This was a very engaging and enjoyable read. After replaying Silent Hill 2 recently, it’s neat to see all the little touches and changes you made while still keeping the core of the story intact. I especially liked how you explained why Laura was suddenly cool with James at the end, as that always puzzled me a bit in the game. Best of all, this story is actually finished, which is sadly rare to see. I know it’s been over a decade now, but thank you and good job.

I actually really enjoyed this whole story and it's definitely one of my favourite fanfics

I haven't slept in 18 hours and it's killing me, yet I can't stop reading! It's too damn good! It follows the game yet with TONS of originality through your descriptions and use of realism, and even though it's just text it stil manages to remain creepy and still cause moments of fear as if I was playing the game.

Jeez... This captures the beauty and creepiness of silent hill so perfectly. O.O

A really good start.

Soda? Its his dead wife hes not gonna care about soda.

very good fan fiction of my favorite silent hill game

i'm on chapter 1 , and i'm just worried that it has to end xD damn you did a great job! thank you try to read it silent hill 2 ost's people!

Incredible. I could not stop reading this!

You did a great job with this story~! you deserve a reward for this!

I hope you don't mind, but i'm going to base my silent hill 2 story on this one.

It's going to be my first story so... ignore the shitty-ness of it.

The story is going to be a bit different, but not by much. Like I said, I hope you don't mind~!

Well, I was looking for a good horror story to read.

I certainly found it.

I've never played the game or watched it, but now I feel like I've read it. Reading up on the game on the Wiki and comparing it to your story is just marvoulus.

Purely genius. James is an awesome character (With awesome lines and comparisons). You captured Eddie, Angela, Maria and pyramid head with brilliance. Laura? My second favourite (other than James himself). She'sthe sort of girl whose tough.

Really glad you wrote this, really glad I found it, and my hats off to you!

So I saw that you wrote a second version of this WITHOUT swearing and stuff. Honestly I prefer the swearing in it as opposed to no swearing at all cause honestly if I were James Sunderland I would be swear a hell of a lot. Anyway your write brilliantly and I hope to continue reading this

It's twelve at night, and i gotta get up in five hours to catch a plane. I'm bound to be pretty tired tomorrow lol. yet, I know i wont regret it; reading this and finishing this story is well worth the tiredness. it is definetly worth the tiredness.

Silent hill 2 has a story that i fell in love with, even though i haven't played the game. I watched the whole game on youtube and have spent hours on silent hill wiki. I still wanted more, and that was when your story popped up on some forum of some kind. someone stated that there was no english novelization, but your story is just as good.

I have to agree.

you totally encompassed the wonderful story that is silent hill 2. You made James a real human, a human with real fear, real sadness, real etc etc. Games have limitations; they give you something to move around, yet can only show some of the more real stuff in some cutscenes.

I also really enjoy how you make things more realistic; James having his injuries throughout, not carrying a million weapons, etc.

Part of me was afraid you wouldn't have everything that i loved in the story but you did. Every freaking time i see one of the endings of that game i cry. really. i got to the end of this. I cried. really. you added so much good to what was already there. expanding on past dialogue with james and mary. I loved those parts especially. You see them truely in love, and you show how hard mary's death was on james

which brings me to something i also really liked. I loved the beginning. i loved it initially, but when i got to the Videocassete part, it clicked. what you did was brilliant. to help avoid spoilers, he did what he did, and he repressed the memory and replaced it, yet was so sad, so revolted that (even though he didn't know why) he almost killed himself.

also, the ending was really really great.I love what you did with the "leave" ending. personally, it was never really the ending i preffered (I seem to enjoy tradgety, so "in water" was the one for me XD), and therefore really didn't think too much about it, yet you expanded on it and made it a very fulfilling end.

lol and i also liked the connections to silent hill 4.

of course there are a few errors in grammar, and probably a few in spelling, but really, who doesn't have em? with a story this good, i really don't care.

so...i loved this story. so freaking much that i finished it in like two and a half days, and i have what some people might call a full time job. when i get back from my trip, i'll pry read your in progress rewrite. there is more i could say, but i digress; i must sleep sometime i suppose.

in short...AMAZING, AMAZING JOB!

~blue jae

After devouring this novelization, I must thank you for writing this; and you did a very great job at it.

The way you pictured every character is just so nicely done and truthful to themselves.

I specifically adored how you pictured Pyramid Head, which couldn't have been done better. It was simply just Him.

I enjoyed every minute of it all. Reliving it all through words was a different experience and it was welcomed. It was a different powerful vibe. Good work.

wow ... I just finished this and I thought about reviewing every chapter but I couldn't stop reading. I wish I could go on and on about this but man ... the whole story instantly demanded my attention and I couldn't, and still can't, find a bad chapter. The epilogue, though, is ... wow. Hell, it's perfect to me so there XD I agree with most everyone else who's R&R'd this: Fantastic! I can't wait to read the revisioned version, thank you so much for this wonderful novel, you did Silent Hill 2 justice and beyond.