The Microsoft Japan Xbox Tokyo Sport Present 2024 Broadcast livestream on Thursday revealed the story trailer for Slitterhead, the upcoming horror game by Keiichirō Toyama‘s company Bokeh Sport Studio. The livestream additionally confirmed a video of Toyama explaining the sport’s story and setting.
The sport will launch on November 8 for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Collection X|S, and PC by way of Steam and Epic Games Retailer.
The sport was beforehand slated for 2023 because the studio’s first title.
Silent Hill composer Akira Yamaoka is composing the sport’s music.
IGN had beforehand reported that the sport could be a horror action-adventure sport. The web site reported that the sport “will embrace ‘battles and story parts’ within the form of richly authored worlds you may acknowledge from [Toyama’s] video games at Sony‘s Japan Studio and Konami.” Toyama additionally instructed the web site, “If something, this will probably be extra of a horror-oriented sport. However we’ll deal with making this a broader leisure expertise, quite than a hardcore horror sport.” A “pretty giant” crew is engaged on the sport.
Toyama introduced in December 2021 that he had left Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan Studio alongside colleagues Kazunobu Sato and Junya Okura to discovered Bokeh Sport Studio.
Toyama is finest recognized for steering the primary Silent Hill sport by Konami, and subsequently growing the Siren horror sport collection. He additionally directed each Gravity Rush video games. Sato and Okura each labored alongside Toyama within the Siren collection as lead character designer and lead sport designer respectively, and Sato additionally labored as producer of The Final Guardian. Okura was additionally lead sport designer on the Gravity Rush collection.
Sources: Microsoft Japan Xbox Tokyo Sport Present 2024 Broadcast livestream. PlayStation Japan’s YouTube channel
