10 Biggest WTF Gaming Moments of 2024
6. The Dog Ending - Silent Hill 2
Despite developer Bloober Team's spotty track record, they proved all the doubters wrong with their brilliant recent remake of Silent Hill 2, which so perfectly recaptured the atmosphere and ground-breaking narrative of the original survival horror masterpiece.
And while many fans questioned whether Bloober might exclude some of the game's kookier elements, like its joke endings, that thankfully wasn't the case.
That is to say, Silent Hill 2's infamous "dog ending" - in which it's revealed that the events of the game were masterminded by a Shiba Inu - has been lovingly remade in glorious 4K.
Well, protagonist James looks absolutely beautiful anyway, but the dog model and background assets of the scene are seemingly intentionally low-poly, if only to enhance the strangeness of the bewildering cutscene.
And best of all, while the original dog ending had James speak to the dog in Japanese, because the game was developed by Team Silent in Japan, in the remake ending he speaks Polish, because of course, Bloober Team are based in Poland. Genius.