Silent Hill 2

Silent Hill 2[lower-alpha 1] is a survival horror video game published by Konami for the PlayStation 2 and developed by Team Silent, part of Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo. A sequel to Silent Hill and the second installment in the Silent Hill series, Silent Hill 2 centers on James Sunderland, a widower who journeys to the town after receiving a letter from his dead wife informing him that she is waiting there for him. It was published in September 2001, and an extended version containing an extra bonus scenario, Born from a Wish, and other additions was published for Xbox in December of the same year. In 2002, it was ported to Microsoft Windows. A remastered high-definition version was released for the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360 in 2012 as part of the Silent Hill HD Collection.

Silent Hill 2
North American cover art
Developer(s)
Publisher(s)Konami
Director(s)Masashi Tsuboyama
Producer(s)Akihiro Imamura
Artist(s)Masahiro Ito
Writer(s)Hiroyuki Owaku
Composer(s)Akira Yamaoka
SeriesSilent Hill
Platform(s)
Release
Genre(s)Survival horror
Mode(s)Single-player

Work on Silent Hill 2 began in June 1999, soon after Silent Hill had been completed. Its narrative was inspired by the Russian novel Crime and Punishment (1866) by Fyodor Dostoevsky, and some of the influences on the game's artistic style include the work of film directors David Cronenberg, David Fincher, David Lynch, and Alfred Hitchcock; cultural references to history, films and literature can be found in the game. Psychological elements, such as the gradual disappearance of Mary's letter, the more humanoid monster designs, and symbolic holes, were incorporated into the game.

Silent Hill 2 received critical acclaim. Within the month of its release in North America, Japan, and Europe, over one million copies were sold, with the greatest number of sales in North America. Often considered to be one of the greatest horror games ever made and among the greatest video games of all time, as well as a key example of video games as an art form,[1] Silent Hill 2 was praised for its story, use of metaphors, symbolism, psychological horror and taboo topics, soundtrack, atmosphere, graphics, monster designs, and sound design. However, it received criticism for its controls despite their improvement over the previous game's.[2][3][4] The game was followed by Silent Hill 3 in 2003.

Gameplay
James preparing to fight a monster

The objective of Silent Hill 2 is to guide player character, James Sunderland, through the monster-filled town of Silent Hill as he searches for his deceased wife. The game features a third-person view, with various camera angles.[5] The default control for Silent Hill 2 has James moving in the direction that he is facing when the player tilts the analog stick upwards.[6] Silent Hill 2 does not use a heads-up display; to check James' health, location, and items, the player must enter the pause-game menu to review his status.[7][8] Throughout the game, James collects maps, which can only be read if there is sufficient light or when his flashlight is on.[7] He also updates relevant maps to reflect locked doors, clues, and obstructions,[6] and writes down the content of all documents for future reference.[7]

Much of the gameplay consists of navigating the town and finding keys or other items to bypass doors or other obstructions, with less focus on killing enemies.[6] Occasionally puzzles will be presented, often with riddles left for the player to interpret.[6] The difficulty levels of the enemies and the puzzles are determined independently by the player before starting the game.[5] James keeps a radio with him, which alerts him to the presence of creatures by emitting static, allowing him to detect them even through the thick fog.[7] He also tilts his head in the direction of a nearby item or monster.[5] For combat, he finds three melee weapons and three firearms over the course of the game, with another two melee weapons unlocked during replays.[5] "Health" restoratives and ammunition can be found throughout the game.[7]

Plot
Main article: List of Silent Hill series characters

Setting

While not focusing on the characters and plot threads of the first Silent Hill game, Silent Hill 2 takes place in the series' namesake town, located in the northeastern United States.[9][10] Silent Hill 2 is set in another area of the town,[11] and explores some of Silent Hill's backstory.[9] The town draws upon the psyche of its visitors and ultimately forms alternative versions of the town, which differ depending on the character.[note 1][12] The concept behind the town was "a small, rural town in America"; to make the setting more realistic, some buildings and rooms lack furnishings.[15]

Letter from Silent Heaven

James Sunderland (Guy Cihi) comes to Silent Hill after apparently receiving a letter from his wife Mary (Monica Taylor Horgan), who died of an illness three years before.[16] While exploring the town, he encounters Angela Orosco (Donna Burke), a teenage runaway searching for her mother; Eddie Dombrowski (David Schaufele), another teenage runaway; and Laura (Jacquelyn Brekenridge), an eight-year-old who befriended Mary and accuses James of not truly loving her.[14][17][18] James searches a local park, where he meets Maria (Horgan), who strongly resembles Mary but has a much more aggressive personality. Maria claims that she has never met or seen Mary, and because she is frightened by the monsters, James allows her to follow him.[19]

