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One of the most confounding plus to theSilent Hill 2remakeare the Polaroid photos you find throughout the game . They ’re nonfigurative , often draw blurry finale - ups of thing like flowers , footprint , dirty bulwark , and other hard to dentify objects . They ferment as a payable , but the game does n’t offer an explanation . However , one Reddit user seems to have break the codification . Not only do they boast a secret substance , but it seems to substantiate a longtime rooter theory about the nature of Silent Hill and protagonist James Sunderland ’s story .
Apost on the Silent Hill subredditby user DaleRobinson breaks down the literal code hide out across each photo . If you look at the figure on the back of each photo and line them up in numeric order , you ’ll make out a pattern . Each photo has up to six subjects . If you count the letters ground on the number of objects , record a alphabetic character . Go through all 26 and it ’ll spell out out a message : “ You ’ve been here for two decades . ”
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The puzzler answer was confirmedby Bloober Team creative director Mateusz Lenart on X ( formerly Twitter ) , who said the team was disquieted it would be “ too heavy ” to decipher . “ I really want to make it subtle when I was painting those photos , ” Lenart write .
What the mystifier answer means is a little less straightforward . On one hand , it could just be an easter egg that relate to how it ’s been a niggling over 20 geezerhood sinceSilent Hill 2released on the PlayStation 2 . On the other , it could confirm a semipopular theory : that James is stuck in a loop topology .
Warning : slender pamperer forSilent Hill 2and the remaking forrader .
It may not be a “ time loop topology ” specifically , but if Silent Hill depicts a personal hell for the citizenry lured to it ( James , Angela , Eddie , etc . ) , then it ’s possible they ’re stuck there until they do to terms with their trauma and crime . There are multiple potential endings inSilent Hill 2,and only one of them ( minus the prank termination ) has James leaving Silent Hill . Players have long debated which one is the “ canyon ” ending , but a loop would explain how all of them have happened in unlike endeavor .
TheSilent Hill 2remake has also been flatten hints that it ’s in reality a pseudo - sequel to the master . Players have noticed bodies that look queerly like James and that were n’t in theoriginal secret plan . I spotted one cursorily after James enters the town and is obligate the old - school mapping . There are alsonew note disperse aroundthat seem to have been written by James . It would also explicate why James has been aged up in the remake , and why he look much older in a previous interlingual rendition seen in trailers .
If this is what the photo closed book is referring to , then James has been trap in Silent Hill for 20 long time . It ’s a new twist on one of thebest game of all time .
For his part , Lenart does n’t confirm or deny any of this . In aresponse to a user on Xwho post that “ the loop theory is canon , ” Lenart said : “ Is it ? ”
