A new video from one of the most prolific PT modders shows that Hideo Kojima's Silent Hill project was maybe more fleshed out than anyone has yet realized. The video is the latest from Lance McDonald, who has uncovered many secrets about PT and thrown them up on YouTube for all to see.
McDonald has spent years hacking games to try and find cut and hidden content and has recently turned his skills to the now unobtainable teaser for Kojima's cancelled Silent Hills. He has discovered that the playable character of PT is Norman Reedus and made the horrifying discovery that Lisa, the ghost haunting the player, is attached to them throughout the entire game.
The latest video on McDonald's YouTube channel shows him breaking free of the looping hallway of PT. Viewers can see Lisa pop up to scare the player and reset the game as they go out of bounds, which McDonald believes to be a preventative measure Kojima Productions made in order to keep players from seeing the content in this video.
To counter this, and explore the streets of Silent Hill, McDonald made it so the player floats a small distance above the ground. The 11 minute video showcases a pretty detailed town that hints at the promise of what Silent Hills could have been. The impressive lighting and visual detail that defined PT is present here, despite how these renderings are clearly a very early version of a game that would have been in development for many more years. This checks out considering that it was made using the Fox Engine, later used to make Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain.
Unfortunately, we may never get another Silent Hill game again. The Konami survival horror franchise was a leader in the genre back when more AAA publishers and developers were willing to invest in big horror games. These days, Konami is out of the picture and the Silent Hill IP remains in limbo. Most modern horror games, with the exception of the resurgence of popularity of the classic style Resident Evil games, are operating on much smaller budgets and are coming from indie developers.
Silent Hills was canceled and is not in active development.