100 Things I Love About Silent Hill 2
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Silent Hill 2 is one of the most meticulously detailed, wonderfully crafted video games to ever exist. Today, I want to talk about all the details, both big and small, that I love about one of my favourite video games.
(P.S. Somehow totally forgot to include Angela's final scene in this list... oopsies.)
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MUSIC USED IN VIDEO (IN ORDER):
The Forest
Theme of Laura
Letters
World of Madness
Null Moon
The Day of Night
Promise (Reprise)
Heaven's Night
Laura Plays the Piano
Alone in the Town
Ordinary Vanity
Noone Love You
Promise
All songs are from the Silent Hill 2 OST.
Love your reading of "there was a hole here, it's gone now." I always kind of took it to be one of the things the developers wanted us to interpret literally, that it was a reflection on the way the town changes and it also foreshadows the hole James jumps into. I genuinely like the alcohol reading better, I can't believe it never occurred to me. Very nice!
I still remember being 15 years old playing this game on my PS2. I'm 36 now and the game can still touch my soul MASTERPIECE.
The voice-acting is probably one of the best "happy accident's" ever. According to Guy Cihi (James), the Silent Hill creators had no clear voice-director. So the actors themselfs had to perform the dialogue as is. Since none of them really was "trained" actors, the dialogue came of as something in the vein of "Uncanny Valley". "Team Silent" actually wanted classically trained actors. Voice-acting was even looked down upon by professional actors. And finding people overall in Tokyo that knew perfect Japanese and English wasn't as common as it is today.
So you didn't have a pool of talent to pull from.
The voice-acting was not supposed to be "Lynchian" or uncanny. it just came out that way.
I always figured that must've been the case with SH2, the voice acting feels somewhat amateur but... it ends up helping the overall vibe of the game. I didn't know that was factually the case though, thank you for sharing!!
A few things I love that weren’t mentioned:
The overhead shot of Angela getting up from in front of the mirror wall (when she says “how do you know that?”). Maybe my favorite shot of the entire game.
I love/hate EVERYTHING about the room in the prison/historical society where you find Angela and fight the Abstract Daddy. Right down to that Lester name. Everything about that room’s design is SO AWFUL and from Angela’s breakdown, you can just look around and they don’t need to state anything else outright. You know EXACTLY what Angela went through.
The long staircase leading down to the prison underneath the historical society. And how you keep descending down and down and down jumping through additional holes. And yet, when you leave after killing Eddie…you just walk out a door and suddenly, you’re just…outside. Impossible spaces that cannot exist, my beloved :D
“Trick or Treat.” Furthermore, MARIA’S REACTION to Trick or Treat. “What was THAT?”
The scene where James finds Maria alive and acting very much not like Maria at all. FANTASTIC voice work by Monica Horgan. (Especially how petulant/almost angry she sounds when saying “I’m not your Mary”).
That one prison cell where it fakes you out momentarily, thinking you’re stuck there forever now. And then a few scones later, you can open the door no problem.
Lightbulbs in a can. It’s stupid, but I love it. XD
The last scene with Angela. The music that plays, the dialogue, the setting, her last line…it’s all so damn heartbreaking.
James’ “I was weak. That’s why I needed you. Needed someone to punish me for my sins.” And how while it’s clearly meant for Pyramid Head, everything he says can also just as easily apply to the just-killed-again Maria.
While the “Maria” ending isn’t my favorite, the delivery on “You’d better do something about that cough” is CHILLING. Like, OH NO. It’s all going to happen again.
In the “In Water” ending, the way the car revs up and revs up and gets louder and louder and faster and faster until that sudden silence. Like…you don’t need to see what James just did, but you exactly what James just did, just from that sound design.
There’s more I could mention, but I’ll leave it off here. If your list is anything to go by, there’s just so much about this game to love and appreciate. And the attention to detail is staggering.
9:03 Here's an actual fact about those face animations, they were done BY HAND. Takayoshi Sato states in the Making of SH2 that he couldn't rely on motion capture for face expressions, it just wasn't accurate enough for him. So he animated them himself in the FMVs.
26. It was actually Eddie's voice actor who made the throwing up sounds, with a glass of water.
28. The whisper is actually just a generic "sound effect" from a sound pack. It was discovered in 2015.
90. I always interpreted Lakeview Hotel burned down was Angela's version of Silent Hill bleeding into James's. Since they're near each other (as before). "You see it to? For me it's always like this". The painting "Burning Man" referring to Angela burning down her house and father after stabbing her father to death (stabbing confirmed by article in game). Right beside is another painting "Woman In Flight", Angela's wish to fly away.
