At the moment Tokyo-based studio Unseen offered one other take a look at the event of its upcoming recreation Kemuri.
Particularly, we meet Kemuri‘s lead recreation designer, Kenan Alpay, as he has a stunning chat with the studio’s CEO and artistic director Ikumi Nakamura.
Alpay is a veteran of recreation improvement, having labored for ten years at Ubisoft (the place he final labored on South Park: The Fractured However Entire) and three years at Sq. Enix.
As the 2 share a PB&J sandwich and rice with umeboshi (a particularly bitter pickled plum… I do not understand how you do it Kenan), they chat in regards to the recreation’s improvement, Japan, and work at Unseen.
As a bonus, scattered throughout the video, you possibly can see a number of glimpses of gameplay prototypes of Kemuri, which is nice as a result of we have not seen a lot simply but because the recreation’s reveal at The Sport Awards final 12 months.
One other attention-grabbing component highlighted by the video is the truth that, regardless of being situated in Tokyo, the studio employs each Japanese and Western builders from varied nations, with Alphay himself usually decoding for them.
We hear that the purpose is not simply to create a great recreation, but additionally a great studio that may merge each Japanese and Western improvement kinds.
You possibly can watch the video your self beneath.
Should you’re not conversant in it, Kemuri is a supernatural-themed on-line co-op PvE recreation during which gamers benefit from the position of Yokai Hunters, who act as a bridge between the worlds of people and that of Yokai.
They’ll use the “Fox Window” energy to see the supernatural, however on the similar time, utilizing it causes them to be detected as properly. You possibly can battle in opposition to the Yokai or negotiate with them, on high of accumulating their powers to make use of them in battle.
If you wish to see extra, you too can take pleasure in one other video that gives a good deeper look into the sport.
If the title of the studio would not ring a bell, it was based in 2021 by Nakamura-san herself. She’s greatest often called the previous artistic director of Ghostwire: Tokyo after rising to web fame on account of her super-cute presentation at Bethesda’s press convention throughout E3 2019.
Ste beforehand labored on The Evil Inside and its sequel, Okami, Bayonetta, and even Scalebound. She left Tango Gameworks in 2019 earlier than founding Unseen.
