White Owls Inc. has shown off a new trailer for the long-anticipated Hotel Barcelona, a collaboration between Deadly Premonition’s Swery65 and No More Heroes’ Suda51. It’s, um, not looking so hot.
The trailer starts off by telling us that Hotel Barcelona is written and directed by Swery65 and “original idea” by Suda51, which could mean any number of things. Considering the premise involves facing off with a series of serial killers, you can definitely locate Suda51’s idea.
I consider myself a fan of both Swery65 and Suda51, but this trailer is kind of repellent. The graphics have this ugly blurry look that reminds me of a Wii title, the animations are uneven, and the voice acting is a little concerning. The gameplay looks a little routine, though the idea of playing side-by-side with your previous failed attempts is pretty cool. I’m interested to see how that turns out.
At least the HUD looks cool.
To be fair, most of Swery and Suda’s games are ugly. The actual gameplay an mechanics are typically a little shaky, as well. I prefer their approaches to storytelling, with each having the capacity to write extremely deep and unique characters. The trailer doesn’t really show Hotel Barcelona’s storytelling approach, nor do we see any real character interaction, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t there. I guess we’ll have to wait and see. It would be a real challenge for me not to play a Swery65 and Suda51 joint.
Hotel Barcelona is coming to Xbox, PS5, and PC sometime in 2024.
