[Walkthrough]Silent Hill: The Short Message PS5 Ray Tracing part 2 Ending
0Playstation 5, No Commentary Gameplay
Silent Hill: The Short Message is a 2024 survival horror game co-developed by Konami Digital Entertainment and HexaDrive and published by Konami. The game was announced and released for PlayStation 5 on 31 January 2024
Silent Hill: The Short Message is set in the fictional economically depressed town of Kettenstadt, Germany, rather than the eponymous town of Silent Hill. The game takes place within an abandoned apartment complex called the "Villa", a popular graffiti hot spot and infamous suicide spot among teenage girls.
A young woman named Anita receives a message from her friend and Internet-famous graffiti artist Maya, known online as C.B. (Cherry Blossoms), to meet in the Villa, and upon entering, she follows a trail of Maya's artworks throughout the building. During her search, she has flashbacks regarding the online harassment she experienced while trying to be as popular online as Maya. Over the course of the game, she is chased by a monster which is covered by blooming cherry blossoms. Despite attempting to contact Maya over text, she receives no response.
She receives a call from her friend Amelie, who reminds Anita that Maya is already dead, having jumped off the roof of the Villa some time ago. Anita is shocked she would forget something so important and wonders who is texting her using Maya's name. She winds up on the roof and discovers Maya's final art piece. Jealous of the number of followers Maya has, Anita decides to leap off the roof in an attempt to emulate her.
However, instead of dying, she awakens back inside the Villa where she started. Maya messages Anita, telling her that neither of them can leave until Anita finds "it". Anita is forced to explore the Villa again, which is in a more dilapidated state with Maya's artworks vandalized. For a period, she relives memories of Maya being bullied at school, before returning at the Villa. Anita finds an artwork of Maya's she had never seen before, one depicting Amelie. Anita recalls how Maya was always much closer to Amelie than her, and that she felt ignored by Maya. Continuing on, Anita is in her school library where she learns about how Kettenstadt was supposedly cursed by a Japanese witch after her death.
Anita finds a letter written by Maya begging Amelie for help, and recalls that she purposely withheld the letter from Amelie due to her jealousy over Maya's close friendship with her, which she believes led to Maya's suicide. Her journey leads her back to the roof, where she admits her guilt regarding Maya's death to Amelie over the phone, before jumping off the roof a second time.
Anita awakens back in the Villa. Exploring the building once again, Anita is in her old family home, and recalls how her mother both neglected and abused her and her younger brother by locking them in the closet. This culminated in Anita's brother dying while locked up, and her mother attempting to hide his body in the refrigerator before Anita escaped and reported her to the police. She discovers that Maya was planning to make an artwork depicting her as well, meaning Maya had not been ignoring her. The monster chases Anita for a final time again before she finds herself back on the roof and again apologizes to Amelie for not realizing how much both she and Maya valued their friendship with her. Anita considers jumping off the roof, but stops herself at the last second which dispels the fog surrounding the Villa, returning Anita to reality.
Sometime later, a social media post by Amelie indicates that both she and Anita have left Kettenstadt for college to start new lives.