Silent Hill 2 World Record Explained

[@aaronsoldier]

Great job man!

[@totalhydration5240]

Great job man!

[@-MrFozzy-]

Great job man!

[@jaymxu]

Aaron! Great to see you here! Ya English bastard how are you? Wow it's been a very long time.

[@TheEspartan017]

@@totalhydration5240 ñ

[@jaymxu]

@Void No that's not true, at least for Fatal Frame and Silent Hill 2 they have been exactly the same, the only thing that changes the puzzles is the Riddle Difficulty.

[@DarkViperAU]

Well presented. Unsure if it is the writing or your voice, maybe both, but it was really chill to listen to. Great video.

[@Plaguenide]

nice seeing you here

[@oliverjones2418]

Oh my! Mr viper! Hello!

[@elijah2118]

I'm really happy to see the likes of DarkViper watching these videos. Amazing.

[@thenetgamer2]

It's his connection to, and apparent enjoyment of what he's doing that makes his content so enthralling.

[@jeerkku]

Ayy Matto.

[@melamino]

I played silent hill 2 on a tube television, with black and white color scheme during lonely sleepless nights in a rented rundown apartment. That place was already creepy enough on its own, greatly enhancing my experience. I'll never forget jumping down that historical society hole at 3AM. One of the best games ever.

[@pillepolle3122]

so you played silent hill in real life i guess

[@tomatomaki]

Bro is James.

[@MrKeeyt-jm3ji]

I watched my mom play as a child. Wayyy creepyb

[@khoango8526]

Bro said when life gives you lemon

[@themojogamer75]

All that can be said about this run is one thing. "GAME SAVED!"

[@orlandofurioso7329]

Which ironically is what the PC version did to silent hill 2 considering konami today

[@Marqrk]

I like how, with the cutscene removed, it looks like James just guns down Eddie in cold blood for no reason even though he wasn’t fighting back and was just trying desperately to escape

[@trailer.prince]

LMAO RIGHT

[@alyshacoe2082]

Id be down to watch a whole series of you walking us through historical speedruns from various games over the years

[@chrism1518]

SummoningSalt does videos just like this, except he mostly covers Nintendo games. I don’t care for those games but his scripting is top notch.

[@thomassmart7987]

Summoning salt is brilliant

[@joakim8910]

the commentary was the main resone i watch AGDQ/SGDQ/The equivalent.

[@lukycharms9970]

@@chrism1518 lol I know I’m late to the party but that’s exactly what I was about to say haha

[@DeadAndAliveCat]

@@lukycharms9970 That's what the thumbs up button is for buddy, not the reply function

[@Cybershell13]

Wow that sh2_luck story is crazy, lol. Nice vid.

[@smergthedargon8974]

@@ItsJabo You are not funny.

[@splitsecond777]

Cybeeeerrrr shelllllllll what’s a beautiful human specimens such as yourself doing in a scary hood like this ! Also can you make silent hill bOnUs ViDeO ! (;

[@craftlawrence6390]

13:37 "Now Aaron is just gonna stand in the corner to assert his dominance".

[@ShowlDaBest]

Interesting that because you don’t get the radio from killing the first monster, you don’t get to hear the static noise when enemies are nearby. Actually makes the game a lot scarier!

[@benroberts2336]

There's something chilling about that radio though

[@ErikAlves300]

@@benroberts2336 huh radio whats goin on with that radio?

[@hicknopunk]

@@ErikAlves300 it makes noise when enemies are near. The enemies can hear this noise too, generally.

[@soloparaplaystation6624]

@@hicknopunk he is quoting to harry from silent hill 1

[@hicknopunk]

@@soloparaplaystation6624 oh!

[@bittabants]

The town is probably scrambling and triping over itself to get all the fucked up shit in place as James is sprinting through Silent Hill with the grace and speed of an Olympian gold medalist.

[@dgarrard100]

James is just completely out of fucks to give, which makes this hilarious.

[@_l3rN]

I'm down with spooky videos after Halloween. We have to fight back against Christmas's illegal occupation of November.

[@ThaRixer]

Yea my stores are already full of christmas stuff, yet nobody is selling sugarlaced almonds on the streets, what a scam. Still halloween in my book

[@pikminologueraisin2139]

yeah I despise this

[@dawnofthewalkers4915]

Eh, I love Christmas so I don’t mind it.

