The Red Square is a reoccurring symbolic object that appears in several Silent Hill games. It is not clearly known what significance it has.
Silent Hill 2
The save point texture.
In Silent Hill 2, Red Square appears as the Save Points and may symbolize Mary's letter. It appears as a red shiny sheet of crumpled paper. It shines like it was dipped in water or blood. It is attached to walls and other vertical surfaces.
Unlike in the first game, it seems that protagonist James Sunderland doesn't have to physically contact the save point to activate it as it is firstly seen in the well far from James's reach.
Red Squares can also be seen attached to the faces of Bubble Head Nurses in Brookhaven Hospital.
In the labyrinth, the faces of the criminals are also covered with sheets on which the names of their crimes are written.
Silent Hill 3
Red Square in the Otherworld Hilltop Center
In Silent Hill 3, red squares appear in the Otherworld. Four red squares appear in Hilltop Center above the hanging body in the room where the shift to the Otherworld occurred and later in the upper part of the cage construction behind the Gallery of Fine Arts. They appear to be made of textile this time. Square sheets with the images of ears and screaming mouths also appear there.
Square sheets are also attached to the back side of most wheelchairs that Heather encounters in the Otherworld.
Silent Hill 4: The Room
The red letter.
In the fourth game, Henry Townshend receives red letters that are sent to him by Joseph Schreiber. Their text can't be read in Walter's Otherworlds so they appear there as blank sheets of red paper.
Henry uses the red notebook as the save point.
Trivia
- Rectangular tablets symbolizing characters are used for atonment for their sins in Toluca Prison in Silent Hill 2.
- Red Squares can also be seen covering faces of the nurses in Silent Hill 3.
- Square cages with red curtains appear in otherworld Hospital and Church.
- Four rectangular plates that symbolize murdered victims are used to open the hole in the Room 302 in Silent Hill 4.
- Red squares also appear in the psychedelic video Ki-No-Ko. They are seen flying on the streets and sliding on the walls.
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