The bit about Angela wanting to fly away reminds me of Jenny in Forrest Gump who had a similar terrible upbringing at home
You know that scene with Maria getting angry at James, I always thought that the facial movements and looked so darn real! To this day I haven't seen anything quite like it... and it still impresses me every time I see it.
The very last line of the game is always the most heartbreaking to me and the actress' reading of it is perfect. They were truly happy together, but through no fault of either of them, their relationship was sent on a path to come to a grueling, messy, violent end where they both turned into the worst versions of themselves. It really makes you wonder how well you could handle a situation like that or what levels of despair a slow tragedy like a terminal illness could send you to.
The whispering in 209 was found to be an obscure random whisper track from an effects CD, it actually says and means nothing other than to freak you out. Another thing is that even if you reload the game, it can only happen once in a playthrough (supposedly) edit: also, the "Ritual" thing is actually the monster saying sped up something about Mary's death, I have no idea anymore and once again, I just heard this
one thing I do love is how distorted James face is on his save screen and how red the screen gets, I like to think the color choice represents what he had done prior to being in silent hill, and then Marias save screen is clean and normal and having that violate color which just shows more on how Maria is just James subconscious manifested in Silent Hill.
I want to say that either Masahiro Ito or Hiroyuki Owaku said that James is not looking at the camera in the opening bathroom scene. It's an unintentional camera perspective. James is staring into his own eyes but the mirror/camera reflection looks like his eyes are pointing towards us.
I haven’t seen anyone mention this or any videos on it but the Maria section of the game that you play. She can’t die. I literally let her stand there (cause I wanted to get back to the main menu screen) and get attacked by the enemies, the health goes down but she never dies. Shows that she’s not real & just a manifestation from James created by Silent Hill. Damn, have to love the details in this game.
Something cool about silent hill puzzle seeds, is how it was figured out many years later, and not by a streamer but a random viewer that was popping into SH2 speedrunning livestreams and just saying the codes. It was some big news in the community at the time.
I always liked how the 2nd pyramid head at the end represented James' inner guilt for killing Eddie. That means that Eddie's death impacted James a lot more than we thought. This proves that James wasn't a bad person and he really regretted killing Eddie, even though it was self-defense. I were James, I'd be thinking "if only I hadn't said what I said, Eddie wouldn't have attacked me and he'd still be alive"
It was found out a bit ago that the whispering that can randomly be heard in the apartment is simply a stock sound effect of someone whispering
Interesting fact about point 20 and the hole, you can feel the vibration from your controller, indicating something either touch you or brush pass you
I listen to the soundtrack everyday
And I actually love the voice acting! This game is just lighting in a bottle! Immortal!
same here! but I tend to listen to 3's soundtrack more. but both are amazing
@@Hugo_Tate sh2 music feels like a fairy tale I love that juxtaposition but I definitely want to give 3 a shot but the music always fits the games well I adore a few tracks from the 4th but for me the weakest soundtrack out of the og 4
Walter being in SH2 and then the main villain of SH4 technically wasn’t planned. Development of SH4 started around the same time SH3 did, and the team really liked his name so they decided to reincorporate that person into the main plot of 4.
Beautiful.
Wish I had more words, but I hope they're as wholesome as a full poem.
I never understood why I felt so comfortable when playing SH2. I had such a strong nostalgic connection because it reminded me of childhood friends that I dont see anymore. I gave my old ps2 and Sh2 directors cut to my nephew and when hes old enough he will play it :)
One thing that always stuck with me and I LOVED was how the intro is missing some of the voice work UNTIL you beat the game once. That was such a cool touch and my young mind was blown way back when. 💚
In regards to the creature that we don't see behind cell bars in the prison area, the one that constantly says "ritual", my theory on that is that it ties to the ritual ending in which James attempts to bring Mary back to life through a ritual and, in fact, that very same creature behind bars happens to be James in an alternate timeline in which he does go to prison for what he did, and wishes that he could somehow bring Mary back to life.
Such a wonderful horror game. Every single detail in this game counts.
The last line of the letter gives me goosebumps and teary eyed something fierce. It hits hard.
First time viewer, you popped up in my recommendations, the algorithm may be lookin your way! Great stuff
This game will always hold a special place with me. I remember renting it from Blockbuster during summer vacation in middle school. Easily clocked twelve hours the first day I played it. I've completed the game many times over the years and was pleasantly surprised to watch this video and see all these little things I had yet to notice about the game. Thanks for the video.
