Remember when two of the most creative game producers and directors — Goichi Suda (Suda51 of No More Heroes fame) and Hidetaka ‘Swery’ Suehiro (creator of Deadly Premonition) got together and said they wanted to make a horror game together? That was way back in 2019, and while the pair have since reiterated that the game, Hotel Barcelona, is still on, there's not been a lot of movement. Until today.
VGC reports that trademarks for Hotel Barcelona were filed back on 25th March 2022 in Japan, and on 27th October this year internationally, though the latter is still pending. The trademarks were filed under Swery's company, White Owls, so we're hoping something is happening behind the curtain there!
Hotel Barcelona was revealed on an IGN Japan stream back in October 2019, where the two creators came together and — almost randomly — announced their desire to work together to create a horror game. It was pretty... spontaneous, as though the two were ironing out the kinks in front of everyone.
Games such as Siren, the cult PS2 horror game, were brought up, as was an idea for the plot — the game will potentially follow a magazine writer who is visiting a "hip new hotel", and events would unravel from there. Well... given the pedigree behind the game, we're intrigued! The pair also specifically mentioned the Switch as a good "light and easy to play" machine for their game. Horror and easy to play? We'll have to see...
Do you think this trademark means anything? Are you excited for the two developers to work together? Let us know!
[source videogameschronicle.com]
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The art style reminds me of Hotel Dusk: Room 215.
These two minds working together has the potential to put out one of the most out there, yet original games ever. Truly cannot wait to see what they come up with 😁
I'm currently playing through Deadly Premonition right now and I am absolutely enjoying it, so I will definitely be keeping tabs on this!
When/if this ever arrives, it’ll be a day one purchase for me. I’m in.
I do hope working with Suda means this game has less awful jank then Swery's recent games (I'm calling NMH3 not janky by comparison here, think about that). To be fair to Swery, I also hope this isn't Travis Strikes Again where people pretend the game is great out of some vague fondness of these guys as auteurs rather than the actual quality of the game. I want the game itself to be good too.
I'm not down on the game, I just hope their own quirky ideas combined lead to something I actually like.
I think a certain @Astral-Grain will be very interested in this.
Seeing this headline and Swery's name crop up again reminds me how much I'd love to play the two Deadly Premonition games at some point. To me, they are an absolute enigma of the video game landscape: they can be riddled with some of the most glaring flaws a video game can have (stiff animations, abysmal frame rate, etc.)....but somehow, despite it all, still manage to look incredibly interesting and engaging every time I see them. I'd love to pick the two of them up sometime, they look like fascinating games and, if I like them, I'll probably end up liking this new project as well.
@Fizza Bless your kind heart for summoning me, I didn't see this article before.
With this news, I must do all I can to still my heart and keep expectations low. But as you indicated, this could very well be my dream game.
No big deal or anything.
I hope it's being developed by Suda's team. Swery and his people sucks at making games run well.
Livin‘ it up in the Hotel Barcelona.
Mildly hyped. With SWERY's plot and atmosphere and Suda51's gameplay it just might become more than just the sum of its parts.
Killer 7 / Killer is Dead type beat...
... Wun can only hope.
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