and dialogue really drew me in. It's emotional and expressive of the darker side of life.
I played Silent Hill 2 just for this song. I heard this song last year and was like “this sounds awesome.” So, a few days ago I finally booted up Silent Hill 2 and played through waiting for the fabled “Theme of Laura” to play in my game. I beat the game a night or so ago on August 28, 2023. It wasn’t until today that the song I was eagerly waiting to hear wasnt gonna play in the game. Rather, it pertained to this intro I am now watching. All this time, I was expecting to hear this song play at a pivotal moment and I would have that Silent Hill 2 moment and be like “THAT’S THE SONG!” Alas, I watched the intro and realized the thing I was looking for was at the beginning all along. I’m 22 years old. This game is as old as me, came out in 2001, my birth year. Thank you for reading this
I played SH2 recently because I had beat the first game and really liked it, as well as everyone praising this game. Then, when I heard Promise (reprise) and blank fairy i yelled in my mind “ITS THE SONGS. THEYRE FROM THIS GAME??” Truly iconic
which they did and now I am hooked to this game like crazy, neither played the original one nor the remake but watched the walkthrough (of the remake) by the red brad and boy oh boy what a wonderful game this was, sound tracks and sound effects were exceptional, the only thing left is watching the og one coz I heard some part of the game was removed, last and not the least story line was top notch 🗣🫡 this comment got larger than I intended it to be sorry lol
Why does no one love silent hill 4 the room it had an amazing story great ending deep charcters ( only Walter for me) and Walter Sullivan was an amazing villain with an emotional reason for doing what he does and the ghosts/room in the second half where horrific
Mr Philospher: that is a really good question. i can't speak for everyone but i personally like Silent Hill 4 more than Silent Hill 2 in terms of story, because i couldn't quite get into James character. but in terms of creepiness and just plain weird, Silent Hill 2 is up there. my favorite one has always been Silent Hill 3 but i liked that game for it's story and it was creepy in it's own way and the same with Silent Hill 4, but there's just something about the atmosphere in Silent Hill 2 that just grips you with fear the first time you play through it, and the fact that the game has a way of messing with your head. so i think Konami did a good job with all the horror stuff and creeping you out, but were Silent Hill 2 loses me is in the characters and story. i never found any of the characters interesting including James, except for the fact that they all were screw up mentally and creepy, and even the little girl came off weird. but in Silent Hill 3 that was a different story, i did get into the characters and story especially Heather. i mean compared to James you wanted to cheer for Heather, she didn't want to be there whereas with James he never questioned what was going on around him or why he was there and whenever he did it was only for a second. so to answer your question, i definitely like Silent Hill 4 more than Silent Hill 2.
@@dotflann I honestly agree. SH2 has some of the most gut punching lines of dialogue I've ever heard. Especially Monica Taylor Horgan's performance during the letter sequence at the end of the story is practically irreplaceable. To me, there are several great horror games/franchises these days but it seems like people have forgotten that genuinely dealing with our flaws of being human can be just as hard to deal with and definitely as scary.
one of the most poignant horror stories ever told, that too in a video game, i can't believe something like this was made decades ago, and the remake seems to betray many of the things that made the original so masterful.
I love this games voice acting, it actually fits so well with the dialogue. I love the line “aren’t you Maria?” As someone who wants to make a silent hill film, that’s one of few lines I’d have be added to the film. It’ll take inspiration from most of the games in the series (mainly the first 4 and shattered memories)
The Silent Hill series is the very definition of Survival Horror!!! Unlike Resident Evil, which is also a great series by the way, in which all the main characters are either soldiers, cops, mercenaries or mutants and you have access to all kinds of different firepower to battle against the undead, the main characters in Silent Hill are everyday run of the mill regular civilians who have no idea what they're up against whstsoever the moment they are helplessly plunged into an enigmatic demonic netherworld hiding within a seemingly harmless town, with limited resources weapons & tools some of which will actually attract monsters to your whereabouts if you're not careful!!! Whereas RE is very heavy on combat and is more of an action series than real horror, SH is a truly legit horror-based gaming experience relaying as much on atmosphere, weird sounds & noises, odd imagery, mysterious characters & ambiance, cunning, unforgettable music and compelling storytelling as well as intense combat!!! Resident Evil may've given birth to the Survival Horror genre but it's Silent Hill that actually personifies the very term in the truest sense PERIOD :)
Well, you're not gonna want to scramble around trying to solve a clockwork puzzle while you're looking for a way to stem the virus, it would make the gameplay pretty tedious and unfun. It's easier to just inject yourself with health juice and move on.
C Leduc R.E. 7 was a copy of kojimas P.T. fans say it can't be copied because of the time in development but I disagree the atmosphere of 7 was exactly like P.T. and the theres not much development in the story. Storys kinda cliche.
@@fantasmacstrp9239 actually everything wrong with sh was because of Konami's stupid decisions but in fact even tho RE is more popular you can't deny the fact that SH has influenced a lot of people and developers. Sh1 and sh2 changed completely the way survival horror were made, that's why you can find a lot of games with similarities and the same happened with PT, after a simple demo a lot of games were released with that concept (re7 and layers of fear being the most popular). So yeah, sh is not actually dead, even tho it's been years since their last good game his influence is still huge
@@LilianaGonzalez-sh3dc P.T. inspired what again? It has the cheapest idea of horror, haunted house with a ghost? We've been seeing that in dumb teenager movies since the 90's. I give it to you if we're talking about SH1 to SH4 but come on man.
I saw this part of the scene countless times when I fired up my game, but when I got to the labyrinth and walked into that jail cell,... I'll never forget how creeped out I was. Probably the most creeped out I've been in my life. The way the music pulses in deep long moans as the camera shows Maria in a dead on shot. Shots like that are rarely done because they creep the viewer out. Notice that the shots of James in the same scene are all at an angle. This game was a goddamn masterpiece and I was proud as hell of making it to the end. Thanks Valium!!!
