Silent Hill’s fog was famously impressed by a {hardware} limitation. The brief draw-distance of the unique PlayStation, mixed with a keenness for Stephen King’s The Mist, led to a city coated in clouds of fog that hid distant element. This handily masked the limitation, but in addition meant that you simply heard monsters earlier than you noticed them—footsteps or wingbeats suggesting their presence earlier than they appeared. The designers leant into this, including a radio that buzzed with static when the reality-defying monsters have been shut, and cementing a formulation for efficient dread that carried over a number of sequels.
Now the Silent Hill 2 remake is out on PC, modders have begun their work. There are already greater than 50 mods on Nexus Mods, with extra being added on a regular basis. Amongst them are two that take away the fog: Sunny Hills and Silent Hill 2 HD Assortment, the latter a cheeky reference to the diminished fog results within the disappointing HD re-release from 2012. Whereas each are tongue-in-cheek—eradicating a defining characteristic of the collection for the sake of some humorous screenshots—it is fascinating to see what Bloober’s model of the city seems to be like with out limits.
Nebula480 posted a gallery of fogless screens to the Silent Hill subreddit, and people streets retain a whole lot of their mystique even when you possibly can see for blocks. The rundown facades, the rain-slick bitumen, and the useless ends coated in surreal bedsheet frames—it is all nonetheless creepy as heck.
There’s additionally a Easy FreeCam mod to actually perk up your pics. With that put in Alt+F1 allows a flycam, and different instructions allows you to disable the UI, pause time, teleport James to the digicam, and in any other case fill in for the absence of an official picture mode. Because of which, The Easter Egg Hunter discovered an out-of-bounds reference to a specific poor-quality asset from the HD Assortment. FreeCam has additionally allowed Gamers to substantiate one thing that is an enormous spoiler for the sport, so if you have not completed both the unique or the remake cease studying now. Bye!
OK, now that they’ve gone, you most likely requested the identical query I did if you learn in regards to the FreeCam. Can you employ it to clip by means of James’s automobile and see Mary’s physique within the backseat? As Silent Hill artwork director and monster designer Masahiro Ito as soon as stated on the fad pit previously often known as Twitter, James introduced his useless spouse to Silent Hill with him, and never within the trunk as some followers assume. There is a motive the digicam by no means offers you a transparent have a look at the again seat. And sure, as a number of gamers have confirmed, shift the perspective and you’ll see a floral blanket on the again seat overlaying one thing that is clearly supposed to be a corpse. Good one, Bloober.
Different mods allow you to play as CJ from GTA: San Andreas, the unique James from 2001, or put on a Robbie the Rabbit hat. There’s additionally a first-person mod, although that is nonetheless a work-in-progress. Probably there is a race between Thomas the Tank Engine and nude mods as we communicate.
