The Xbox Digital Broadcast at Tokyo Game Show 2023 brought us our first look at Hotel Barcelona, a collaboration between legendary Japanese developers Hidetaka “Swery” Suehiro and Goichi “Suda51” Suda.
Swery is best known for the Deadly Premonition video games, while Suda51 is best known for the No More Heroes series and Lollipop Chainsaw. Swery most recently released 2021 role-playing game The Good Life. Suda51's latest game is No More Heroes 3, which came out on Nintendo Switch in 2021 before launching on other platforms last year.
Hotel Barcelona is a time looping action game influenced by the history of horror movies, including Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. It offers "2.5D slasher film parodic action", and features a giant man wearing baseball gear. You fight everything from alien-like beings to serial killers. It's as bizarre a game as you'd expect from Swery and Suda51. The debut trailer is below:
Hotel Barcelona is currently set to appear on Xbox Series X and S in 2024.
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