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The Silent Hill games have always been known for having a myriad of endings in them, all of them seen as valid endings without always having the clearest divisions between what would constitute a good or bad ending. Much of it was left up to your personal interpretation.
This was especially true of Silent Hill 2 and the multiple endings you could achieve on your first run. After witnessing the intense themes of your original playthrough though, the game was more than willing to throw some comedic endings your way. All of these return inSilent Hill 2 Remake, along some new additions by Bloober Team. Here’s how to get them all.
Endings in Silent Hill 2 aretracked across your whole accountrather than a single save file. This means you can easily reload an earlier save to fulfill the conditions of another ending without having to replay the entire game.
How Many Endings Are There?
In total, Silent Hill 2 Remake has a grand total ofeight different endingsfor you to achieve.Six of these are carried over from the original gameand left relatively unchanged, including in how you achieve them. Some slight alterations have been introduced though, so try not to rely on the original game’s methods.
Two new endings have also beenaddedby Bloober Team in this remake. These endings are far and away the most difficult to achieve, requiring multiple somewhat obscure steps across the length of the entire game.
Base game Endings
In the base game, there arethree endings you can achieve. Rather than doing specific actions or gathering up certain items, these ended areinfluenced by a multitude of choices you makein the background. As such, only one of these endings can be achieved per playthrough.
New Game Plus Endings
After having finished the game a single time, you can replay it again in New Game Plus where new items and the like will become available. Many of these items allow you tounlock new endings. While one of them is a more serious ending, the other two are on the comedic side. Which might be obvious when you see the names.
Brand New Remake Endings
While the majority of the Remake hews fairly closes to the original game in most regards, Bloober has injected a splash of their own identity into the game, and with that comesa duo of new endings. They can also only be seen in a New Game Plus file.
Leave Ending
The Leave ending is one of the three endings that can be achieved in your first playthrough of the game.It is measured against the In Water and Maria endings in the background, so while you can’t actively check which ending you are going to get, you can perform certain actions in the game that will influence you towards one ending.
The intent in the Leave ending is for James to accept his role in Mary’s death and to decide that living is better than dying. As such, the actions you take throughout the game are to reinforce James wanting to leave Silent Hill and build a new life.Speeding through the gameand ignoring most items and collectibles is the easiest method to achieve this ending.
In Water Ending
The In Water Ending, like Leave and Maria, is one of the original three endings you can achieved, andthe points you gain towards it are calculated in the backgroundwithout you ever knowing. Here are some methods to help push you towards this ending over the other two.
Accepting his part in Mary’s death, James can’t forgive himself and ends his life to rejoin her. Like the ending itself, the actions to achieve it are meant to reflect James' desperation to find Mary and hope that she is still alive somehow. Investing his time in Silent Hill and his own trauma only heightens his own pain until it is too much to bear. This is alikely first ending if you are playing the game thoroughly on Normal or higher combat difficulty.
Maria Ending
The final of the trio of original endings,the Maria ending is often seen as the hardest to achievedue to the limited time Maria is with you and making sure you’ve done enough positive actions when she is around you. For this ending, you’ll want to do everything that Maria says, such as:
With this ending, James fails to acknowledge Mary whatsoever, giving in to the perfect version of her he crafted in Maria. As such,you fight Mary as the final boss instead(though the fight is identical otherwise), with Maria resurrected once again for James to love and abuse the same way he did to the woman she’s modeled after.
Where Maria wakes up, the Heaven’s Night club, isa reference to how the Born From A Wishscenario from the original SIlent Hill 2 begins.
Rebirth Ending
This ending is one that can only be achieved in New Game Plus, and features references to the original Silent Hill as well as the greater lore in general. In it, James learns thatthere is a way to bring Mary back to lifethrough an old ritual, and that he needn’t regret her death at all.
Acquiring this ending requirecollecting four Key Items throughout the game. All four are needed for the ending to trigger and have no effect otherwise. Here’s where to find each of them,
The very first time,the Book of Crimson Ceremony, can be found in the Silent Hill Graveyard. It is left resting on a grave in the north by the shore.
The second item,the White Chrism,can be found on the table at the entrance of the Baldwin Mansion. You can reach this area immediately after opening the gate at Jack’s Inn in Western South Vale.
The third item,the Obsidian Goblet,is found in the Historical Society when you are in the Otherworld version of South Vale. It is on the wall opposite of the giant painting of Pyramid Head in the main hall. In your first playthrough, a painting of the Obsidian Goblet will have been handing here. It has now been removed to reveal the Obsidian Goblet itself.
The fourth and final item,the Book of Lost Memories, is found in the Lost and Found area of Lakeview Hotel. verify not to pick this item up unless you’re certain you want the Rebirth ending, as you will be locked into it over the other three base game endings as soon as you pick it up.
With all four items in hand, you simply have tocomplete the game as normal, with the Rebirth ending playing after you have defeated Maria. The cutscene before the fight begins is also unique, so make sure not to skip it.
With the four items for the Rebirth ending in hand, itwill override every other endingexcept for the Stillness ending.
Dog Ending
This ending is one that is more on the absurd end, and has solidified itself as one of the most iconic of Silent Hill 2’s endings, despite the obvious contrast with the game’s themes. But who cares,you get to see a dog.
To achieve the dog ending, it’s pretty simple. You need tocollect two parts of a key, combine them, and thenenter the Observation Deck on the third floor of the Lakeview Hotel. Nice and easy. Here’s where to find each of the key pieces.
The first part of the key can befound in a pet shop directly beside Big Jay’sin Eastern South Vale. In the base game, this building is locked, with the door wide open in New Game Plus.
