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I am a god damned evil genius.
So I've been writing a little FAQ for GameFAQs in my downtime at work. Hey, gotta keep busy somehow, right? Well anyway, the FAQ I'm writing analyzes all of the memos you encounter in Silent Hill 4: The Room and uncovers their hidden meanings, connections to the story, and other pertinent info. In the course of my delvings, I uncovered something.
Warning: If you don't like Silent Hill or have never play SH4, you will not give a s**t about this next part.
It can be hard to tell, but from in-game events and Red Diary entries we can pinpoint how long Joseph was stuck in room 302. We know that Henry moves into 302 six months after the previous tenant disappears and lives there for two years before the same fate befalls him. We know that when Joseph started writing his diary, Walter had been dead for seven years. Joseph's diary spans April to August (five months) of an unspecified year. We know that when we begin the game as Henry, Walter has been dead for ten years. If you start Joseph off at seven years after Walter's death and place Henry at ten years after Walter's death, Joseph only has six months to write his diary and die, because for six months the apartment was vacant and the other 2 years Henry's living in room 302. Since Joseph's diary spans 5 of those months and he can't exactly die between April 4th and August 7th, he must have died somewhere between August 8th and September 8th. After that the apartment was vacant for six months, then Henry moves in for the two years leading up to the game. He couldn't have died in the 2 1/2 years of his "disappearance", since we know that your physical body can't be drawn into Walter's world, only your conciousness. That leaves the only time of death for Joseph between August 8th and September 8th.
There you go. Joseph Schreiber, victim number 15, HAD to die between August and September 8th.
I ******** rule.
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