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Silent Hill 2 Remake: Woodside Apartments Walkthrough

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October 26, 2024

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After entering the town, Woodside Apartments is your next major dungeon area to complete in Silent Hill 2 Remake. It’s filled with key items to collect, puzzles to solve, and lore to understand. Although it’s one of the shorter areas in the game, there is an abundance of tricky puzzles that could halt your progression.

To make your journey towards the end of Silent Hill 2 Remake a lot easier, here’s a complete walkthrough of the Woodside Apartments. The guide is structured in a way to make your journey through the dungeon quicker.

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Woodside Apartments Walkthrough for Silent Hill 2 Remake

Woodside Apartments Key Silent Hill 2 Remake

After solving the Neely’s Bar puzzle and acquiring the Woodside Apartments key from the alley, James will make his way to the Woodside Apartments. After using the key, James will enter the building, marking the start of this dungeon area.

Get the Woodside Apartments Map, the Flashlight, and the Chute Courtyard Key

Approach the lobby ahead and grab the Woodside Apartments map from the bulletin board.
Head inside the reception area, use the save point and uncover the coin puzzle at the back.
Go upstairs and enter the 2F hallway to see an open door to the left with a light coming out of it. Head inside and grab the flashlight from the mannequin.
Fend off the mannequin enemy and grab the Chute Courtyard Key from the drawer behind the Mannequin that had the flashlight.
Now head downstairs back to the lobby.

Find 2F Hallway Key

After getting the key, head down to the main lobby and open the double doors between the reception and janitor’s closet.
Make a note of the trash stuck in the chute, move the cart beside it under the open window to the right, and climb into apartment 112.
Exit the apartment and head down the hallway on the right. You can check out room 109 for some handgun bullets, but prepare to take down a mannequin monster.
Keep heading down the hallway until you reach metal bars blocking your path. Interact with the bars to trigger a cutscene showing James trying to reach for the key, but it’s kicked away by an unknown child.
Turn around and open the door to your right (if facing towards the bars), which will let you cut through the chute courtyard back to the main lobby.
Once you return through the double doors, the door to a hallway on your left will be open now.
Go inside the eastern wing and head into apartment 108.
Here, you’ll spot a wardrobe with golden hands as handles. Interact with them as they’ll drop the Golden Apple Handle.
Exit the apartment and keep heading down the eastern wing until you reach the other side of the metal bars and grab the 2F Hallway Key.

Getting Your First Firearm: The Handgun & Apartment 212 Key

Now head back into the lobby, go upstairs, and open the 2F Hallway door.
Keep going forward until you reach the metal bars and see Pyramid Head staring at James through them. After that, enter apartment 213 on the left.
You’ll see a crack in the wall in this apartment. Squeeze through it to emerge into another part of the hallway.
Go inside apartment 217 to pick up the handgun placed inside a red shopping cart. Look around the room to get handgun ammo.
Exit the room and continue down the hallway until you hear a baby’s scream. Go through the crack and back into apartment 213.
You’ll see a dead body sitting in front of a TV displaying static. Inspecting the body will trigger a cutscene. Grab the apartment 212 key from a round table on the right of the body.

Obtaining the Man Coin

Now exit and enter apartment 212 using the key.
You’ll see an open balcony in the apartment. Use it to cross over to apartment 210.
After dealing with mannequins, exit the apartment and head out into the hallway. Do remember to enter the open balcony on the right when going down the hallway to disengage the emergency stairway, opening a shortcut to return to 1F.
Go inside room 208 at the end of the hallway to the right. Here, you’ll see a similar wardrobe to the one spotted in apartment 108.
Use the Golden Apple Handle on the wardrobe to open it up, exposing a hidden peephole. Go to the left side of the wardrobe and slide it over to reveal a crack in the wall. This will let you enter apartment 206.
The room is covered with scribbles and writing. You’ll need to decipher the text on the walls as it contains a code and enter it into the safe in the middle of the apartment. The code for light puzzle difficulty is 15-11-13 and for others, it’s 13-7-11.
Opening the safe will grant the Man Coin and a Rusted Key. Use the key to exit apartment 206.

Obtaining the Snake Coin

Head into room 205 next door and find the 2F Small Staircase Key on a chair in the middle of the room.
Now go back into the hallway and unlock the plastic-wrapped door to the 2F staircase.
Use the safe point if needed and descend the stairs to reach 1F.
First, go forward and unlock the door to the Chute Courtyard. Now, come back towards the staircase door, go into the left hallway, and enter apartment 116 on the left.
You’ll hear vomiting sounds coming from the bathroom. Upon investigation, you’ll find Eddy barfing into the toilet. After the interaction, jump through the window and enter the pool area.
There are several lying figures here. You can either evade them or take them down one after another. The goal here is to take the Snake Coin from the baby stroller in the middle of the pool.

Obtaining the Woman Coin

Head back to the small staircase and go to the third floor.
After exiting the staircase, head left into the hallway and go through a crack in the wall to enter apartment 311.
You’ll see another opening in the wall here that should take you to apartment 309 and then pass through another crack in the wall to enter apartment 310.
There’s a balcony in this room. Use it to cross over to apartment 312. Here you’ll find a small vent in the corner of the room, crawl through it to enter a laundry room.
Pick up the crate of the Canned Juice and send it down to the garbage disposal. This triggers a cutscene as you’ll see the Woman’s Coin dislodging from the trash and dropping into the Chute Courtyard.
Backtrack your way to the small staircase and head down to 1F and into the Chute Courtyard. Pick up the Woman Coin and go to the coin puzzle in the reception area.

Completing Woodside Apartments in Silent Hill 2 Remake

Now all you need to do is solve the Coin Puzzle in Woodside Apartments. After following the story and placing the coins right, it’ll give you the Apartment 201 key. Head up the stairs and into apartment 201. Investigate the apartment, and interact with a certain item to trigger a rather interesting encounter with Pyramid Head.

After the cutscene, James will be able to exit the Woodside Apartments through a red door and cross over to the Blue Creek Apartments in Silent Hill 2 Remake.