Talk:Shotgun

Is the shotgun's location in Silent Hill 2 a bit of social commentary?
If the SH2's handgun's placement in a shopping cart is a "satire of guns in American society," then is the location of SH2's shotgun also a bit of satire? It's located in a locker in Brookhaven's "Women's Locker Room." You also learn in SH3 that "The Chief is a pervert!" who arbitrarily confines nurses in the "Special Treatment Room." Was the placement of SH2's shotgun then a satire on workplace shootings? Why else would anyone smuggle it into a mental hospital?

Team Silent could have made this less of a satire in my opinion if, instead, they put SH2's shotgun near the corpse you can find near the broken of Nathan Ave. heading Northwest, since James finds several items near corpses in the game. Putting SH2's shotgun there would also give players a good reason to visit that far-flung part of the game, since many players in video walkthroughs I've seen don't bother with following Maria's "the Hotel's not that way, it's this way" advice and just head straight to Pete's Bowl-O-Rama without getting the prompt from the Nathan Ave. corpse's map that it's a place they should go to. Locking the door of the Bowling Alley until the corpse's map is found would also have helped point the players towards the broken part of Nathan Ave. and the shotgun. I guess even Team Silent can't think of everything. Mazryonh (talk) 21:55, July 20, 2014 (UTC)