Following Laura to a hospital and searching for her there at Maria's insistence, James and Maria are ambushed by the monster Pyramid Head, and Maria is killed while James escapes.[20] James resolves to search the hotel that he and Mary stayed at during their vacation.[20] On the way, James finds Maria alive and unharmed in a locked room. She claims ignorance of their previous encounter and discusses elements of James' and Mary's past that only Mary would know. James sets off to find a way to free Maria but returns to find her dead again.[21] Later on, he rescues Angela from a monster; she confesses that her father sexually abused her, and a newspaper clipping implies she killed him in self-defense before coming to Silent Hill.[21][14] He also confronts Eddie, who admits to maiming a bully, and killing a dog, before fleeing to Silent Hill. When Eddie attacks him, James kills him in self-defense.[21]

At the hotel, James locates a videotape which depicts him euthanizing his dying wife, and Mary's letter becomes a blank piece of paper. In another room, a final meeting with Angela sees her giving up on life, unable to cope with her trauma. She walks into a fire and is not seen again.[13] Afterwards, James encounters two Pyramid Heads, along with Maria, who is killed again. James realizes that Pyramid Head was created because he needed someone to punish him, and all the monsters are manifestations of his psyche. The envelope from Mary disappears and both Pyramid Heads commit suicide.[13] James heads to the hotel's rooftop; depending on choices made by the player throughout the game, he encounters either Mary or Maria disguised as her.

Silent Hill 2 features six endings; Konami has kept their canonicity ambiguous.[9][22] In "Leave", James has one last meeting with Mary, reads her letter, and leaves the town with Laura. "In Water" sees James commit suicide by driving his car off a cliff.[23] The "Maria" ending sees Mary as the woman on the rooftop, who has not forgiven James for killing her; after her defeat, James dismisses her as a hallucination and then leaves the town with an alive Maria, who briefly coughs, suggesting she will become sick just as Mary did, and the cycle will repeat.[24] The other three endings are only available in replay games, including "Rebirth", in which James plans to resurrect Mary using arcane objects collected throughout the game,[25] and two joke endings: "Dog", where James discovers that a dog has been controlling all the events of the game,[26] and "UFO", where James is abducted by extraterrestrials with the help of the first game's protagonist, Harry Mason.[27]

Born from a Wish

Born from a Wish is a side-story scenario in the special editions and re-releases of the game in which the player takes control of Maria shortly before she and James meet at Silent Hill. After waking up in the town with a gun and contemplating suicide, she resolves to find someone.[16] She eventually encounters a local mansion, where she hears the voice of its owner, Ernest Baldwin. Ernest refuses to let Maria into the room he is in and will only talk to her through its closed door. After Maria completes tasks for him, Ernest warns her about James, whom he describes as a "bad man".[28] After Maria opens the door to Ernest's room and finds it empty, she leaves the mansion. At the conclusion of the scenario, Maria contemplates suicide once more, but ultimately resolves to find James.[29]

Development

Influences and design
"Bubble Head Nurses" (pictured) and "Mannequins" (creatures composed of only two pairs of female legs) were designed to be sexually suggestive, and a reflection of James' subconscious sexual desires during Mary's hospitalization.[30]

Development of Silent Hill 2 began in June 1999, directly after the completion of its predecessor.[31] The game was created by Team Silent, a production group within Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo.[9][32][33] The story was conceived by CGI director Takayoshi Sato, who based it on Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel Crime and Punishment (1866), with individual members of the team collaborating on the actual scenario.[34][35][36] The main writing was done by Hiroyuki Owaku and Sato, who provided the dialog for the female characters.[34][35][37] Around the time Silent Hill 2 was in production, the average budget for video game production has been estimated to be around US$7–10 million by Sato.[35] The decision to produce a sequel to Silent Hill was partly a financial one, as it had been commercially successful, and partly a creative one, as the team had faced difficulties while working on the original game.[11] The team was given a small window to settle on a platform. As it was unable to gather information on the then-unannounced GameCube and Xbox consoles, they began production of the game for the PlayStation 2. Producer Akihiro Imamura stated that the decision was also influenced by "a wish from the business section that we move rapidly on the PS2. You know, it is currently the market focus".[38] Imamura read all comments about the original game and kept them in mind while working on Silent Hill 2.[11] He estimated that a total of fifty people worked on the game: while the creative team from the first game remained, they had to bring in thirty people from Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo.[11] Developed at the same time,[11] the PlayStation 2 version of Silent Hill 2 and its Xbox port debuted at the March 2001 Tokyo Game Show to positive reactions.[39][40]

