If you’ve got forgotten Silent Hill: Downpour it was the western-developed Silent Hill that went semi-open world and had a bunch of sidequests in it, however was nonetheless a bit too busy attempting to retell Silent Hill 2 solely with the villain in a special hat. It wasn’t a catastrophe, however to say “at least it wasn’t Silent Hill: Homecoming or the arcade game” is to rattling it with such faint reward chances are you’ll as effectively be whispering from the opposite facet of the road.
Still, these sidequests have been tasty. Ignore the primary plot a few jail escapee being chased by embodiments of his personal guilt—wow, a person in jail has a darkish previous, what a surprising improvement—and you might discover a city filled with ghost tales and little mysteries. The one the place you observe color-coded ribbons to seek out out what occurred to a lacking woman was a specific favourite, a reminder that Silent Hill can nonetheless be correctly haunting when it tries.
Good luck attempting to play it right this moment, although. Downpour got here out on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 and completely nothing else, which suggests your finest guess might be to emulate it in RPCS3. Or to attend for a PC native port to come back alongside, and what’s that? Oh, it is a trailer for a PC native port somebody’s been chipping away at.
Indie_RU’s port is not only a solution to play Downpour on PC with an uncapped framerate and better resolutions, good as that all the time is. It’s additionally restoring reduce content material, letting us wield additional weapons just like the Bogeyman’s hammer and bringing again deleted cutscenes, notes, dialogue, and full sidequests. It’s additionally restored a boss battle seen in an early trailer the place you struggle the “Monocle Man” who was lowered to a cameo within the completed recreation.
Apparently we will anticipate the completed product round September/October, which can also be once we’re anticipating Silent Hill: Townfall, Screen Burn Interactive’s Scottish take on the series. I’ve got my fingers crossed that’s going to push the series in an interesting direction, because all those arena battles in Silent Hill F weren’t really my cup of rusty tea with mud in it, or whatever they drink in Silent Hill.