Holy Roman Emperor Charles V used Spanish to speak to God, French to speak to men, and German to speak to his horse. Italian, however, he reserved for spoiling videogames, and it delights me to say that Bloober Team's quite good Silent Hill 2 remake keeps that tradition alive: The devs had to release an emergency patch to stop Italian-language players from having the entire game unveiled for them right at the start. Che brutta figura.
As spotted by eagle-eyed James Sunder-lovers over on Reddit (via PlayStation Lifestyle), the game's 1.003.000 day-one update contained one major fix: It adapted the Italian localisation for an early scene that had—in the game's advanced access, original incarnation—fully subtitled a voice line that was only meant to be understood as garbled fragments. "For Italians: download the patch because there is a huge translation mistake that spoil something of the game in the first minutes," reads the patch's top-rated comment on the Silent Hill subreddit.
