/vr/ - Retro Games

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>sometimes it just comes across as awkward for the wrong reasons like a bad acting take
I agree to the fact that these were not the best dub cast. You can't expect them to afford a big movie cast like Kojima does. His games are called moviegames because of the good acting. But his good acting wouldn't fit well in a game with a weird setting like SH. So the weird acting was probably intentional.
>I don't think the town necessarily had a positive effect on them (Laura and Mary).
Mary wrote the later calling SH their "special place" and inviting her love one to join her. SH was literally a paradise to her. Laura could be seeing playing with toys inside creepy places like the hospital or walking happy in the foggy streets. SH was a playground to her. Both Laura and Mary did not see the monsters or even the creepy environment as the others saw because they had nothing to fear because their conscious were clear.
>Mary is still dead and I don't think the game definitively says if James was really talking to her or if it was just in his head.
The game is not supposed to say much. But everyone seem dead. You can at least see 3 graves named after some of them (James,Angela,Eddie) at some point in the game, and there was a reason for this. Which is why many believe the Water ending is the only suitable ending for James. Because it was a way to accept the fact he was already dead. Just like when Angela walked through fire on the stairs without feeling a thing. But this only happens after facing their sins and understanding what is happening. Only then they could join Mary's paradise perhaps.
>But I think the point of Laura not seeing any monsters was to emphasize that James and Eddie were monsters in some ways since they're the only people she sees throughout the game.
James, Eddie and Angela were monsters in a way. Because they were sinners. But their sins transformed into monsters that could only affect them. Laura can't see Mary though, but she is the one closest