As much as this intro could have been considered somewhat like spoilers, it really doesn’t tell as much as the disclaimer screen on the startup of the remake mentioning « domestic violence, emotional abuse, sexual assault, suicide, mental illness, child abuse and other mature themes » I miss it in the remake, just watching faces chatting without text felt so special. Their facial expressions feel so unique and strong.
Let’s be honest none of that says that much compared to this one. At least it doesn’t kinda kill the fact that Maria isn’t real and Eddie will go crazy
@@TortafritaNinja i think the new performance attempts to get the same feeling but plays its hand too hard. In the remake she sounds rather monotone and almost a little overtly aggressive, with her voice raising slightly in pitch when she ends a sentence. It gives the effect that she obviously knows something that James doesnt. Its a stark contrast to the original, where she seems to say the statements in earnest, but with a slight tinge of...something. It so hard to put your finger on Just listen to the difference in the performance of the line "Are you confusing me with someone else?" , it's night and day. That's not to say the new recordings are bad, just different and I feel not as subtle as the original.
I beat Silent Hill 2 yesterday. It was an incredible experience, terrifying, yet beautiful. When I discovered the truth I was actually heartbroken. Just. Wow.
Why can't we have more games like this these days? Just let a creator with an artistic vision do their thing and stop trying to make it identical to every other game of its kind. If it's good, then success will eventually find its way to you. It's as simple as that.
I really don’t see how this game can be remade by any team other than the original developers. This game was literally their passion, a product of the black sheep’s of the company that turned out to be one of the greatest horror games ever created
When drums enter in scene, James says "Are you Maria?" and the great music theme starts... ... in that exact moment you automatically know something epic is going to happen. Welcome to Silent Hill, player!
Falling into the emptiness of lonely, unemployment, lack of social interactions, this intro, this music, this scenario, the time i played it remains in my memory as a landscape i can take refuge to, it's a fragment of strange but comfortable times.
I haven't seen this trailer in over 20 years. I'm an OG player and I had to fight tears back. This game had so much impact on me as a young kid. I pray that they do this game justice with the impending remake. This is absolutely one of my favorite games of all times and I hope they can recapture what made the original so special.
Oh my God, how painful these memories are, how painful the days passed quickly. Before all the love to everyone who played this game when it first released how many beautiful memories we lived with it. Anywhere and anytime I wish you a happy life for everyone who reads my comment.
The original Silent Hill 2 voices were acted out that way in order to give the characters the emotions we see. The remastered versions kill the original characters and instead change the whole character to someone different. Maria and Marys original voice are seductive and caring. Mary elizabeth mc whatever has the same exact voice for both mary and maria;thus killing the psychological point of Maria and Mary. You change the voice its not the same nor dose it make it better.
I agree, to me Troy Baker voice are maybe more viril and self-confident, he have a very coolest way to speak, but that don' t make it better for James character
@@wherestherussian I think Silent Hill HD Collection might be the only remaster to change the voice cast from the original. Normally that's something a remake would do but it's not a remake so idk what Konami were thinking (probably weren't tbh)
This game will always have a special place in my heart. It was the first horror game of any kind I had ever played. My love for Dead Space and Resident Evil wouldn’t exist without this masterpiece
Come on Konami. Port the Silent Hill games for the PS4 already. I want to play Silent Hill 2, 3 and Shattered Memories without having to buy a PS2 again. But please port the original ps2 releases, not those HD disasters
@River Acheron yeah just that many sources always point out how that source code is lost. And i get ur poont maybe inside problems caused some sort of sabotage Is konami at this point i expect anything from them
Just get a copy of the PC version and download the Enhanced edition Fix. I honestly just gave up on Konami re-issuing this and SH3 on Ps4 and went that route instead. SH3 is more of a pain to get to run and doesn’t have the same “Enhanced Edition” treatment that 2 does but the fixes that are out there are well enough to get it to run in Widescreen and fixes some of the major bugs that make it unplayable on anything past windows XP.
Akira Yamaoka is one of the best composers in gaming, bar none. The ability he has to weave a narrative in the music by itself that brings your mind into it without even having the game in front of you is impressive. That, and if you've played Silent Hill 1, 2, 3, or 4, you hear one of his pieces and you know exactly where it is in the game and what it meant for you getting there. That is the mark of a damn good soundtrack and I wish more games had that for them.
the only other game i can compare to sh2's ost is disco elysium. soul radiates from both in such great quantities, and we are blessed by their existence 🙏🙏🙏🙏
I blame Konami. We shouldn't forget how they shifted their business to mobile and pachinko for a long time while companies like FromSoft, Square and Capcom remade some of their greatest classics into fine modern gems. This is clearly their attempt at keeping up their name when it's already sullied for a while. Capcom and Square were smart, they knew they couldn't outsource it since these games, although were really popular in the Western markets, were conceived and written by the Japanese. I really believe getting European developers involved in such a great classic like Silent Hill 2 (one of my favourite, favourite classic titles alongside FFX) was a lazy means of making money. If the game sells well, they will continue with this path. If it doesn't, they'll still be clueless like how they signed up more SH film with Gans. What an embarrassment. The Maria scene in the remake in particular looked so weird. In the original, the glee on her face when she chuckled and then shifted her tone was menacing, disturbing. Don't forget the location where you actually find her either, it should make the experience even more eerie. Although overall the voice acting seems like a step up from the original (remember, Team Silent was a small team and they never had very big budgets to begin with), it's hard to give credit to the ENTIRE game solely on the VO alone. We all expected the VO to be better anyway. The remake will do great in some aspects but perform poorly where it matters most. I hope I'm wrong.
