One of the great things about Silent Hill 2 is that just about the entire experience is open to interpretation. You can read almost anything you want into it and can interpret the symbology in almost anyway, allowing everyone to make the story their own in a way. Still, there are interpretations that are more generally accepted than others, and the original game’s art director, Masahiro Ito, just released some info that makes some of them much more solid.

As reported by TheGamer.com, Masahiro Ito recently confirmed that the iconic Pyramid Head painting seen in the Silent Hill Historical Society is, in fact, real. That is, it’s not a figment of James Sunderland’s imagination. This is huge because it means that James did not dream up Pyramid Head out of nothing and that the creature’s horrifying visage is indeed something out of Silent Hill’s actual past. 

This also confirms that Mary and James did in fact visit the town at some point in the past and that it was, at one point, still a normal town. With James being the unreliable narrator that he is and just about everything about the town open to interpretation, the confirmation that the painting is “real” is huge, allowing for a solid base to build theory upon for the first time. As a newly minted fan of Silent Hill 2, this reveal is quite exciting, and I can’t wait to see what everyone makes of it.

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What do you think about this? What do you think about Silent Hill 2? Are you psyched to be able to learn more about what’s really going on or was it better when nothing was certain?

Image from Silent Hill 2