Slitterhead - a new horror game by Keiichiro Toyama [Silent Hill, Siren, Gravity Rush]

[ziggypossum]

Bokeh Game Studio founders: Junya Okura, Keiichiro Toyama, and Kazunobu Sato

 

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Silent Hill and Gravity Rush Creator's New Project Will Be a Horror Action-Adventure Game, Aiming for 2023. The new game will be ex-PlayStation developer Keiichiro Toyama’s first multi-platform release in two decades.

 

Silent Hill and Gravity Rush creator Keiichiro Toyama has shared some details of the upcoming debut game from his new studio, which will be a horror-themed action-adventure, aiming for a 2023 release, that will appeal to Toyama's fans.

 

Toyama's Bokeh Game Studio was founded on August 13 and announced publicly in December. Speaking with IGN Japan, the acclaimed developer explained that he is working on “an action-adventure game that will appeal to fans of my previous work”. He explained that the game will include “battles and story elements” in the kind of richly authored worlds you might recognize from his games at Sony’s Japan Studio and Konami.

 

When pressed on whether this new title will lean more toward the horror themes of Silent Hill and Siren or the cuter anime-styled paranormal setting of Gravity Rush, he explained, “If anything, this will be more of a horror-oriented game. But we will focus on making this a broader entertainment experience, rather than a hardcore horror game.”

 

While Toyama has been a first-party Sony developer for the past 20 years or so, he said that this new game will be a multi-platform release. “We are developing with PC as the lead platform, but we hope to release the game on as many console platforms as possible,” he said.

 

 

The new title is being developed by a “fairly large” team, and Bokeh cofounder and producer Kazunobu Sato explained that they are still in the early stages of development, with an estimated target release date of 2023. “We’re just entering prototype development, and development will probably take nearly three years. So we hope to get this game into your hands in about three years from now.”

 

Regarding the studio’s foundation, Toyama explained that a combination of remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic and turning 50 prompted him to think about his future, and to answer the beckoning call of independence. He turned to longtime collaborators Sato (producer on the Siren series and The Last Guardian) and Junya Okura (lead level designer on the Siren and Gravity Rush series, whom Toyama credits with giving shape to his gameplay ideas), and the three Japan Studio colleagues set up Bokeh Game Studio together, with Toyama as Creator, Sato as Producer and Okura as Game Director. They initially considered creating smaller mobile games, before eventually building up a team of “mostly veterans” to increase the scale of their ambitions.

 

“I took a lot of inspiration from genDESIGN,” said Toyama, referring to the studio founded by Ico creator Fumito Ueda, who was yet another Japan Studio alumnus. “Ueda told me so much about his experiences that it inspired me to follow suit.”

 

While Bokeh’s first game may be a way off, Sato and business development manager Yohei Hart (also ex-Japan Studio) promised that the studio’s newly launched Twitter account and Facebook account will show peeks behind the curtain as the team progresses with development. “When you work at a major studio like Japan Studio, there is a limit to what you can share publicly, so now that we are free from those restraints, we’d like to take the opportunity to share as much as we can … so that the audience can see how the game comes together over time,” explained Sato. “We hope it might help people to not forget about us.”

 

https://www.ign.com/articles/silent-hill-gravity-rush-new-game-horror-action-release-date-2023-bokeh

 

 

Edited December 10, 2021 by ziggypossum
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[Lonemankane]

if only the ex team silent team meet up and make this horror game and go from there just make sure you don't let kojima anywhere near the game they are making as if they are making their own game on their own terms they don't need no self ego driven person to give any kind of feedback or help from

Edited December 24, 2020 by KANERKB

[ExcrucioVII]

6 minutes ago, KANERKB said:

if only the ex team silent team meet up and make this horror game and go from there just make sure you don't let kojima anywhere near the game they are making

You're right, Kojima works best on his own. ?

[Lonemankane]

2 minutes ago, ExcrucioVII said:

You're right, Kojima works best on his own. 

Kojima can't really work on his own as he needs people who are good at things to take credit from them for his own self ego

[Bloodytears1666]

...rather than a hardcore horror game

 

Why not??

 

 

[Slava]

Why are people bringing up Kojima here, lol. 

 

Like I said in one of my status updates, I'm excited to see where Toyama goes with this having all the creative freedom he wants. I should've guessed that this wasn't going to be a pure hardcore (survival) horror game when they announced it was going to be an action-adventure title. I don't mind this choise, I just hope the game is still super scary. 

