Silent Hill 2 Fan Solves the Mystery Behind PS5 Remake's New Photos

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A Silent Hill 2 fan has solved the mystery behind the PS5 remake’s new Strange Photos collectibles, as confirmed by Bloober Team’s creative director and lead designer Mateusz Lenart. Posted to Reddituser DaleRobinson has worked out the 26 Polaroids spell “you’ve been here for two decades” after counting how many objects there are inside each picture and then matching that number with the phrase written on the picture to get a letter.

As the user explains, the first StrangePhoto features six windows, and comes with the phrase: “So many people here!” Count six letters along the sentence and you get the letter Y. Following this method for all the Polaroids gives you the overall phrase. Mateusz Lenart confirmed this is indeed the solution to the puzzle on Twitter, saying the team thought “the puzzle might be too hard”.

The Strange Photos were one of two new types of collectibles in the PS5, PC remake of Silent Hill 2, with the other being Glimpses of the Pastwhich worked as callbacks to the original PS2 classic where Bloober Team had slightly changed the environment. Memos also return, and you can track all of them in ours Silent Hill 2 guide.

The final phrase actually has some ramifications for one Silent Hill 2 lore theory. The message could be taken as a fun jab at the Silent Hill 2 community, which waited over 20 years between the initial release and this remake. However, it may also tie into a fan theory that Silent Hill 2 sort of takes place in a time loop, where all of its Endings are repeating over and over again. This hasn’t been confirmed by Konami, but evidence gathered across the original game is used to support the notion. You can read more in a Twitter thread from Dusk Golem.

What do you make of this revelation? Do you think this is just a fun phrase for fans to discover or does it have wider implications? Share your theory in the comments below.

(source reddit.com)