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The Simpsons: Hit and Run is an integral a part of lots of our childhoods, and the creators of one in every of its most hilarious mods have lately celebrated their unhinged work’s first birthday by recording a full director’s commentary.

In case you’re unfamiliar with ‘Hell Inspector’s Mod of Stupidity’, I’m not fairly positive I can sum it up whereas correctly doing it justice, however right here goes. Think about taking the already quite wacky 2003 safe-for-kids GTA clone, and making it even stranger by including a bunch of recent missions to it that deliver 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 yr 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.

In case you give it a watch, you’ll probably be quite distracted by what’s occurring visually, as Homer accepts varied 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 mentioned, the commentary does function some fascinating dialogue of how The Simpsons: Hit and Run’s modding scene has developed over time, with the trio outlining that indisputable fact that a lot of the sport’s older mods merely revolved round making an attempt to make the sport tougher (as if that’s mandatory) or including in missions that mirrored the vanilla recreation’s fashion.

Since that time, issues have gotten much more bold, with mods like Colou’s ‘Storm Over Springfield’, which turns the sport right into a disaster-prepping sim through 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 tougher to proceed managing to tug 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? Nicely, if it’s something like Bethesda recreation modding, the reply’s in all probability Thomas the Tank Engine.