all in all it was a bad idea for you to start with SH2 because then you go into it not really knowing what silent hill IS. i'd suggest you play the first or third one next and don't bother with the 4th one at least for a while.
here's the very quick 'n dirty plot synposis:
 Spoilers! |
1. James killed Mary. no surprise there. she really was suffering from a disease, and he euthanized her by suffocating her with a pillow. but James was mentally unstable to begin with and couldn't handle the trauma. so he concocts an elaborate fantasy based around Silent Hill.
2. Silent Hill is/was a popular resort town that was built on sacred Indian grounds. again, no surprise there.
3. all of the monsters in the game are personifications of James mental instability. the first monsters you encounter, the acid shooting ones, appear to be people wrapped in straight jackets. they're also very cowardly and will scuttle away when knocked down. the double-legged mannequin monsters represent a repressed desire for sexuality. Mary wasn't very sexual -- Maria, her doppelganger, is. pyramid head is James' violent side -- hence the violent rape scene. Pyramid Head IS James in a way. he's constantly killing Maria throughout the game as James killed Mary.
3. Maria is James' guilt. she's all of the sexy stuff that James wanted from Mary but didn't have. when you fight her as the final boss, she appears to be a freaky twisted image of Mary in a dilapidated hospital bed.
4. there was never a letter from Mary. remember how i told you to keep checking the note? a little before the end of the game, the note appears blank. there was never a message from silent hill.
5. Mary's been dead for a few days, not years. she's in the trunk of his car. (i forget how i figured that one out) |
i'm probably forgetting a lot but i'm rl tired right now
