Nice visuals and art direction, although the character models look weird and the animations need more work. Also, Nobuko Toda, a composer on MGS3, 4, PW, PO, Acid 1- 2 made music for this game. Was there a crowdfunding campaign for this? Who the hell are Darrel Arts and Stormind Games and how did him/they get a composer on MGS games to make music for them?
There was no crowdfunding campaign for this, this was originally a 2D point'n'click horror game back in like... 2008-2011 which was being made for the PC and Wii as a homage to the Clock Tower series of horror games. However, it changed up a LOT in development as you can see and this ended up being the final result. Game's been in development for almost 10 years now, but it's being made by a small Italian team. For how they got the composer, they actually worked a bit for the concept art on NightCry (not the in-game art, just concept art), and Nobuko Toda was on that project as well, she did a few songs for NightCry, so I am guessing they met her there and worked something out.
I'm very excited for this, been following it for years and happy it's almost here. This is the first of three games they want to do, I'll give the 'trilogy' idea a whirl though I have my doubts if it'll be finished, but of note they've clarified they want each game to be stand-alone enough and finish the story they tell but with an on-going plot thread between them.
I kind of figured it might be behind the character from early screens, but I'm fine with that. Otherwise this resembles to me some hybrid of the Ashley section of Resident Evil 4 and Haunting Ground specifically, which is not a bad thing to me at all. Love the art direction as well, some things might be rough but it's a very low-budget small team thing so I'm way more impressed what they pulled off. It has a very distinct look that is similar to Rule of Rose and Clock Tower without riffing on those games, which I can appreciate.
Excited for it.
