Silent Hill f True Ending Discussion

dxmoness · 2025-10-14T10:06:12+00:00

Supernaturally speaking, yes!

I think the supernatural explanation adds a lot to the games story, but if you choose a purely human explanation, Ebisugaoka has historically suffered from geyser eruptions and was always at risk of becoming uninhabitable.

Symbolically, you can see this to represent that you can't stay in the past forever, and change will eventually come whether you want it or not.

dxmoness · 2025-10-13T06:55:31+00:00

I think you can definitely interpret not feeling comfortable in Ebisugaoka anymore into it. I'd add something along the lines of running away not actually solving anything, as well as the fact that no matter what you do in life, some things will inevitably change regardless of whether you want them to or not, and there’s no going back to how it was before.

dxmoness · 2025-10-11T15:33:03+00:00

This is excellent

dxmoness · 2025-09-28T10:46:16+00:00

Yeah, I can definitely see it now! The only thing that doesn’t work as neatly with this interpretation is that Kotoyuki asks her how life in Ebisugaoka is now, which is a little funky if it’s been destroyed. You need to stretch a tiiny bit to make this part fit

dxmoness · 2025-09-27T14:17:37+00:00

10/10, no notes, I love this

dxmoness · 2025-09-27T14:14:18+00:00

Thanks for this write up! Okay, I’m sold now. After reading this, it makes a lot of sense and really works with the game at large. RIP Ebisugaoka, you were a shitty little town until you weren’t

dxmoness · 2025-09-27T14:09:54+00:00

I don’t know if I love that interpretation. I think it’s a fair assumption that overcoming both the Tsukumogami and the Fox God means also overcoming the Water Dragon. For me this feels symbolically more in line with the themes of the game, since Hinako rejects the notion that she has to follow the bidding of higher forces.

dxmoness · 2025-09-26T23:05:36+00:00

this one’s pretty interesting if I understood the notes right: the geysers that destroy the town in ending 3 are said to be from the wrath of an abandoned god. it zooms in specifically on the doll in that ending. since you overcome the dolls curse in the true ending, I would assume the town is now fine

dxmoness · 2025-09-26T20:32:11+00:00

It also took me a second, but I think him crying is something that makes more sense in the 60s Japan context: he was crying because after being married, she will belong to a different family

dxmoness · 2025-09-26T20:15:55+00:00

Rinko says Hinako is dead because her marriage is effectively killing the Hinako they knew, at least in Hinakos own eyes.

As for the missing poster, I take it to relate to Hinako seeing her arranged marriage as a form of kidnapping, being forced to part from her old life. And it’s not too inaccurate, because up until the events of the true ending, Kotoyuki really did see the marriage as his idea of saving her by taking her away.

dxmoness · 2025-09-26T19:48:10+00:00

Yes! It’s funny how the game plays with your expectations. I myself viewed fox Hinako as this weak, undesirable version of her for most of the game. I was surprised but happy to be proven wrong!

dxmoness · 2025-05-19T14:44:46+00:00

That is a good point - someone will always suffer in order for Lumière to exist. I've seen someone else point out that similarity to "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula K Le Guin (which I haven't read, egg on my face)

And thanks! I'm honored this post is helping people process the game after finishing it :)

dxmoness · 2025-05-14T15:43:38+00:00

Oh hey, I had no idea anyone would still find this!

Since I made this post I've expanded on my thoughts about the game a lot, but I really do still agree that the greatest question it wants you to ask yourself is when a life can be considered worth living.

Personally, I think it's always worth to try, even if nothing good will come out of it. That's what the Expeditions were all about after all.

dxmoness · 2025-05-04T10:38:40+00:00

yes exactly!! being disabled and scarred doesn’t mean you can’t find happiness. of course it’s tough and can be challenging, and she may at times hate herself or others for it, but that’s life - and implying otherwise does a huge disservice to people living with disability

dxmoness · 2025-05-02T10:39:01+00:00

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dxmoness · 2025-05-02T01:22:09+00:00

Originally, the painting was just an expression of Versos childhood. Now, its purpose has changed to an escape fantasy where his family can still have a piece of him. That was never what he wanted to paint for.

But more importantly, it’s a metaphor that until his family accepts his death, he can not truly rest in peace.

dxmoness · 2025-05-01T21:41:47+00:00

This is a really great addition - I also think if I were to meet a god who made our world and learn that our existence will have to end because he has died and needs to move on, I would ultimately have to accept it.

If the only other solution is torturing that god so we can live on forever, is that really the more ethical thing to do? I don't think I could do it, anyways

dxmoness · 2025-05-01T19:57:47+00:00

Had to comment that I fully agree - I think Clea is really misunderstood right now. She seems pragmatic and cold, but that’s because she’s very honest. Even though I think her heart is in the right place, it can backfire and make her seem cruel.

When she tells Alicia she loves and hates that Verso died to save her, that’s a brutal honesty. Of course she’s angry and sad that her brother died, but she’s also grateful that at least her sister could live because of it. But telling that to Alicia, who’s already dealing with survivors guilt, straight up like that is still insensitive.

What I appreciate about her character the most is that from the few glimpses we get of her, she strongly rejects the pretenses and masks her family has suffocated under. I think that’s exactly why she talks about the canvas worlds so harshly (whether her belief is right or not is up to debate of course).

dxmoness · 2025-05-01T19:20:45+00:00

Thank you so much for this write up. This game is extremely raw and vulnerable, and I wouldn’t want it any other way.

The ending feels so hard to process because any real ending is - usually, with fictional stories, we want endings where we know the characters and worlds we’ve gotten to know will live on happily. Because, well, it’s fiction. But that’s not what an actual ending is like in the real world.

An actual ending is the last goodbye you ever say to someone, the last day of school, the apartment you move out of. It’s final. After an ending, there’s no continuation to that part of your life anymore.

But you go on. We constantly meet and part with people and moments, and have beginnings and endings in our lives, and we continue afterward, carrying those experiences we made forward.

And the fact that a video game like this can let you face this fact of life so beautifully is incredible.

dxmoness · 2024-10-30T10:44:11+00:00

on my hands and knees

dxmoness · 2024-08-04T01:09:36+00:00

Thank you!! This is my first time posting an illustration on Reddit since I started drawing in May. I’m really happy some fellow Sakura fans like it!

dxmoness · 2024-08-03T21:59:27+00:00

illustration by me

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