One of the biggest travesties to ever rock the world of gaming was the cancellation of Silent Hills, a joint project between Hideo Kojima, Guillermo del Toro, Norman Reedus, and Japanese horror manga artist Junji Ito. It received a demo called P.T., or a “playable teaser” for PlayStation 4 that showcased the terrifying new entry in the long-running Silent Hill series. It was an absolute nightmare, but in a good way.
Unfortunately, after developer Hideo Kojima's split from Konami, the Silent Hills project was cancelled and the P.T. was made inaccessible, completely removed from the PlayStation Network. And if you deleted it from your system, you can no longer get it back.
The premature end of Silent Hills left an enormous hole in the hearts of horror gaming lovers everywhere, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that fans took it upon themselves to continue work where the teaser left off, creating their own remakes and games in tribute to the absolutely terrifying P.T. demo. While there have been several spiritual successors that have sprung up over the indie gaming landscape, there was one project in particular that popped up last November that seemed quite promising.
A creator named SmoggyChips announced work on a P.T. remake back in November using Unreal Engine 4. The project, titled Corridors, is still in its infancy, but SmoggyChips had previously released a playable prototype of the project that you can actually download and test.
P.T. also seems to have inspired a new fan project, however, created by redditor LinusPixel. LinusPixel's version is available via indie game distribution platform Itch.io and just received an update. LinusPixel took to reddit to show off some footage of a prototype he's hard at work on, which uses a special script to extract objects, character models, sounds, and more from the original P.T. to inject into his own version.
The latest update of LinusPixel’s project’s features new audio clips that were datamined from Kojima’s original game. The update adds the hallway model and special lighting as well. It can be downloaded and tested now, but be forewarned: You may very well have trouble sleeping tonight if you give it a go. The scariest thing about P.T. may not be the game itself, but how good its fans are at giving it a second chance at life.