I always loved how the upbeat theme completely hid the INCREDIBLY thick, dark, depressing story and atmosphere. No feel good moments here... and that's why I love it.
"How do you know about that? Aren't you Maria?" "... I'm not your Marry." This line always hit me so hard. It's full of implied emotions. Maria kinda taunting James on his ridiculous chase after his dead wife, the town calling James out on his delusions, and amongst that a slight pain in Maria's voice. Almost as if a part of this being created from James's subconcious really wanted to be Marry, but it knows it can't.
I don't know why but that brief scene of a silhouetted James picking Mary up and carrying her just hits me right in the feels 😥 No other game in existence has affected me like this game.
I played this game originally when it came out in 2001 when I was in high school. I beat it and never played it again until last week when I decided to buy a ps2 and a copy of this game. Had I known back then I would have kept both instead of repurchasing it 20 years later for an even higher price. As soon as I turned my ps2 on and then the tv this was playing. I thought something was wrong with the game until I realized this was a cutscene. A lot of memories came back that I didn’t even know I had anymore.
When I first saw this track I was so confused how is it related to the game. After watching the walkthrough, I cannot unsee this track. It is so perfectly designed.
Something that I loved about this game, was that it gave substance to its horror. There isn't violence for its own sake. It had grotesque symbolism, but it still told a heart-wrenching story.
Silent hill 2 will always be a game that will stay in our hearts for the rest of our lives, and one day when we are old and look back at this song we will just sit there and remember the great times we had in this game.
Nah this game is better by a long shot. You don't really fight in this game cause that's not the point. I don't even bother with fighting. The reason SH2 is so awesome is the story and how it unfolds. There's so much mystery that you wanna keep playing to unlock more of the puzzle. It is a slow game but it's building atmosphere. The slow build up is what allows you to get slowly sucked into the games world that it becomes quite an unsettling and creepy experience. I won't even play this game alone at night cause I live alone and a few hours playing this and I need all lights on in the house. Sure I know it's not real but after being in dark corridors with a spine tingling sensation hoping you you don't run into some creepy monster, lookin down my dark hallway gives me the jitters. And I don't scare easily but the game is so good at slowly building mood and atmosphere it stays with ya even after you turn the game off. That is a GOOD horror game! If it's too slow for you maybe just isn't your thing but I think most people love the mystery and atmosphere that being slow allows it to build. You craving to unravel the mysteries of silent hill should keep should be a driving factor and if you don't care about all the mysteries it presents and u just wanna progress the story then ya game may not be your thing.
I don't find the game thay scary. I like the isolation and the decision to not put mood breaking inputs like a bar where you can see your health on the screen. I liked this more because the story is really damn good of which will be ageless. Sometimes the puzzle's kind of break you out of the experience, which in this case i used the internet.
PhoenixPhire22 Honestly, this was the least scary out of them all. I played 1 and 2 at night and 1 just felt much creepier and very eerie (but the hospital in 2 was scarier). And I've just started playing 3 and I seriously can't play it at night! The soundtrack from 2 was the best though and the story was written and executed perfectly.
This game’s CG scenes are top notch. It’s always the eyes that bother me in most CG scenes, even today. They always have a dead stare, but I don’t get that feeling with SH2. Hardly an uncanny valley. Can’t believe it’s been over a decade and even the CG from 1 holds up so well.
Bruh i'm only at the start of it, but the way she says "long hallway" and how it's animated... it's insane how detailed this is! How was this achieved fcking 24 years ago?! How?!!!!!! Sato is a genuis for this...
Mathias Nangano: i have the silent hill HD collection, and i've never had it lag on me. i have it for the 360 so i don't know if it plays any different. i have a ps3, but i bought it for the xbox at the time. that being said, on the 360 you can change everything back to the original setting. the ps3 uses a blue ray disk, so you have the option to upscal the game to 1080p. obviously not native, but on the 360 version that i have you have two option to choose from. you can either play it in it's original 480p setting, or you can play it in 720p but that's all the 360 gives you. i still have a ps2 as well as the game, and they both play very similar. i will say that when you play it in HD, there is a slight delay. i think because it's meant to be played in 480p. now the pc version doesn't have any issues with resolution, but i wouldn't play it any higher than 1080p.
Just saw the intro for the SH2 Remake, and all I can say is that at least from these lines, Maria's delivery in the original sounds way better than in the remake. In the remake sounds like if she is just reading a card. Love what a gem the OG SH2 is.
That’s because they missed the shot with why she sounds the way she does in the original. When she’s talking about the video tape, the hall way, etc, she’s not Maria, she’s Mary. It’s not till James asks her that she becomes Maria again. This subtle change between the 2 personas is what made this scene gold. The remake just didn’t capture it through the dialog the way the original does.
@@troyb4533 Because the remake clearly does not pay homage to the details, not in the story, not in the voices, not in the lore and most likely not in the subtle details for each room.
My wife hates video games. She wants nothing to do with them. She happened to glance at this one when I first starting playing it. It somehow intrigued her and she asked me what it was all about. After I explained the story to her, she was intrigued even more. From that point on, she obsessively watched as I continued to play. She was so hooked on the story to a point where we actually planned out my game time so she could be there to watch. This is a true testament to an awesome game.
Maria?
@@dabigamba it does not matter who i am i am here for you james-maria
Hey man, I hope you let your wife know how AWESOME she really is!
Same story with my parents on the first game
This is makes me think like a story looking through a another story.
No matter how many times I play this game, this music never gets old!
Rabbit OST hell yeah dude
Rabbit OST The soundtrack is the best part of the game by far.
if that's not enough play the music with the cut out guitar solo from the e3 trailer
It's a classic
Too bad they butchered the remastered versions. And that that’s the only version we can play today.
"Theme of Laura"
I never skipped the intro of Silent Hill 2 no matter how many times I've played and finished it.
There's something about the tune, melody and the crying guitar riff that just always pulls me in.
