| averyblund said: I saw it as the crash being real, but Harry being killed. His driver to find her is just a figment of her imagination. The father she never had. That is why how you play effects the ending. If you are good the memories are of you being a good father and thus the journey in the game is representative of the real Harry and his love of his daughter. If you get the bad ending it serves to remind you that he wasn't really the kind of person who would look for his daughter in a town like Silent Hill. The sexual innuendo suggests some possible incestuous feeling on her part as well. I've heard people on other boards say that Harry is somehow in an alternate dimension that the experience for him is his dying thoughts interposed with her imagination of him. Tha UFO ending the best though. Hilarious. |
I agree, although I haven't gotten the UFO ending yet. Those things are hard to find!
I wonder though if the "good" ending is really the best possible scenario. In my "good ending" Harry didn't freeze, and the dialogue between them makes it seem like Cheryl hasn't really moved past his death after all. It's almost like she's still clinging to this ideal father who may or may not have ever existed. By contrast, in my bad ending Harry tells Cheryl to forget about him, and he freezes over. She's sad, and probably disillusioned, but at least she's no longer clinging to her fantasies like she was before. Isn't that a good thing?
I'd like to know how you interpreted the different areas of the game (town, woods, school, etc.). I think they represent Kaufmann walking her through episodes of her life, and trying to make her open her eyes to what's really going on. I find it interesting that the freezes always happen right before "Harry" is about to discover something that would shatter Cheryl's illusionary world.* And he does say, in the end, that he's been "spelling it out" for her all along. In this regard, it almost seems like Harry serves as Kaufmann's avatar, with the Otherworld being her "agents of repression."
*The exception is the Woods. I can't figure out why it freezes in that nearly-empty cabin.
| superbeast1370 said: I have the Original PS1 game. That counts doesn't it? |
Not even a little bit. It might even be harmful, to be honest.
