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Infinite Space

Platinum Games has pretty much made a name for itself with action games, but early in their history, they decided to make something a bit out of their wheelhouse. They chose to team up with Nude Maker and Hifumi Kono, who's worked on franchises like Clock Tower and Steel Battalion, along with the visual novel series Mikagura Shojo Tanteidan. With such a bizarrely diverse pool of experiences under his belt, Hifumi took direction and created a very strange RPG that can't really be properly compared to any other game out there. Infinite Space is a title from the Nintendo DS' days of experimentation, alongside such mechanic creating oddities like The World Ends With You, and it plays like no other title in the system's library, or anything in most every other genre. The narrative is very familiar, though, from the use of familiar visual novel tropes to a plot directly inspired by the work of sci-fi greats. 

NightCry started off as a Kickstarter for Project Scissors: NightCry, so named by director Hifumi Kono to honor his timeless Clock Tower series. Just a year after the end of the campaign, the survival horror game is slated to come out on PC next week. In preparation, we’re here to give to a crash course in monsters with giant scissors and escapology.

This cruise liner comes with all the amenities like creepy children in floppy hats.

Aboard the cruise liner Oceanus guests are taking in the sights and luxuries of the ship. Three specific passengers are about to experience a nightmare on open sea as the immortal demon known as the ‘Scissorwalker’ starts chopping up fellow vacationers. You play as the somewhat shallow student Monica Flores, the passionate anthropologist Leonard Cosgrove, and his withdrawn relative Rooney Simpson (who is also Monica’s classmate and detractor). The fates of the protagonists will intertwine as one small action from one character can doom another. Your choices will determine if you can escape the Oceanus alive and if Leonard can figure out the occult origin of the Scissorwalker.

NightCry features two distinct styles of gameplay: exploration and escape. While exploring your surroundings you’ll come across clues, puzzles and other survivors as you try and get to the bottom of just what’s happened aboard the ship. However, at any moment you can find yourself running for your life from the seemingly omnipresent Scissorwalker. In escape mode you must either hide or use environmental hazards to lose your pursuer. This isn’t your modern day survival horror, as the demon can only be slowed down and not killed. Not only will exploration mode seamlessly dissolve into escape mode but the camera angles will intensify the experience. The fixed perspective of searching the ship will suddenly switch to following right behind you as you scramble away. You will also have the ability to switch the camera to look behind you in escape mode to amp up the tension and just maybe help you survive.

Want to escape? Well you’re going to die trying!

The modest $314,771 USD raised during the Kickstarter (not including PayPal pledges) allowed Hifumi Kono and Playism Games to bring some impressive staff onto the project. This includes notable filmmaker Takashi Shimizu (The Grudge) as a co-creator, both Nobuko Toda (Final Fantasy XIV) and Michiru Yamane (Castlevania) working on sound, and famed horror designer Masahiro Ito (Silent Hill series) working on creature designs. And while there is no doubt that this is a spiritual successor to the Clock Tower series with an antagonist that carries huge scissors and a run and hide mechanic, the unique cruise ship location and employees from a wide array of video game series means that NightCry will be its own beast.

You’ll probably be seeing the end of these scissors a lot.

Playism was even able to get an endorsement from horror-comedy icon Sam Raimi:

“Takashi Shimizu’s NightCry is the type of experience that makes you sleep with the lights on: a killer premise supplemented by fantastic visuals. Knowing the great work being done in video games today, I can’t wait to be fully immersed in this seafaring horror.”

NightCry will be available March 29 at exactly 9:00am PDT. The game will come in a number of different packages including $24.99 USD for the game only, $39.99 USD for the game and digital soundtrack, $49.99 USD for the game and digital soundtrack and digital art book, and $59.99 USD for everything listed plus additional art contents. The game will be available from Steam and Playism’s site for the PC.

Tras una exitosa campaña en Kickstarter, Nude Maker y la editora PLAYISM han anunciado que Project Scissors: NightCry, sucesor espiritual de Clock Tower, se pondrá a la venta  en  Steam  dentro de otoño.

Un tranquilo crucero, un horror inesperado. Bienvenida a bordo de un crucero de lujo, gasta  tu tiempo y  disfruta  de  esta  oportunidad  única. Sin embargo, a  la  altura  de la noche, las  cosas  no  son  como parecen cuando comienzan a suceder asesinatos. Sin tener idea de que está pasando, el crucero estalla en pánico y los invitados comienzan a sospechar unos de otros. A medida que cae la noche y un grito se hace  eco  a  través del crucero, la verdadera pesadilla comienza. Busca respuestas y sálvate a ti misma.

Project Scissors: NightCry  es  una aventura point and click. Haz clic para mover a tu personaje, registrar todo  el  buque  e interactuar con los objetos y personajes seleccionándolos. Asegúrate de verificar que todo cuidadosamente, por que  las  pistas  que necesitas no son fáciles de encontrar. Pero buscar cosas no es todo lo que tienes que hacer. Mientras buscas, serás perseguido, Scissor Walker te está buscando

Spiritual successor to Clock Tower receives release window

My how time flies. One of my first few articles on Gamespresso was the announcement of NightCry’s Kickstarter success. In just a year, the team now has a clearer release window. According to Steam, NightCry will be released in Spring 2016.

NightCry was a Kickstarter project pulled together by Nude Maker, a team led by Hifumi Kono, the original developer for Clock Tower. Coming together, the team…