Secret features are still being discovered in the original PlayStation 2 version of Silent Hill 2 18 years after the seminal psychological horror game was released. You should probably be quick about it, mind Konami's probably typing up a C&D as I speak. To play it yourself, head to the Silent Hill Remake demo on itch.io. I even got the motorcycle finished and hidden behind Harry's jeep in the 3D scene, but it would've taken far too long.'

With Cybil riding past Harry and everything, along with the Silent Hill theme playing from the radio as a weird immersive easter egg. But Zero could explain that, too: 'I originally wanted to have an entire driving sequence matching the one shown in the OG game. Wondering why the opening sequence doesn't quite match the original game? Yup, me too. Zero added they opted to remake Silent Hill as 'Silent Hill 1 and its fans got no love on its 20th birthday'. Seeing the ins and outs of the world through Team Silents eyes, and even partly walking in their shoes in my own way. It was a truly intimate experience with one of my favorite games of all time. This resulted in a 99% faithful rebuild of the world from scratch. Of course I wasn't going to use the actual assets, so I began tracing in 3d. 'Luckily I ran into the English book translation and model extractions from the OG game.

'I had to do HOURS of info research and gameplay viewing (as well as playthroughs myself) in order to get EVERY detail about the original game as I could,' explained creator Zero Trace Operative on a dev blog (thanks, PC Gamer).

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