Suda 51 and Swery team up to work on Hotel Barcelona project inspired by the classic Forbidden Siren.

Two of the creative Japanese with greater personality have joined to work in a new horror video game that for now responds to the name of Hotel Barcelona. These are veterans Goichi Suda and Hidetaka Suehiro, responsible for No More Heroes and Deadly Premonition respectively, who during live streaming have offered the first details of this enigmatic project.

The game would be inspired by horror classics like Forbidden Siren of PS2Both creatives have a budget of one million dollars to shape a game that will be edited by Devolver Digital. Suda51 and Swery have not entered into many details, but they mention the classic PlayStation 2 Forbidden Siren as a possible source of inspiration, with a story starring multiple characters.

Hotel Barcelona will consist of different rooms that represent a different person, “or a different dimension, or a different approach to what happens in this period of time,” both creatives comment. Precisely Swery mentions that players could follow different “timelines” that would be linked together. He also comments that it will be a project, rather than a horror one, of “suspense, capable of creating uncertainty and nervousness”.

A very interesting detail has to do with a possible evil character that players would have to control, thus being forced to commit terrible actions. The other characters would be employees of the hotel or visitors to it. As reported by the authors of Hotel Barcelona, ​​they had been wanting to work on a project that came to play for PlayStation VR, Sony’s virtual reality glasses, focused on food since 2018.

That project was cancelled and both creatives decided to continue their collaboration with a title that they confess is closer to an indie experience than to a triple game A. The authors of Hotel Barcelona, ​​who have not offered images of the project nor have they specified their platforms, They have also mentioned the great filmmaker David Lynch and his Twin Peaks series, so we can expect a game with a surreal narrative and aesthetic.

It remains to wait to know more details of Hotel Barcelona and the commitment of both creatives for the genre of terror. As an anecdote, both creatives have written to the author of the Silent Hill saga to ask if he wanted to join the project, and Keiichiro Toyama’s answer has been “yes.”

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