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Sam Barlow’s studio has two new horror games in the works, is “reinventing 3rd person horror again"You go, Glen Coco!
You go, Glen Coco!
Image credit:Half Mermaid
Image credit:Half Mermaid
Project D’s store page just says “Something bad”, “Some doors” twice, and then “home?”. So, you get stuck going through doors, which can lead you to different places, and have to try to get home? It seems to be set in or around 1983, and maybe you play a nurse. I’m going to go out on a limb and say that it isn’t reinventing horrortropes, at any rate. “This is a third-person survival horror game,” Barlow says on Kinda Funny, “but like, take that and then imagine what happens if the Immortality team fuses with a third-person survival horror game.” That could be very cool, because I kind of can’t imagine how that team would do survival horror, and I like that I can’t.
Barlow also referencesSilent Hill: Shattered Memoriesin relation to Project D, a 2009 Wii game that got middling reviews. If that’s the original reinvention of third-person horror he’s referencing then I will just smile and nod politely. Barlow’s tweet about the games also says they have shelved a “Project B(astille)” because “the world isn’t ready for our take on the French Revolution yet”. Like, okay, dude. Is it about Marie Antoinette or a sexy tricoteuse?
I said I’ll give Half Mermaid rope and I’ve been a bit snarky, haven’t I? I don’t not like Half Mermaid and Barlow’s games! Perhaps I have a bit of tall poppy syndrome, here. My natural impulse is to be a bit apologetic when I present something I’ve done, so when I see someone give it the Charlie big potato about how they’re reinventing a genre (for the second time, no less) before the thing is even done it feels a bit, I dunno, tacky? I suppose Sam Barlow is better placed than me to make claims about these games, because I know nothing about them. I’m at least hoping he’s moving away from his favourite theme of girls on film, becau-oh what’s that? The games both have female protagonists and content warnings for nudity and sexual content?
I’ll stop. Predictions? Which do you think looks better? And what do you think C and D stand for? Because I can only think of rude words.
