Silent Hill Downpour Playthrough

[Seil]

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[Seil]

Okay, replayed the final boss fight. Got a much better ending that still doesn't explain much. Game still sucks ass. Typing this while credits rol...

FUCK SHIT KORN FUCK

[Seil]

Okay, looked at the character bios (or what passes for bios) after the game. Let's see if I can work this out:

Murphy Pendleton was an orphan and raised by Mysterious Nun in the Monestary in Silent Hill. Based on files in the Monestary, Murphy is has a few disorders and psychiatrist recommends full frontal lobotomy - which might explain the combat. Murphy meets woman named Carol and fathers Charlie. Carol and Murphy become estranged.

One day Charlie runs off while playing, and Murphy can't find him. Charlie was abducted by Frank Napier, molested and drowned in Toluca Lake. Carol is furious at Murphy for not keeping Charlie safe, Murphy is plagued by guilt and hatred. Napier is arrested, and becomes a sequestered prisoner due to the nature of his crimes. Murphy steals a police cruiser and goes on a ten hour joyride to get himself thrown in prison.

While in prison he meets two officers, Frank Coleridge and George Sewell. Coleridge likes Murphy and treats him like a relative, giving advice on things to do in the Prison to increase chances of parole. Sewell is under corruption charges and wants to make them go away, and realizes Murphy is the way to make that happen. He offers Murphy the chance to kill Napier for Charlie's murder if Murphy does Sewell a favor at a later date. The favor is that Murphy kill Coleridge, the primary informant of Sewell's deviant activities.

The game begins with Murphy attacking Napier in the showers, then being transferred to another prison. Anne Cunningham, the Important Female Officer, is the one who pulled the strings to arrange the transfer. On the way to the new prison, the bus crashes just outside Silent Hill. Murphy makes his way to Devil's Pit, while Anne follows. She ends up falling down a bottomless pit.

Murphy makes his way through the Devil's Pit to Silent Hill, haunted all the way by a man in a wheelchair. He meets J.P. Sader on the way, who commits suicide. Murphy is also attacked by several bat-man creatures, who are, apparently, mythical animals of the area. The prisoners on the bus, as well as the rest of the characters, are affected by the town the same way Murphy is. Mustached prisoner is found beating up a monster.

While in the Pit, Murphy finds clothes in a cabin and changes, finding a police badge in one of the pockets. He keeps it, and it's found by Cunningham later, where she breaks down, attempts to murder Murphy, then decides not to. She tells him to go.

While in the Devil's Pit, Murphy ends up trapped in the Otherworld, where the defining features are:

1) Water - His son was found at the bottom of Toluca Lake
2) Clockwork Machinery - ?
3) Prison Motifs - Self-explanitory

The Dahaka ball is apparently called "The Void." I don't understand why it... is, or why it chases Murphy so fervently.

Once in Silent Hill, Murphy has several run ins with a Ninja Mailman. Okay, yeah, don't know who he is. He makes his way through town where he is attacked by... women, apparently called "Screamers." They might symbolize Carol. There's also a knife weilding man, could symbolize Napier or other prisoners.

Murphy heads out to meet DJ Ricks, where Ricks tells him that he's been there a while - probably for his own reason. He just hasn't tried to leave, resorting to barricading himself in the studio against the monsters. DJ Ricks tells Murphy that he's got a boat, but someone stole the keys. He then gets a phone call from... someone asking him to dedicate a song to DJ Ricks. All of a sudden, Screamers and Cunningham burst in, the game shifts to the Otherworld and Murphy runs from the Void.

Murphy wakes up and Ninja Mailman tells him to go to the Monestary, where a nun meets Murphy at the door. The nun lets Murphy in, telling him that he was "The only one we were able to find a family for." The Monestary is falling apart, but the nun, a young boy and a young girl are all there. The boy and girl are behind a locked door, and won't let Murphy in unless Murphy tells him the rhyme to keep the Bogeyman away.

In Homecoming, the Bogeyman was Pyramid Head because... Pyramid Head was in the movie. Which didn't make much sense either. Okay, it was PH because the game was all about the history of Silent Hill. In Downpour, it's a large man with a hooded rain coat and a gas mask. He carries a big hammer.

...I don't know.

Anyway, as soon as Murphy is back with the rhyme, he spies the Boogeyman in the room with the boy, and begins reciting the poem. He says the final line as the Boogeyman kills the boy, and the door opens. The boy is revealed to be Charlie. This might signify the powerlessness and guilt that Murphy feels for Charlie's death despite the fact that he couldn't have helped him. The girl appears and shouts at Murphy for killing Charlie, believing him to be the Boogeyman. She runs to the side of the man in the wheelchair.

Murphy falls unconcious and wakes up with the nun, who tells him that he needs to identify his son. She lifts the sheet off of a gurney, and it's the Boogeyman. Murphy denies the Boogeyman is his son, however DJ Ricks boat key is on a chain around his neck. Murphy attempts to take the key, and a fight ensues. When Murphy wins, the Boogeyman is unmasked, and the face rapidly shifts between Murphy and Napier. The Boogeyman is... whoever a person believes is a monster?

