The half-rotted ghost that hunts you in PT is always behind you, as revealed by a neat camera hack.



In P.T., it's common to hear noises as if Lisa is right behind you, or see weird shadows moving around in front of you, but when you turn around, there's nothing there. I hacked the game to allow the player to see behind them without actually turning around and... pic.twitter.com/bj1P0ymIZ6 — Lance McDonald (@manfightdragon) September 9, 2019

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One of PT's scariest tricks is hearing Lisa behind you when you walk down a corridor, or seeing her skittering shadow on the wall to your side. When you turn around, however, the corridor behind is empty with no sign of her rotted face at all.In an attempt to figure out what's really happening in these moments, hacker Lance McDonald went into the game's code and discovered that when you pick up the flashlight Lisa literally attaches herself to your back."She actually attaches to the player's back as soon as you get the flashlight," he tweeted alongside a clip where he locks the camera in place and walks forward to reveal Lisa floating behind. "She's always there... following you..."McDonald told VG247 he's found enough content over the months inside PT's code for a "full video", but decided this particular discovery was too grisly not to share. “I finally found all the code that handles the ‘zoom in’ when the player clicks the R3 button. I removed all the code that adjusts the camera and replaced it with my own, and then patched the game so that it thinks you’re always holding R3, so it constantly injects my custom camera axis.”And voila. Nightmare fuel.Despite being only a demo for Konami and Hideo Kojima's cancelled Silent Hills project, PT is widely considered one of the scariest video games of all time. In the five years since its release it has gained a near mythical status, partly thanks to the fact its no longer available to download, but also because fans have continued to unearth strange secrets.For more on PT, last month IGN's own Jonathan Dornbush, Lucy O'Brien and Max Scoville sat down to explain why over five years later it still scares them.

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