Wood Side Apartments

Welcome to the second chapter of the complete walkthrough guide for Silent Hill 2 Remake (2024) covering Wood Side Apartments.

Legend
1 Auto Parts key – key items
2 Radio – equipment
Health Drink – supplies
Map of Silent Hill – maps
Save Point – save points
Flower Shop Message – collectibles: memos, strange photos and glimpses of the past
NG+ – New Game+ items, memos and actions

Complete Maps

Key Summary

First Floor

• Collect the Wood Side Apartments Maps from the wall at the reception in the main lobby.
• There's a Save Point behind the reception.
• Find a coin cabinet in the back office for the future puzzle location
  • Memo #19: Administration Note. In the locker underneath the stairs.

Second Floor

• 13 Flashlight is found in Apartment 202 on the second floor. Grab this from the dress form.
• 14 Chute Courtyard Key is inside the drawer directly behind the dress form.

First Floor

• Go downstairs and use the new key to open the courtyard door to the right of the reception desk. Push the garbage container and use it to climb the window inside Apartment 112. Follow the hallway until you find a key behind the bars. Try getting the key, and it will trigger a cutscene.
• 15 2F Hallway Key. Get back to the reception and follow the now accessible hallway to get this key on the other side of the bars.
• 16 Golden Apple Handle. Inside Apartment 108, interact with the wardrobe handles and pick up the item that falls onto the ground.
  • Strange Photo #3: "Valentine’s Day". Apartment 102, on a dining trolley by the window.

Second Floor

• Go to the second floor and use the 2F Hallway Key to unlock the door here.
• Glimpse of the Past #6. Apartment 213, a wall in the bedroom.
• 17 Handgun. Go through Apartment 213 and find a handgun inside the red shopping cart in Apartment 217.
• 18 Apartment 212 Key. After returning to Apartment 213, this key will now be on a stand next to the television with the dead body.
• Proceed through Apartment 212 and then into Apartment 210 via the balcony.
  • Strange Photo #4: "Career’s humble beginnings". Apartment 210, on the last window sill in the living room.
  • Trophy/achievement: Let's NOT Party! Shoot all 11 baloons that make up the "WELCOME HOME" message inside Apartment 207.
• Enter Apartment 208, use the Golden Apple Handle on the wardrobe and push it to open the passage into Apartment 206.
• Use the following combination for the safe:
  • Light: Right to 15, left to 11, right to 13
  • Standard: Right to 13, left to 7, right to 11
  • Hard: Right to 13, left to 7, right to 11
• 19 Coin [Man] and 20 Steel Key are inside the safe.
• Leave the apartment using the key.
• 21 2F Small Staircase Key is on a chair in the middle of Apartment 205.
• Head back to Apartment 213, squeeze into the hallway and unlock the north staircase door using the key. There's a Save Point inside. Go to the third floor.

Third Floor

• Proceed through Apartments 311 and 309.
  • Memo #20: Strange Note. Inside a desk drawer in a small room to the right of the Apartment 310 entrance.
• Get inside Apartment 310 and use the balcony to enter Apartment 312.
  • Memo #21: Sinister Note. Apartment 312, on a wall.
• Crawl through the vent to access the laundry room.
• 22 Canned Juice is inside the laundry room on a table.
• Use the Canned Juice on the garbage chute to unblock it.

First Floor

• 23 Coin [Woman]. Get downstairs via the north staircase and re-enter the courtyard to find the coin on the ground.
• Go to Apartment 116. Check the bathroom for a cutscene and climb out the window to the pool area.
• 24 Coin [Snake] is inside the baby stroller inside the empty pool guarded by lying figures.
• After collecting the last coin, return to the reception desk's back room to solve the coin cabinet puzzle. Put the coins as follows for each stage (flip the coins as necessary):
  • Light:
    • Man - ◯ - Woman - ◯ - Flower
    • Sword - ◯ - Woman - ◯ - Snake
    • Snake - ◯ - Grave - ◯ - Man
  • Standard:
    • Man - ◯ - Woman - ◯ - Flower
    • ◯ - Sword - ◯ - Woman - Flower
    • ◯ - ◯ - Man - Grave - Snake
  • Hard:
    • Man - ◯ - ◯ - Grave Snake
    • Grave - Sword - Flower - ◯ - ◯
    • ◯ - Man - Woman - ◯ - Snake
  • Place any coin, Man, Woman, or Snake, into the top slot to finish the puzzle (affects the ending).
• 25 Apartment 201 Key. Take the key after solving the puzzle.

