Pyramid Head Runs Away (9/12/09)

Um...so, I borrowed a copy of Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams from my friend as I'd never gotten the chance to familiarize myself with the series. Having heard it was a spectacular game from a series that has since gone down hill, I siezed the chance to play the classic.

So, I got through the the town proper and had headed through to the apartments before quitting before saving and quitting, just merely walking through and killing anything I passed. I had not used any bullets whatsoever, I'd only had to use a health potion once, and the game was on a normal action setting/hard riddle setting (I figured I'd be fine having played enough adventure games in the past to be able to solve most of the puzzles within seconds of seeing them, thus far), if any of that makes a difference.

So, there I was in the apartment complex, when I headed into the stairwell where you actually get to react to Pyramid Head...and, well...he ran into a corner with his back to me.

I could only look at the screen in bewilderment. This was supposed to be one of the biggest bads in gaming and he was standing in the corner doing the best impression of cowering you can when you're wearing a big metal helmet and lashed to what I can only assume is his version of a Buster Sword.

So, I hit him. I don't know what possessed me to do it, but I knew I had a save state only minutes before, and there was no harm to be done if he turned around and tried to kill me. But he didn't! He left the room. This is the thing that James shot at six times and didn't phase in the cutscene I'd last seen him in. I hit him once with a 2x4 plank of wood with a nail coming out of it.

Since I had to run for a quick errand, I went back and saved and quit. Now the game won't boot at all. At least not in the 360 I was playing it in.

At first, I thought it might be an issue with the disc or my system, so I did some basic troubleshooting to figure out which, digging out my original XBOX to test the game, and testing the 360 with multiple discs from both the original XBOX and the 360. Both work. I tried them together again. They didn't.

So, a few questions. Has Pyramid Head ran away from anyone else? Is there a glitch in Restless Dreams that causes it to die in the 360? And why does everyone thing he's so cool if he runs away from James, who so far, I couldn't care less if he died?

Let me know if you have any ideas.

-Sara