A melancholic masterpiece of an opening to an amazing and timeless game. God bless Team Silent and Akira Yamaoka.
The desperation in "Aren't you Maria?" is just so impactful. What a bloody masterpiece
Me with 1 and 3. Haven't played 2 yet, and for some reason whenever I boot up the game I don't get an intro movie like this :(
@@QuadMachine09 u gotta sit idle on the title screen, it’ll play :)
@@reneloveslain takes so long to start up but now I let it go all the way
If you listen closely you may hear the mandolin playing silent Hill theme but in another scale
"See? I'm real."
Yeah I wasn't actually thinking you weren't real but that sounds like something someone who ISN'T real would say.
Also the fact she was killed not once, not twice, but three times in the story and still came back.
The way she smiled while she saying that is unsettling
she is real tho
@@lawea9113 no she isn't. She's never seen interacting with any of the other characters. Plus when you talk to eddy in the bowling alley she refuses to go in. Maria is a monster created by the town to punish James. Almost kinda like pyramid. She's there to constantly remind him of what he did.
@@Todo-1996 what about the born from a wish scenario?
"It doesnt Matter who i am.. im here for you James... see? im real. " never gets old.
She isn’t real… I can’t make her real 🥺
That voice acting, those graphics, that atmosphere, that soundtrack, that scenario, that plot, that intro.....everything about this game was just VERY VERY VERY GOOD.
the voice acting got re recorded for the remastered version, but I guess you mean both of them version had great voice acting then
Voice acting was actually pretty awful for most of the game, outside of a few key cutscenes. I replayed it a year or so ago. Still a great game.
@@galihriskipratama3631 wrong
@@BlackWolf207 also wrong
@@BlackWolf207 it’s meant to be that way, they’re meant to be awkward. To know something is off
Theres somthing very touching almost melancholy in the line " arn't you maria?"
honestly makes me feel that he feels so desperate
Probably because he thought she was really his wife but she wasn’t
I thought i was the single dude that found that small dialogue touching. Guys, i played this game in 2021 and found it touching. I can’t imagine how was it for all of you that played it back in 2001.
Anyway, thanks for your comment
@@MashMash I'm playing SH2 in 2021 too, it's amazing
Just my opinion but I think at some point, James truly likes Maria for being Maria, and not because she's a hotter version of Mary. This is why at the end of the game when pyramid kills her, he ends up realizing the truth about her, he breaks his own spell and he has to let her go, so he kills her himself. So when she appears again looking like Mary, he feels nothing.
SH2 was ahead of its time!
I'm making a silent hill stopmotion :D
No. It was just in time. Just like Half-Life. They were both just in time to become everlasting legends.
@@huggajugga1830 did you ever finish it
@@legendonyxtaco a child had an idea. An idea it stayed, for the effort could not be put up.
The Silent Hill franchise was ahead of its time
THE BEST INTRO WITH BEST MUSIC EVER MADE FOR A GAME
SH4 had a better intro, even if the game itself wasnt as good as 2
@@sernoddicusthegallant6986 the music in sh2 is the best tho
The music is the best in Silent Hill 2, overall, but Silent Hill 3 - In Monochrome Night is the greatest song in the entire franchise
SH4 got the best intro, but SH2's intro is great otherwise :)
No other game can effect you this emotionally as silent hill 2, in other games most of the time it's either a tragic story in a middle of a zombie apocalypse or a serial killer type but silent hill is like a therapy session that constantly reminds you of your past mistakes and the horrible things you've done and you either have to fight it and accept the truth or die and become a monster
Spec Ops: The Line is very similar
"See? I'm real."
Gives me chills every single time.
This is the original intro from the original game disc I got in 2001. The only things that I have changed is that I tried hard as hell to scale it up to 720p without losing much quality and did some color correction.
chief, we getting ps5 remake!
@@BobbaFett312ps5 demake
Absolutely hilarious that you uploaded "BF3 Shotgun Devastation" immediately after this lmao
Your thoughts on the SH2 remake? 12 years later...
It is so sad and deep and emotional.. makes speechless and full of tears deep inside me.
sucha depressing game.
rleate..
I remember my childhood playing this in the afternoon after school, trying to unlock all finals with an english dictionary by my side, such a lovely and peacefull moments.
Unlocking the UFO final was pretty funny
This wasn't the version of this I was looking for, but the fact that I can still hear all of the dialogue in my head is a testament to how fantastic this was.
To this day, nothing has ever unnerved me more than trying to power through this game every night at the age of 13. Still haven't beaten it. Always got up to the lake hotel and "took a break". Its been 19 years.
Did you beat it yet?
Dig up a PS2 and finish it fully brotha
You better finish it one day
You promised you'd finish it... But you never did. That town's still there, now. Waiting for you.
@@yannatoko9898 lol nah I never did
“You were always so forgetful”
That’s crazy foreshadowing right there.
Masterpiece.
And it suck that this game isnt popular as any Call of Duty. True games deserve a better success.
Arthaslepeureux yeah!!
Arthaslepeureux However, as much as I hate CoD, you have to admit it serves a purpose. There's just a ton of more people who would rather play a "soldier fantasy" than a cerebral horror game. As long as we can all agree that Silent Hill 2 is the best-told story in gaming, I don't care what other people play in their free time when they need to wind down. It's just sad that there's so many people out there who will only play what other people are playing, and will never go back and experience the classics due to their obsession with graphics and guns. Oh, well.
Used to watch this intro a lot when I was younger.
This series really captured my mind and heart. It speaks deeply to the human experience - mostly pain - and makes it seem so beautiful.
The music and dialogue really drew me in. It's emotional and expressive of the darker side of life.
