{"id":39299,"date":"2024-11-05T13:40:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T04:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=39299"},"modified":"2024-11-05T13:40:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T04:40:05","slug":"silent-hill-2-remakes-strange-photos-secret-confirmed-by-creative-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/silent-hill-2-remakes-strange-photos-secret-confirmed-by-creative-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Silent Hill 2 remake&#8217;s Strange Photos secret confirmed by creative director"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Mateusz_Lenart_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mateusz Lenart<\/a>, <strong>Silent Hill 2<\/strong> remake\u2019s creative director and lead designer, recently confirmed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/silenthill\/comments\/1gine5k\/i_solved_the_sh2_remake_photos_secret\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=mweb3x&amp;utm_name=mweb3xcss&amp;utm_term=1&amp;utm_content=share_button&amp;rdt=56171\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a Reddit post solving a secret puzzle<\/a> within the game. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/dale_robinson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dale Robinson<\/a>, the man behind the post, discovered a hidden message concealed within the 26 Strange Photo collectibles.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83e\udd2d I knew it wouldn\u2019t stay hidden for long! (There was a theory in our company that the puzzle might be too hard \ud83d\ude1c) I really wanted to make it subtle when I was painting those photos&#8230; <br>I think the timing couldn\u2019t be better for you to solve it.<br> Congratulations!\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EiIyg35Caj\">pic.twitter.com\/EiIyg35Caj<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Mateusz Lenart (@Mateusz_Lenart_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mateusz_Lenart_\/status\/1853189523745730675?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By counting a specific number of items within each Strange Photo and then counting the same number across the statement written on the photo, Robinson would come up with a letter. For example, the six open windows in Strange Photo 1 prompt you to count six letters across the written statement \u201cSo many people here\u201d, resulting in the letter \u201cY\u201d.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"450\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" src=\"http:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/20241105-39299-001.jpeg\" alt=\"Silent Hill 2 Strange Photo 1 secret revealed\" class=\"wp-image-39304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/20241105-39299-001.jpeg 900w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/20241105-39299-001-380x190.jpeg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/20241105-39299-001-768x384.jpeg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Robinson took these letters and arranged them according to their Strange Photo numerical order. Combining the 26 letters forms the statement \u201cYou\u2019ve been here for two decades.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the statement is a nod to the age of the original Silent Hill 2, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PocketSteaks\/status\/1853197776663769418\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">some fans think that the Strange Photo secret alludes to a theory<\/a> that James Sunderland is stuck in an endless time loop that forces him to relive the events of Silent Hill. <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20220304-10279\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The remake\u2019s UFO ending<\/a> where he meets his PlayStation 2 self seems to support this theory, as do the glimpses of the past and the game\u2019s multiple endings. All Mateusz Lenart could say with regards to the theory was a vague \u201cIs it?\u201d leaving the mystery as unsolved as it was twenty years ago.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mateusz Lenart says that he endeavored to make the secrets of the Strange Photos as subtle as possible when he was painting them, which could explain why it took almost two months for anyone to solve the puzzle. There was also an ongoing theory within Bloober Team that the secret may be too hard to crack. But crack it Dale Robinson did, and now people have even <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/silent-hill-2-remake-sells-over-1-million-copies-worldwide-in-just-3-days\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more reason to love this faithful remake of a 2001 classic<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Silent Hill 2 is available now on PS5 and Steam. You can check out our guides for the game\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/tag\/silent-hill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took almost a month for fans to discover that Bloober Team hid a secret message in Silent Hill 2&#8217;s Strange Photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":39303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,259],"class_list":["post-39299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-global-news","tag-silent-hill"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Silent Hill 2 remake&#039;s Strange Photos secret confirmed by creative director - AUTOMATON WEST<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It took almost a month for fans to discover that Bloober Team hid a secret message in Silent Hill 2&#039;s Strange Photos.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/silent-hill-2-remakes-strange-photos-secret-confirmed-by-creative-director\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Silent Hill 2 remake&#039;s Strange Photos secret confirmed by creative director - 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