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Ashley Bardhan

Players debate characters' looks in everything from Marvel Rivals to The Witcher 3, but Silent Hill 2 devs sent them a warning 24 years ago: "Maria was sexier when we first started out, but her plunging neckline gave us too many technical problems"

Silent Hill 2.

Now, the world is locked in perpetual disagreement; a black mist obscures blue skies because people just can't figure out if the female protagonists in their favorite video games are sexy or not. That's why we must turn our heads to the past, where Silent Hill 2 developers protect the key to our salvation.

In a behind-the-scenes video included with the 2001 game's European Special Two-Disc Edition, uploaded to YouTube by streamer Fungo, Team Silent character artist Sato Takayoshi explains that there's an expensive cost to being too beautiful: "Maria was sexier when we first started out," the video narrator quotes him saying, "but her plunging neckline gave us too many technical problems."

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