Second Floor

• Enter Apartment 201 and interact with the handkerchief on a desk for a cutscene.
• 26 Handkerchief. Pick the item again after the cutscene is over.
• Go through the red door in the living room to get into the next building.

Complete Walkthrough

Once inside, collect the Wood Side Apartments Maps from the bulletin board in the main lobby.

Behind the reception desk, you will find a Save Point to save your progress. You will find a note on the desk inside the room.

Why has 201 not been rented out for so long? There have been so many years since anyone lived there.     I know they’ve never really checked out but I think it’s time to move on now.    They’re gone.

In the back office, you can find Handgun Ammo inside the kitchenette's cabinet. Finally, in the room, you will find the coin cabinet under a white cover. Once you have gathered all the coins, you will have to come back here later to solve this puzzle.

Getting the Flashlight

Proceed to the staircase next to the reception. You will find Memo #19: Administration Note in the locker underneath the stairs.

Seems that it's worth checking Apartment 217. There's also a Health Drink under the stairs and more Handgun Ammo at the top stair landing. Go to the second floor.

Second Floor

Proceed to the right and enter Apartment 202 with the open door and bright light inside. Inside, you will find a dress form dressed in a very familiar outfit and a flashlight. Take the 13 Flashlight and prepare for your first battle with a Mannequin that comes alive triggered by the light. After you are all done, take a 14 Chute Courtyard Key inside the drawer behind the dress form and a Health Drink in the kitchen's bottom cabinet. Exit back to the hallway.

Finding the 2F Hallway Key

The rest of the floor is behind the locked doors, so take the stairs back to the main lobby.

First Floor

Go around the reception, pick up the Handgun Ammo from the bench in the utility room next to Apartment 105 and use the Chute Courtyard Key to enter the eastern courtyard. Find a note next to the garbage chute's discharge telling you it's out of order.

WARNING GARBAGE CHUTE OUT OF ORDER PLEASE DO NOT USE UNTIL PROBLEM IS RESOLVED

Push the garbage container to align with the open window and climb into Apartment 112.

In the bedroom's dresser there's Handgun Ammo while on the table there's a newspaper article "Locaine Siblings Murder: Perpetrator Commits Suicide in Custody". Exit the apartment. In the nearby Apartment 109, you can find more Handgun Ammo on the wardrobe shelf, but beware of the mannequin hiding in the living area. Continue down the hallway until you bump into metal bars. Attempt to reach for a key on the other side to start a cutscene in which a little girl prevents you from getting that key.

Exit to the courtyard through a nearby door and return to the main lobby. The door to the eastern hallway will now be open, so run all the way to the bars to find the 15 2F Hallway Key on the floor.

On your way back, enter Apartment 108 and approach a wardrobe with intricate handles to collect the 16 Golden Apple Handle after rotating the left handle downward.

You can also inspect Apartment 107 to find the little girl's drawing on the wall and a Health Drink in the bedroom's dresser. A music sheet is on a chair next to the piano.

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In Apartment 106, Handgun Ammo is on the glass cabinet shelf, and a delivery note is on the kitchen counter.

Please deliver these to Mrs. Milley from 102. I’m really worried about her. She’s been cooped up all alone with his belongings for days on end. She won’t even move them, and God forbid anyone else touch anything. It’s breaking my heart just thinking about it.

Proceed back to the main lobby, fighting off a lying figure in the hallway. Here, you can enter the now accessible western portion of the building. There are no key items there, yet one collectible is guarded by two lying figures. In Apartment 102, you will find Strange Photo #3: "Valentine’s Day" on a dining trolley by the window and a Health Drink in the first-aid kit in the bedroom.

After you are done with this level, go to the second floor.

Finding the Handgun

Second Floor

Use the 2F Hallway Key to unlock the door and access the rest of the floor. In the laundry room, you can inspect the garbage chute to find a shiny coin sitting on top of the garbage stuck inside.

At the end of the hallway, a new creature stands looming in the dark behind the bars...

Enter Apartment 213. Inside the bedroom, inspect the wall for the Glimpse of the Past #6.

Squeeze into the next hallway through a hole in the wall and head into Apartment 217 to find a 17 Handgun inside the red shopping cart. There's also Handgun Ammo next to the TV, one more pack in the closet and another in the kitchen drawer.

