Me and my friends are huge silent hill fans, getting into all of the symbolism and such. Recently we had beat the first game for the first time. We completed all of the other ones first, i have no idea why, but we did. Anyways, a lot of connections were made after completing the first game. Something that struck us as odd was that SH1 and 3 only have pretty much one protagonist, while in 2 and 4 there are several people that endure the nightmare of silent hill. In 2 Angela asks James if she can finally see the fire around her, like it had been there the whole time and only now could James see it. This shows that some of the nightmarish events in SH2 were part of Angela's mind as well. I guess I am looking for input and interpretation from others on silent hill 2 and 4, main question being what is the characters relationships, and what parts of the nightmare of silent hill belong to who.
Another big question of mine is what does pyramid head represent. I always thought it was James inner torment of killing his wife eating away at him. The hard shell of a head shows that the thought was not allowed to surface, but please respond with yr interpretation i am very interested. But please take these questions seriously.