I dunno if that origin story will be a good thing or a bad thing. Either it empowers decades of theorycrafting, or it blows them out of the water entirely.
But then, Pyramidhead really seemed like he had to be an aspect of James, and the movie really made it all weird. PH is the only male enemy in the entire game, and is the most awkwardly sexual monster a gamer could have imagined when SH2 came out (the first time he shows up, we see him...uh..assault and murder a mannequin. Also the ONLY clearly sexual moment in the entire game despite a possible romance existing)... Otherwise it's a game where virtually every enemy you face is gendered female.
With limited spoilers, James's seeming sexual frustration is rumored to be one of the concealed storypoints in SH2... which completes an amazingly complex, mature, and terrifying story
Yes, there was a literal hole at that location as well. And some people suggest it's about alcoholism.
There's another message that shows up in Neely's Bar, signed by James, telling him to kill himself but that he'll go to a different place than Mary when he does.
If you take those things that the game doesn't give away for free, and add the actual story beats that I am opting NOT to spoil, then the sexual tension becomes a clear possible explanation.
Yeah as someone who enjoyed the game but never got deep into the lore I can say the mystery of pyramid head was part of why he was so awesomely terrifying.
Absolutely. I'm pretty sure there comes a point where the lore secretly shifts to "wouldn't it be neat if..." and the team has never verbalized what is or isn't intentional, but there was always something there with Pyramid Head. There couldn't NOT be.
Down to the way the last encounter with him ends.
My biggest fear is if they lean into the "ancient prison executioner" twist that never actually made sense taken literally but wasn't too far from how the movie did things.
giving him an 'origin story' will be a massive blunder for sure. Not everything needs an explanation in stories, ESPECIALLY horror content.
I dunno if that origin story will be a good thing or a bad thing. Either it empowers decades of theorycrafting, or it blows them out of the water entirely.
But then, Pyramidhead really seemed like he had to be an aspect of James, and the movie really made it all weird. PH is the only male enemy in the entire game, and is the most awkwardly sexual monster a gamer could have imagined when SH2 came out (the first time he shows up, we see him...uh..assault and murder a mannequin. Also the ONLY clearly sexual moment in the entire game despite a possible romance existing)... Otherwise it's a game where virtually every enemy you face is gendered female.
With limited spoilers, James's seeming sexual frustration is rumored to be one of the concealed storypoints in SH2... which completes an amazingly complex, mature, and terrifying story
Yes, there was a literal hole at that location as well. And some people suggest it's about alcoholism.
There's another message that shows up in Neely's Bar, signed by James, telling him to kill himself but that he'll go to a different place than Mary when he does.
If you take those things that the game doesn't give away for free, and add the actual story beats that I am opting NOT to spoil, then the sexual tension becomes a clear possible explanation.
Yeah as someone who enjoyed the game but never got deep into the lore I can say the mystery of pyramid head was part of why he was so awesomely terrifying.
Absolutely. I'm pretty sure there comes a point where the lore secretly shifts to "wouldn't it be neat if..." and the team has never verbalized what is or isn't intentional, but there was always something there with Pyramid Head. There couldn't NOT be.
Down to the way the last encounter with him ends.
My biggest fear is if they lean into the "ancient prison executioner" twist that never actually made sense taken literally but wasn't too far from how the movie did things.
giving him an 'origin story' will be a massive blunder for sure. Not everything needs an explanation in stories, ESPECIALLY horror content.