At this year’s Summer Game Fest, we finally got a look at gameplay from Slitterhead, the first game from Silent Hill creator Keiichiro Toyama’s studio, Bokeh Games—unless you count the trailer having leaked a few hours ago as our first look, that is. I don’t know what I expected otherwise, but it looks sick and nasty as all hell, seemingly takes a page from beloved 7/10 superhero game Prototype, and is coming out this November.
The first big surprise of the trailer comes when, instead of the handsome detective guy who looks like a protagonist, we see the player controlling a random middle aged man who jumps off a roof, with the player then leaving his body in spirit ectoplasm form, the camera zooming into first person as they peruse a crowd of people for a new host.
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It’s giving Prototype by way of Ghostwire: Tokyo, basically. Prototype, while not a great game, had a fantastic core idea: you’re a nasty freaky symbiote from an experiment gone wrong, and can possess anyone in its open world. Ghostwire Tokyo, meanwhile, had a stunning, surreal vision of that metropolis that still sticks with me despite its other failings.
It looks like things aren’t …