Suda51’s Hotel Barcelona Set to Overhaul Side Scroller Gameplay With Slasher Phantoms

Popular Japanese video game directors Suda51 and Swery65 have decided to join forces. They will be giving their fans a brand-new gameplay experience. Tokyo Game Show 2023 featured several big names, like Square Enix, Konami, and Atlus. And along with their announcements, the aforementioned directors caught the attention of the audience with their new reveal, developed under developer White Owls Inc.

Through their lengthy presentation focused on their latest title, they talked in detail about their project, Hotel Barcelona. Suda51 seemed pretty hyped about his new collaboration with Swery65. And from everything that was revealed, surely you will be too.

Everything we know about the newly announced Hotel Barcelona

Hotel Barcelona is a very unusual title. At first glance, it’s a side scroller with gore-heavy themes. Keeping up with the usual Suda51 themes, this one collects the biggest of the USA’s serial killers in a hotel and tasks players with defeating them. However, it’s not as straightforward as it sounds.

It’s a world where someone has found a way to prevent them from dying. That’s why the player character keeps respawning after dying, and within the bounds of this loop, they have to make sure each one of their opponents is dead.

The biggest new addition to the mechanics of side-scrawling games that is introduced in Hotek Barcelona is called Slasher Phantom. When players die, they can choose to have their previous selves follow them through the levels. This provides decent enough support in the treacherous world of Hotel Barcelona, albeit a very limited one; players cannot expect their shadows to win boss battles for them.

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Swery65 himself said in an interview with Xbox news “You might then think, If I have three Slasher Phantoms with me all the time, all the levels will be a piece of cake. I assure you, it is not that easy.”

This all sounds pretty interesting; it looks like they have intentions to give their fans something exceptionally unique, as is their legacy.

Their previous games really make fans hopeful.

Goichi Suda (Suda51) and Hidetaka Suehiro (Swery65) are known Japanese video game designers. Both are known for some really popular cult hits. Suda has games like the No More Heroes trilogy. While Swery65 is very well known for his cult hit Deadly Premonition.

No More Heroes is a hack and slash, action adventure series that is pretty similar to Hotel Barcelona. In these games, the protagonist is always fighting against numerous contract killers to prove himself the best. No More Heroes won the IGN Wii award for best story in 2008 and more.

Deadly Premonition is a mystery game where the protagonist goes into a remote town to solve a mystery and has to deal with a bunch of eccentric characters.

If Hotel Barcelona is half as good as the games they have made before, it is surely going to be an excellent addition to the Xbox Game Pass library!

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