How to solve the Silent Hill 2 Remake music box puzzle
Oct. 11, 2024The music box puzzle in the hotel lobby requires 3 princess figurines
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The Silent Hill 2 Remake music box puzzle in the lobby of LakeView Hotel is the last of the game’s larger puzzles that acts as the central point of an area. Like theSilent Hill 2 Remake rotating cube puzzle, the music box is your main focus throughout your time in the hotel, with numerous puzzles you’ll complete towards the larger goal of solving the box itself.
Your overall goal is to find three princess figurines, of Snow White, Cinderella and the Little Mermaid respectively. Once you find them all, you can install them in the music box, and solve it by winding the different mechanisms just the right amount, using the clues of the poem below - but we get ahead of ourselves. Here’s how you solve the music box puzzle in Silent Hill 2 Remake, and find all the princess figurines in the hotel.
How to solve the Music Box puzzle in Silent Hill 2 Remake
The music box in Silent Hill 2 Remake is solved through the following process:
I’ll cover each of these stages in more detail below, but again - keep in mind that this will be a long process. The different princesses are spread around the hotel and you’ll have to do a lot to find them, but keep in mind that you’re in the final stretch of theSilent Hill 2 Remakenow - this is the last major area of the game…
The ornamental key that opens the music box is foundin the “Check” reception areajust Southeast of the music box itself. You’ll find it under the counter, bundled with the key to room 312. Bring it over to the music box and you’ll be able to open it properly.
There are three princess figurines you need to find across the hotel, but each of them is locked behind a series of puzzles and obstacles. Here’s where to find them all, and what you need to do to reach them - wealso recommend doing them in the order we’ve written them out in.
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After you bring back all the figurines and install them, you’ll have the option torotate the circular sections to control the paths the figurines move along.We’ve got the correct layout on the image above; the goal is to make sure that each of the princesses can reach one of the doors, all at the same time.
After that, you need to turn the three keys below to wind up the motion for each of the princesses. They innately move at different speeds, which changes how much you need to wind up the keys for each of them - they all need to go through the doors at the same moment that they open to receive them.
The solution is:
This isn’t something you guess randomly - each poem mentions several numbers, but only a certain number is mentionedpositively.“Seven kindly souls opened up the door” for Snow White, “The love of five would bring her back home” for the Mermaid, and “Leaving one behind, she has found a way” for Cinderella. Turn the keys accordingly, and the three princesses will traverse the music box and enter the doors at the right moment.
Complete this, and the Music Box will give you the3F Corridor Key,which will finally allow you to access the other half of the Hotel’s highest floor. I’m sure there’s only good things in there.
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