History WMG / SilentHillShatteredMemories

They are simply trying to push him back by a little bit, which is what happens when you get a ''Main/GameOver'' (the reason Harry seems to be picking himself up from the ground when the game loads up again). Further supporting this is the fact that the Raw Shocks are meant to be [[spoiler:Cheryl trying to keep her father from finding her]], and why would [[spoiler:Cheryl want her father to be killed like that?]]

He was able to exist thanks to Silent Hill having another one of its bad days.

[[folder: All the people Harry interacts with are dead too.]]

That explains everything. Also, notice how at the end when he and Cheryl accept his death, he freezes, and it's implied he froze to death. Well, Lisa's death could have been her accepting it.
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** I have to say that after playing the game once I thought something remarkably similar to this.

** Well, you got the incest part right. It's just that [[spoiler: you've got the roles switched. It's not Harry that wants his daughter; it's that Cheryl wants her father. Yes. [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean THAT]] [[ParentalIncest WAY]]]].

[[folder:''Shattered Memories'' explains everything that has happened in the SilentHill series.]]

Massive, unmasked spoilers:

In a ( possibly disappointing, possibly amazing) turn of events, the ending of ''Shattered Memories'' reveals that, at least in game, there may be nothing supernatural going on in the town of Silent Hill. As surprising as this is, it has much broader implications. Cheryl Heather Mason has been having delusions about her father and about Silent Hill for the past seventeen years.

Since the accident happened , it makes sense that Cheryl might have imagined herself being 'reborn' that day in her delirium, explaining the plot of Silent Hill 1. Everything about Alessa and 'Heather', her 'seventeen year old' self? She invented that as a result of her psychosis. The game implies that she could have been in and out of the mental health system for nearly two decades and that she has been medicated in the past with negative results, so the plots of Silent Hill Origins, 2, 4, and Homecoming could have been the outlines of her drug-induced dreams. This could also be why those video games tend to have a heavy emphasis on institutionalization and psychosis (Origins, Homecoming, and 2) and entrapment (4).

So, basically, the ''only'' video game in the Silent Hill series that is significant is Shattered Memories. The entire series is about the pyschological nightmare a very sick young woman has been living in for close to two decades.
** While that could explain 1, 3, and Shattered Memories, I doubt Cheryl would have such a strong fixation on her father and yet come up with 2, 4, and Homecoming, which are about strangers and unrelated to her or her father directly. 2 in particular, has such a male-oriented viewpoint and mindset towards women, sexuality, life, and relationships - I find it unlikely that even a medicated young woman prone to delusions could find her subconscious so deeply rooted in a masculine framework unless she had a fantastically inherent aptitude for understanding human nature.
** If you believe the UFO ending, Dr. Kaufmann has multiple patients, one of whom is James Sunderland from 2. Cheryl might not be the only one in psychological hell.
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In a ([[YourMileageMayVary possibly disappointing, possibly amazing]]) turn of events, the ending of ''Shattered Memories'' reveals that, at least in game, there may be nothing supernatural going on in the town of Silent Hill. As surprising as this is, it has much broader implications. Cheryl Heather Mason has been having delusions about her father and about Silent Hill for the past seventeen years.

So, basically, the ''only'' video game in the Silent Hill series that is canonical is Shattered Memories. The entire series is about the [[AllJustADream pyschological hell a very sick young woman has been living in for close to two decades]].

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