Silent Hill 2 Remake: 8 Hardest Puzzles

Discover the hardest puzzles to solve in Silent Hill 2: Remake and learn how to solve them.

Silent Hill 2 Remake brings back the eerie, mind-bending puzzles that fans of the original know and love, but with a few new twists. While some puzzles closely resemble their classic counterparts, others have been expanded and reimagined to intensify the challenge.

These changes amp up the suspense, forcing players to dig deeper for more complex and mentally demanding solutions. In this article, we’ve compiled a list of what we believe are the hardest puzzles in Silent Hill 2 Remake, highlighting the head-scratchers that will keep you guessing.

8 Hardest Puzzles in Silent Hill 2 Remake

The Silent Hill 2 Remake puzzles listed below have been chosen based on their overall difficulty, regardless of which puzzle difficulty settings you select. These selections consider the mental challenge of each puzzle alongside the time and effort required to complete them. It also includes any combat encounters and exploration needed to gather clues or items.

8. D1 Combination Lock

Completing the D1 Combination Lock Puzzle, or X-Ray Puzzle, is one of the important steps in Silent Hill 2 Remake for obtaining the Filthy Bracelets required for the later Hand Puzzle. This puzzle unfolds within the hospital and involves a series of steps that can easily be missed if players aren’t paying close attention.

First, you’ll need to locate the scattered radiographs, with one needing to be cleaned with Mold Remover found on another hospital level. Once all pieces are collected and cleaned, you’ll return to the X-ray room, where the final part of the puzzle awaits. Players must carefully adjust the radiographs to reveal the D1 Combination Lock code.

It’s a time-consuming puzzle, especially with enemies lurking nearby as you scour the hospital levels for the radiograph and mold remover.

7. Armory Key – Hunting Rifle Cabinet

To get an Armory Key for the Hunting Rifle Cabinet in Silent Hill 2 Remake, you need to collect important items to solve a puzzle found in the Yard of Toluca Prison. The key can only be accessed once you have opened the Headless Serpent Door. To achieve this, you need a weight for the Scale and have this scale hand point at the Serpent to unlock the door.

The real challenge of getting an Armory Key comes after entering the Headless Serpent Door section, where the difficulty ramps up significantly. This area crawls with enemies, and navigating it becomes a serious ordeal if you’re low on health drinks, syringes, or ammo. After overloading a transformer to unlock all the cell doors, players face an even tougher choice as more monsters are released into the cell block.

Here, you’ll have to decide whether to fight your way through or try to avoid these relentless enemies. However, avoiding them may mean missing out on valuable loot.

6. Coin Puzzle in Wood Side Apartments

Players will encounter the Coin Puzzle after exploring the first floor of the Wood Side Apartments. To start solving the puzzle, you must collect three coin pieces scattered around the apartment. You’ll face multiple enemies on your way, which you can either fight or avoid.

After gathering the necessary coins, you’ll receive a series of poems from the coin cabinet, each containing clues about where to place each coin. Solving this puzzle can become quite time-consuming.

5. Moth Puzzle in Blue Creek Apartments

The Moth Puzzle in Blue Creek Apartments has left many players stumped. Unlike other puzzles in Silent Hill 2 Remake that can be brute-forced, this one requires close attention to decipher the hints. Players must match the symbols on the hint with those on the moths to reveal the lock combination.

The challenge and frustration of this puzzle come from poor lighting and symbols that look strikingly similar. This makes it easy to misinterpret and extend the time needed to solve it.

4. Three Bracelets Puzzle

Retrieving the bracelets for the Three Bracelets Puzzle is only the beginning of this challenging task. Arranging the bracelets in the correct order to retrieve the key has left many players scratching their heads.

While relying on the numbers engraved on the bracelets is tempting, the trick lies in visually matching the entire arm and noting the carved-out portions. Once you align them correctly, you can simplify the final steps and even brute-force the puzzle with just three bracelets in place.

3. Trick or Treat Elevator

The Trick or Treat Elevator Radio Show is one of the puzzles that most players quickly ignore. During this event, after getting on an elevator with a -1 button, a radio show starts that gives James three questions, and the answers correspond to the Decorative Box’s code.

The quiz will test your knowledge of Silent Hill and gauge whether you have read newspapers, examined every corner of key locations, and studied the map. Players who rush through the game tend to miss the clues, and what’s most painful about this puzzle is that you can’t brute force the Decorative Box’s code. If you got the answer wrong, the box permanently locks.

2. Scales Puzzle

The Scales Puzzle stands out as one of the toughest puzzles in Silent Hill 2 Remake. It’s not just about balancing the scale to obtain a crucial key item for the Gallows. The journey to collect the necessary weights is exhausting and requires significant resources. Players must traverse multiple areas, battling enemies along the way, just to gather each weight.

Once you’ve obtained all the items, the real challenge begins as you experiment with balancing the scale and switching weights back and forth in a lengthy trial-and-error process. This puzzle demands patience, strategy, and resistance, making it a memorable hurdle in the game.

1. Gallows Puzzle

The Gallows Puzzle is undoubtedly one of the toughest puzzles in Silent Hill 2 Remake. Its only saving grace is that incorrect guesses don’t end your attempt—you can try as many times as needed. However, this doesn’t spare you from the potentially long hours required to solve it.

Once you’ve obtained the executioner lever by completing the Scales Puzzle, you’ll face the task of matching two verses from each of the six poems to identify the correct nose. The challenge lies in interpreting the clues to determine which figure is the guiltiest or most justified.

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