Best VGM 05 - Silent Hill 2 - Theme of Laura

[Taislinmaosdela]

Crisis Core=This

[PowerSlaveAlfons]

I really, really, need to play classic games like this (again).

[Acidifying]

Amazing song, never played the game, but the song is really addictive !

[TheUncannyX]

@Acidifying I'm not sure if you've played the game by now, since this comment is relatively old, but as a fan of the Silent Hill series, I recommend that you play SH2. It's fantastic, one of the best in the series.

[Vengeance19]

First silent hill ever: I was like: Some hater seems to be pretending to be mary, and is trolling james, leading him to a deserted ghost town covered in mist and monsters, but i had no idea this game would be THIS paranormal.

[farukkk1000]

12/05/2011 and i am still listen

[TheAgol07]

I was like WTF james killed mary ??? the whole time i am just finding a dead person which i already killed !

[TheBillyWaffles]

This has to be one of the best tracks for a game ever created.

[ssjgoku75]

Haha true that my friend true that

[ssjgoku75]

Doesn't this sound like the ending to a really good movie

[Screamingreader]

@ssjgoku75 It sounds like the ending to a really good game.

[DarkestXIII]

if only all video game music was like this.....awesome beyond belief

[otharennaur]

waaaaaaaait! I heard an acoustic version of it one day, anyone has it?

[sadnessfeelings99]

: ( awesome!

[yos2481]

My guitar teacher can play 2 of the guitars of this (individually of course)

[BlackAndWhiteScout]

I like how they explore James life choices, and ultimate regrets throughout the game. Really showing how he thought that his life lacked meaning.

[Aeshir2]

talkradarrrrrrr

[wccdogg]

When I listen to songs like this it rains

[SilentHillEmzie]

@wccdogg just as i read this it started to rain outside. that. was. weird.

[wccdogg]

@SilentHillEmzie creepy O.O

[Mutafuka]

This song outlives us all.

[josephmlong]

They really need to make a film just based on Silent Hill 2!!!!!

[WingedDude]

Probably one of the very few scary games out there that was as good or better than the first.

[sullivan640]

the best silent hill.

[WolfTheGamer]

I'm not your Mary.......

[NinjaBeatle]

To those who are pure in heart......Silent Hill is truly a beautiful place.

[mcrarburger]

@NinjaBeatle Well then what about harry?

[RexStrider909]

This song always ALWAYS get played when I'm driving in the rain. and so help me if it fogs, I will park just to change tracks ;D

[TheWarhammerfreak]

Skrillex or someone should remix a silent hill song....

[HanziDrownable]

@TheWarhammerfreak

Y U NO HAS SENSE OF TASTE

[TheWarhammerfreak]

@HanziDrownable whats wrong with skrillex jesus people stop trolling

[HanziDrownable]

@TheWarhammerfreak

Why do u want a remix from a beautiful n correct song?and otherwise i cant imagine how skrillex remix this song....too much instrument is playing at this song.And this song is contain a lot of memorable tune.

A big challange to make a good remix from it and anyway...skrillex is a mainstream shit. xD.

[TheWarhammerfreak]

@HanziDrownable if skrillex can make lady gaga and I square good, he can make this god.

[RichterVonFuchs]

@TheWarhammerfreak as a fan of Skrillex, no.

[TheWarhammerfreak]

@RichterVonFuchs you saying you don't like silent hill?

[ratatatandbooger]

@TheWarhammerfreak

FUCKYOUFUCKYOUFUCKYOUFUCKYOU

[TheWarhammerfreak]

@ratatatandbooger ???? do you not like skrillex? i'm sorry if you don't but don't say that for my opinions.

[ImpromptuLeapfrog]

"LOST???"

[hmp22]

Shwayze - Buzzin'

is a ripoff of this song :D

[CarolAnnePoltergeist]

I love this theme =)

[PureEleganceYo]

Nostalgia!!! (*0*)

[ksioamaral89]

everything is perfect in this game

[DracoStoc]

@TheGreatAnnoyance I like Snow Falling on Cedars a lot. Just thought I'd share.

