Masahiro Ito, artist of the original Silent Hill and art director of the second and third installments of the franchise, suddenly noticed for online horror Dead by Daylight and on Pyramid Head, who appeared in it back in 2020.
According to Ito, the developers made a mistake and added the wrong monster to the game:
Why doesn’t Dead By Daylight use the White Hunter as an assassin? I created it for the comic included in the Japanese OST of SH:origin/zero, but it was a different version of Pyramid Head that wasn’t originally intended for James.
For me, if the White Hunter joins Dead By Daylight as an assassin, it will be more justified. Because I designed it for just such a use. At that time, Pyramid Head had already been used in the film, Homecoming and Arcade.
But the original Pyramid Head was a character I created for James. That’s why I created this character to avoid abuse [личными демонами Джеймса]and named him the White Hunter.
The White Hunter did appear in a small comic strip written by Ito himself. Curiously, his name is even written in Russian in the original:
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