Aboslutely amazing list and really well researched! Loved every moment of it, another banger Tango!😀😀👍
Would love to see a video like this about Silent Hill 3 if you enjoy it as much as you do 2. I really appreciate your enthusiasm about this game, because I feel just the same!
I definitely have multiple video ideas for most of the SH entries (especially the original 1-4), it's by far my favourite horror franchise and there's just so much to talk about! Thank you so much for watching Cesium, always great to meet a fellow SH lover
Fantastic list! So well researched and put together. If I had to add one thing I loved it’d be that if you go back to where you kill the first monster and get the radio later on in the game some police crime scene tape has been put up since. A much more subtle version of the whole “Monsters? They looked like monsters to you?” line from SH3
There is nothing more beautiful than a man killing his wife. And then living in depression for the rest of his life. Oh by the way I had a nightmare. Where I'm in the stairs and red pyramid head is waiting for me...
What I love about this game is how characters could represent how James felt when he killed marry he tries to avoid his guilt but deep down he knew his actions would bite him later on, Angela could be his innocent side because he tends to hide the fact that he killed his burden wife but tries to cover it up by saying she died from her illness where as Eddie could be his guilty side, he knew he killed her he just didn't wanna show because the shame and guilt would be unbearable but until the two pyramid heads show up that's when James realized there weren't any excuses and took it apon himself to realize that he's at fault and as a silent hill fan I never actually knew this game could effect you emotionally
That makes me feel sad because it reminds me of my own guilt over horrible things I've done.
Great video! But around 7:27 there's no speculation, really. That's just a voice sample from a CD called "Nightingale Voice Box Sound Effects Library: Volumes 1 & 2" released in 1999. The file name's "66 Whispering, Male (#1)".
Also known as 100 things bloomer team will get wrong in the apparent remake they are doing
I finished silent hill 2 like almost 10 times when i was kid and recently on ps2 and pc and on my Yt i love this game so much idk if i'm too dramatic or not but after i finish Silent hill 2 i can't find any games that similar to SilentHill 2 i feel like there's only 1 in the world
I agree! This has been my favorite piece of media since the moment I played it, and since then I have never found ANYTHING that has come close to making me feel the way this game does. It's lightening in a bottle-- I don't think we will ever get something like it again.
Thing I love the most about silent hill 2…the way that I feel drawn to play it every couple of years, love the opening cut scene but then realise how old it feels. The footstep sound effects old graphics and dodgy voice acting. But before I even realise it, I’m fully absorbed once again. Then I’m at the end, and thus begins my RUclips and internet searches for the next few weeks! It’s as close to perfect as you can get in my opinion. Thanks for the video aswel.
Totally agree my friend, it really is as close to a narrative masterpiece as you can get!! And it feels like you notice something new every time you play. Thank you for watching!!
I actually love the voice acting
Where did you get that Silent Hill map comforter/blanket thing???? I want! lol
Haha the map blanket is available on Konami's Official Merch store!! Still available too, last time I checked!!
I love Maria’s outfit. Yes, it’s sexy. But it’s realistically sexy. She totally could’ve bought it at any 2001 era Gap. SH could’ve gone the route almost every other game did and put her in a physics defying bond age outfit, but nope. It looks like she had a $50 budget to spend at the local outlet mall. It’s 100% what someone like Mary would put together if she was trying to look particularly hot. It’s so subtle and it’s so perfect.
I actually didn’t know a couple of these, like the rattle and crying outside of the room 208’s and how the whole letter disappears after certain events. Like I knew the writing disappeared, but what a wonderful detail that the note and envelope also vanish. Silent Hill 2 really earns it’s place as one of the best horror games
Love getting random SH2 fan video essays from channels with less than 500 subs in my recommended. Good Madotsuki in the background, wonder if they have Urotsuki plushes too.
Great video sweetheart. This game holds a special place in my heart too. It's my favorite game of all time. I'm 39 yrs old so I've played A LOT of games in my life. The way this game made me feel and the fact that it has just stayed with me the way it has is the reason it is my favorite of all time. I'm hoping we'll get another Silent Hill game soon but I feel it won't be able to catch the magic the way 2 did. I have a feeling Silent Hill 2 was like catching lightning in a bottle.
I really love how well you articulated each of the distinct things that you liked about the game. It wasn't just "I like this because it's good", but a lot more analytical and meaningful. I really appreciate when people can explain why they appreciate art, rather than just stating something without being able to convey why. So, thank you for yet another great video!