Accessing Apartment 212

Go back to the hallway, and you will be startled by a scream on your way back. Return to Apartment 213 to find a dead person sitting in front of the TV and the 18 Apartment 212 Key on a stand next to it.

Enter Apartment 212 using the key. Inside, you can find a Health Drink in the kitchen's bottom cabinet. Use the balcony to access Apartment 210, where you will be greeted by a Mannequin. In the open fridge, you'll find Handgun Ammo. On the last window sill in the living room, there's Strange Photo #4: "Career’s humble beginnings."

Exit into a hallway where you will meet two Lying Figures. You can step onto the fire escape stairs and use the lever to lower the stairs section and create a shortcut to the first floor. You can enter Apartment 207 for supplies and a trophy/achievement in the hallway. Beware of a Mannequin and a Lying Figure in the apartment, though. You can then collect Handgun Ammo on a shelf to the left of the balloons and in the kitchen drawer.

Trophy/Achievement: Let's NOT Party!

Shoot all 11 baloons that make up the "WELCOME HOME" message inside Apartment 207.

Finding the First Coin

Next, enter Apartment 208. You can find more Handgun Ammo in the upper kitchen cabinet and a note on the table in the living area. Approach the wardrobe and use the Golden Apple Handle to open the doors.

You can take a look through a peephole, then push the wardrobe to the side and squeeze through a wall gap into Apartment 206. You will be trapped in the room with a safe and will need to solve a puzzle to open the safe and get out.

You will find the 19 Coin [Man] and a 20 Steel Key inside the safe. Use the key to escape the apartment and step into Apartment 205 across the hallway. Inside, you will run into some creepers crawling around. On the kitchen countertop, there's Handgun Ammo, and inside a first-aid kit on some boxes, there's a Health Drink. Finally, get the 21 2F Small Staircase Key on the chair in the middle of the living room.

Return to the hallway and procced to the staircase in the northern part of the building. Fight a Lying Figure on your way there. Use the key to access the north staircase. There's a Save Point on the wall inside.

Finding the Second Coin

Use the stairs to go the third floor.

Third Floor

There's Handgun Ammo on the chair at the south end of the hallway. Squeeze through the wall gap into Apartment 311 and deal with a Mannequin inside. There will be another Mannequin hiding in the kitchen. Find a Health Drink on the table in the living room and more Handgun Ammo in the kitchen drawer.

Exit to the hallway and beware of another Mannequin lurking here. Before entering the next apartment, turn right and go to a small room to find Handgun Ammo in the first-aid kit on the couch and Memo #20: Strange Note inside the left drawer of the desk.

Go back and squeeze into Apartment 310. One more Mannequin is awaiting you here. Use the balcony to enter Apartment 312 next door with yet another Mannequin. When you are safe, you can find a Health Drink at the top of the wooden ladder in the northeastern corner of the apartment and Memo #21: Sinister Note on the wall.

There's a Syringe in the first-aid kit on the west balcony. Use a ventilation opening to crawl into the laundry room. Inside, collect the 22 Canned Juice on the table and use it to unblock the garbage chute in the same room.

Collect Handgun Ammo on the laundry machine and use the small staircase to get to the first floor.

First Floor

Collect Handgun Ammo on the box under the stairs, then re-enter the courtyard to find the 23 Coin [Woman] on the ground.

Finding the Third Coin

Return to the building and head for Apartment 116 at the end of the north hallway. In the kitchen, you will find a dead body inside the open fridge and a Handgun Ammo in the kitchen drawer. Investigate the origin of the sound coming from the bathroom to meet Eddie.

Leap through the broken window to find yourself in the pool courtyard. There are a total of five Lying Figures here. Choose how to deal with them or evade and get to the baby stroller inside the empty pool to collect the 24 Coin [Snake].

Also in the northwestern corner of the yard you can find the exit gate that would lead you to Rosewater Park if it wouldn't be locked. No luck here.

The gate is open from 8 AM till 7 PM. Outside those hours request assistance at the reception.

You can also find a stand with the town map from the original game. Nice reference.

Getting the Apartment 201 Key

After collecting the last coin, return to the reception desk's back room to solve the coin cabinet puzzle.

After solving the puzzle, take the 25 Apartment 201 Key and go to the second floor.

Second Floor

Enter Apartment 201 and interact with the handkerchief on a desk for a cutscene with Pyramid Head we encountered briefly earlier.

After the cutscene, you can pick up the 26 Handkerchief (not mandatory) and proceed through the red door in the living room to get into the next building.

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