[ratatatandbooger]

"...WELL YOU SUCK JAMES!YOU SUCK AND I HATE YOU!I stole your wallet.Come back to our special place if you want it back (no James,not Vegas.).

[OWLCITY54]

@ratatatandbooger thats from an animation i watched on youtube!

[SHADOWFUR01]

@ratatatandbooger lol  you got that from silent hill 2 animation parody

[missNewVegas]

@ratatatandbooger I got a letter...The name on it said "Mary"..my wife's name...It's ridiculous..couldn't possibly be true. A dead person can't write a letter..it's illegal.

aaand I was gonna say a lot more boring crap but I don't feel like it now WOOOOO!

[CFkimahri]

@missNewVegas I'm so lost, I don't care! La lalalala!

[johnnytimgudao]

0:58 Are you taping again? C'mon! *sigh* I dont know why but i just love it here. You know what I heard? this whole area used to be a sacred place. I think i can see why, its too bad we have to leave! Please promise youll take me again, James... *cough* *cough*

[Anonymoustoteh5th]

@johnnytimgudao What the hell are you talking about?

[johnnytimgudao]

@Anonymoustoteh5th watch Silent Hill 2 intro to know. When you go there, go to 1:23

[Anonymoustoteh5th]

@johnnytimgudao Oh. 

[Thegodofthenewworld0]

Best.

Game.

Ever.

[quintet95]

@Thegodofthenewworld0 And...

Best.

Song.

Ever.

[bleachangel8]

@Thegodofthenewworld0 Too bad I'll never have the guts to play it ;_;

[mistertitanic]

@bleachangel8 Too scary eh? :D

[bleachangel8]

@mistertitanic Ya :D

[RTSnRPGfreak]

my fren introduced me this ost n the 1st time i listen i was like hmmm, it's just nt bad bt nt really tat good either, then after few days i suddenly miss this song, then i listen it again, n again n again n finally i realize i was addicted, it even made me wanted to play this game...damn u theme of laura, u haunted me!

[NeverforgetZack]

@steelplushie15 I'm a girl, my username is named after Zack Fair from FF7 and since he died, I want nobody to forget him. (Nerdgasam.)

[NeverforgetZack]

@steelplushie15 That's pretty likely, haha, is that a problem? :>

[NeverforgetZack]

@steelplushie15 Hey, listen, there's no need to spew out vulgarities just because of a few comments.

[GTA88555]

That quitar gives me earorgasms

[Eaze2009]

when akira was born...

History was made...

[skinnydragon1912]

omg I love this song! Its been ages since I played this game and by the way Maria is freaken hot!!

[nemuanimation]

man when i watched this i was like "okay wth?"when my sis (thats six)saw it she said "holy cow,i wanna watch it again"she watched it until midnight,when it was morning she went out in the woods with her metal golf club and pretened she was in silent hill,i swear i do not know wetther to bring her to a theripast or to send her to a mental institute.

[1000danskeren]

silent hill 2 is not just a scary horror game..... it´s also a very sad lovestory<3

[MasterCheif248]

@1000danskeren

Very sad.... instead of having kids read certain books that r really boring and somewhat stupid i wish teachers would have kids like read the novel version of Silent Hill 2 (there was a novel right?). This story has so many things that can be taught in an english class. like all the metaphors and symbolism, i may have 2 force one of my teachers to read Silent Hill 2 if theres a book.

[TheGreatAnnoyance]

@MasterCheif248 you did catch the part where there was horrid monsters, murder, rape, ect?

[JCRS666]

@TheGreatAnnoyance Well, but anyone who have brains (and know how to use them) might understand that mostly everything in the story is a metaphor created by the troubled mental state of it's characters.

[TheGreatAnnoyance]

@JCRS666 that.... that doesn't.... that wasn't relevant to my comment....

