how to properly get the In water ending?

[Matsunaga™]

I played the whole game in critical hp condition, checked on Angelas knife multiple times, never checked on Maria, used the rust egg on door and still got the Leave ending... what am I doing wrong? It was a pain playing through the game on critical hp and at the end it didnt work. am I missing something?

[Wasted]

Originally posted by MaXXXine™:

I played the whole game in critical hp condition, checked on Angelas knife multiple times, never checked on Maria, used the rust egg on door and still got the Leave ending... what am I doing wrong? It was a pain playing through the game on critical hp and at the end it didnt work. am I missing something?

You don't really need to check the knife in remake. The only conditions you need for In Water is being attached to Mary (check her photo/letter at least few times) and keep your HP low and never heal fully, even in latest bossfights.

[Cheerows]

I think the key is keeping your health below max, the screen doesn't even need to be red

[Title Card]

I kept myself healed the entire game and looked at the knife once, i feel like i should've got the maria ending 100% but i guess my guy just wanted to see the water

[Scraps]

Had myself at low HP for a good portion of the run and got it. I'm not familiar with Remake's conditions, but other factors is reading the text in Neely's bar at night and taking your time with the game to explore rather than focus on the objective.

In the og, another factor would be listening to the hallway convo before Mary, but it also gives a point to Leave. Therefore, skipping it makes you lean towards Maria Ending, which I do to get In Water since it's hard to rack up Maria points.

Again, unsure if Remake works exactly like this, but In Water was the first ending I got, so I guess I did something right.

[Nikubus]

was running James at very low health the whole game
didn't checked Maria at the hospital, neither Mary's letter and picture
examined the knife way to many times
i used the rotten apple in hotel puzzle
iirc i passed through the scarlet egg
didn't kill the last enemies at the hotel and i got the leave ending
so i guess bloober changed the variables for the 3 standard endings

[Glimmer]

Originally posted by Cup:

I kept myself healed the entire game and looked at the knife once, i feel like i should've got the maria ending 100% but i guess my guy just wanted to see the water

You need to show that you love Maria.

- Check on her in the hospital and jail cell. Stay with her in the hospital and jail cell for a while. For the hospital, I talked to her until I couldn't anymore (the interact button disappeared), and checked in on her every time I got a key item, until she vanished from her room. For the jail cell, I checked in every time I completed one area of the rotating cube and stayed until she finished humming.
- Don't run into her and bump her, try and carefully walk around
- Don't let monsters grab/damage her
- Don't damage her yourself
- Talk to her every chance you get and exhaust her dialogue. There are some areas where you can interact with her to start a conversation. Sometimes, you can have multiple conversations.

DO NOT:
- Look at the knife
- Look at the photo of Mary or her letter
- Keep yourself injured

[Cixot]

I just got it.

-I kept health one or two hits above death.
-Didn't use a single syringe only health drinks

-When one hit away from death, I just waited 10 mins while in that state to pad out the low health state

-Checked Angela's knife multiple times through the playthrough( according to guides, more than twice adds a point towards in water)

-I never checked Mary's photo or read her letter
-Blamed the man in the coin puzzle
-Read the message above the jukebox in Neely's Bar after leaving the Hospital
-stomped/melee dead enemies repeatedly
-killed more than 350 enemies( anything living I came across died)
-fought back during the first fight with Pyramid Head in the Apts
-Killed and stomped the 3 enemies after Angela's fire staircase when they don't attack you

-played the tape in the directors office in the hospital and in the otherworld hotel ( idk if this makes a difference but the tone of the tapes makes me think it wouldn't hurt to do it)

-Ignored Mary, didn't check on her and made sure to trigger the "Wrong way" dialogue from her

-Used Rotten apple on mirror puzzle and Rotten Egg on door

-Stayed for all of Mary's monologue in final hallway

That was enough to get it first try

[Sick INFJ-A]

finished my first run on Hard combat difficutly settings and had also Water ending.

strange is
i never looked at knife even once after forced pick, not even once !
i was often slightly injured but never in blinking or visual critical health for even 30 secounds . after half game ( around hospital ) i never was running injured at all anymore , i had way too many health items.
Killed almost everybody skipped only very few enemies, kicked enemies almost everytime when they were on the floor 2-3 times just to make sure.

I explored a lot , every room etc , picked all things up photos , readed everything there was available.

Picked the Man coin.

fought only slighty ( around 8 bullets ) pyramid fight.

i think i picked last number on noose riddle.

picked the rotten apple at mirror . entered with the opposite after the pyramids fight the clean one.

I let the enemies alive before angelas last scene, all of them!

Did not skip mary speech at the long tunnel.

not sure if death count matters i think i had 8 deaths , ( 2 of them i tried to meele the pyramid as a test , most were by eddie , low fps is hard there)

I apparently i even did all requirements for maria ending except i was sprinting nonstop with her.

i guess for me the high kill count and kicking enemies on the floor counted towards water ending the most, it was about 20 % enemies shot 80 % meeled.

[kutzkutz]

Well I got it on my first playthrough.

What I did was:

Looked at knife
Looked at Mary's Items
Healed often and killed most enemies in the game
Listened to the hallway dialogue
Visited Maria multiple times in the hospital and prison
I used both eggs and open both doors (Don't think that does anything)
Used the ripe apple
Read the message in Bar Neely's nightmare world

[0p3r4t10n CHAOS]

Reload before the 2 pyramid heads fight. Check the knife as many times as the letter, photo and handkerchief. Like 10 times or so. Listen to Mary's full monologue in the end hallway. Heal very late or stay in the red zone healingwise on the last 2 bosses. That might overrule or accumulate the points you need. I'm no expert though. I did however pull the leave, in water and Maria ending out of one save just with those methods you can do on the last 2 bosses.

[Mancubus]

Srsly....endings differ according to seeing or not knives or be a dead James walking the whole game time...gimme a break...they sound silly...

[ReadyToPlay [PL]]

(SPOILERS for ending) I just finished the game with the ending in the water. It was shocking
I looked at Angela's knife, I looked at the picture of Mary in the menu, I treated a lot. I've had a lot of james death. I didn't look at Maria in the hospital when she was sick. Only at the very end of leaving this floor. Then a scene appeared where James looks in there and Maria is no longer there. I listened to the entire dialogue of the mary after the fight with the two pyramid heads

[Cixot]

I should have linked this in my first post but I used this guide for the endings and got all of them first try with it

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3344750197

for the maria ending I used this guide and some supplemental material via youtube guides.
Maria ending has a couple of things not included in the guide but I just tried to make sure to trigger all dialogue from her minus her dialogue from the Historical society since going that way instead of to the Inn will trigger her "Wrong way" dialogue which takes points away from you.

I'd have to hunt it down but there's a discord that went through the ending values and inspecting the knife does add toward in water. Some events add points to more than one ending i.e Mary's death bed dialogue after the twin head fight. Listening to the whole thing adds +1 to in water AND +1 to leave. From going through and getting them all, once you exit the hallway to start going towards the final boss, your ending is tallied and you get the ending based on which one has a higher value

[Nikubus]

Originally posted by Mancubus:

Srsly....endings differ according to seeing or not knives or be a dead James walking the whole game time...gimme a break...they sound silly...

that was the conditions in the OG
it was a brilliant gameplay "puzzle" that changed the endings according to your play style
but it's clear bloober alter them a little

[Matsunaga™]

Ive tried some stuff ppl posted at reddit, like loading the save just before pyramid fight, and keep inspecting the knife, and let the game open with the knife on screen for 20 minutes but still got the same leave ending ._. will probably have to restart and follow some guide to reach it.