Pyramid Head gets an origin story in Silent Hill 2, according to Best Buy listing

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Silent Hill‘s Pyramid Head is, without a doubt, the franchise’s most infamous and mysterious creature. The strange pointy-headed revenant may end up being explained away in Bloober Team’s remake of Silent Hill 2, however, if Best Buy’s store listing is anything to go by.

As spotted by Twitter user bobvids, Best Buy’s Silent Hill 2 remake store page claims that the “fan favourite character, Pyramid Head, makes a return along with a special origin story for fans to play through.” Obviously, a mere store listing isn’t going to go into any meaningful depth on the nitty-gritty of its claims, but this was more than enough to worry Silent Hill fans such as bobvids himself.

apparently the best buy listing for the silent hill 2 remake says there will be a playable “origin story” for someone. this is hopefully ‘born from a wish’, but the way it’s worded makes it sound like pyramid head will be given an origin story and uhhhhh lol pic.twitter.com/vab92VQooF

Franchises such as Silent Hill live and die by their mysteries and lore, and Pyramid Head has become a crucial aspect of Konami’s flagship horror IP. Even though the original designer of the creature, Masahiro Ito, has come to seemingly despise the monster, it’s clear that it’s not going anywhere anytime soon, and the implication that it’s getting an origin story all of its own isn’t necessarily good news.

That being what it is, Best Buy’s store page could certainly be interpreted in several different ways. For one, it might not even be Pyramid Head that’s getting an origin story all of its own here. The way the text is written could be taken to mean that the monster would simply be an integral part of some other character’s origin story. Furthermore, as bobvids himself pointed