IF a man raping a woman and its supposed to show he strong personality of the man and the passive conformity of the woman and symbolizes how the strong take advantage of the weak, theres still man raping a woman and is probably not something that will fly in the classroom

[MasterCheif248]

@TheGreatAnnoyance

Read to kill a mocking bird then, rape, murder, all u need to add is monsters and gore. It's really nothing that a High school kid hasn't seen before...

[TheGreatAnnoyance]

@MasterCheif248 good point

[TheGreatAnnoyance]

@MasterCheif248 good point

[MasterCheif248]

@TheGreatAnnoyance

Yeah, all these books i've been reading, they've been boring. And most of it seems kinda pointless to me but that's how school works right? lol.

I really would love it if i had a teacher that knows about Silent Hill 2, one of the best stories ever that really should be taught in classes, i mean it covers so many things. Morals, love, sorrow, madness, so many things. Plus lots of figurative language since everything is basically a metaphor.

[TheGreatAnnoyance]

@MasterCheif248 Well if you can learn to enjoy them. Many of the book I've read so far in Highschool have come to be my favorites. Of Mice and Men, Animal Farm, Slaughterhouse 5, Snow Falling on Cedars. Silent Hill 2 depends quite a bit on its atmosphere to set a mood, and putting all that into a book would cause it it lose some of its punch. And we wouldnt hear this song

[MasterCheif248]

@1000danskeren oh and by kids i meant more like students like 15 to 18 year old high schoolers. I'm 15 (turning 16) and i love the silent hill series

[SilentHillEmzie]

loved SH2! 2 was my favourite game in the series :) I felt so sorry for everybody, Angela most. Poor girl...

[LadyDoloris]

In my restless dreams, I see that town... Silent hill.<3

[MrRicardoChango]

@LadyDoloris That's pretty much my favourite quote from any game xD The only one who can be compared to it would be "September 28th... daylight [...]" from Resident Evil Nemesis =D

[ferdk16]

@MrRicardoChango "...the monsters have overtaken the city... somehow... I'm still alive"

Will remember that quote to the end of the days :)

[LadyDoloris]

@MrRicardoChango I love Nemesis too! I personally prefer the earlier games in the R.E series. :)

[videotitan1]

Check my video of this Song with Mariachi with Akira Yamaoka

[Labyrinth9000]

Thumbs up if you came here from the counter strike source zombie map called Paranoid.

[Hikutaify]

of course the little girl has the most bad ass theme out of all of the games. :B

[rouenwolf]

i've played this game in the dark b4. I was freaking out when the monsters popped up but it didn't make me paranoid if something was lurking about in the darkness.

[silverhawk79]

There was a hole here...it's gone now.

[MasterCheif248]

I just beat this game a day ago. The ending was quite crazy i have to say, and it was all really depressing. Although i wish my older bro didn't beat the game before me. I ended up getting the rebirth ending. Although if i were to get any ending i would want the in water. cuz i heard that's the True ending.

[EpicOdysseus]

@MasterCheif248 There is no "true" ending for Silent Hill 2.

[MasterCheif248]

@EpicOdysseus

I know there's no actual true ending, but i heard it was hinted in the other ones that James killed himself. Plus it sounds like a fitting ending to this game. A sad ending to a sad story right?

[jeapawd99]

@MasterCheif248 He dont kill himself. Well, actually, its unknow, but in SH4, we hear that James dissapear with Mary in Silent Hill and nobody see them again.

----

Sorry for my bad english...

Bye!

[MythBusterBob]

@EpicOdysseus

Actually, Konami announced that they decided that ALL endings should be considered in-canon.

This includes the "Dog" ending, of course.

Hehehe...

[fakill911]

this game is soo....... , oh i'm a terrible liar i haven't even played it lool

[StevnFoo3423]

Your not a man untill you play this game in your basement with the lights off.

[LelouchVsGundam]

''Duuuuude! Did something happen to you after we got seperated in that bitchen long hallway?''

''90's Kid?''

[assassinman131]

@LelouchVsGundam i herad that these used to be a sacred place......... GO NINJA GO NINJA GO!!!!!!!!!

