New Silent Hill 2 Players, Don't Be Fooled By Pyramid Head

The release of the remake will inevitably bring new fans flocking to the landmark horror franchise. This is the first time any major installment in the series has been available on modern consoles; its lackluster HD remaster was limited to PS3. Couple that with the fact that it's the series' most iconic installment — and a pretty faithful adaptation of to boot — and there's scarcely been a better time in the past two decades to get into .

[Warning: This article contains spoilers for the ending of Silent Hill 2.]

But with scores of new players descending into the fog for the first time, many players will be fooled by a familiar face: Pyramid Head: canon name Red Pyramid Thing. marked the debut of the pointy-headed punisher, who's since become a series icon, in no small part due to Masahiro Ito's stunningly brutal character design. He represents the series in, makes a cameo in, and even has his own card. But don't mistake Pyramid Head for something he's not; he's uniquely tied to in a way that the rest of his appearances don't always make clear.

Like all the monsters in, Pyramid Head is an invention of protagonist James Sunderland's imagination. Specifically, Pyramid Head is a physical manifestation of James' guilt y conscience over killing Mary. Players receive a major, cryptic clue to his identity in the latter half of the game: there's a painting hanging in the Silent Hill Historical Society that depicts an executioner wearing a triangular hood, presiding over prisoners in cages. James likely saw this painting when he and Mary first visited Silent Hill, and it stuck with him, eventually forming part of his guilt.

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The triangular hood also served as the ritual garb of the murderous cult that controls Silent Hill, the Order, as established in the very first, and later confirmed by. Pyramid Head serves to remind James that he's