One player has finally solved the Silent Hill 2 remake photos secret, and the devs couldn't be happier: 'There was a theory in our company that the puzzle might be too hard'

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James looking worried

For example, under the first photo, the words read, “So many people here!” There are also six windows in the picture, so you need to select the sixth letter of the sentence, which is “Y”. DaleRobinson has explained the workings for every single letter as well as linking to alist of every single photopresent so you can double check the answer for yourself.

It’s a complicated way of solving this puzzle, and even though I understand how they were able to figure out the answer for themselves, I’m not sure I’d ever be able to complete it myself, a fact that I’m not too ashamed of because Silent Hill 2’s dev team thought the puzzle was too hard.

“I knew it wouldn’t stay hidden for long,” creative director and lead designerMateusz Lenart says. “(There was a theory in our company that the puzzle might be too hard) I really wanted to make it subtle when I was painting those photos… I think the timing couldn’t be better for you to solve it. Congratulations!”

The solution to this puzzle also confirms a popularfan theorythat the Silent Hill 2 remake takes place in a looping story and that James is trapped in an endless nightmare. But there are other small clues that the game takes place in some kind of loop. Twitch streamer Deadhead proposed a few weeks back that you can tell the Silent Hill 2 remake is a looping narrative due to certain actions from key characters, like howPyramid Head seems slightly more subduedthan in the original game and howMaria mentions experiencing deja vu. There’s also the fact that quite a few of the dead bodies scattered around Silent Hill seem to resemble James, “There were some hints in the original Silent Hill 2 of some kind of loop taking place, as many of the random human corpses looked like James,” Deadhead explains.

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Whether or not these small features prove the theory about Silent Hill 2 is still unclear, but at least we do know Bloober Team’s intentions when it came to creating a looping story for James to suffer in for the rest of eternity.

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