Anyway, with DJ's key, Murphy makes his way to the docks, starts the boat and is held up by Cunningham. Cunningham shoots Murphy, who wakes up in the Otherworld prison, where he is presented with flashbacks of Sewell asking him to kill Coleridge. After he makes it all the way through, he ends up in the showers, where he finds evidence of a brutal beating. He places the evidence in a large scale, which opens a door to the man in the wheelchair, now a giant boss monster. After defeating him, Anne Cunningham shows up, looks at the corpse of the man in the wheelchair which has turned into Frank Coleridge. Murphy is horrifed, but despite his protests, Anne doesn't believe him, and he turns into her Boogeyman. He then attacks her, and has the choice to spare her or to kill her.

In my game, she is spared, it's revealed the Sewell attacked Coleridge and framed Murphy for it. Coleridge survived, but was a vegetable, infuriating his daughter, Anne Cunningham. She revealed how she went to great, and "disgusting" lengths to have Murphy transferred to a new prison under her watch, where she believed she could have revenge for her father. Fortunately, she knows the truth, where Sewell is the man responsible. The two are transported back to the scene of the bus crash, and she lets Murphy walk off.

She then pays Sewell a visit.

[Seil]

It was still a shite game, though.

[Doc ock rokc]

The clockwork/industrial stuff is supposed to represent his upcoming fear of execution.

The void is Murphy feeling like he is losing himself after he lost everything else (literally he isn't a father or a husband. Then he made a bad deal that caused his friend to be hurt/killed his friend.)

The boogeyman is like the void. its how Murphy feels about himself. When he saw his son as the boogeyman its because he was blaming his son for his own actions. When the boogeyman killed his son it was him reliving the memory of Naper. When the boogeyman shifted between Naper and Murphy it was basicly a visual "not so different" speech. He became a monster for his revenge. Once he realized this he became the Boogeyman and after you spare the officer Murphy realized that it wasn't his fault and he isn't a monster.

[Bells]

Also about Boogeyman: Big Hammer = Judge's Gavel
And Raincoat = To Shield himself from the Guilt about his Son's death

[Seil]

When he saw his son as the boogeyman its because he was blaming his son for his own actions.

It was never his son. It killed the ghost of his son, but then the ghost comes back and forgives him.

Also, I can't help but feel as if you guys are reaching for some of that. Like, really.

EDIT

Also about Boogeyman: Big Hammer = Judge's Gavel
And Raincoat = To Shield himself from the Guilt about his Son's death

In regards to the coat, it's because it's raining. It fits that whole motif. In regards to the gasmask, it's because they needed a way to hide teh face and gas masks and trenchcoats are cool. The hammer symbolizing a gavel is kind of out there, man. I mean, it's a cinderblock attached to a pole. If we're saying it symbolizes a judge's gavel, we could also say it symbolizes the prisoners fighting with whatever they could find.

The clockwork/industrial stuff is supposed to represent his upcoming fear of execution.

But he's not getting executed. He's being transferred to a different prison. He only gets executed in one bad ending.

It could symbolize teh passing of time while in prison.

The void is Murphy feeling like he is losing himself after he lost everything else (literally he isn't a father or a husband. Then he made a bad deal that caused his friend to be hurt/killed his friend.)

...This kinda works. I was going to say that he seems like an okay father and husband. I don't know many people whose fault it is that their children were kidnapped and killed. They think it's their fault, though, sure. I'm not sure what caused his wife and him to drift apart, but the whole child death thing didn't help.

The boogeyman is like the void. its how Murphy feels about himself. When he saw his son as the boogeyman its because he was blaming his son for his own actions. When the boogeyman killed his son it was him reliving the memory of Naper. When the boogeyman shifted between Naper and Murphy it was basicly a visual "not so different" speech. He became a monster for his revenge. Once he realized this he became the Boogeyman and after you spare the officer Murphy realized that it wasn't his fault and he isn't a monster.

The Boogeyman, I think, is supposed to be evil. It's supposed to monster-ize someone, make them big and tough and powerful - someone who is evil incarnate in the eyes of another specific person.

1) The boogeyman kills Charlie's "ghost" - probably Napier, and cementing the guilt that Murphy feels over Charlie's death and the fact that he was powerless to stop it.

2) Murphy/Napier - Napier for obvious reasons, but Murphy saw himself as a monster for attacking Napier, and attacking not helping Coleridge.

3) Murphy - When Cunningham sees Murphy as the boogeyman, it's because he is evil in her eyes. At this point, she believes that he's the one who beat her father, and turned him into a vegetable. She believes it's his fault, and as such, he's evil in her eyes.

[Seil]

Also, it seems that the cannonical ending is either "Forgiveness" or "Truth and Justice," where it's realized that Sewell killed Coleridge. There's little points throughout the game where you hear the voice of a kind officer (called it, kinda) and when you first encounter The Void, you hear the words Coleridge yells at you before he's beaten by Sewell:

"Murphy. RUN!"

[Aldurin]

Well the Two Best Friends finally finished running through this game, mercilessly tearing it apart on every piece of bullshit they could find. Overall, it looked like a pretty damn sad attempt at a horror game.

[Seil]

It is.