[Rallymen007]

this music is just plain simple pure awesome. As much as Silent Hill 2 is a great game.

[Kamownevery1]

who composed this? It's beautiful but kinda creepy to find the song in sh. hehe

[phix95]

@Kamownevery1 Typical Akira Yamaoka...he is the composer. :)

[kingkarson]

KING K WUZ HERE 2011

[TheBombsAhead]

@DxHuman

MACH DE VALCVH FUBT TU BEPATCH

[TheBombsAhead]

11 PEOPLE HAVE NEVER HEARD OF SILENT HILL....

[DxHuman]

@TheBombsAhead get the f outta here, nobody likes your dumb reference to the dislike bar.

[klopsasaurus]

this game

scared the shit

out of me

fuck you camera angles.

[MyGodzilla99]

kinda sounds like they tried to imitate the first silent hill theme

[dinobublz]

Akira Yamaoka = genuis

[leeho98]

If your heart is pure, Silent Hill is a beautiful place.

[TheDanielMarinho]

@leeho98 So true.

[MasterCheif248]

@leeho98

But tell me, who's heart is actually pure? I don't think there's anyone who's actually "pure"....

[leeho98]

@MasterCheif248 There is no debate about that. My comment is a statement, you know what I mean unless you don't speak English. Purity is something unreachable, I talk about the game, let it stick to that. -

[leeho98]

@MasterCheif248 No one, apparently. Me the least; but in the game, a message enrichened by purity as purge is a possible one. See?

[ManowarHeigou]

@leeho98 Seems that way i guess only the pure heart of a child was the only thing that didnt get warped in SH2.

[darkness007666]

@leeho98 And if your heart is twisted, SIlent Hill is HELL ON EARTH!!!

[R1dicul0use]

after listening to this i question myself why the hell am i the only one in my school who even knows what silent hill is in my school while every other middle schooler is obsessed with stupid nazi zombies

[crysisman09]

this should be number 01 its so good! :D

[Anzeeh]

@crysisman09

It's not a ranked list.

[SiriusShaun]

Ooh, that's so awesome.

[tkd184]

Why didn't i get this game while i had a Ps2? >:c

[crysisman09]

its so good themes that are in silent hill series i love them they are so good :D

[ratatatandbooger]

@crysisman09

Silent Hill 1

Silent Hill 2

Silent Hill 3

Silent Hill 4

Silent Hill 5

Silent Hill Shattered Memories have the best themes ever.

[hudsonHwk]

best survival horror

[MasterCheif248]

lol me and my older brother were about to play some Silent Hill 2 the other day. So i got it ready, but then he randomly tackled me. We grappled on the ground for what seemed like 30 minutes, and during that entire time this song was playing because we kept out PS2 on. Strangely this song fit our sparring session quite well.

[ridinhonda4life]

@MasterCheif248 nice i bet it was like a 70s porno with back ground music and all lol

[MrZebub]

When you write down "Theme of.." in the search bar "Theme of Laura" immediately pops out...sweet!

[Rhapthorne3]

nobuo uematsu and akira yamaoka are by far my favorite japanese video game composers. 

[Anonym0109]

@Rhapthorne3 Nobuo is good, but he's not really top 3 for me. My favorites are Yoko Shimomura, Hideyuki Eto, Akira Yamaoka, and then it becomes a brawl for fourth between Nobuo Uematsu, Tsukasa Saito, and Koji Kondo.

[hidalgoalcielo1000]

la mejor cancion de todos los videojuegos de miedo jejeje lo mejor

[SolidSnake3131]

Why is this game SO DISTURBING?

It's amazing how they capture the essence of a human being, warp it into something demonic, and trap it like an animal in a cage. This game is genius.

[itakethesquare]

@SolidSnake3131 fear of blood tends to create fear of the flesh.

psychological horror rules.

[LeonBarmiteous]

@SolidSnake3131

The unknown tends to me much more frightening than the evils we actually know. They implement a lot of mystery in the game, so the first time around it's scary as hell. Then the more research you do, the less it scares you.

