The Silent Hill 2 Remake Director's Office Safe is a puzzle that needs the books in the room opposite to solve the code combination, as well as finding a spare button for the safe so he can actually input the answer.
It's puzzle you'll encounter not long after you refuel the Silent Hill 2 Remake hospital generator down in the basement, but it'll be a while before you're actually able to complete it as you'll have to first solve the stone hand puzzle nearby first.
Don't worry though - I'll explain how to open the safe in the Director's Office in Silent Hill 2 below, as well what to do 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 Silent Hill 2
The Silent Hill 2 Hospital safe can't be opened until you solve everything relating to the hand in the Director's Office in Silent Hill 2. That's a process that will take a while and our guide will lay out all the essential steps to completing that. The short version is you need to find three bracelets around Brookhaven Hospital and arrange them correctly on the hand.
Assuming you've completed the hand puzzle then you need to do the following to open the Hospital safe:
- Finding and placing the bracelets on the hand will make it 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.
That's the quick version at least. Now lets go over it all in more detail:
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 order for which symbols are which numbers.
The code on the hand revealed by adding the bracelets is 92-45-71. With that in mind, head to the safe and, translating it through the book symbols, press the following buttons in the following order:
Get that right and the safe should open and give you the rooftop key, which will then allow you to reach the roof area via the staircase on 3F.
Before you go up there though, I definitely recommend you make sure you've got the Silent Hill 2 Remake shotgun if you haven't already. It might be your last chance to get it and it's one of the best weapons in Silent Hill 2 so you don't want to miss it.
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