Mary's voice actor really sells a lot of this games story. Any remake would struggle to get a VO with that impact
Currently watching this video and I love it so far! I never played the game myself but grew up watching my sisters play and the music, especially Theme Of Laura, pulls all the "nostalgia strings" in my heart. Great video!
This game touched me more than any film or game has before it was so powerful
this video is full of insight
how can you sit there and eat PIZZA
Great video. When I was younger the monsters was what made it scary, now a little older the themes and subject matter of the game make it scary
Oh and you mentioned how PH sounds like a human when he attacks: none of you ever realised he sounds like James?
Sounds like they used the same sound clips, and to me it makes 100% sense.
your videos are so so so underrated, went i went to subscribe after binging your videos i was shocked you didn't have more subs!!! keep up the great work man, your vids are awesome. plus you have a really nice voice (super soothing while i knit, lol)
Imo the best moments of the game were the first few ones of being in the toilet, walking down the Forest trail with this creepy ass music and what sounds like a boar, talking with Angela at the graveyard, seeing the blood and the first Lying figure in Silent Hill, it was a pants-shitting introduction to the game and was actually scarier than anything that followed it
It's a totally iconic introduction! The opening scene of James standing looking at the lake while he narrates is one of my favourite shots in any piece of media. Even the colour scheme feels dull and grey, fitting for the mental state he's likely in. Thank you for watching!!!
I usually hate the video format "100 things of ×" but the way you talk about it is just filled with love and I can't stop listening to you even though I know nothing about SH
Number 84 scared the hell out of me the first time I played silent hill 2, you don’t expect to hear Mary’s voice and I felt uneasy the rest of the time I played. It’s a scare that sticks with you, and I love it.
good stuff. imo sh2 doesn't get nearly the attention it deserves for how amazing it is
Another Banger 🔥My two favorite parts of this game is the Bathroom mirror scene and the part when James is talking to Maria through the prison bars 👌🏽
Those apts used to scared the living hell out of me haha
finally youtube reccomends me a small channel with good content! Subscribed.
What a kind thing to say, thank you so much William
5:10 oh man I remember that part so fondly. Once I saw pyramid head I shut the console off. Fucking creepy!
RUclips recommended me your video keep going nice video
I still like the stupid part of getting the best ranking of the game where you have to get through the lake with hard mode controls in under like.. a minute.
I have Promise (Reprise) set as my ringtone because ironically it doesn’t scare me when it goes off 😂
Just played it for the first time a few days ago. Never played on PS2 and got a new PC first game I beat was this with the enhanced edition. Loved the story and as a Resident Evil guy this was such an amazing experience. Good vid!
I'm a massive Resi fan too! Yes, I only got my hands on the Enhanced Edition recently and by god, it's like a whole new game. The EE creators did god's work with that. Thank you for watching!!
I don't remember when I played Silent Hill 2, was somewhere mid to late 2000's, it wasn't until just the other week when I was playing on a Silent Hill 2 VR map that I noticed the Heaven's Night posters on the wall. The fact that I am still finding details to this day is one of the many reasons why I love this game SO much!
Edit: .2 seconds later I learn about James looking in the mirror, went and grabbed an image to lighten it up myself. Thank you for pointing that out, that image is going to haunt my nightmares now!
Awesome video! This game is one of the greats
I love horror games but I never played the silent hill games and they’re almost inaccessible now. Resident evil luckily has stayed alive and released remakes but I’d love to play silent hill. Hopefully those rumors about a new silent hill are real
I need to play silent hill right now!!! What a great video
Arigato, Tangomushi
I've seen a lot of Silent Hill 2 videos yet I have NEVER seen someone point out that James is looking at the player in the mirror! That's horrifying.
Silent hill 2 introduced me to trip hop. downturned hip hop beats seem to hit me in the feels.
I love this video, we need more gush-fests!
This video was really just a thinly-veiled excuse to gush for 30 minutes, ya got me 😏 haha thanks for watching Scott!!
@@tangomushi It was a fun watch, It would be cool to see one on the best SH game... 4!