Also, the lingering fear of "when" is another psychological aspect they implement, making you jump just from the thought of there being another weird creature waiting to attack.

[LauraDanzig]

yay! this is my favorite version too, I was wondering if I'd find it.

[MobilePissCannon]

"James, honey, did something happen to you? After we got separated in that long hallway? ...Are you confusing me with someone else? You were always so forgetful! Remember that time in the hotel? You said you took everything, but you forgot that videotape we made. I wonder if it's still there..."

[PoisonMatch]

@MobilePissCannon

u forgot ......

Aren't you maria?

[Skibobsmells]

@MobilePissCannon

I just read that, word-for-word, in Maria's voice. DAMMIT.

[icelord89]

@MobilePissCannon ..."But you're Maria..."

[unassumption]

@icelord89

I'm not your Mary, James!

[JamalWings]

@MobilePissCannon Deja vu.



[sapnyosentry]

@MobilePissCannon

he probably dropped it in the toilet.

[reborntheglassbatch]

@MobilePissCannon "I'm not your Mary."

[OWLCITY54]

@MobilePissCannon aren't you Maria?

[ichimotsuwamisenai]

This music just simply talks that you don't need a word in a music. When I hear Yamaoka's musics, I realize how most of the songs on the mainstream are just garbage.

This is what you call a true masterpiece.

[lovelyflower8574]

Well Done Song.

[Traitors1991]

How can anyone possibly dislike this song!?!?!?!

[InfurnusChaotix]

I have great memories with this game...It's a shame I didn't know about it when it came out. *Sigh*

[tzacguitarhero]

I didn't hear this in the game i kept looking for it! Where is it??

[Yungnuty]

@tzacguitarhero

It's in the trailer of the game

Leave it on the menu screen for long enough and it will begin

[Thandran]

My jaw just hit the floor. Such wonderful music... for such a scary game. :o

[TheKrustaceox]

sa

[McKeeverFever1988]

Anytime I hear this song it makes me think that the outlook for the future is bright and my prospects are good, never before has a song evoked these kind of feelings in me and I cant understand why this one does. It is a masterpiece. Its such a beautiful song.

[CleverDjembe]

@McKeeverFever1988

Well said, I must agree with that comment 100%. I've listened to this song, Promise and Love Psalm for hundreds maybe thousands of times on rotation over the past several years because they evoke some indescribable longing or nostalgia within me.

Maybe these songs say something about LIFE... like what life is REALLY all about that can't be said with words..

[violence1234]

8 ppl can't pass first boss of Silent Hill 2

[deavonb]

8 people don't know what good music sounds like!

[imwiththebaka]

Wow. Sounds alot like some songs from Crisis Core.

[Sykmos]

@imwiththebaka

Wrong, songs from Crisis Core sounds a lot like songs from SH2.

[imwiththebaka]

@Sykmos Yeah I Guess Your Right. But its still Awesome.

[Sykmos]

@imwiththebaka

xD

S'all I good. I enjoy both game soundtracks.

[Dinyl1991]

Always loved this composition.. I don't know if its the beautiful counter melody of the violins or the subtly disturbing guitar riffs. Fuckin' masterpiece.

[rainethesage]

James, honey, did... something happen to you? After we got separated in that Long Hallway?

...

*laughs*

You were always SO forgetful. Remember that time in the hotel?

...Maria?

You said you took everything, but you forgot that videotape we made.

...I wonder if it's still there...?

How do you know about that? Aren't you Maria?

[OWLCITY54]

@rainethesage I am not your Mary...

[Rostner]

Legend of Dragoon is such a good game, but it's almost unheard of compared to Final Fantasy.

[JHouseweart]

My favorite part was 0:01 - 3:22. Akira does wonderful work on the series, even if I only ever liked the music from 1,2, and 3.

[PrincessPengy]

Hey, it's mah theme!

[nicholasssk]

Favorite music indeed!!!:-DDD

[technopixie96]

Wow... and i have the same name as this girl.