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Stealth is Key in New Gameplay Trailer for ‘The Persistence’
Space is admittedly a cliché setting for a horror game, but come on, we’d still play it if it did the job of offering quality gameplay and took advantage of the established atmosphere. Plus, it’d be even scarier if it was in VR, right? And while Sega never did quite get Alien: Isolation in VR (until a fan decided to do it), it seems like we’re getting the next best thing with Firesprite’s The Persistence, which just released a new gameplay trailer.
Set for release July 24th exclusively on PlayStation VR, the game plays with the idea of dying and tweaks it to make the game unique. You see, the story for the game has you taking the role of Security Officer Zimri Eder, who like the rest of the ship’s crew, is a clone. Every time Eder dies at the hands of the zombies lurking the ship, the player has a chance to resequence Eder’s DNA in order to make her more powerful with every new clone the ship churns out.
Furthermore, The Persistence also includes a feature that allows friends to drop in via smartphone or tablet, who can then help by hacking into the ship’s engineering system and controlling functions such as unlocking doors, disabling traps, or lure enemies away from Eder. And, over the course of the game, they will level up and gain new skills. However, players can also choose to kill Eder, and by doing so gain new powers for themselves.
Just what you want from your friends, right?
All of us here at Bloody Disgusting are deeply saddened to learn that George A. Romero Foundation Founder and President Suzanne Desrocher-Romero has passed away.
GARF shared in a statement on socials, “It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of Suzanne Desrocher Romero. Suzanne passed away of natural causes on June 24 at her home in Toronto after a prolonged illness.”
The statement continues, “Suzanne was the fierce leader of the George A. Romero Estate and The George A. Romero Foundation. She worked tirelessly to preserve George’s legacy. Her work at the foundation will continue to inspire and live on for generations to come. The family asks for privacy at this time.”
Desrocher-Romero founded GARF in 2018, after her late husband’s passing in 2017, and has been a fierce advocate for his legacy and the arts. It was her mission to “strengthen horror as a serious field of global study,” and she was a tremendous fighter on behalf of Romero’s works and supporting new filmmakers inspired by his legacy.
It was Desrocher-Romero who spearheaded the recovery and restoration of The Amusement Park, and, as the person in charge of the George A. Romero estate, worked closely with author Daniel Kraus on completing unfinished novels like Pay the Piper and The Living Dead. She most recently celebrated the restoration of her favorite of Romero’s zombie films, Day of the Dead, and was hard at work producing the upcoming film Twilight of the Dead.
That passionate advocacy led to Suzanne Desrocher-Romero becoming family to Bloody Disgusting as well.
2023 marked the start of an ongoing partnership between Bloody FM and GARF on The Dead, a scripted audio series spanning multiple seasons that saw Desrocher-Romero working closely with the Bloody FM team and mentoring the series’s contributing writers with GARF. To say her loss will be felt internally is an understatement.
“Anytime George Romero is mentioned is good, because what we are doing is to provide a healthy legacy. We’re uplifting his legacy, we’re supporting the archive, and we’re also supporting the Horror Study Center. So, all of these three things are what the Foundation is striving to do. As far as I’m concerned, the more we say George Romero’s name, the better it is,” Desrocher-Romero recently told BD.
It’s the perfect encapsulation of her unwavering enthusiasm for supporting Romero’s legacy and the horror genre, and just a glimpse at how much she contributed to preserving it. She is, in short, an inspiration.
We send our deepest condolences to Suzanne Desrocher-Romero’s family, friends, and GARF.
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