The excellent PS5, PC remake of Silent Hill 2 officially launches in less than 24 hours, but part of what’s made the wait for fans so excruciating is it’s not the first attempt to update and improve the PS2 classic. In 2012, an HD Collection for PS3 was released (with Silent Hill 3 included) that’s widely regarded as one of the worst remasters of all time, since the developer behind the bundle was working with incomplete source code.
It was a disaster on almost all fronts, and what fans have joked about the most in the years since is a sign for the Silent Hill Ranch at the start of the game that used the Comic Sans font. This has thankfully been fixed for this week’s PS5, PC remake, but now it’s in the hands of the public via a 48-hour early access phase, it’s been discovered that the infamous Comic Sans sign is actually in the game… hidden away in the trash.
Documented by Twitter account @GmanLives, if you manage to clip through or go out of bounds in the PC version when you’re at the Silent Hill Ranch, the sign can be spotted inside an abandoned warehouse along with other bits of garbage and discarded wood. Please see below:
It’s another small but meaningful detail that highlights the passion and care Bloober Team has poured into the Silent Hill 2 remake, even calling back to when the horror title wasn’t in such great shape. As we remarked in our Silent Hill 2 PS5 review, the remake “wholeheartedly honours the PS2 masterpiece”. We suppose we can say the same about the PS3’s HD Collection now, too?
While you won’t find any Collectibles in this area — unless you’re playing on New Game+ — the Silent Hill Ranch quickly leads to South Vale, where you’ll want to track down Memos, Strange Photos, Glimpses of the Past, and also solve the Jukebox puzzle in Neely’s Bar. Our comprehensive Silent Hill 2 guide documents all of that for you — if only the Comic Sans sign had been a Collectible!