Silent Hill 2 shared the same atmosphere of psychological horror as the first Silent Hill game.[11] As the developers already had a rough sense of the game's environment, they focused on its plot first, in contrast to the process used with the first game.[15] The PlayStation 2 hardware allowed the developers to create improved fog and shadow special effects. For example, as a monster approaches the player character, its shadow cast on the wall by the flashlight grows.[41] When dealing with the game's camera angles, the team struggled with a balance between those that stayed true to the creative vision and those that did not hamper gameplay.[41] Psychological elements, such as the gradual disappearance of Mary's letter and symbolic holes, were incorporated into the game.[14][42] The team wanted Silent Hill 2's protagonist to "reflect [the] evil", against which the protagonist of the first game battles.[11]

For the game's artistic style, the team drew on a variety of influences: the work of film directors David Cronenberg, David Fincher, David Lynch and Alfred Hitchcock, along with films similar to the 1990 psychological thriller/horror film Jacob's Ladder, and painters such as Francis Bacon, Rembrandt and Andrew Wyeth.[15] Early in the project, they studied the 1996 video game Tomb Raider's creation of 3D environments.[15] Other influences on the game included the 1992 survival horror video game Alone in the Dark,[15] the first Silent Hill game,[15] and the Japanese comic Whirr by Morohashi.[9] While working on the character designs, Sato and his team sketched human faces and various expressions.[15] To gain a better sense of the characters' facial structures, they drew the characters' profiles from various angles, before creating wire-frame models, each consisting of six thousand polygons; they then completed the model with textures.[15] Data for the character animation was taken through motion capture, and using Softimage, they animated the characters.[15] Masahiro Ito designed the monsters in Silent Hill 2; "soured flesh" was the concept behind their appearance.[15] The monsters were also to incorporate "an element of humanity".[11] For the most part, the monsters reflect the protagonist's subconscious. For example, the monster Pyramid Head was based on the executioners of the town's fictional history and is intended to be a punisher for James.[30] Two exceptions to this theme are the "Abstract Daddy", a reflection of Angela's subconscious and memories, and the "Creepers", which are also seen in the first game.[30]

Silent Hill 2 also incorporates some references to real-life events. In the original scenario, the developers designed Maria and James with dual personalities: Maria's other personality was "Mary", a reference to Mary Jane Kelly, Jack the Ripper's last victim, while James' was "Joseph", a reference to one of the Jack the Ripper suspects.[14] Eddie Dombrowski's name was taken from actor Eddie Murphy during the beginning phases of production when Eddie was originally designed with a pleasantly optimistic personality.[14] The name of Angela Orosco was derived from Angela Bennett, the name of the protagonist in the 1995 film The Net, and Laura's from the 1970 novel No Language But a Cry by Richard D'Ambrosio.[14] The developers satirized the perceived accessibility of guns in the United States by allowing James to find a handgun in a shopping cart.[43] There are also indications that the layout of Silent Hill was based to a certain extent on the town of San Bruno, California.[44]

Audio
Silent Hill 2 Original Soundtracks
Soundtrack album by
Akira Yamaoka
ReleasedOctober 3, 2001 (original release)
March 6, 2019 (vinyl rerelease)
GenreVideo game soundtrack
Length74:15
LabelKing Records (original release)
Mondo (vinyl rerelease)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[45]

Akira Yamaoka composed the music for Silent Hill 2.[9] At his home, Yamaoka took three days to write the music for "Theme of Laura", Silent Hill 2's main theme, by combining "a sad melody" and "a strong beat", although he does not consider the melody to be the "most important" element of a musical piece.[46] He wanted the music to evoke emotions in the player.[46] Silent Hill 2 makes extensive use of sound effects ranging from screams to footsteps on broken glass.[5] In charge of the game's fifty sound effects, Yamaoka wanted to surprise the player with different sounds and create an unsettling environment.[46] He also incorporated occasional silence, commenting that "selecting moments of silence is another way of producing sound".[46]

