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Ikumi Nakamura Shares Some Small Details About ‘Ghostwire Tokyo’ and its Futuristic Rapture
Kirk Cameron: eat your heart (or sad birthday Subway) out. There’s a new rapture in town!
E3 2019 breakout star Ikumi Nakamura confirmed on Sunday what many had already suspected. Ghostwire Tokyo, the next game from The Evil Within 2 developer, Tango Gameworks, debuted with an exciting CG trailer in June, which depicted some of the denizens of Tokyo disappearing from public places, leaving empty clothes, high heels, briefcases, other people and adorable, lonely doggos behind.
In a tweet, Nakamura, who is the game’s creative director, stated that Ghostwire Tokyo would feature a “Raptured Apocalypse + Near Future Tokyo + Supernatural.” Further, she teased, “Is this? ‘Normal’ or ‘Paranormal?’”
That last bit is cryptic, but the formula she spells out above seems fairly straightforward. Something spoooky is happening in a more-cyberpunk-than-it’s-already-perceived Tokyo and people are disappearing in droves. The trailer’s slogan-y last line —”Don’t fear the unknown. Attack it.” —suggests that players will be fighting back against whatever is causing this “Raptured Apocalypse.”
So, if Ghostwire Tokyo’s rapture is anything like the rapture anticipated by dispensationalist evangelicals, that could mean the game will end with the player fighting God? Which would also mean that Ghostwire Tokyo is, by definition, a JRPG. Sorry horror fans! Tango Gameworks is making a Final Fantasy now!
Jokes aside, Ghostwire Tokyo was one of the most exciting new IPs introduced at this year’s E3. And if Tango Gameworks is cooking up Cyberpunk Left Behind, I, for one, am here for it.
While you wait for Alien: Romulus, the folks over at Devilworks have cooked up their own slice of “mockbuster” fun with Alien Hunt, and we’re debuting the trailer here on BD this morning.
This brand-new sci-fi horror from director Aaron Mirtes (The Bigfoot Trap, Painted in Blood) is set for its US premiere on May 14, and you can find it on digital thanks to Devilworks.
You can exclusively watch the official trailer for Alien Hunt below, which looks to combine elements of Alien and Predator. This particular “mockbuster” has very little interest in hiding its inspirations, with the alien designs plucked straight out of H.R. Giger’s beautiful brain. Hey, if you’re going to pull from other movies, might as well take from the all-time greats!
In Alien Hunt, “On a hunting trip in the wilderness, a group of siblings discovers an abandoned military outpost on their land, but is it what it seems?
“Their trip takes a sinister turn when they find themselves facing off against a relentless army of extra-terrestrial beings. Suddenly, the hunters become the hunted.
“The formidable squad of alien soldiers will stop at nothing to wipe out the enemy and in an all-out, brutal battle for survival, it’s kill or be killed in Alien Hunt.”
Barron Boedecker (Escape Pod, The Bigfoot Trap), Brent Bentley (The Perfect In-Laws, Haunt Season), Deiondre Teagle (The Visitor, Painted in Blood, Death Ranch), Chelsey Fuller (The Bigfoot Trap, The Silent Natural), Jesse Santoyo (A Nashville Country Christmas, Potter’s Ground), and Adam Pietripaoli (The Bigfoot Trap, The OctoGames) star.
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