25 INSANE SILENT HILL 2 REMAKE Easter Eggs, Hidden Details & Secrets

When you're fighting against Eddie, the crosshair will terribly shake making it hard to aim.
Out of all boss fights, that shaking only happens when you fight Eddie, which implies James is actually very scared of harming another human being. The amount of details in this game is amazing.

Even more details that someone could have missed
1. U can see Marys body inside the car in the very first scene, she is also covered with the blanket that has pattern of a flower called: forget me not (VERY up to a point symbol)
2. When James holds a pistol for the first time, he will waste one bullet without a player actually shooting it, which is great representative how James has no idea how to hold or properly use gun.

Here's a detail I've noticed and haven't seen mentioned anywhere: in the original SH2, after killing Eddie, James utters "I've killed a person". In the remake, James only rubs his hands in the same way he rubbed his hands at the beginning of the game.

“James’ lack of experience with weapons that AREN’T PILLOWS” 😭😭😭😭 4:01

Fun fact about silent hill 2:
Even the smallest things you do often effect the ending of the game.
One thing to know about James is that the guy is stuck between wanting to live and wanting to die.
So if you take damage and quickly heal yourself,it would be telling the game that James wants to live but if you take damage and not heal yourself often,it would be telling the game that James wants to die.
Both these actions can effect what ending you get at the end of the game.

I have to thank my mom for playing the Resident Evil and Silent Hill series when I was 11/12 years old. Best memories that I always cherish. Having a mom in the 90s playing these games was unheard of.

I love that not only does the achievement appear, but you can also see the "no turning back" sign on the road.

Also, in the beginning of the game if you use the 90s filter, you can see something in the back of the car, which looks like a body hidden under a blanket.

While exploring the motel, you can venture off towards the bowling alley with Maria. When you do, James will tell her she can wait outside if she wants, to which she responds "why would I want to wait outside" and James replies "I don't know, it was just a stray thought".
This calls back to the original game where Maria waited outside while James went into the bowling alley and spoke to Eddie

The Sunglasses belong to Cybill Bennet from SH1, the wallet has a Picture of Walter Sullivan the antagonist from SH4, also in room 106 in the Motel you can find Douglas’s hat from SH3.

If you go into room 106 at Jack's Inn, it's the same room that heather Mason and detective Douglas go into in the third game. You can see his hat on a chair too. Also if you come back later in the game, when you are going to the historical society, you can go in again and the TV will be on. Illuminating the back wall which now has its wallpaper torn away, revealing the cult symbol from the in game universe known as, "The Halo of the Sun"

5:57 Everytime you save your game.. james always looking directly into the camera but once james come to terms with what actually happened to mary that changes.. once he's confronted with the truth instead of looking directly at the camera james instead refuse to meet your eyes..

My favorite details are the ones that reference the original game. Such as the “Glimpses of the Past” these are the interactions that move the camera and shows a vhs effect on screen, every single one of these is a reference to the original game, usually a puzzle or a story beat.
Some lines of dialogue also reference the original, like James thinking Maria won’t want to enter the bowling alley like she refused to in the original, the original location for Heavens Night which Maria will say gives her Deja vu, and her reaction to Baldwin mansion (the location from Silent Hill 2: born from a wish, a dlc where you play as Maria and go through that mansion)

Here is another fun fact:
The way these bubble-head nurses shake their heads... It resembles how a helpless and ill Mary would fight against the pillow to her face.
Since the original SH2 came out, lots of horror movies and games imitated this movement without even knowing its meaning.

Another interesting note:
You can also discern James' health by looking at his jacket, the bloodier it is, the more hurt he's become.

The rabbit is better known from Silent Hill 3

The sticker below the rabbit sticker at 9:25 is also a reference to Twin Peaks, the TV show from the 90s since Silent Hill 2s music is heavily inspired by the twin peaks soundtrack.