[Ptirle]

I am really hoping that they top the silent hill atmosphere and scare factor as running thru the town in night on steel gratings and evading monsters in the first game is the most scariest shit to date. To me at least. 

[ziggypossum]

 

[sealightbreeze]

Hope that it is a new Silent Hill. I would even be happy with a HD remaster or remake of all other games 

[TheMutilatingOne]

On 12/24/2020 at 5:22 AM, Alderriz said:

Why are people bringing up Kojima here, lol.

P.T.

[Slava]

1 hour ago, TheMutilatingOne said:

P.T.

 

I believe this new game has nothing to do with P.T. or Silent Hill. It's a new IP.

 

Or do people think this is secretly a new SH, and Konami gave the IP rights to a new studio? ?

 

I think there's no chance Kojima is going to be involved either way.

Edited February 15, 2021 by Alderriz

[Leenewbe]

will be keeping an eye on this one as well as the one from former dead space devs, interested to see what they'll (striking Distance) will be able to do without upper management interference.

[TheMutilatingOne]

On 2/15/2021 at 11:02 AM, Alderriz said:

 

I believe this new game has nothing to do with P.T. or Silent Hill. It's a new IP.

 

Or do people think this is secretly a new SH, and Konami gave the IP rights to a new studio? 

 

I think there's no chance Kojima is going to be involved either way.

I think it's simply because people are still salty about Silent Hills being cancelled, especially since that remake in Unreal Engine 4 became a bit popular not too long ago.  I downloaded it but no clue if Konami is cease-and-desisting them over it.  Crystal Dynamics gave the goahead to the dude working on a Tomb Raider 2 remake in UE4 as long as he doesn't profit off it.

[ziggypossum]

https://twitter.com/BokehGameStudio/status/1374015003473240064

[Doomed_Gary]

Ok, that's some cool concept art.

[Dantes_994]

On 12/24/2020 at 3:24 AM, ziggypossum said:

Bokeh Game Studio founders: Junya Okura, Keiichiro Toyama, and Kazunobu Sato

 

 

https://www.ign.com/articles/silent-hill-gravity-rush-new-game-horror-action-release-date-2023-bokeh

 

 

Look at them, they look so happy! hahaha cannot wait for this  

[ziggypossum]

 

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The YouTube channel of Bokeh Game Studio has been updated, and a new video "Focus --Kazunobu Sato" has been released. As the title suggests, this time the content focuses on Mr. Kazunobu Sato, and from the topic of the "SIREN" series so far, he also talks about the new work that Bokeh Game Studio is working on.

https://www.famitsu.com/news/202106/24224950.html

 

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Bokeh Game Studio reveals horror game will "mess with the player's mind"

Kazunobu Sato talks about the upcoming horror-adventure game

https://www.gamesradar.com/bokeh-game-studio-reveals-horror-game-will-mess-with-the-players-mind

Edited June 25, 2021 by ziggypossum
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[ziggypossum]

Silent Hill and Siren devs on their return to horror

Bokeh's new project slowly comes into focus.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-07-08-silent-hill-and-siren-devs-on-their-return-to-horror

[MatThaRiPP3R84]

konami said silent hill is being worked on by 2 studios, we know bloober is doing a walking simulator. and they said a prominant japanese developer is taking over the next gen title. i imagine this is the team.

 

but honestly it doesn't matter, horror is horror, just knowing legends are working on stuff thats all i need to know.

Edited July 8, 2021 by MatThaRiPP3R84

[Xugoshi]

So does this debunk the rumors of a Silent Hill remake that's been going around?

[ziggypossum]

 

Check out this disturbing new horror game from Silent Hill creator, Keiichiro Toyama.

Featuring an original score from Silent Hill composer, Akira Yamaoka.

[Eraezr]

I want to support Gravity Rush's director but this trailer pitches something which comes off as mid.

[nrs1nrs1]

gameplay and characters still look a little rough (it is a first look after all) but MAN the aesthetic and monster design is IMMACULATE. Can't wait to learn more.

[You]

That's a pretty brave name for a game title. As when I were a wee lad growing up, "slit" was/is a particularly vulgar word.

Basically the next door neighbour of the C word.

Edited December 10, 2021 by enaysoft

[TheAbyssWalker61]

I just can't understand how Sony let this talented man out of their studios, Sony America ruins everything, i hope this game can be great as Siren and Gravity Rush, very underrated but a good game creator