It appears that Bokeh Game Studio, founded by Keiichiro Toyama, who directed the first Silent Hill and created Siren and Gravity Rush, is working on another horror game.
According to MP1st, Bokeh is hiring motion capture artists for its next project, which still appears to be untitled.
The casting sheet lists characters including River, Dean, Lyra, Hazel, Becca, Dena and Emma, as well as an eight-year-old girl.
The descriptions cover mature themes, including drug use and dealing, violence, abuse, heartbreak, and sex work, with several characters relating to creature transformation – which seems surprisingly close to Toyama’s previous game, Slitterhead… which is interesting, considering Slitterhead didn’t exactly set the world on fire.
River’s entry cites River Phoenix and Kurt Cobain as visual references, while Lyra’s points to Mia Goth as a tonal reference.
Bokeh’s debut album, Slitterhead, was released in 2024. I bucked the trend with my four out of five star verdict in Eurogamer’s Slitterhead review, writing: “Slitterhead is stylish, exciting and unusual (and really, how can you say no when a particular Slitterhead bears an uncanny resemblance to Beetlejuice?). How lucky we are that something as singular and unapologetically strange as this exists.”
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