Something that I picked up. Is Leon in the RE4 Remake, when he tops off his pistol in a Admin reload, gun hasn’t been shot empty but is getting loaded for the next scenario. Leon doesn’t chamber a round, because there is already a live round in the chamber. Every time James does an Admin reload, he chambers a round in a dangerous and awkward way. In a potentially life threatening way, he is ejecting a live and usable round on the ground.
This is because Leon is a trained professional, and James is not

The bowling alley harkens back to Eddie’s famous pizza scene. When you find the pizza, James comments, “Ugh, this town is full of monsters. Who could sit here and eat pizza?” Which is a reference to the line from the original where he says, “This town is full of monsters! How could sit there and eat pizza?!?”

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Maria:"James? Is everthing all right?"
James:"Sh*t up Maria! I'm trying to save my game."

I've only seen this on tiktok once, when the game demo was out. This easter egg is still in the full version of the game. After you get your first weapon, beat the monster, and leave the house, past the fence there's a car ahead of you and a van to the right. If you go up to the back of the car, that's the ONLY place James's reflection can be seen in a car. And his reflection sort of resembles Pyramid Head.

3:50 When you acquire the Handgun in the Apartments and wave it around while aming, James actually fires a shot accidentaly without you pulling the trigger because he isn't Trained in Gun safety like you said.

First time you meet Maria at the Rosewater park, if you had previously checked the gate leading towards Jack's Inn (which is locked), you will get some extra dialogue when going through the now open gate with Maria
On the Otherworld Blue Creek apartments, the door leading to the Clock room is on a hallway closed off by a metal fence. You can see some figures (mannequins and lying figures covered by blankets far on the other side of the fence), which will get closer to the fence as you solve each of the three clock hand puzzles. Very creepy
The ring found at Heaven's Night I also believe belongs to James. Could symbolize that the first moment James met Maria at the stripclub he took off the ring and left it there, choosing to forget Mary and staying with Maria. This of course are not our James and the Maria we know. They are from other cycles of the loop (we know she worked there, but them meeting here this is not mentioned anywhere so is just a guess
If you break enough windows whilst you are with Maria, she will mention she is starting to like it.

4:00 you did James dirty with that comment

The only thing i can think of for the sunglasses and the wallet on the strip club is that they could be references to Cybill Bennet (a cop in the OG Silent Hill that uses sunglasses) and Harry Mason , the main character of the first Silent Hill that used to carry a photo of his daughter in his wallet and kept asking around all the time whether people have or haven't seen her. Although the girl on the photo doesn't look like Harry's daughter.

I like that there's a no u-turn sign at the end of the invisible wall too

another detail of James being a beginner in using fire arms is when he is reloading the pistol, normally you don't have to pull the slide back to load the 1st round of the chamber isn't empty but James does it anyway everytime he reloads whether your pistol is empty or not. Then again this could just be an oversight form the devs point.

After my playthrough of the new remake of sh2 I think I finally may have answered a persisting question regarding the 3 year inconsistent lapse of time between Marys death and when James talks to Laura about it and she says that's wrong. I'm starting to believe the reason why James keeps saying 3 years because in his mind when Mary first got so unmanageably sick 3 years ago that it consumed his life that's when in his mind she died as apposed to her official passing. He then kills her, puts her body in the baskseat of his car, stops by a local restroom to compose himself before he pursues his next coarse of action, then time for him stops after 9 and it's reflected on all of the clocks and he is trapped in an psychological eternal recurrence.

2:07 aside from the wedding ring, the glasses are actually cybil bennett's glasses ! (A character from silent hill 1)

3:44 There was one thing that happened to me when i got the pistol on my first playthorugh. When i got it, i immediately reloaded it and started aiming for a few seconds to check the aiming sensitivity and James just shot once without me pushing any button besides right mouse button for aiming. That never happened again after that.

A nice Little detail is that the area around James eyes will Go darker when close to finishing the game, indicating that he is extremely torn out and tired.
Also room 106 at the Motel After First Maria pickup is a reference to silent hill 3, with the detective douglas hat on the chair.
If you Visit the same room later when its Night you can See the „Order“ Symbol from SH3 (the metatron Symbol i think its called), and you also get a trophy
Cheers! 🍻

I love how the silent 2 remake is really a sequel to silent hill 2 all the dead bodies scattered around town are James and his attempts to find Mary all the flashbacks are moments from the original game and in the hospital and prison you can find old used health items James has used in the various loops he’s take to find Mary in silent hill

Supposedly you do hear James's wedding ring cling into the sink drain in the beginning cutscene. Someone else made a video covering the sound as well as the potential wedding ring.

