Silent Hill 2 Remake Answers A Decades-Old Question: Which Ending Is Canon? [Video]

Note: This article contains spoilers for the story of Silent Hill 2 and Silent Hill 2 Remake. Read on at your own risk.

Silent Hill 2 players have been speculating about what’s really going on in the game since its release in 2001. Even on its most surface level, it’s impossible to say definitively what’s happening to protagonist James Sunderland. Is he trapped in a hallucinatory nightmare of grief and guilt? Has he wandered into some kind of supernatural space situated around a small American town, created by cultists and elder gods? Or is he dead and in Hell, paying for his sins?

With Silent Hill 2 Remake, developer Bloober Team seems to provide more details and clues related to those questions. In doing so, the developer has expanded the story of Silent Hill 2. The remake, it seems, …