Silent Hill 2 (Ex Pt 1): Neo Takes a Now Competent Maria Through Town

Beginning the Sub Scenario of Silent Hill 2, "Born from a Wish", after having completed the main scenario of the game, Neosekken takes control of Maria, the woman who strongly resembles James Sunderland's late wife, as she tries to survive in the monster-infested town of Silent Hill, after finding herself having woken up all alone in the town with seemingly not a human soul in sight.

Deciding to try and search the clearly dangerous town for any survivors besides herself, Maria springs into action and decides to enter the fog-enshrouded streets of the town. Guiding her through the western half of the district of South Vale, gathering any supplies he finds along the way, Neo eventually stumbles on some blood trails that lead to a door that wasn't accessible in the main game. Behind it lies a mansion, and with nowhere else to go Neo takes Maria into said mansion to try and see what can be found there.

Initially the mansion seems to be completely deserted, but after going up to the second floor of the building Neo encounters a man hiding behind the door called Earnest Baldwin, who Maria converses with. He aparently wants to be left alone to his own devices, even when Maria points out to him that the town doesn't have any other people left - only monsters. Not only does Earnest respond to this statement of fact with indifference, he states that the state of the town has nothing to do with him and with no one around there's no one to disturb him. But Earnest then asks Maria how she can say that it's the town that it's insane when it could be that THEY are insane. Afterward, he asks Maria once again to leave him alone, although Maria promises to return.

After this strange encounter, Neo continues to explore the mansion, which turns out to also have some monsters roaming the halls after all, and as he explores he finds that there's locked doors that need to be unlocked, and a puzzle in a strange location that need to be solved...