I was a survival horror kid. I loved both Silent Hill and Resident Evil.
I didn't participate in the console wars either. Game consoles were just a means to an end for me, that end being playing as many games as I could get my grubby hands on. I never saw the need to take sides, or to limit myself from experiencing as much as I could, especially for completely inane, arbritrary reasons.

If you pay attention,the games uses a lot of squares for a reason,like the red squares in the nurses mouth's, the red save squares like the 9 squares in the last save in the game have a meaning. The first silent hill game is filled with alchemy references,theres too many to list here.The game's creators really liked Carl Jung's psychoanalytical theories,and combining these 2 aspects,one can say the red square's meaning is related to bringing the unconscious into conscious realm,aka James is closer and closer to remembering what he did to Mary,the 9 red squares at the last game save location means James has remembered the unwanted memories of killing his wife.

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A detail i loved a lot, is before the hospital scene, if you save, Marka will get close to James while saving in a really creepe way, is awesome

Once you arrive at Lakeview Hotel and check Mary's Letter there is no more text anymore and it's just a blank sheet of paper, showing that it was never real

I was a Resident Evil & Silent Hill kid 😂

Silent Hill 2 original was one of the best games I've ever played, haven't played the remake yet but I hope I wont be disappointed

Just finished my first play-through of Silent Hill 2.
When you first get the map for the Lakeview Hotel, it's all clean and nice. After the transition to the Otherworld, the map becomes dirty and has burn marks. Showing what really happened to the hotel after James and Mary left.
Also, James has some dark circles around his eyes near the end of the game. Showing he's tired after what he's gone through.

I was a dino crisis kid. I was bed bound due to a skateboard injury for a month and my mom got me a PlayStation and Dino crisis. She was the best mom ever.

I'm sure someone else commented it but below the rabbit sticker there's a "Three peaks tours" sticker wich is a reference to the series Twin Peaks. :D

In addition to the color of the inventory changing, you can also see James strangling Mary while he's at low health

The sticker underneath the rabbit sticker might be a reference to Twin Peaks as well.

3:59 damn, you didn’t have to do James like that LOL

Jame’s lines under his eyes get darker after the second Angela scene with the knife.
I didn’t notice the finger nails. Good find.
Maria also has an additional line if you try and skip the pier where you meet her, go to the gate to exit then meet her. Next time you pass the gate is the extra line.

There's a section after the rotating puzzle head that is essentially a 3-turn loop and it really felt like a nod to PT.

1:18 I can already tell that's going to be a meme

True horror fans are fans of both resident evil and silent hill, because they’re both great games respectively.

I just noticed the road sign for "no U turn" when you get the trophy for "no turning back now". That´s a fun little detail.

A very cool Easter egg is in motel room 106. Detective Douglas hat is on the chair, and James says he “has a very uncomfortable feeling” and they should leave. When you can come back to the motel and youre in the other world,the wallpaper is peeled back, revealing the halo of the sun. Does this mean Heather was here prior? Or after? Or does the 20 year message.. have something to do with it..

4:00 the "OOOOOHHHHHH!!!!" That just came from me 💀
Are we sure the protag here isn't Alessa because that man straight up needs to go to a burn unit for that one 😂

10:09 bro got that nurse in the golden freddy pose jeez

"Lack of experience with weapons that arent pillows" killed me 😭🤣

4:10 you can also find a map around Saul Street near a james-like corpse that’s the map from the original game and it’s marked in the same ways James would mark the map (James literally copies the markings too)

Its cute to see so many new people take an interest in the series after the remake came out.
As for the significance of the lost and found box, I have no idea. But an interesting thing is that Shesez did a boundary break on this game and looked at the box, and behind the wallet you can fully view the obscured photograph which appears to be a real unknown woman.

