On paper, the news that Hidetaka ‘Swery65’ Suehiro and Goichi ‘Suda51’ Suda are making a new horror game together is terribly exciting. The Deadly Premonition and No More Heroes developers would come up with something terrific, and during an IGN Japan livestream, the pair even went into a few details about the new project – tentatively titled “Hotel Barcelona”.
With Siren director Keiichiro Toyama also taking an interest in the idea after a live texting session, and Devolver Digital already desperate to hand the team $1 million to get started, the excitement level had hit a high watermark.
But then, there was this:
Haha. This is news to us.
— Devolver Digital (@devolverdigital) October 23, 2019
And this:
Gonna need @SUDA_51 and @Swery65 to pitch us this mysterious game we’re supposedly publishing.
Name a time and place, gentlemen. https://t.co/duvQWVj1CO
— Devolver Digital (@devolverdigital) October 23, 2019
And this:
Yes. It’s the law.
— Devolver Digital (@devolverdigital) October 23, 2019
Is it a desert-dry publicity stunt from Devolver, or have these two absolutely golden chancers pulled off everything they’re on about? We’ll likely find out more next week, when Swery plans to create game concepts while Suda will be on logo-designing duties for Hotel Barcelona at an unspecified event.
Wireframe #25 is out now