I played Silent Hill 2 just for this song. I heard this song last year and was like “this sounds awesome.” So, a few days ago I finally booted up Silent Hill 2 and played through waiting for the fabled “Theme of Laura” to play in my game. I beat the game a night or so ago on August 28, 2023. It wasn’t until today that the song I was eagerly waiting to hear wasnt gonna play in the game. Rather, it pertained to this intro I am now watching.
All this time, I was expecting to hear this song play at a pivotal moment and I would have that Silent Hill 2 moment and be like “THAT’S THE SONG!”
Alas, I watched the intro and realized the thing I was looking for was at the beginning all along.
I’m 22 years old. This game is as old as me, came out in 2001, my birth year. Thank you for reading this
@joseluisrivera99 indeed it is
I played SH2 recently because I had beat the first game and really liked it, as well as everyone praising this game. Then, when I heard Promise (reprise) and blank fairy i yelled in my mind “ITS THE SONGS. THEYRE FROM THIS GAME??” Truly iconic
I hope they keep this theme or use a rendition of it for the remake cause this song is amazing
As far as I know, Akira Yamaoka is working on the music so I'm guessing this is gonna stay.
which they did and now I am hooked to this game like crazy, neither played the original one nor the remake but watched the walkthrough (of the remake) by the red brad and boy oh boy what a wonderful game this was, sound tracks and sound effects were exceptional, the only thing left is watching the og one coz I heard some part of the game was removed, last and not the least story line was top notch 🗣🫡
this comment got larger than I intended it to be sorry lol
Silent Hill 1-3 are the absolute best. SH2 is my favorite because it was a very dark storyline.
I believe SH 4 was the scariest but I’m disappointed with the ending but that’s just me
I've heard 4 is kinda good but ugh...I stay with my beloved Heather
Silent Hill 3 is my favorite, but i like the second one to.
Why does no one love silent hill 4 the room it had an amazing story great ending deep charcters ( only Walter for me) and Walter Sullivan was an amazing villain with an emotional reason for doing what he does and the ghosts/room in the second half where horrific
Mr Philospher: that is a really good question. i can't speak for everyone but i personally like Silent Hill 4 more than Silent Hill 2 in terms of story, because i couldn't quite get into James character. but in terms of creepiness and just plain weird, Silent Hill 2 is up there. my favorite one has always been Silent Hill 3 but i liked that game for it's story and it was creepy in it's own way and the same with Silent Hill 4, but there's just something about the atmosphere in Silent Hill 2 that just grips you with fear the first time you play through it, and the fact that the game has a way of messing with your head. so i think Konami did a good job with all the horror stuff and creeping you out, but were Silent Hill 2 loses me is in the characters and story. i never found any of the characters interesting including James, except for the fact that they all were screw up mentally and creepy, and even the little girl came off weird. but in Silent Hill 3 that was a different story, i did get into the characters and story especially Heather. i mean compared to James you wanted to cheer for Heather, she didn't want to be there whereas with James he never questioned what was going on around him or why he was there and whenever he did it was only for a second. so to answer your question, i definitely like Silent Hill 4 more than Silent Hill 2.
wow wow, 2001 my sweet memories .. Amazing Yamaoka's soundtrack
Gianfranco Mula timeless.
Ironically, this is still probably one of the best love stories ever written.
The lines "If that were true, then why do you look so sad?" And "You made me happy" from the end of the game always, always get me
@@dotflann I honestly agree. SH2 has some of the most gut punching lines of dialogue I've ever heard. Especially Monica Taylor Horgan's performance during the letter sequence at the end of the story is practically irreplaceable. To me, there are several great horror games/franchises these days but it seems like people have forgotten that genuinely dealing with our flaws of being human can be just as hard to deal with and definitely as scary.
@@AzeljaI think it really doesn’t help that Monica literally cried when reading the letter and that true emotion can’t be easily replicated.
one of the most poignant horror stories ever told, that too in a video game, i can't believe something like this was made decades ago, and the remake seems to betray many of the things that made the original so masterful.
Happy 20th anniversary for this horror game masterpiece, there will never be a horror game of this caliber and is still respected 20 years later
I love this games voice acting, it actually fits so well with the dialogue. I love the line “aren’t you Maria?” As someone who wants to make a silent hill film, that’s one of few lines I’d have be added to the film. It’ll take inspiration from most of the games in the series (mainly the first 4 and shattered memories)
I myself want to some day as a grand project make a non-profit Silent Hill fan film as someone who cares a hella lot about the franchise.
The Silent Hill series is the very definition of Survival Horror!!!
Unlike Resident Evil, which is also a great series by the way, in which all the main characters are either soldiers, cops, mercenaries or mutants and you have access to all kinds of different firepower to battle against the undead, the main characters in Silent Hill are everyday run of the mill regular civilians who have no idea what they're up against whstsoever the moment they are helplessly plunged into an enigmatic demonic netherworld hiding within a seemingly harmless town, with limited resources weapons & tools some of which will actually attract monsters to your whereabouts if you're not careful!!! Whereas RE is very heavy on combat and is more of an action series than real horror, SH is a truly legit horror-based gaming experience relaying as much on atmosphere, weird sounds & noises, odd imagery, mysterious characters & ambiance, cunning, unforgettable music and compelling storytelling as well as intense combat!!!
Resident Evil may've given birth to the Survival Horror genre but it's Silent Hill that actually personifies the very term in the truest sense PERIOD :)
Well, you're not gonna want to scramble around trying to solve a clockwork puzzle while you're looking for a way to stem the virus, it would make the gameplay pretty tedious and unfun. It's easier to just inject yourself with health juice and move on.
C Leduc R.E. 7 was a copy of kojimas P.T. fans say it can't be copied because of the time in development but I disagree the atmosphere of 7 was exactly like P.T. and the theres not much development in the story. Storys kinda cliche.
>a dead saga is better than a saga that keeps selling.
how come? i haven't seen Silent Hill 2 remake anywhere... hmm... i wonder why?