Konami published Silent Hill 2 Original Soundtracks in Japan on October 3, 2001.[47] Eight tracks ("Theme of Laura", "Null Moon", "Love Psalm", "True", "Promise", "Fermata in Mistic Air", "Laura Plays the Piano" and "Overdose Delusion") appeared in the 2006 PlayStation Portable release The Silent Hill Experience.[48] At the 2006 Play! A Video Game Symphony concert in Chicago, Illinois, Yamaoka performed music from the series, including "Theme of Laura", with a full-size orchestra.[49] In 2019, the soundtrack was re-released on vinyl by Mondo, who previously gave the same treatment to the soundtrack of Silent Hill in 2016.[50]

Release

Silent Hill 2 was first released for the PlayStation 2 in North America on September 24, 2001, in Japan on September 27 and in Europe on November 23.[51] The original European edition also included a second disc: a "Making-of" DVD video featuring trailers, an artwork gallery and a documentary on the game's development.[52]

An extended version of the game was published for Xbox in North America on December 20, 2001, Japan on February 22, 2002, and Europe on October 14.[53] Each region had a different subtitles for the game: Saigo no Uta (最期の詩, lit. "Poem of the Last Moment") in Japan, Restless Dreams in North America, and Inner Fears in Europe.[54][55] This edition contained the short bonus scenario, Born from a Wish and other minor enhancements. This revised version was ported back to the PlayStation 2 and subtitled Director's Cut in Europe, but was not subtitled in North America, and was simply released under the "Greatest Hits" banner.[54] Creature Labs ported this edition to Windows, which Konami released in December 2002.[56][57] Added features in the PC version include the ability to quicksave and watch trailers for Silent Hill 3.[8]

In 2006, Konami re-released the extended version of Silent Hill 2 with its indirect PS2 sequels, Silent Hill 3 and Silent Hill 4: The Room, in a bundle entitled The Silent Hill Collection in Europe and Japan.[58][59] Silent Hill HD Collection, a compilation of remastered high-definition editions of Silent Hill 2 and 3, was released for the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360 on March 20, 2012.[60] It contains new voice actors for the characters of both games, along with the option in Silent Hill 2 to listen to the original ones.[61]

Reception
Reception
Aggregate score
AggregatorScore
Metacritic89/100 (PS2)[62]
84/100 (Xbox)[63]
70/100 (PC)[64]
Review scores
PublicationScore
AllGame[65]
Eurogamer9/10 (PS2)[66]
9/10 (Xbox)[55]
Famitsu34/40 (PS2)[67]
32/40 (Xbox)[68]
GameSpot7.7/10 (PS2)[6]
7.9/10 (Xbox)[69]
6.2/10 (PC)[70]
GameSpy96/100 (PS2)[71]
86/100 (PC)[72]
IGN9/10 (PS2)[5]
8.4/10 (PC)[8]
Next Generation[73]
Award
PublicationAward
IGNEditor's Choice (PS2)[5]

Silent Hill 2 received critical acclaim, selling over one million copies in the month of its release in North America, Japan and Europe, with the most units sold in North America.[74] Rating aggregation site Metacritic shows an average rating of 89 out of 100 for the PS2 version,[62] 84 out of 100 for the Xbox version,[63] and 70 out of 100 for the PC version.[64]

Silent Hill 2 received praise from video game journalists at the time of its release and in retrospect. Andy Greenwald of Spin magazine praised it as a frightening but "restrained" game.[75] Jon Thompson of AllGame stated: "Silent Hill 2 feels a bit rushed, and although it might not live up to the dizzying horror of the first game, it packs enough of its own punch to make it a worthy sequel."[65] IGN's Doug Perry wrote: "It's frightening, deep, clever, and tries to improve the genre, if just a little, and in the end, that's all I really want in a survival horror game."[5] Joe Fielder of GameSpot concluded, "Silent Hill 2 is a much prettier, somewhat smarter but less a compelling game than the original."[6] In Replay: The History of Video Games (2010), Tristian Donovan described Silent Hill 2 as the "high point" of the series.[76] In a retrospective article on the survival horror genre, IGN writer Jim Sterling praised the game's plot as "one of the finest examples of narrative construction in gaming to this day".[77] In another retrospective article on survival horror, fellow IGN writer Travis Fahs credited the game as a factor in the "short-lived period of renewed interest in horror games".[78] Online game critic for The Escapist Magazine Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw lists this game as among his top five favourite games of all time, praising it for its thick and unsettling atmosphere creating tension and fear for players. In his review of the game he commented, "Silent Hill 2 is the game I replay every now and again to remind myself that for all the shiny brown, quick-time event, RPG element space marines, gaming is still worth defending," and that "It's a fascinating voyage of pain and despair that leaves you emotionally drained and satisfied."[79]

