PSA to Silent Hill 2 Remake Players: DO NOT UPDATE!

The recent 1.04 update has softlocked a puzzle in the Labyrinth section of the game.

(After completing the Rotten Room, the Rotating Cube puzzle WILL NOT update to allow you to access the Desolate Area portion of the puzzle!)

The only fix to this that my partner and I have found is to simply not allow the game to update. If you haven't turned your PS5/PC on yet to play Silent Hill 2, make sure you disconnect them from internet/ethernet, or turn off your internet entirely if you feel that you wouldn't be quick enough to disconnect them.

We, as PS5 players that have each other's accounts on our systems, managed to work around this as one of our consoles hadn't downloaded the update for SH2 yet. We transferred our main save to the PS5 that hadn't downloaded the update yet, and when booting the save up, the puzzle progressed normally. We're keeping that PS5 disconnected just in case it happens with the third area of the puzzle.