The second part of the key can be found in Western South Vale after having opened the gate past Jack’s Inn. It is found onthe north side of Katz Street behind a newly-added fenceyou can walk through with a dog bone on it. Walk to the doghouse at the very back to pick up the second broken key part, andcombine them to get the completed key.
Now all you have to do isopen the Observation Room on the third floor of the Lakeview Hotelto see the true mastermind behind the events that have been plaguing James all this time.
While James spoke Japanese in the original game’s version of this ending,he speaks Polishin this one as a reference to the development team being based in Poland.
UFO Ending
It may sound a bit out there to even mention the fact thatSilent Hill 2 has a UFO ending, but it’s not the only one. In fact,the majority of Silent Hill games have a UFO ending, including the original. Silent Hill 2 was just continuing the tradition.
The UFO ending is pretty easily missable and has a few steps involved, so follow along closely so you don’t lose track. Make sure towear headphones as a funky noise playswhen you’re near areas related to unlocking the ending.
The first step isfinding the Blue Gem, necessary to progress with the ending. It can be found north of Blue Jay’s in Eastern South Vale, a bitfurther north of where the Broken Key Partis found. Just break the window here to find it resting in a jewelry box.
Next, you need toclimb to the roof of the Saul Street Apartments, in the southern section of Eastern South Vale. Once on the roof, your controller should start vibrating and a sound most extraterrestrial will play briefly. At this point, you can take out the Blue Gem by investigating it in your Key Items.It will start glowing, and an alien noise will play briefly. As long as it glows, this area is complete.
The second location to scan isthe Rosewater Park. As soon as you pass through the gate toenter the pier, that same vibration and sound as before will start playing. Whip out the Blue Gem and watch it glow to complete this location, and head on to the next.
The third location that the Blue Gem must be scanned is atthe Lakeview Hotel. This one is quite hard to miss as the sound and vibration will start playingas soon as you step forward towards the map. Whip out the Blue Gem to scan it once more. Just one last scanning to go.
The final location that the Blue Gem must be scanned isin James' hotel room, room 312. As soon as you enter the room, the controller will start vibrating and that familiar noise play. Once you take out the Blue Gem to scan here,the ending will automatically activateso verify you’re committed. You’re in for an ending most alien.
In the original game’s version of this ending, the protagonist of Silent Hill 1, Harry Mason appears. This has been changed in the remake to featurethe PS2 version of Jamesinstead.
Bliss Ending
The first of the two new endings added in the Remake,the Bliss ending’s requirements can be met quite early on, but require a bit more active participation on your part to actually achieve. Here are the key steps.
When you enter Western South Vale for the first time, ignore Jack’s Inn and run all the way to the north-eastern edge of this area,past the Historical Society. In the base game, there will have been a dead body with a note here. In New Game Plus, this same body will be here but with a note with a code on it -1887
Head to Pete’s Bowl-O-Rama and head to the front desk to find a new locked safe. Input the code,1887, to find aRusted Key and Cryptic Noteinside. This note hints at the next location to go to, a place of care.
InBrookhaven, there is a small gazebo located in the garden in the north of the hospital. Climb into this Gazebo (and beware the Mannequin enemy) to find asmall locked chest. Use the Rusted Key you got from Pete’s Bowl-O-Rama to open it, revealing theWhite Claudiainside. It’s description when viewed in your inventory says ‘To be used at a special time, in a special place’. James and Mary’s special place.
In the Lakeview Hotel,make your way to James' room with the videotape, room 312. Here, you are meant to watch the videotape as normal. However, make sure todrink the White Claudia first. During the videotape, the recording will change with James suddenly appearing in frame. Through the use of the White Claudia, he has injected himself into a part of history to live out a blissful memory, forever.
The item used to induce this ending, White Claudia. is a reference toa hallucinogenic plant mentioned in the wider Silent Hill lore.
Stillness Ending
The second of the new endings added by Bloober Team for the remake,the Stillness ending has some of the most obscure means of being viewed. Like the Bliss ending, it can only be achieved in a New Game Plus file. Here’s how to get it.
In a New Game Plus file, James can pick upa brand new weapon, the Chainsaw. This is required to get the Stillness ending. After picking it up, proceed until you’ve unlocked the gate past the Auto Parts shop. You will come across a faded green car on the road into Silent Hill, just before you get the map.Break all of the windows in this car with the Chainsaw to pick up the Key of Sorrowfrom the backseat of this car.
There’s nothing else concrete you need to do to achieve the Stillness ending until you reachthe Otherworld Lakeview hotel. Just before the battle against the two Pyramid Heads, you will finda new chest in the Manager’s Office. This requires using the Key of Sorrow, and then inputting a code. But what is this code?
The number you need to input is314, in the direction left, right, left. We’ve not completely narrowed down where the middle digit is found yet, but throughout the game, you can find variousnotebooks with a single red number written on the side. In the Saul Street Apartments, you can find thenumber three on a notebooklisting the tenants.
In Lakeview Hotel, you may enter a new room from theCheck-In that leads to a notebooklisting the inhabitants of the hotel, including James. Another number,four, is written on the side of this notebook. We can safely assume then that another notebook like these can be found elsewhere in the game speaking of inhabitants with the number one written on it.
After opening the safe, you will receivethe Toluca Postcard. With this in hand, you’re able to complete the game as normal.
Having the Toluca Postcard in your inventory willmake the Stillness ending take precedence over every other ending, including the Rebirth ending.
This ending plays out much like the In Water ending, reaching the same ultimate conclusion. However,James refuses to read the full letter from Mary, instead imagining a figment of her that forgives him and asks him to return to her so they can be together again, forever.
With that, you will have achievedevery ending that Silent Hill 2 Remake has to offer. There are a myriad of trophies associated with these endings as well, the new endings excluded. Now James suffering can finally end.