@@fantasmacstrp9239 actually everything wrong with sh was because of Konami's stupid decisions but in fact even tho RE is more popular you can't deny the fact that SH has influenced a lot of people and developers.
Sh1 and sh2 changed completely the way survival horror were made, that's why you can find a lot of games with similarities and the same happened with PT, after a simple demo a lot of games were released with that concept (re7 and layers of fear being the most popular).
So yeah, sh is not actually dead, even tho it's been years since their last good game his influence is still huge
@@LilianaGonzalez-sh3dc P.T. inspired what again? It has the cheapest idea of horror, haunted house with a ghost? We've been seeing that in dumb teenager movies since the 90's.
I give it to you if we're talking about SH1 to SH4 but come on man.
I saw this part of the scene countless times when I fired up my game, but when I got to the labyrinth and walked into that jail cell,... I'll never forget how creeped out I was. Probably the most creeped out I've been in my life. The way the music pulses in deep long moans as the camera shows Maria in a dead on shot. Shots like that are rarely done because they creep the viewer out. Notice that the shots of James in the same scene are all at an angle. This game was a goddamn masterpiece and I was proud as hell of making it to the end. Thanks Valium!!!
As much as this intro could have been considered somewhat like spoilers, it really doesn’t tell as much as the disclaimer screen on the startup of the remake mentioning « domestic violence, emotional abuse, sexual assault, suicide, mental illness, child abuse and other mature themes »
I miss it in the remake, just watching faces chatting without text felt so special. Their facial expressions feel so unique and strong.
Let’s be honest none of that says that much compared to this one. At least it doesn’t kinda kill the fact that Maria isn’t real and Eddie will go crazy
Akira Yamaoka really put his entire Yamussy into this
DO NOT CALL IT THAT
No, he's right though. I can confirm after meeting Yamaoka in person. He do be using his Yamussy playing skills.
THIS IS LIKE THE BEST INTRO TO ANYTHING EVER 😭
The new voice actress seemed to be just reading the script, her voice was so raw and emotionless. This reminded me how incredible classic dubs are.
i mean, i like it and it's like she is really not real, something without emotions and all, i don't see a problem.
@@TortafritaNinja i think the new performance attempts to get the same feeling but plays its hand too hard.
In the remake she sounds rather monotone and almost a little overtly aggressive, with her voice raising slightly in pitch when she ends a sentence. It gives the effect that she obviously knows something that James doesnt. Its a stark contrast to the original, where she seems to say the statements in earnest, but with a slight tinge of...something. It so hard to put your finger on
Just listen to the difference in the performance of the line "Are you confusing me with someone else?" , it's night and day. That's not to say the new recordings are bad, just different and I feel not as subtle as the original.
@@TortafritaNinja I also just wanna say everything else about the trailer was pretty dope ngl, eddie gave me chills UE5 really shining there
one of the greatest intros and one of the greatest games ever made
"James, Honey, did something happen to you after we got separarted in that long hallway?"
Best Silent Hill so far. Story and music wise.
Puzzles were insane hard, too. Still haven't gotten I.Q Golden trophy, but soonl.
I beat Silent Hill 2 yesterday. It was an incredible experience, terrifying, yet beautiful. When I discovered the truth I was actually heartbroken. Just. Wow.
Why can't we have more games like this these days? Just let a creator with an artistic vision do their thing and stop trying to make it identical to every other game of its kind. If it's good, then success will eventually find its way to you. It's as simple as that.
Looks pretty good
Loved playing this as a kid and looking back on it I just now seem to realize how much of a masterpiece this game truly was.
I really don’t see how this game can be remade by any team other than the original developers.
This game was literally their passion, a product of the black sheep’s of the company that turned out to be one of the greatest horror games ever created
This was an unforgettable experience
When drums enter in scene, James says "Are you Maria?" and the great music theme starts...
... in that exact moment you automatically know something epic is going to happen. Welcome to Silent Hill, player!
Falling into the emptiness of lonely, unemployment, lack of social interactions, this intro, this music, this scenario, the time i played it remains in my memory as a landscape i can take refuge to, it's a fragment of strange but comfortable times.
É mesmo é bb?
Lindo comentário mano. Mais uma prova de que esse jogo é incrível
I had this recorded on VHS, rented a PS2 console. I was so proud of it.
Who else is watching this after watching the remake trailer?
Me
I haven't seen this trailer in over 20 years. I'm an OG player and I had to fight tears back. This game had so much impact on me as a young kid. I pray that they do this game justice with the impending remake. This is absolutely one of my favorite games of all times and I hope they can recapture what made the original so special.
Same)
Do net fret, for the remake ended up good.
@@titusarnklint8581 so here we are and the OG is still the best
@@Hakku1403 Well you can't make anything better than the original Silent Hill 2, now can you?
Jame's is probably the most emotionally numb person I have ever had the pleasure as playing in my life.
I mean the dude has severe ptsd and depression. So it makes sense he's more stoic than a regular person
@@puffpuffpassmako THAT REMAKE THOUGH!!!!!
Sadness and horror is the most terrifying mix a human being can be put through
Both are elements of tragedy
"HOW DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THAT?"
"...Are you Maria?"
*DRUMS, GUITAR BREAKSDOWN* 🤘
Aren’t you*
I have beaten this game so many times....when i watch this, I can read their lips. I have Pyramid Head tattooed to my left arm!
How you gonna explain that to someone who has no clue what SH2 is😂 oh yeah it's just dorito man
@@onejediboi hahahaha
@@onejediboi As someone who also has dorito man on their left arm, I now have an excellent explanation LMAO
@@EleusiusBlack Dorito man? Aren't...aren't you Maria?
Oh my God, how painful these memories are, how painful the days passed quickly. Before all the love to everyone who played this game when it first released how many beautiful memories we lived with it. Anywhere and anytime I wish you a happy life for everyone who reads my comment.