[@rory2112]

Christmas just starts and ends when it fuckin wants, I swear. Smh

[@FuelAirSparkTime]

Haha that's a very funny but very true mission statement

[@DaenaMichelle]

"Who stores lightbulbs inside of a can?" Me, who did exactly that last time I moved from one apartment to another: ò.ó

[@narusferree6506]

Speedrunners: A dedicate type of gamers who spend an immense amount of time playing a game in order to spend as little time playing it as possible.

[@soloparaplaystation6624]

This is Tas

[@DemstarAus]

It's been a long time since I saw the word "dedicate" as an adjective.

[@kongruss218]

@@soloparaplaystation6624 what do you think the S stands for in TAS

[@AleMusa]

A true gem of a game, all the love for it is 100% deserved. As always astonishing job on the production Ricky!

[@selfaware7617]

Love seeing his head turn just to glance at the enemies he is avoiding.

[@applegator3511]

I loved watching James bust in and just blast Eddie with no hesitation and no conversation. Hilarious

[@electricfishfan]

You skip the cutscene and POW! Just like that!

[@3Guys1Video]

Can’t wait to see you cover the Remake world records in a few months

[@Electrosa]

My man, I absolutely adore these videos. I've watched every single one no matter if I'm even remotely interested in the game involved, because the stories you share and your presentation are just so top-notch. Please keep it up, and take as long as you need.

[@ThaRixer]

Thank you!

[@DrippyFr0g]

This guy is crazy, the quick turns around corners are near perfect

[@natsu6156]

43:12 Love that little catjam on the bottom left

[@oddisss]

I just wanted to say I appreciate you adding closed captions despite video being lengthy:)

[@ThaRixer]

[@tjuk8050]

I used to speed run when I was a kid but now I find it takes all the fun out of gaming.

[@prism3898]

I don’t play horror games, but I love watching these commentated runs! Keep up the good work!

[@Ronbotnik]

Yes!! You're my favorite speedrun commentator(or explainer? lol), by far. Something about your tone of voice and your ability to entertain & fill most of the empty air yet stay relevant to whats happening is immaculate. Keep it up man!!!

[@KernalGohd]

Yooo! New Rixer! I always love how selfless your videos are, more focused on the games runners and making them look like heroes

[@TheChzoronzon]

I can't thing of a more absurd game to speedrun than SH2, which is all about the mood, lol

[@julaizaya7946]

I rarely put commentaries but I watched all your videos and Silent Hill 2 is one of my favorite game of all time so thanks for this awesome video. Keep up the good work, greetings from Belgium in Europe !! ^^

[@justsomenerd284]

fuck yeah new ThaRixer video, literally my favourite channel ever, with a close second being DougDoug. Absolutely love your channel, its always my highest priority if I see a notification for a video of yours

[@huyphan7825]

Only in the video game community would there be a group of people actively hunting down the fastest way a man can experience the worst traumatizing horror

[@xxunoriginalgamingxx9046]

43:10 the cat is also vibin to the music

[@Demon32835]

I found this by accident the week before Halloween 2022 lol

[@IzumiChenmeiru]

Ricky, you've bleesed me. This is exactly what I needed to finish my own WR history video.

[@recino2]

Kinda surprised it wasn't the "In Water" ending, given how long his health was down.

[@electricfishfan]

I wouldn’t expect that In Water could be triggered from low health alone since it’s mostly scored by items.

[@Aaaaaabcdef]

No annoying music, no fake overly energetic annoying narrator. Perfect

[@Milty2001]

as a silent hill fan it's amazing that there's still plenty of people who talk about this game I love it

[@izooah2691]

I've begun learning to speedrun this game and while I'm far from good at it, I can't recommend it enough. It's such a fun experience and getting my first time-saved splits after all these years of watching speedruns feels unreal.

[@screwupproduction]

I’ve never tried speed running but god damn I watched the jak2 video and I’ve been hooked on this channel since. Amazing content man, keep it up!

