What is Silent Hill 2: Saigo no Uta?
It is the Japanese name of the expanded Silent Hill 2.
Saigo no Uta (最期の詩, roughly "Poem of the Last Moment") is what Japan called the expanded edition of Silent Hill 2. The expansion adds Maria's side scenario, Born from a Wish, and retitles the main story Letter from Silent Heaven.
Japan received it first on Xbox (February 22, 2002), then as the Japanese PlayStation 2 edition on July 4, 2002. The same expanded edition then travelled under a different name in every region it entered, which is why collectors comparing copies keep tripping over it.
ONE EDITION, FOUR NAMES
The same game, region by regionSaigo no Uta
Japan. The expanded edition's home name, on the Xbox release of February 2002 and the PS2 release that July.
Restless Dreams
North America. The Xbox edition's subtitle in the West, carrying the same Born from a Wish scenario.
Inner Fears
Europe. The European Xbox name for the identical expansion.
Director's Cut
Europe again, on PlayStation 2. The PS2 reissue of the expanded game under a fourth title.
THE JAPANESE COVER
Saigo no Uta's home edition
Silent Hill 2 · Japan
A dark interior lit by red window panes. Japan sold the sequel with architecture; America, as the covers page shows, sold it with a face.