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Polish developer Bloober Team has blown expectations away with Silent Hill 2 Remake, delivering an amazing retelling of one of gaming’s best stories. However, the game shipped with a very different version of the iconic “Dog Ending” that was made more faithful on launch.
Silent Hill 2 Remake had two Dog Endings
In the original Silent Hill 2, players can find a Dog Key that unlocks a door in the Lakeview Hotel. This key leads to a joke ending showing an adorable Shiba Inu named Mira as the mastermind behind the events of the game, puppetting every event up to that point.
Mira the Shiba has appeared in other Silent Hill games as well. The cute pup has featured in Silent Hill: Origins, Shattered Memories, Book of Memories and even as a playable character in the mobile game Silent Hill: The Escape.
Of course, Mira makes her return in Bloober Team’s Silent Hill 2 Remake. In the current version of the game, the Shiba Inu’s scene is mostly the same as it is in the original version, albeit with moodier lighting and a bit more of a horror twist, although it does end with the hilarious bark-sung music.
However, as YouTuber TheKempy points out, the version of the Dog Ending included in the on-disc 1.00 version of Bloober Team’s remake is very different, and longer.
In this version, James Sunderland goes to shoot Mira the Shiba, but the clever dog presses buttons on their computer to force the depressed protagonist into a T-Pose before making them shift through different character models including Pyramid Head, Maria, Eddie and more. Have a look below:
Why was this changed?
According to datamined information from the PS5 disc, the Dog Ending in the launch version of Silent Hill 2 Remake was around six months old by the time of release.
With Bloober Team aiming to make the remake of Konami’s PS2 classic as faithful as possible, the team may have decided to make more of a shot-for-shot remake of the Dog Ending before launch.
Nevertheless, Bloober’s version of the scene in the current version of the game is still different from the original. It’s darker, moodier and has a much different vibe, but it’s just as funny.
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