[@bw000m]

always fascinating learning about these things

[@Edlandish]

I've had this video on my watch later for months. At home sick and decided to finally watch it. Really liking this style, often I watch speedruns and I'm like wtf is going on. I've never even played Silent Hill.

[@fabiank.2919]

I just realized, that I‘ve seen the video on the first one. I was confused how I recognized a video from just a month ago without having watched it. Great narration again, very well done.

[@marathonxman]

Glad to see this finally came out! Just recently finished this game and it has quickly become one of my favorites. Happy to know some of my best friends in speedrunning could lend a hand to this project as well!

[@ItsJabo]

Banger video my dude

[@CalculatedRiskAK]

Your production quality is masterful. These type of videos always get me excited the moment I see them in my feed. Somehow the bell icon got changed off, so I fixed it.

[@jonathanrouse]

“Today we’re fighting eddy” *walks in, blasts eddy in the face* *eddy walks out* LOL

[@miecraftandmoregames]

13:26 the humiliation here is inmense. Kinda feel bad for him :(

[@AKheon]

Ah, I didn't know they'd cracked the RNG in this game as well. Interesting stuff.

[@chromasus9983]

Definitely love these videos. They feel more relaxed and give a nice, closer look at how runs are done. Also the fact that they're in horror games like Silent Hill feels like a nice change of pace as well. :)

[@whalegod1056]

lmao watching the eddy fight in a speed run is hilarious for some reason XD

[@jeremywright9511]

I just find how quickly Eddie was dispatched to be hilarious. James ain't playing around.

[@itsmac9931]

'2nd floor innit' you're spot on there 😅 great vid man👍all the way from UK 🇬🇧

[@ibilesfighter3.16]

So glad this came out, loved the 1st one and was nearly dossapointed there was no 2nd one, so glad it came out, looking forward to it

[@CheshireCad]

I actually had no idea which ending would happen, and wasn't planning to even try to guess. But then, during the corridor before the final boss, I remembered that the amount of time that the player spends in the corridor matters. If the player runs through it and leaves as fast as possible, which the speedrunner obviously does, then James exits as soon as Mary tells him to. But if the player doesn't leave, then Mary becomes increasingly angry that James is still there, before finally breaking down and begging him to stay. The chosen option probably represents how the event actually happened. The former shows James is able to let go of Mary and 'leave'. While the latter shows him still hanging on to Mary, to the point of clinging to her substitute: 'Maria'. Since I didn't notice any other ending-affecting actions being taken, my guess was 'Leave'.

[@CheshireCad]

Personally, in the several times I've played this game, I've always stayed until Mary completely stops talking. I don't want to imagine her alone and afraid, apologizing to James and begging him to come back, but knowing that she's driven him away.

[@djbvck]

definitely do silent hill 3, thats my favorite in the series. i used to speed run it when i was a kid

[@meixangej]

never been interested in speedruns but im glad i found this channel randomly. these gamers got skill and also i love ur commentary 🤙🏻

[@arazos9394]

It's so funny when James is running room to room in the hospital and Maria just gets dragged along and then gets left in the dust

[@OBZeta]

EXACTLY what I was waiting for, thanks for sticking to your plan!

[@saurtose2]

Good Stuff man, always a pleasure to see some speedrun commentary

[@georgeapelgren2157]

Can't wait for Silent Hill 3 Record next year.

[@cabdriver27]

I forgot your first Silent Hill video was how I found your channel. Was glad to see this on my feed.

[@trentsticles6198]

13:22 I love how it just went from 0 to 100 in less than 5 seconds

[@BeingTheBear]

This brought back some memories. I used to watch Nubzombie when he first came onto the Silent Hill speed running scene. I’m unable to watch him much anymore since I am no longer on graveyard shift. But all the little tips and tricks from quick saving and the RNG on the clock.

[@josephmilo7093]

I hardly comment on KZbin but man I found your channel through your ratchet videos and within 2 days almost binged watched your entire your channel. Thank you for all the effort that you make into documenting speedruns and glitches. It was such a breath of fresh air. Sadly I only have a few videos left but that makes me excited for the content to come. Thank you again, you really make some exceptional content ♥️

[@jaymxu]

This is one of the best games ever to be made, the memories i have with this game are priceless and eternal.

