I was a kid who watched Charlotte's Web on my old vhs and dvd and cried everytiem. I lucked out.
So are other allergies, but they dont get the same push.
I think one of Silent Hill 2's main strengths is that it's very open to interpretation. Not in the "it was all a dream! it's a repeating loop!" sense but more that the motivation of the characters and how the ending you get can really recontextualize the events of the game and whatever motivation James had for doing what he did. It was definitely a self destructive act which is probably most obvious in how we see and jump into his literal grave in the Labyrinth, but at the same time part of him resented Mary who could lash out at him and be very vicious. The Flesh Lips and Mandarin monsters allude to this.
I've not seen a single lynch work so idk, I came at it from the perspective of Mary being terminally ill. I've dealt with some people who are terminally ill and there are times they will lose their shit due to frustration, the more personally they know you the worse ("I wish you could kill me and save yourself money", "I wish I was never born to give trouble", "I wish you didn't love me and place yourself in this", sometimes it will manifest as rage along the lines of "I hate you and I wish I could get away from you" which is another version of "save yourself and let me be"). In such a scenario I generally would never resent such a person outside of "this is so bad that it's making them uncontrollable" not in the "this is bringing some repressed truth to the surface". I know people generally go with the second but I go with the first from a bit of experience. So I want to think james is innocent albeit placed into a shit situation. In such a scenario you would want the person dead not because you would hate them but because you can't bear to see them like this. I know most people's interpretations come from the monsters themselves and what each is supposed to represent, my interpretation is from what is being said and the headspace each characters in. Also I got the leave ending, probably cause I played it like a video game and constantly spammed heal at the slightest discomfort.
Ive heard that, I would headcanon angelas abstract daddy looking the same tbh cause the first thought I had when I looked at abstract daddy is a rape monster, almost immediately. The wiki says it's also representative of Mary on the hospital bed but a screaming fat body squished onto a smaller body with arm like tendons over it over a bedframe just indicates rape, possibly even pedophilia. No other monster in the game quite so effectively communicates what it's supposed to mean using just the design, I had to visit the wiki to understand what the other 8 signify, they're very vague about what the design means except maybe the nurse mannequin and the flesh lips (flesh lips to me looked like a mental asylum patient restrained to a bedframe).
I always took it more that like other couples they had tension in their relationship and there were other issues. Fertility is sometimes referenced, imagery of an empty crib, so starting a family had been an issue for them, and then this. Kind of this perfect storm of issues, James's drinking problem, his own mental state deteriorating having to watch his wife suffer and die and he's powerless to stop it. But he basically enters a psychological fugue state, he's disoriented and obviously the act was just so at ends with who he was as a person that he couldn't process it which is how he winds up in Silent Hill. Lost Highway deals with a lot of similar ideas, if you dig SH2 I recommend it. SH2 also has references to Blue Velvet.
Yeah, it's still primarily a manifestation born of Angela, it's more just a question of how much of James is in what we see of it, what does he see of himself in this monster? Nothing in this town lets you look for free, it takes something from you in the process of being because everything in SH2 is fueled by the three main characters.
It's cited in the Book of Lost Memories which was formed by interviewing the staff who worked on the games. Masahiro Ito also mentions the film was very influential to the early drafts of the story for the game during the planning process, but they had to rework their initial idea into what we have today.
I trust Sato, who got out when the getting was good to go work for Nintendo. Sex and Death.
No? He's been backpedaling claiming that x is not an influence, and when I pointed out two instances of developers citing it as an influence it turned into posting soyjaks as a cope and moving the goalposts into some irrelevant topic.
No, you're just wrong and coping playing semantic word games trying to change what the original discussion was about. Very strange behavior.
