He Took a Nap in Silent Hill 2 — Literally
Every so often I find a game with such compelling atmosphere I want to climb through the screen and stay. Usually those are cozy, pastoral experiences like Stardew Valley, not the nightmarish corridors of Silent Hill 2. Yet for YouTuber Dredile, the 2024 Silent Hill 2 remake proved oddly hospitable — the perfect place for a VR-powered nap.
When Dredile booted the game for the first time, his immediate reaction was a blunt, “Oh, fuck.” He was playing the remake in VR and found the upgraded visuals both stunning and deeply unnerving. After collecting himself, he announced three simple objectives for the evening: find a safe spot to camp, brew tea with Pyramid Head, and manage to sleep through the night in Silent Hill.
“Exploring Silent Hill in VR without clear directions felt like wobbling through a maze with drunk goggles on,” he says, describing the early, disorienting stretch of the playthrough.
After fighting a few encounters and solving puzzles, he obtained the key to Wood Side Apartments — the area where Pyramid Head first appears. The monster is visible but kept at bay by metal bars, so Dredile seized the moment for a surreal interlude: he made chamomile tea, put his Vive headset back on, and enjoyed an impromptu tea party with one of horror’s most iconic figures. “He’s silent but imposing — mostly a one-sided chat,” he laughed.
Next up: find a place to rest. Some Wood Side rooms are crawling with creatures, others are empty but littered with corpses. Dredile eventually settled on a unit with a couch by a window. To better simulate the experience he set up blankets on his real couch, claimed the in-game couch as his campsite, and attempted to actually sleep while immersed in the game.
“Nothing jumped me, and the ambient sounds weren’t overwhelming, so I slept surprisingly well,” he reports. “About five hours — not bad.”
Dredile isn’t new to overnight VR challenges; his channel includes nights spent inside VR versions of Resident Evil 7, Outlast, and Alien: Isolation. This also wasn’t his first Silent Hill sleepover — last year he spent a night inside a VR-modified version of the original Silent Hill.
On the whole, he called the remake’s visuals and mood some of the best he’s experienced in VR. And honestly, he might be onto something: instead of paying for an overpriced haunted attraction, you can simply curl up and try to sleep in a very cursed fictional town.
Watch Dredile’s Silent Hill 2 playthrough and tea party on YouTube: Silent Hill 2 (2024) — Dredile. See more of his overnight VR experiences here: Resident Evil 7, Outlast, Alien: Isolation, and his earlier VR playthrough of the original Silent Hill.
Source: Polygon