Many human corpses you'll find are wearing James' clothes, including the body covered by a bloody blanket. Its essentially his model, and you'll run into it multiple times throughout the game, and in a twisted way the town's projecting this is James' deep unconscious desire for punishment, as he's still in denial.

at 9:30 you didnt notice "Three Peaks Tours" sticker - easter egg of "Twin Peaks" TV series

I hate when people say that the remake was bad because of something as simple as the Dodge mechanic like he's not doing backflips like Leon he's just doing a quick side step or something like that

Detail: After killing Eddie, James looks at his hands like he did at the beginning, suggesting he killed Mary relatively recently, ALSO, in the back of Jame's car is Mary's body, and the blanket covering it has forget-me-nots

James’ lack of trigger discipline tracks perfectly with his own self-destructiveness

Fun fact: within the woodside apartments, in room 202 with the creepy mannequins, you can find some clothes on one in the center of the room, James will make a remark of “these clothes…” and looking at the photo of Mary in your inventory you’ll find they are indeed the same clothes.

That line about "weapons that aren't pillows" got me

3:57 "weapons that aren't pillows". Ouch.

When you obtain the flashlight, the mannequin in front of you is wearing mary's clothes from the last time they went to silent hill.

I Have An Easter Egg Recommendation, On Payday 2 On The Heist Alaskan Deal, There Is An Easter Egg Where When You Go Onto The Boat And Look Out Into The Ocean And You Can See Two Cops On A Door In Reference To The Titanic, And If You Shoot Them You Get An Achievement (Not Sure If You Have Covered This Before?)

Captain another detail is in the end of the game in the last save, James is not looking foward anymore , is looking away, like he don't want to look his reflection

4:00 ah yes, James is a…specialist😅😅😅

Bloober Team did a great job with details, specially elements, objects that are not part of the items. Even they did a great job on the firearms. I'm 100% sure the developers not only played the original game, they played RE4R, because of the attention to the details is incredible passionate.

bit of comedy in the silent hill 2 remake: on the first map you have, Silent Hill Ranch is in a font very similar to comic sans, probably referencing the HD Collection

10:40. Whenever you played Resident Evil on the Dreamcast, if you had a VMU on your controller, you could see your ammo count and your health status.

Don't remember if you've already covered it in a details video but I've been recently playing Lies of P and really liked the detail of your white shirt becoming see-through if you stay in the rain for too long on the opening level.
Always love your videos! Congrats to nearly 1 million!

There are things that seem significant, even though you can't actually interact with them.
*In the prison cafeteria, there is a picture of the cafeteria, with the dead guy. I'm pretty sure it was also in the original, but I'm not 100% sure.
*There are soda cans, many of them the same, around town. Does this imply Eddie was there?
*Is Eddie the one following James, at the beginning? It's generally believed Eddie was the owner of the van, and you can also see junk food waste all over that area. You hear what sounds like a dog, and yet other than the joke Dog ending, and the photos in the pet store, and elsewhere you hear no other mention of dogs, other than Eddie, who confesses to killing a dog. This could manifest the sound that James hears. I actually theorized this, back in 2001. I thought Eddie was the only reason that that noise should be manifested.
*There are small words scratched into the door of the (unfortunately) inaccessible cathedral, in the cemetery. I can't tell what they say.
*There are boundaries that don't make sense as boundaries. A roadblock that could easily be accessed, yet you can't. Is it because...
A:James has already found out that that area is unstable, and could collapse, and he subconsciously (or consciously) doesn't go there?
B:He doesn't want to go there, because it will remind him of too much. In the apartments, there is a door surrounded by books, and somehow it's blocked off by that. Or, in that room, is another James. James is a writer, after all. Next to the hospital, there is a divider that could clearly be ducked under. But James can't. Or, he doesn't want to. The file in the hotel, that reads "M.S.S." clearly sitting there, but you can't open it, because he doesn't want to.
*In the original SH2, there was a tombstone looking tablet that you could read, in town, that described what the executioners did with the blood of the prisoners. For about five minutes, I was worried that this was like The Mandela effect, and it wasn't really there. It was, but even though I've beaten SH2 Remake eight times, I can't actually remember if it's in the remake. My brain is scrambled. Lol.
*I wonder if there are more pictures that you can examine, and turn off your flashlight, with the brightness set to a certain level, and see weird hidden things. Some pictures have obvious ones. But the fact that you can turn your flashlight on and off, during examination of the environment, for the first time, ever- is interesting.

