9:10:15

[River Victor]

Does anyone notice that all clocks hint at this time? I think it’s the time that he did it.

The collect-all-hand clock puzzle stops at 9:10:15. Random clock same. The clock in the alt hospital that triggers enemy swarm has only minute hand but points at 10 minutes.

[Jason]

to put it simply yes, 9:10:15 is Mary's Time of Death

[PRAET0R1AN™]

If you look at clocks before you go to the otherworld the clocks show the same time too iirc.

[Jason]

every clock in the game is stopped at exactly that time

[Ricback2]

Originally posted by Jason:

to put it simply yes, 9:10:15 is Mary's Time of Death

That's the only logical explanation.

[PRAET0R1AN™]

Originally posted by Jason:

every clock in the game is stopped at exactly that time

Yep, if you're receptive enough of your surroundings you'll know the answer to the clock puzzle when you get to it

It's how I solved it, I just noticed all the clocks showing the same time and to me that was significant, if all the clocks had different times it would have thrown me but them all showing the same time gave me a hint.

[Blade12775]

Could also be when the underground fires happened and everyone had to abandon the place.

[Ricback2]

Originally posted by Blade12775:

Could also be when the underground fires happened and everyone had to abandon the place.

?

[Jason]

Originally posted by Blade12775:

Could also be when the underground fires happened and everyone had to abandon the place.

That is non-cannon movie only, in the games timeline no such thing ever happened

[Vagrant]

If you subscribe to the theory that James is already dead before the game starts, this could be the time that he himself died.

[VGShrine]

I think it's just a reference to original clock puzzle that Bloober wanted to give some significance by putting it everywhere, in the same way that James put his hands in holes multiple times and the same way that James now breaks walls and traverse through gaps multiple times in the remake.

Bloober took some moments from the original and repeated them across the entire game.

[Linyos Torvoltos]

I really wouldn't be surprised if it was as simple as it not being important and it just so happens to be a time they made up to slap on the clocks as opposed to making each clock have it's own time or a dynamic time. Kind of such a small detail to waste time on, you know?

Sometimes things are just the way they are and and don't have any extra implications.

[Ricback2]

Originally posted by Vagrant:

If you subscribe to the theory that James is already dead before the game starts, this could be the time that he himself died.

There's absolutely nothing in the game that justifies this theory.

[AskMeAboutJesus]

Or it could be the start that this death loop - hell loop started, and forever occurs. The more I’ve studied the games lore, and from hints from the game itself, the characters often have dejavu moments. Hence the 26 areas you look at and hear a little music. These could be looked at as giving the original game props, or look at is though they have been there before

Like the dead bodies Eddie shoots before the fight with him

And when first going to the prison, the dead body looks just like James’s body

Maria also stopped at a house and says she feels like she might have been there before

There is definitely more to this then laziness by the devs 😂

[Linyos Torvoltos]

Originally posted by AskMeAboutJesus:

Or it could be the start that this death loop - hell loop started, and forever occurs. The more I’ve studied the games lore, and from hints from the game itself, the characters often have dejavu moments. Hence the 26 areas you look at and hear a little music. These could be looked at as giving the original game props, or look at is though they have been there before

Like the dead bodies Eddie shoots before the fight with him

And when first going to the prison, the dead body looks just like James’s body

Maria also stopped at a house and says she feels like she might have been there before

There is definitely more to this then laziness by the devs 😂

If you looked into the games lore (At least the original 4 games.) there's really nothing that supports the town having the ability to support a time/death loop like people keep theorising.

But what is in the game's lore is the fact that the town can manifest stuff, just like it manifests the monsters and maria. So the corpses that look like james are more likely an extension of that. Essentially the town doing more spooky stuff to ♥♥♥♥ with james.

The 26 areas you look at are simply the developers paying homage to the original locations of whatever they're highlighting. A little nudge nudge wink wink to fans of the original game. Nothing more than that.

The mansion that Maria stops and complains about is the Balwin Mansion. The main location she explores in the Born from a Wish scenario from the original game. So again, it's a nod to something from the original. As opposed to a hint of a time/death loop.

https://silenthill.fandom.com/wiki/Baldwin_Mansion
https://silenthill.fandom.com/wiki/Maria#Born_from_a_Wish

[ReflexShift]

I also just thought it was in reference to the answer of original game's clock puzzle. Didn't think much of it past that.