Pyramid Head creator and original Silent Hill 2 artist Masahiro Ito recently said that the Abstract Daddy boss fight is "much better" in the remake.
If you haven't come face-to-face with this enemy yet, it's the the manifestation of Angela Orosco's sexual trauma from the hands of her father. To encapsulate that imagery, it's depicted as two people stuck in an intimate position on a bed frame, trapped within an outer layer of flesh.
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In the original, the room is an incredibly cramped box, whereas in the remake, it's more open and thus easier to keep your distance. But the standout is the way that the narrative intertwines with the fight in the remake, as we enter veer from apartment corridors to Angela's childhood home, hearing the abuse play out through old TVs as James' world slowly bleeds into her own.
Ito returned to work on the Silent Hill 2 remake, even redesigning the nurses, but the Abstract Daddy has also been subtly updated. It now has a "reddish surface", which Ito...