tbh i was both. resident evil games for zombies, silent hill games for the ambient and horror

"Nothing's safe with you around" is both about Mary and Maria's fate.

@9:27 The rabbit was from 3.

you forgot to mention another detail with Maria in the Hotel, if you dont open the door for her and go to the other room she will say that she wasnt dressed for trespassing.

10:40 is exactly what I was referring to in terms of checking my health. Having seen how abnormally red the screen becomes when you’re damaged I immediately turned that effect off

7:30 also I don’t remember quite well, but if you don’t open the door for Maria she says a monologue and climbs in I think.

My friend told me that in the hospital, all the old health drinks are the ones from the original game.

I came across something interesting when playing Supermarket Simulator. One of the customers has a striking resemblance to Agent Smith from the Matrix. Black suit, black tie, white undershirt, black sunglasses, and even the hair color is uncanny. He doesn't show up every shift though. I've tried to keep track and it might be that he appears every 5 days. As you progress in the game, you unlock more customers with the product licenses you buy. I'm not sure when Agent Smith is unlocked or if he was added with the new update.
Sometimes you might see 2 or 3 of the same customer in your store at the same time. So when I saw not one, but TWO Agent Smith's in my checkout lane, that was a real glitch in the Matrix.

9:22 Robbie’s most notable appearance was in 3 not 4

3:58 HOLD UP! WAIT A MINUTE!!

"James is, by trade, an office clerk" [Citation needed]

Also, when James is healthy his jacket is clean. The more damage he takes the more blood splatter shows on his coat.

5:34 She eventually gets used to it.

Just below the Robbie Sticker on Heaven's Night Mirror, there's a Three Peaks Tour-possibly a homage to Twin Peaks?

That was really something else man 👍👍🏾👍🏻

I have seen multiple people write that the Maria ending is the hardest ending to get, but I got it on my first playthrough unintentionel xD

When going to the hotel when it's in good condition if you go into the past UI it'll say Hotel (Otherworld) as your location and when you're in the hotel when it's rundown it'll tell you you're in the real world as it only says Hotel.

In the woodside apartments when you find the body in front of the TV, he's wearing James' pants and shoes.

8:27 It’s a different code on hard puzzle difficulty

The sun glasses are Master Miller's, and the wallet is mine. Give it back!

Fun fact:
When you first pick up the gun there is a chance that when aiming, James will shoot one bullet by himself.

At the end of the game, in the final save point James is actually looking away from the camera instead of directly at it like he does for the rest of the game

5:45 Why James' head is perfectly aling with the sign of the windows?

couple of secrets i found somewhere: (PC only) with the camera mod, if you look behind some radios and tvs you can see some secrets bloober team hide in there, mainly refference to themselves, still, pretty cool, probably more still behind other stuff

Here's another that could potentially help someone. If you are hurt, but are near one of those red paper save spots, save the game, turn off the ps5 and on again, and when you load the game again your health will be restored. Don't know if it's a bug, though. It might get removed with a future update.

I absolutely despise Maria, and do pretty much everything to mess with her myself; one thing I found is if you open the garage before Brookhaven Hospital (requiring the jack handle) Maria will ask you to let her in, you can instead open the door on the other side of the building and Maria will sound really annoyed at you trying to ditch her. In the same area, there is a place marked the Baldwin Manor, which Maria will remark on, referencing the "Born from a Wish" scenario that makes Maria a playable character in the remaster, where she has a run-in with the lesser-known Baldwin brother, Ernest.

Finally just finished the game and now I can watch this