Why is silent hill 2 such a good game? (!SPOILERS!) (TW)

There are a few spoilers in this blog (Including a major spoiler too), so please read this blog knowing this. And you need to know the lore of the game to understand this blog.

Most of the horror games tells the story directly with the dialogues. But in silent hill 2 you need to understand the story. I mean like there is so much sembolism in the game. For example; pyramid head is a manifestion of James Sunderland's guilt and desire for punishment. We see that there is only one pyramid head in the start but towards the end, we see that there are 2 pyramid heads in the game. This is beacuse he k1lled not only his wife also Eddie. Thats why there is two pyramid heads in the end of the game.

Secondly James's wife was bedridden. So he had to ignore some of his needs (idk if i can explained it). And there is a character named Maria who is very identical to James' wife - James was shocked by their eerie resemblance, inicially mistaking Maria for his d3ceased wife. Maria's personality is more s3xually extroverted than Mary's, which is so obv. (By the way Maria was produced by James' delusions.) Maria was a having more s3xual desire version of his d3ad wife. 

And we see that Maria d1es twice (i could be wrong it could be more idk) in a way him seeing someone he loves d1e more than once, could be a some kind of a t0rture in his mind. 

Also maybe silent hill created Maria because it wanted to test James' loyalty to his wife. Because Maria is keen to be with James. Like she says smth like 'i look alike with your d3ad wife we are almost the same person' (It's not the original plot btw but she means something like that). But James refuses her. Throughout the games she still tries but every time James refuses her. For example At the end, we see Mary and she says 'We can finally be happy together' but James refuses her and says that she is not Mary, and we find out that the person we saw was Maria disguised as Mary.

There is so many thing that I want to talk more but that is all I can say. Thanks for reading!

sources: https://silenthill.fandom.com/wiki/Silent_Hill_2

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