Silent Hill 2 Remake Reveals Canon Ending After Decades of Debate

Silent Hill 2 players have been speculating about the game’s story since its release in 2001. Even on its surface level, it’s impossible to say definitively what’s happening to protagonist James Sunderland. With Silent Hill 2 Remake, developer Bloober Team seems to provide more details and clues related to these questions. In doing so, the developer has expanded the story of Silent Hill 2.

A New Perspective on James’s Story

The remake isn’t just a revision of the story–it’s an expansion of the original, existing separately from the original Silent Hill 2. The original Silent Hill 2 included several hints that what James was experiencing was something more than it appeared to be. Wandering through the town, players would come across several bodies of people apparently killed by the vicious monsters James repeatedly fights off.

Unraveling the Mystery of James’s Fate

In Silent Hill 2 Remake, these bodies look a lot like James Sunderland. Scattered throughout the town are notes, usually found near those bodies, scrawled in a bloody and manic hand. These notes suggest that the writer is driving James on, and that he’s trapped in Silent Hill, not just during the course of one playthrough of the game, but through all of them. He’s in some sort of time-looping hell, playing out the course of these events over and over again.

The True Nature of Silent Hill 2 Remake

Silent Hill 2 Remake seems to be making it pretty clear. Those bodies are James; many of the notes in the game are about him, or possibly even written by those other versions of him. The game is another trip through the hellish loop for James, and everyone else. And in fact, every time you play the game is another repetition of that loop. Each conclusion of the story represents another loop. Every time you die in the game is a trip through the loop. Each body you find is James, a loop terminating in his death, only for him to find himself again at the road overlooking the town.