Silent Hill 2 Remake: How to choose the innocent convict in Toluca prison? Silent Hill 2 Remake guide, walkthrough
Toluca Prison in Silent Hill 2 Remake ends with a puzzle on the gallows. On this page of the guide we described how to choose an innocent convict.
Last update: 23 October 2024
Toluca prison in Silent Hill 2 Remake ends with a gallows puzzle. You will be given the stories of six convicts and you must choose the only one who was wrongly convicted. The puzzle can be quite unintuitive, which is not helped by the fact that the convicts' stories are randomly selected during each playthrough. On this page of the guide we have described how to choose the innocent convict.
Each puzzle in the game has three variants depending on the chosen level of puzzle difficulty. You choose it at the beginning of the game and you cannot change it later. The puzzle below was solved on the recommended, normal difficulty level.
About the puzzle
The puzzle takes place in the yard of the Toluca prison, after obtaining the execution lever. On the gallows there are six nooses marked with Roman numbers. There are six poems on the stone tablet describing the crimes committed by the convicts hanged on nooses.
At the beginning, only the first halves of the poems are on the board, describing the committed crimes. Below are plaques with the second halves of lines, describing motives. You must match the motives to the crime and pull the noose on which the only wrongly convicted prisoner was hanging. The puzzle is complicated by the fact that each player will encounter different lines, meaning the innocent convict will have a different number - they are chosen randomly during each playthrough.
How to match a motive to a crime?
To properly match the motive to the crime, you must pay attention to the rhyme structure and context clues. Choose the motive that best fits the crime - for example, the motive of a burglar would be greed. The rhyme structure must also remain the same in both halves of the poem. If the rhyme was every other line in the first half, the second half must operate on identical principles.
How to choose the innocent convict?
Choosing an innocent convict can be challenging, as you will be dealing with several sympathetic convicts. In our case, the candidates were the second and third convicts - convicted for stealing a loaf of bread to avoid starving to death and for kidnapping their own child to save them from the cruel wife.
The identity of the innocent convict ultimately lies in the details - choose a convict who expresses remorse in the poem, committed the crime in self-defense or in defense of someone else. In our case, the second convict did not express remorse for stealing the bread, but the third convict apologized to the child for his actions and for not taking it from his wife earlier. So the innocent convict was the convict number three - pulling the noose marked with the Roman number 3 solved the puzzle and allowed us to move on to the final rooms of the prison.