I reaaaaalllyyy need to play this game. 😂
2:59 hes not looking at the player its was confirmed that he wasnt by the CGI creator (forogot the name)
Subbed immediately, I love this franchise in its entirety!! Thanks for sharing this !! 🖤👻
Absolutely love this game. It achieves something unidentifiable for me, something in the feels that's hard to explain. I love the subtle themes around trauma and mental health, ethics and morality. We just don't get games like this anymore, although perhaps we never did as SH2 is the only game that's connected with me (and so many others) in such a profound way. I'd love to get a proper remake of this game in particular (the first 4 games would be awesome if done correctly....unlike the insulting HD bundle they released on the 360 generation of consoles), and hopefully a well done reboot to the series. Thanks for making this video, I always love hearing peoples' perspectives and experiences with this game. I still play through SH2 (on PS2) at least once every couple of years and I'm never disappointed. It still blows me away even after years playing my ps4. Take care everyone.
ughhhh,, i always wanted to play this game but i just dont have a ps2 or a good enough device to emulate it on
One of my all time favorite games. And thanks to this video I have another reason to go and replay it. I had always wondered what the staticky radio message at the beginning was, and after hearing what it said in this video I was genuinely freaked out.
One of my favourite things, is tying into the whole is Maria real or not, thing is in a later game, (I wanna say 3, but don’t quote me.) there’s another advertisement for Heaven’s Night that advertises Maria. She looks nothing like Maria in this game. The town took a person who really existed, or just her name, and made her into an ersatz Mary to torment James and make him realise what he did.
Damn, that's interesting! That's more than likely in SH3, I imagine. I wanna go find that poster now!
Great video! Only played the sub scenario for first time last year.
awesome, perfect video. I saw you have the SH1 map and it is so cool
Great video and a nice walk down memory lane with SH2.
Great video! Keep up the good work! Cheers from Brazil! ^^
Ooohhh you have the same version of SH 2 that I have, except my version is the German USK edition. Was lucky to find it dirt cheap.
Same, I think I found my copy for like 5 euro back in the day? Insane how much it can go for now - we lucked out!
So cool please do 3 and 4 so many things I missed very cool
Great review! Please review Resident Evil 2 (1998)! 😃
Loved this video, learning all these neat little bits about the game. Looking forward to the SH4 list even though it's not one I like I know you love it and would still enjoy it.
Thank you Fura!! I'm definitely gonna visit the other Silent Hills in some shape or form - I wouldn't be much of a horror gaming channel if I didn't Thank you for watching!!!
Proper good video. I think the fact it's still loved and talked about this much today is testament to how good it is and how it stays with you.
I love seeing another woman geeking out about the SH series! Could you do another video like this but for SH3?
I’d love to eventually do one for all the Team Silent games!! It’s a really fun and light-hearted format ❤️
A timeless classic .. I can't belive it was released 21 years ago by 2022
You're now one of my favorites YT channels!
Oh man. Every little bit added more and more to the lore for me. Idk the directors cut gave you an entire playable scenario as Maria. Amazing vid once again 🔥
It was originally an addition to the og Xbox version
It gives an emotion nothing else does! There’s too many words to describe what this game makes me feel, it’s such an amazing thing to experience!
I love all of silent hill 2 is a great vídeo game 🤪😂👍👍
I've fallen in love with way you talk and describe everything ❤ 💕 plus you're bangs are 👏 amazingly done well!
Wow, that's so kind of you!! I really appreciate it! Thank you very much Fahad
When i was playing silent hill 2 for the first time,i was aleon in the room and on the end of the game i was crying like baby, silent hill move me so much i will never forget,i was 22 when i play the game in 2002.
Laura plays the piano is my favorite theme from Sh2,and easily in the top 3 of all the silent hill games soundtracks.
Where can I get that fire t shirt? 👀
The t-shirt was available on The Yetee probably about 2 years ago now, I'm not quite sure if it's available anymore but here's a link to the artist who designed it! www.1000deaddraculas.com/
Silent Hill - the best reason to learn the piano!
It's one of the best games. I'll play it killing everything, I'll play it killing only what I have to to progress, I'll play it only melee, I'll play it only firearms. Love love love this game. 1 is good, 3 is great, but 2...2 is something so so special.
Great job on this video, subbed 👍
Wonderful video as always Tango, learned a lot of new nifty things!
You just earned a new subscriber! girl this channel has alot of potential keep up the amazing work and you'll be on top I've watched every video since I love every game you talk about can't wait for more!
I love everything you mentioned, too.
You could also make Harry fall off a ledge and it always made me laugh. (Porch houses)
I have always been as obssessed with SH as you are, ever since they came out when I was a kid.
This love never dies in all of us fans.
I've been watching 4 of your videos so far: subbed sistah!
-Jill
For me the soundtrack is the BEST like I literally listen to them every one in awhile
Actually, the whispering was debunked by a fan. Sadly, it's just an audio taken of the internet. Kind of destroys all the theories, but it's cool nonetheless.
Love this video aswell. Just discovered your channel and it's great :)