Silent Hill f endings – We explain each of the survival horror triumph’s final scenes

✓ VideoGamer Summary

• Silent Hill f has a total of five endings.
• Most endings require you to complete a playthrough on New Game+.
• The endings build on each other to give you the full story of Silent Hill f.
• Identity and fate serve as recurring themes throughout the endings.
• The fifth ending continues a long-running joke present throughout the franchise.

Like most Silent Hill games, Silent Hill f has multiple endings. There are a total of five endings you can see. Four of them are serious endings that give you real context about protagonist Hinako’s fate. The fifth, however, continues a long-standing joke in the Silent Hill series.

Since all endings will be discussed here, there will be extensive spoilers for the entirety of Silent Hill f from this point on. If you don’t want to be spoiled about events that happen throughout the game, we advise turning back here. This is especially risky here, since the four main endings are all connected and build on each other to give you the full story of Hinako.

Understanding the default ending: Coming Home to Roost

This ending is what you’ll always see when you finish your first playthrough. It gives you a lot of important information, even if it feels rather unsatisfying when you see it for the first time. You witness Hinako facing Junko in the shrine. Junko then questions her when Hinako is shown taking the red capsules you’ve used as healing items since the start of the game. It turns out Hinako is taking too many pills, and she’s experiencing side effects as a result.

The scene switches to show evidence from a crime scene, with dialogue from police being played as you learn they’re searching for Hinako. 

We then learn that Hinako is a woman in her early twenties who was high on red capsules during her own wedding, sold off by her parents for the sake of paying their debts. This led her to kill at least two guests before leaving the scene while still wearing her wedding dress. 

While you get some answers about Hinako, this Silent Hill f ending leaves you with a lot of unanswered questions. What are the red capsules in the first place? Does our protagonist escape the police? There are plenty of loose threads here, but thanks to the other three endings, we are in a position to begin unravelling them. 

The Fox’s Wedding is Hinako’s worst ending

Hinako and Kotoyuki get married. This is presented as a hopeful ending, since Kotoyuki and Shu come to an agreement regarding Hinako marrying Kotoyuki as Shu gives up on pursuing Hinako. The wedding itself isn’t shown, but the scene immediately after this trio comes to an agreement is especially sinister. 

Players who have paid attention throughout Silent Hill f will know that getting married is the worst possible ending from Hinako’s perspective. She’s terrified of losing her own identity and becoming a faceless wife, which is how she sees her mother and Junko, whose face is always crossed out or covered. Hinako sees how unhappy her mother is, and she sees Junko go from her sister to a wife she doesn’t recognize.

That’s why the second scene of this ending is so important. The camera is focused low, so you don’t see Hinako’s face until it’s spotted on the ground later. Kotoyuki comes to take Hinako in from the rain, and she goes with him without arguing. However, you can hear her thoughts objecting to this version of herself. She’s become a wife without her own identity, the very thing she didn’t want. There’s a piece of herself tucked inside her mind, trying to object to this life, albeit unsuccessfully.

Hinako maintains her independence in The Fox Wets Its Tail ending

In this ending, Hinako goes against Kotoyuki and defeats him as the final boss. Then, you see her running through Ebisugaoka with Shu, who she thanks for giving her the courage to face Kotoyuki and stick to her desires instead of the path that her family tried to force her to take. She has the freedom now to leave and decide what she wants to do next, rather than becoming a bride and losing her identity (as she saw happen to Junko).

Unfortunately, it seems like Kotoyuki and his clan offered some kind of protection to Ebisugaoka. Now that he’s dead, the people of the village have to evacuate as geysers that were previously dormant become active again. 

Of all the Silent Hill f endings, this is one of the more positive offerings; Hinako highly values her identity and independence, and she’s able to keep both intact. It comes at the cost of her hometown. However, these events let her sever her ties to a place that tried to control her, letting her start on her own path in a new home.

Ebisugaoka in Silence is considered the true ending

In this ending, you learn that Hinako is a rare human child born with divine power. Whenever such a child is born, the heir of the Fox Clan is cursed with the desire to make her his wife. This adds a lot of context to the entire game and explains why Kotoyuki is so determined to help Hinako and keep her by his side. Instead of accepting this as her fate, Hinako and Fox Hinako go against the gods and win, removing the curse from Kotoyuki. At the same time, this removal of the curse opens up the chance for Hinako to decide her own future.

Here, Silent Hill f ends with Hinako and Fox Hinako roaming Ebisugaoka after saying goodbye to Kotoyuki, who has gone on his own journey to discover if his feelings for Hinako are genuine or a result of the curse put on him. 

Fox Hinako expresses a desire to propose to Kotoyuki when he returns. Meanwhile, Hinako says that she wants to find something that fills her with passion, but doesn’t know what that might be yet. The end gives you hope that both versions of Hinako will get the chance to live the way they want to instead of having their lives decided for them.

The Great Space Invasion is a joke ending

Like other UFO endings in the series, Silent Hill f’s UFO ending isn’t meant to be taken seriously. Hinako, Shu, and Rinko jokingly come up with the theory that UFOs are why Ebisugaoka is now so empty. Sakuko shows up with a robot she says can detect aliens, and the trio tries to prove they’re human. Shu’s attempt to prove he’s a human doesn’t go well, and he gets beaten up.

Shu ends up as the common enemy, and Hinako’s parents call her home, saying that the UFOs have been chased off. As the characters head home, you see a UFO with a dog piloting it. As you may have guessed, this is definitely not meant to be seen as a legitimate ending for Silent Hill f.

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