Having recently parted ways with Pipsqueak (Laura) once again, Neo decides to continue exploring the Lakeview Hotel. In the hotel lobby resides a large music box with 3 empty slots for additional music boxes based on three fairy tale characters: Cin…
Having recently parted ways with Pipsqueak (Laura) once again, Neo decides to continue exploring the Lakeview Hotel. In the hotel lobby resides a large music box with 3 empty slots for additional music boxes based on three fairy tale characters: Cinderella, Snow White, and the Little Mermaid. Having already found one of the three boxes outside the hotel before entering the building proper in the last episode, Neo is already a third of the way through this latest puzzle and only needs to find the other two boxes that are located somewhere inside the hotel. With a clear objective in mind, Neo searches every nook and cranny of the hotel that he can access, unlocking more rooms and pathways as time passes, all the while trying to stay alive with the minimum amount of healing items he has left in his inventory.
While exploring the building, Neo eventually finds the video tape that James made of his and Wife-Fu's (Mary) vacation - the same tape that Maria had told James about back in the labyrinth. However, with no TV and VCR to play it on, Neo has no choice but to keep exploring the building. However, it is some time after finding this video tape that Neo finishes acquiring the other two music boxes he needs to put in the large music box in the hotel lobby, and upon doing so he immediately goes back to the lobby and inserts the remaining boxes in the empty slots where they belong, and plays the large music box. With the large music box having all it's missing pieces returned to it, Neo is awared a key that opens the stairway gate leading to the floor containing room 302 - the same room where James and Wife-Fu stayed at during their vacation at Silent Hill.
Going to room 302, Neo finds the room deserted, but in it he finds a working television and VCR. With the video tape he recently acquired, Neo has James put the tape into the VCR, and watches the tape's contents. In the tape, Neo and James uncover a terrible truth about James & Mary that paints James' entire journey throughout Silent Hill in a very different, very dark light...
After viewing the video tape, Pipsqueak shows up again and asks James to continue looking for Wife-Fu with her. It is then that James tells her the truth he's recently been forced to face in the video tape, which makes Pipsqueak lash out at him before eventually leaving James along in room 302. Shortly after this exchange, however, James hears what appears to be the voice of Wife-Fu calling for him to come to her, and as soon as Neo leaves room 302 he discovers that the hotel has gone under a radical transformation.
With the revelation provided by the video tape in the forefront of Neo and James' minds, Neo moves James throughout the altered Lakeview Hotel, guiding him on the path leading to his ultimate destiny...
