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Yeah but what does this have to do with the bandages? Sorry I don't quite understand the connection...

Well, the nurses that Harry sees are supposedly insane, half-dead mindless creatues, right? Maybe Alessa didn't want to see Lisa end up that way, because she and Lisa shared a special "bond" if you will.
Alessa apparently didn't like the other nurses, and didn't care for their fate. Maybe she was "sick of the sight of them", if you get what I mean? So she bandaged their faces to try and block them out somewhat.

Yeah I noticed that too, do you think he thought this was what he wanted so he ended up imagining her only to realize he didn't?

Do you mean that he wanted Maria to need him like Mary did? To try to somehow make it up to Mary if he looked after Maria? It's possible. But you're right. James didn't want that in the end. I think he exaggerated Mary's feelings of neediness; so much so that Maria turned out to be such a troubled mess who pouted and sulked to get her own way and to get protected from the monsters by a reluctant James. James realised Mary wasn't like that at all and then pined and needed for his love; therefore realising Maria was the last thing he wanted. That he had created a horrible monster (Maria) out of his exaggerations.

I've seen this happen before, people need something to re-assure their sanity, she was still in love with him right to the end and because of what happened I felt she was confused to what James felt.

I agree. James loved his wife passionately and vise versa, but I think whenever he saw her so ill and weak, he knew her life was drawing to an end; breaking his heart to even look at her. I think that's partly why he stopped going to see her. I feel he deeply dreaded her home visit, because he knew she was going to die inside their marital home. (Which, I'm assuming, apart from Silent Hill, held many fond and loving memories for the couple.)

It is quite a sad thing to happen but it understandable imo. It doesn't really show if he lived his life or not but I assume their relationship was something special henceforth he couldn't bare the pain of losing her so he imagined she died 3 years ago trying to say he had dealt with it but then he realized that even 3 years down the track he will still miss her.

Yeah. I think James also felt life grated on slowly and painfully without her, and so it felt like three years rather than two or three weeks. James' feelings only worsened after her death. They didn't heal up or go away; he loved her more and more and so he only had hell to pay. He lived in a nightmare after her death.

Didn't check but thanks for clearing that up.

I don't recall seeing it either, but many Silent Hill fans claim it to be true, so I assume they're telling the truth.

Yeah, near the end it looked as if he was out to set things right.

Yep! Hence why the last boss was...

Spoiler: Maria in Mary's clothing.

Think about it. James, either readily knew, or sub-consciously knew, that Maria was all just...

Spoiler: A figment of his imagination,

and he saw Maria in Mary's clothing, indicating that Maria's provocative appearence and body language was unwanted. Mary was a very conservative dresser, and she was only ever intimate with James. James didn't want anyone else, so he set things right by...

Spoiler: Either sucumbing to his imagination and imagining Mary instead of Maria, or killing his imagination.

(I hope that made sense.)

This is the one I got, it goes kind of hand in hand as throughout the end of the game he realizes what has happened and perhaps even sees that she felt like a burden.

Yeah. See, Mary felt like a burden because James wasn't visiting her. She felt "if he doesn't come to see me, I must be troubling him... he must want nothing to do with me, blah blah blah, other negative feelings". If you get what I mean? I understand how Mary felt, though. Her life was ending. And her lover wasn't even by her side through her pain and suffering... it's heart breaking and painful. I really feel for Mary.

If the first one happened I feel it would of made the ending quite pointless to himself.

Desperation, maybe? Needing, wanting his wife. Perhaps leading himself to thinking that letter was actually a real letter and not an empty slip of paper...

If the second happened I wouldn't blame him but I wouldn't consider himself to be the type to do it, but as the game goes on I don't think he would fear death.

Remember in the hotel? Angela begged James to give her knife back and he wouldn't let her have it. I feel on a personal level, he wanted to use it for himself. Think about it; Angela says "you're going to use it on yourself aren't you?" James hesitates and replies that he isn't the type to committ suicide. But he definately has a faraway tone in his voice. He is running through the suicidal possibilities. A death. Free of pain at last. He dreams and fantasizes about it even.

Those three endings are all possiblie endings in the game, apparently, so... yeah...

Man did I run off-topic. If you want to continue this chat in Wish House, though, I'd be more than happy to. After all, it's a healthy discussion, and others adding in their opinions and feelings is an amazing thing.