Silent Hill 2 analysis

[robvalue]

Ah, that's interesting. Yeah, I can see it would make you feel quite differently having seen the film first.

I always naively thought James was really in the towns as were the other characters like Angela and Eddy, and the town was messing with them based on their subconscious.

But really, the game is whatever you want it to be. The devs have made the clues so subtle, and never concretely explained things (except perhaps in extra-game material), that I think they want you to interpret it yourself.