[@CorporateGreebo]

I was so excited to see this one, Ive watched the SH1 TAS more than a few times cause its damn interesting.

[@TaviRawr]

"Nothing scary in this tunnel...except for the SUBSCRIBE BUTTON" I screamed. Don't scare me like that....*subs*

[@EddieTheDamned]

So happy to see this uploaded! Can't wait to dive into this

[@inpy]

You are to blame for my sudden interest in speedrunning history. Love your videos, dude.

[@jojoversus1100]

Go binge SummoningSalt.

[@tomasckernovotny510]

Great video, I was waiting for it and was pretty sad when it did not came out at Halooween, I thought it won´t come out anymore, but here it is and I love it

[@hijeejoo398]

38:04 Eddie is like "Fuck this shit." *RUNS AWAY*

[@codejred]

this channel is the definition of quality over quality in my opinion definitely the best types of channels, super under rated youtuber for how engaging your content is

[@DenSporetrix]

Wait, so you don't kill the, uh, "Abstract Daddy"? Oh no, Angela!

[@dantrav1927]

I’ve been watching speed runs since the word ‘speedrun”was invented and now a days I only like the glitchless runs.

[@xotube2206]

Scrolling KZbin for two minutes for something to watch.. This is my jam

[@picantepollo6238]

Not really into speedrunning but I've liked your channel for your easy to digest video breakdowns. Commentary ones like this are fun, wouldn't mind seeing more of these types of uploads.

[@NarokathCrimzonAE]

Thank you for making this video on my favorite game of all time. I'm looking forward to more!

[@gregorymifsud5389]

amazing mate :) keep it up. Congrats to Aaron on the speed run.

[@clinto32]

loved the vibing cat during the music box section

[@SmokesOnMe]

Seriously love seeing how people break the games i played as a youngster

[@RR-sv3so]

man I never really knew anything about the speed running community until now, and all of there videos are epic and hold a lot of info.

[@DrippyFr0g]

Eddies death scream has me dying

[@whoons4701]

Just watched the silent hill 1 tas at halloween again so this is perfect

[@scas97]

Absolutely Ricky, I love these kind of videos and I'd love one on SH3 next halloween ^-^ The whole frame rng mechanic is super interesting! They definitely did the right choice by allowing it to become part of official runs.

[@nobodysbusinezz]

love your stuff. this type of video where you explain things as they come is pretty dope. it's great to hear it from a legendary speed runner.

[@Zuntharingtons]

thank you for acknowledging the queens english, great vid xx

[@BB-ff6xk]

Love the Silent Hill runs and was looking forward to this! Hope to see Silent Hill 3 explained next year. Your videos are always super engaging and entertaining :)

[@houneyh]

I came from the future, gotta say everything you said was on point.

[@jakobwest4811]

I lold at "its gonna go from fun and games to pretty fuckin scary now"

[@nroth-]

Characters in speed runs are great because it seems like they’ve done this before and know everything seems funny to think that way

[@GugureSux]

Pretty neat moves. I managed to get ~1h 15min back in the PS2 days, playing in a normal fashion.

[@Xanman22512]

Yes! I was worried that this wasn't going to happen this year.

[@iigniiz5998]

Please yes Silent Hill 3!! I’m going to show my friends this channel. Good quality stuff!!

[@oliverjones2418]

I love your videos, I’ve watched the spyro, touval video so many times, helps me sleep

[@1MCElias]

I forgot the name of that song at the beginning, hear it from a parody long time ago.

[@Flowfighter1]

What a great video!! I always loved this game, and I’ve never really considered the speedrunning capabilities it could have, especially after your first video. Once again, a great doc Ricky!

[@eemelihuiko6323]

I've been watching your videos for a bit now, and i love the work you put into it. Keep up the good work!

[@Hipp1062]

Never was able to finish this game as a kid. The atmosphere and design were amazing for its time though.

[@LilGuzzz1]

This video is one of the coolest on KZbin, I was trapped into it and every joke was priceless

[@kevenrivera6079]

@43:10 Señor cat is jamming to some classic 🐱🤠

[@wesleyclark9563]

my favorite youtuber has once again uploaded. nice

[@MarkLumsley]

The ending of the final boss was hilariously abrupt - even for a speedrun! xD