Red Square

Red Square is a reccuring 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 and then after paper became sticky attached to walls and other vertical surfaces where it often can be seen.

Unlike in the first game it seems that protagonist James Sunderland doesn't have to physicaly 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 apperar in Hilltop Center above the hanging body in the room where shift to the otherworld occured 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 also attached to the back side of most of wheelchairs that Heather encounters in the otherworld.

Silent Hill 4: The Room

The red letter.

In the fourth game, Henry Townshend recieves red letters that are sent him by Joseph Schreiber. Their text can't be read in Walter's Otherworlds so they appear there as blank sheets of red paper.

Also the protagonist 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 pshychedelic video Ki-No-Ko. They are seen flying on the streets and sliding on the walls.

Gallery

Red Square in the well.

In Silent Hill 2 Red Square has glossy surface.

Bubble Head Nurse face.

James finds Tablet of "Gluttonous Pig".

Criminal's face is covered with a sheet.

Red squares hanging above the body.

Square image of the mouth covers corpse's head.

Nurse face in Silent Hill 3.

Wheelchair in the Otherworld.

Red Squares in Ki-No-Ko.