You too my man! Why would memories be painful though?
The original Silent Hill 2 voices were acted out that way in order to give the characters the emotions we see. The remastered versions kill the original characters and instead change the whole character to someone different. Maria and Marys original voice are seductive and caring. Mary elizabeth mc whatever has the same exact voice for both mary and maria;thus killing the psychological point of Maria and Mary. You change the voice its not the same nor dose it make it better.
I agree, to me Troy Baker voice are maybe more viril and self-confident, he have a very coolest way to speak, but that don' t make it better for James character
For real, all the intentional artistic choices from the original are thrown out the window in the HD remaster.
@@wherestherussian I think Silent Hill HD Collection might be the only remaster to change the voice cast from the original. Normally that's something a remake would do but it's not a remake so idk what Konami were thinking (probably weren't tbh)
Im so glad the current HD version has the original voices. Now unfortunately silent hill 3 doesn't :/
Lmao, if there's one thing to complain about in this game, it's the voice acting.
My bois, it is time, the wait is over, the REMAKE is coming babyyy
Just played, and finished the "Leave" Ending, for the first time the other day. Definitely one of the best horror fames ever made
0:21
Remember that time in the hotel?
*song starts*
Me encanta mucho esa parte
Es toda una obra de arte
como están colocados cada detalle es fascinante
This game will always have a special place in my heart. It was the first horror game of any kind I had ever played. My love for Dead Space and Resident Evil wouldn’t exist without this masterpiece
This game's vibes (and all of Team Silent projects) are unrepeatable, this is just impossible to recreate
Welcome back Silent Hill! ♡
Come on Konami. Port the Silent Hill games for the PS4 already. I want to play Silent Hill 2, 3 and Shattered Memories without having to buy a PS2 again. But please port the original ps2 releases, not those HD disasters
Wouldnt it be difficult since that source code is lost?
@River Acheron yeah just that many sources always point out how that source code is lost.
And i get ur poont maybe inside problems caused some sort of sabotage
Is konami at this point i expect anything from them
@@tarnished97 Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.
Just get a copy of the PC version and download the Enhanced edition Fix. I honestly just gave up on Konami re-issuing this and SH3 on Ps4 and went that route instead. SH3 is more of a pain to get to run and doesn’t have the same “Enhanced Edition” treatment that 2 does but the fixes that are out there are well enough to get it to run in Widescreen and fixes some of the major bugs that make it unplayable on anything past windows XP.
After watching the trailer of the Remake, I hope they remake this intro too
And do it well too. I’m already worried about the music but hopefully they can recapture the tone
@@makotoyuki345 Why are you worried about the music?
Akira Yamaoka is back again, i'm sure he'll do perfect once more.
@@makotoyuki345leave it to akira yamaoka
Akira Yamaoka is one of the best composers in gaming, bar none. The ability he has to weave a narrative in the music by itself that brings your mind into it without even having the game in front of you is impressive. That, and if you've played Silent Hill 1, 2, 3, or 4, you hear one of his pieces and you know exactly where it is in the game and what it meant for you getting there. That is the mark of a damn good soundtrack and I wish more games had that for them.
the only other game i can compare to sh2's ost is disco elysium. soul radiates from both in such great quantities, and we are blessed by their existence 🙏🙏🙏🙏
I blame Konami. We shouldn't forget how they shifted their business to mobile and pachinko for a long time while companies like FromSoft, Square and Capcom remade some of their greatest classics into fine modern gems. This is clearly their attempt at keeping up their name when it's already sullied for a while.
Capcom and Square were smart, they knew they couldn't outsource it since these games, although were really popular in the Western markets, were conceived and written by the Japanese. I really believe getting European developers involved in such a great classic like Silent Hill 2 (one of my favourite, favourite classic titles alongside FFX) was a lazy means of making money. If the game sells well, they will continue with this path. If it doesn't, they'll still be clueless like how they signed up more SH film with Gans. What an embarrassment.
The Maria scene in the remake in particular looked so weird. In the original, the glee on her face when she chuckled and then shifted her tone was menacing, disturbing. Don't forget the location where you actually find her either, it should make the experience even more eerie. Although overall the voice acting seems like a step up from the original (remember, Team Silent was a small team and they never had very big budgets to begin with), it's hard to give credit to the ENTIRE game solely on the VO alone. We all expected the VO to be better anyway.
The remake will do great in some aspects but perform poorly where it matters most. I hope I'm wrong.
I always loved how the upbeat theme completely hid the INCREDIBLY thick, dark, depressing story and atmosphere. No feel good moments here... and that's why I love it.
One of the greatest games ever made without a shadow of a doubt.
"How do you know about that? Aren't you Maria?"
"... I'm not your Marry."
This line always hit me so hard. It's full of implied emotions. Maria kinda taunting James on his ridiculous chase after his dead wife, the town calling James out on his delusions, and amongst that a slight pain in Maria's voice. Almost as if a part of this being created from James's subconcious really wanted to be Marry, but it knows it can't.
I honestly sometimes tear up at this
Nothing will ever beat the original silent hill 2
true
anyone here after the new trailer? 😭😭😭
Yeah... bloober fckd up everything...
This is why you should NEVER give your IP to outsourcing, especially to modern western developers...
@@KolettRoneYou got that right
Yeah…for many reasons.
👍
Silent Hill forever
I’m suprised this dude went from Silent Hill to making COD videos,good for him man
Memorable, beauty and sadness at the same time :)
I don't know why but that brief scene of a silhouetted James picking Mary up and carrying her just hits me right in the feels 😥 No other game in existence has affected me like this game.
This intro always makes me wish there was a “movie mode” or “tv series mode” for Silent Hill 2.
I’d binge & rewatch tf out of it.
