The Simpsons: Hit and Run is an integral a part of a lot of our childhoods, and the creators of considered one of its most hilarious mods have just lately celebrated their unhinged work’s first birthday by recording a full director’s commentary.
For those who’re unfamiliar with ‘Hell Inspector’s Mod of Stupidity’, I’m not fairly certain I can sum it up whereas correctly doing it justice, however right here goes. Think about taking the already reasonably wacky 2003 safe-for-kids GTA clone, and making it even stranger by including a bunch of recent missions to it that carry to life a story involving an array of iconic characters from different exhibits and video games.
That’s just about the system for the mod, which was lastly launched by its principal creator – the aptly-named Hell Inspector – this time final 12 months and has now turned one. To commemorate the event, the modder has roped a few fellow modders, Nightbane and Tappie, into doing a full director’s commentary playthrough of the mod 12’s missions.
For those who give it a watch, you’ll seemingly be reasonably distracted by what’s happening visually, as Homer accepts numerous missions from the likes of Wallace – of Wallace and Gromit fame – Hank Hill and in addition interacts with some characters from Mario video games like Waluigi and Toad. In case you had been questioning, an evil model of Mr Bean (sure, that one) serves because the mod’s principal villain.
That stated, the commentary does function some fascinating dialogue of how The Simpsons: Hit and Run’s modding scene has advanced through the years, with the trio outlining that undeniable fact that quite a few the sport’s older mods merely revolved round attempting to make the sport more durable (as if that’s obligatory) or including in missions that mirrored the vanilla recreation’s fashion.
Since that time, issues have gotten much more formidable, with mods like Colou’s ‘Storm Over Springfield’, which turns the sport right into a disaster-prepping sim by way of a bunch of recent missions, interiors and extra, having pushed the boat out.
Now, the group argue, is the period when bizarre stuff just like the Mod of Stupidity guidelines the roost, because it’s getting more durable to proceed managing to drag off spectacular modding feats with the sport that nobody’s seen earlier than.
Who is aware of the place Simpsons: Hit and Run modding will go subsequent? Properly, if it’s something like Bethesda recreation modding, the reply’s in all probability Thomas the Tank Engine.