The Silent Hill 2 Remake Director's Office Safe and the books in the room opposite are effectively two parts of the same puzzle, where James must deduce one so he can resolve the other (as well as finding a spare button for the safe so he can actually input the deduced code combination). This is a puzzle you'll encounter (at least to an extent) mere minutes after the previous one where you refuel the Silent Hill 2 Remake hospital generator down in the basement, but it'll be a while before you're actually done with it, as you'll have to first solve the complex puzzle of the stone hand nearby first, and that will take you a while to do - to say the least.
Don't worry though - we'll explain how to open the safe in the Director's Office below, as well as the Silent Hill 2 Remake connects it with the books that have symbols on their spines in the room opposite.
How to open the Hospital Safe in the Director's Office in the Silent Hill 2 Remake
The Silent Hill 2 Hospital safe can't be opened until you solve everything relating to the Silent Hill 2 Remake Director's Office hand in the main room attached to it, a process that will take a while. Our guide will lay out all the essential steps to doing so, but you need to find three bracelets around Brookhaven Hospital and arrange them correctly on the hand. At that point you need to do the following:
- After placing the bracelets on the hand, it will let go of the Director's Storage Room Key.
- Use the key on the locked door just to the West of the main office.
- Inside the locked storage room, you'll find the Safe Button.
- In the same room, on the right as you enter, are a range of books with symbols on their spines.
- Working out the correct arrangement for the books will tell you which numbers equate to which symbols.
- The bracelets on the stone hand you just opened tell you which six numbers are the code.
- Go back to the safe and insert the Safe Button.
- Enter the six symbols from the book spines that equate to the numbers on the hand.
- This will open the safe and give you the key needed to progress the game.
Silent Hill 2 Director's Office books puzzle solution
The books in the director's office have to be arranged so that the picture of the fire-breathing lion is in the right order, as shown above. Once in place, that'll give you the correct translation for which symbols are which numbers.
The code on the hand revealed from the bracelets is 92-45-71. With that in mind, head to the safe and, translating it through the symbols, press the following buttons in the following order:
With this done, the safe should open and grant you the rooftop key, which will allow you to reach the roof area via the staircase on 3F. Before you go up there, we definitely recommend you get the Silent Hill 2 Remake shotgun if you haven't already - it might be your last chance to do so.
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