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Horror Visual Novel Game ‘Death Mark’ Receives Sequel in ‘NG’
Fans of Experience’s first “spirit horror” game, Death Mark, which was released this past Halloween in North America, have a second game to look forward to in NG (yes, that’s it’s title). Scheduled for release in Japan on February 21, 2019 for PlayStation 4, the game originally launched for the PS Vita in September.
The game has the player searching for their missing sister, which has resulted in ghosts themed after Japanese fantasy and legends appearing and “corroding” everyday life. The PS4 version of the game will include new gameplay features, which allows you to experience a new ‘fear’ found within the scenes of the game.
First-print purchases of the PlayStation 4 Japanese version will include the game’s original soundtrack, which features background music from NG, as well as the Death Mark voice drama “How to Make Good Coffee.”
No word yet on if/when a localized North American version will appear. And speaking of Death Mark, Experience also announced that the game has sold over 100,000 copies worldwide, and is currently being adapted into a novel and a manga in Japan. Both will be based on the game, but will have expanded scenarios and new scenes not present in the game.
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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