10 Obscure Video Game Endings You've Never Seen
6. The Dog & UFO Endings - Silent Hill 1 & 2
The first two Silent Hill games each shipped with a number of different endings depending on your performance throughout, though each also featured surreal "joke" endings for committed players to discover.
In the original game, players needed to have unlocked the happiest ending, which will then make the Channeling Stone available to them. The stone then needs to be used in five specific locations, finally at the top of the lighthouse, triggering the bats**t UFO ending.
This ending sees UFOs land in front of protagonist Harry, and after asking if they know his daughter's whereabouts, he's kidnapped by the aliens, taken to their spaceship, and flown away from Earth.
And yet Konami somehow found a way to out-weird this for Silent Hill 2, where players can unlock the infamous dog ending by having all three normal endings on the same save file, or having attained the rebirth ending.
Upon starting a new game, players will be able access a doghouse near Rosewater Park, which will give them a dog key. This key can be used to access the Observation Room in the Otherworld version of the Lakeview Hotel after watching the videotape in Room 312.
Opening the door will trigger a brief but unhinged ending in which protagonist James learns that a dog was behind the game's events all along, and has been calling the shots from a high-tech control room. Cue a goofy end credits sequence set to a ridiculous song full of dog barks. Yup.
Silent Hill 2 also has its own riff on the UFO ending, for players who use the Channeling Stone (or Blue Gem as it's called in this game) in three distinct locations.
This will trigger an ending where James is met by Harry and the aliens from the original game's UFO ending, and after asking about his wife's Mary's whereabouts, he gets abducted just as Harry was.
There's obscurity and then there's... whatever the hell this is.