The graphics and atmosphere of Silent Hill 2 were praised by reviewers, who highlighted the smooth transitions from computer-generated (CG) to in-game cutscenes and the sense of claustrophobia caused by the fog.[5][66] On the other hand, Thompson felt that the grainy image effects and dense fog hid the details of the environment,[65] while Fielder wrote that the exterior environments "rarely push the PlayStation 2's graphical capabilities".[6] Character animation was considered realistic by reviewers,[5][66] though James' animation in the CG sometimes appeared "marionette"-like, according to Perry.[5] The voice acting garnered mixed responses from reviewers divided over whether it was well done with an improved script,[5] or hampered by the script.[6] Reviewers enjoyed the monster designs,[5][6][71] although some found the monsters less frightening due to the abundance of ammunition,[6][65] and being easily avoided.[65] Reviewers found the camera, though improved, still difficult when battling monsters which hung from the ceiling[5][66]—concerns echoed by reviewers of the PC version.[8][70] The soundtrack and sound effects were considered by reviewers to be effective in creating suspense,[5][6][65] though Thompson considered them sometimes "a bit forced and contrived".[65] The puzzles were generally seen as not overly challenging by reviewers,[5][6] though Thompson found them generally easy and GameSpy's David Hodgeson wrote that they were sometimes illogical.[65] Less well-received was the combat, criticized for its lack of challenge and easily defeated monsters and bosses.[6][65]

Jeff Lundrigan reviewed the PlayStation 2 version of the game for Next Generation, rating it four stars out of five, and stated that "it's not for the faint of heart, nor anyone looking for fast action, but those who enjoy a good shiver won't be disappointed".[73]

Reactions to the Xbox port were also positive. Reviewers have written that the PlayStation 2 and Xbox versions were mostly similar, except for the Born from a Wish side-scenario found in the Xbox version.[55][69] Eurogamer's Kristan Reed called Born from a Wish "more like a demo than anything",[55] while Fielder described it as "a commendable extra".[69] Both felt that it could be completed in around an hour and did not add much to the game.[55][69] The PC port, in contrast, received mixed reaction. Allen Rausch of GameSpy considered the PC port overall to be "[a] fantastic translation of Konami's stylish and scary survival-horror game".[72] IGN's Ivan Sulic advised against playing the game with the keyboard, and rated the game "great".[8] Conversely, Ron Dulin, another reviewer for GameSpot, wrote: "Not even the game's foggy atmosphere is thick enough to hide Silent Hill 2's problems".[70]

Silent Hill 2 is often considered to be among one of the best video games for its narrative. It ranked first on X-Play's list of the scariest games of all time in 2006.[80] In 2009, IGN listed it as one of the five best horror video games created after 2000,[81] and one of the twelve greatest PlayStation 2 games of all time.[82] It ranked again in IGN's list of the top 100 PS2 games,[83] and again in 2018, on IGN's list of the 100 greatest video games ever made.[84] In a retrospective by GamePro, it was the 26th best game for the PS2.[85] In 2008, GamesRadar placed it on its list of the 15 best "videogame stories" ever, describing it as "a punishing tale not easily matched".[86] In 2009, Wired News listed it as the 11th most influential game of the decade for its emphasis on psychological horror and exploration of taboo topics such as incest and domestic abuse, rather than gore.[87] In 2012, a top video games of all-time list by G4 television network ranked the game in 85th place.[88] That same year, the game's narrative was ranked first on GamesRadar's list of The Best Videogame Stories Ever.[89] Silent Hill 2 was listed as the number two top horror game of all time in the October 2014 issue of Game Informer,[90] and number eight on GameTrailers's Top Ten Twos list of the best second franchise games in 2015.[91]

Notes
  1. Japanese: サイレントヒル 2 Hepburn: Sairento Hiru Tsū
  1. This can be seen prominently with James, who experiences a version of the town influenced by his guilt and delusions for the majority of the game. His version of the town fades as he comes to term with his guilt and responsibility for his actions.[12] For example, the hotel transforms from being just as it was three years ago,[13] to its true form of a mostly burned-out structure.[10] In contrast, only Laura perceives the town as normal because she is not burdened with guilt or past misdeeds; to her, neither the monsters nor Maria exist.[14]
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