MonsterVine: "SWERY and SUDA51’s Hotel Barcelona traps players in a serial killer-filled nightmare, blending roguelike mechanics with stylish 2.5D action. Here’s our first impressions."
Hotel Barcelona, the long awaited collaboration between Suda51 and Swery65, has been confirmed for launch in 2024.
I watched the trailer and it was disappointingly normal looking. The bosses being called Steve and Nigel was about the weirdest part.
Yea my feelings, exactly. When I saw these names together I was hoping for something like a next-gen Deadly Premonition or D4 kind of game… not some budget side scroller indie looking game.
Looks very budget to me. But I'll wait to see how it turns out when the game is finally launched
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Yeah, me either. Will be interesting to see if it can recapture the weird appeal of the first one.
That's cool about DP2, I enjoyed the original mainly because of the Twin Peaks vibe but damn it was as rough as a badgers arse. More of the same but less janky sounds good.
If you really love Twin Peaks and David Lynch I think you would believe that Deadly Premonition doesn't work unless it has a good amount of jank. Twin Peaks the Return came out in 2016 and it still leaves modern special effects to the curb for a more handmade, practical feel. Down home yet surreal and existential.
I hope DP2 has a heavy helping of Twin Peaks as much or more than the first. So far it doesn't look that way. I'm concerned.
I loved Deadly Premonition! Such an odd wonderful game. Really happy it's getting a sequel!
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Ideally we get something similar in scope/complexity to early Yakuza games -- here's hoping.
Wasn't the first game kind of like that though, just very limited in size and where you could go?
The open world in the first game was kind of an abstract joke or something. It was my least favorite part of the game but looking back, it is kind of funny how purposefully bad it was.
Sounds like Suda, completely insane. I can't say I like the open world move though.
I love NMH but the open world was awful. No people. Nothing to do. Wasn't just a little empty. It was 100% empty.
Good question -- they might need a little too much work to be brought up to modern standards.
