Silent Hill 2 Remake

[hanselthecaretaker2]

The town feeds off of characters’ trauma and guilt. The more they have, the more fucked up their stay is. The little girl is fine because she’s too young and innocent for it to affect her. The other thing about James’s apparent indifference to it all is it’s kinda like a bad drug trip for an addict. To anyone else it should be obviously something to avoid, but in his mind it’s just more business as usual due to his already broken psyche, so very little is externalized to the player.

 

[NerfedFalcon]

Finished Brookhaven Hospital (Otherworld) and got up to the prison. Definitely wasn't expecting Maria to die right in front of James, and that's definitely where what you guys have been saying about his muted reactions is in pretty clear focus. Based on my read of James's character, it'd be weird for him to suddenly cry or yell about it; seeing him just collapse is a lot more in-character. I also managed to dodge that particular spoiler until now, so, yay me I guess.

Also, I kinda mentioned it before, but there's something seriously wrong with Eddie. He's gone from crying in the bathroom to eating popcorn and watching a movie a blank screen, to making off-color jokes that feel like he's trying to hide how fucked he is behind 'I was joking'. Having him wandering around on his own is... well, if the game had a habit of side characters appearing outside of cutscenes, I'd be a lot more worried about him jump-scaring me.