Just came back here to compare with the new one omgggg
I played this game originally when it came out in 2001 when I was in high school. I beat it and never played it again until last week when I decided to buy a ps2 and a copy of this game. Had I known back then I would have kept both instead of repurchasing it 20 years later for an even higher price. As soon as I turned my ps2 on and then the tv this was playing. I thought something was wrong with the game until I realized this was a cutscene. A lot of memories came back that I didn’t even know I had anymore.
I love that his hair bounces when you run. So much attention to detail
When I first saw this track I was so confused how is it related to the game. After watching the walkthrough, I cannot unsee this track. It is so perfectly designed.
Little disappointed the remake didn't well, remake this intro. Would've been nice before starting the game but oh well.
Can't say I'm surprised :/
I'm not your Mary
I'm not your precious Stanley either.
@Sarcastic Witch are you really a sarcastic witch? Lol
This intro ICONIC. Never skip it!
Something that I loved about this game, was that it gave substance to its horror.
There isn't violence for its own sake. It had grotesque symbolism, but it still told a heart-wrenching story.
Silent hill 2 will always be a game that will stay in our hearts for the rest of our lives, and one day when we are old and look back at this song we will just sit there and remember the great times we had in this game.
The way he looks at her when he says "aren't you Maria?" is so desperate and sad
The original liminal space franchise.
Nah this game is better by a long shot. You don't really fight in this game cause that's not the point. I don't even bother with fighting. The reason SH2 is so awesome is the story and how it unfolds. There's so much mystery that you wanna keep playing to unlock more of the puzzle. It is a slow game but it's building atmosphere. The slow build up is what allows you to get slowly sucked into the games world that it becomes quite an unsettling and creepy experience. I won't even play this game alone at night cause I live alone and a few hours playing this and I need all lights on in the house. Sure I know it's not real but after being in dark corridors with a spine tingling sensation hoping you you don't run into some creepy monster, lookin down my dark hallway gives me the jitters. And I don't scare easily but the game is so good at slowly building mood and atmosphere it stays with ya even after you turn the game off. That is a GOOD horror game! If it's too slow for you maybe just isn't your thing but I think most people love the mystery and atmosphere that being slow allows it to build. You craving to unravel the mysteries of silent hill should keep should be a driving factor and if you don't care about all the mysteries it presents and u just wanna progress the story then ya game may not be your thing.
I don't find the game thay scary. I like the isolation and the decision to not put mood breaking inputs like a bar where you can see your health on the screen. I liked this more because the story is really damn good of which will be ageless. Sometimes the puzzle's kind of break you out of the experience, which in this case i used the internet.
PhoenixPhire22 Honestly, this was the least scary out of them all. I played 1 and 2 at night and 1 just felt much creepier and very eerie (but the hospital in 2 was scarier). And I've just started playing 3 and I seriously can't play it at night! The soundtrack from 2 was the best though and the story was written and executed perfectly.
What's an absolute masterpiece
My personal opinion this intro is better than silent hill 3’s
This game’s CG scenes are top notch. It’s always the eyes that bother me in most CG scenes, even today. They always have a dead stare, but I don’t get that feeling with SH2. Hardly an uncanny valley. Can’t believe it’s been over a decade and even the CG from 1 holds up so well.
Bruh i'm only at the start of it, but the way she says "long hallway" and how it's animated... it's insane how detailed this is! How was this achieved fcking 24 years ago?! How?!!!!!! Sato is a genuis for this...
@TheSeiler01 This game came out in 2001. An HD remastered version of it is coming out later this year.
After silent hill 2 remake gameplay trailer this is sad..
The voice actors sound so much better here
They really don't l
ps2 version is better than remastered
Randomix yeah. I have played the remastered on my PS3 and It paga so much. The PS2 and PC versions don't even lag.
Mathias Nangano: i have the silent hill HD collection, and i've never had it lag on me. i have it for the 360 so i don't know if it plays any different. i have a ps3, but i bought it for the xbox at the time. that being said, on the 360 you can change everything back to the original setting. the ps3 uses a blue ray disk, so you have the option to upscal the game to 1080p. obviously not native, but on the 360 version that i have you have two option to choose from. you can either play it in it's original 480p setting, or you can play it in 720p but that's all the 360 gives you. i still have a ps2 as well as the game, and they both play very similar. i will say that when you play it in HD, there is a slight delay. i think because it's meant to be played in 480p. now the pc version doesn't have any issues with resolution, but i wouldn't play it any higher than 1080p.
Potato version is better than remastered...
Eww remastered is a disgrace
Ps2 is the real deal for this game. This game is made for the ps2
Happy 20th Anniversary (9/24/2001-2021) Silent Hill 2, one of the best games ever made.
Honestly the unmuted dialog intro is SO much better even if there's some spoilers
I didn't realize that drift0r uploaded this
hardest video game intro to ever be created
What a great game. Thank you for posting this. I almost want to play this again now!!!
I cried when I finished this game
I remember playing this and Twisted Metal Black obsessively. The darkest games I've ever played. These and MGS2 were part of a crazy good era
Just saw the intro for the SH2 Remake, and all I can say is that at least from these lines, Maria's delivery in the original sounds way better than in the remake. In the remake sounds like if she is just reading a card. Love what a gem the OG SH2 is.
That’s because they missed the shot with why she sounds the way she does in the original. When she’s talking about the video tape, the hall way, etc, she’s not Maria, she’s Mary. It’s not till James asks her that she becomes Maria again.
This subtle change between the 2 personas is what made this scene gold. The remake just didn’t capture it through the dialog the way the original does.
@@troyb4533 Because the remake clearly does not pay homage to the details, not in the story, not in the voices, not in the lore and most likely not in the subtle details for each room.
This time it will be the nostalgic pain past hunting and everything is grey and black you will remember this game ! Masterpiece