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Ikumi Nakamura, the iconic horror artist known for her work on Okami, Bayonetta, The Evil Within, and Ghostwire Tokyo, has unveiled a brand new project that looks like some of the best parts of all those games combined and enhanced with a three-player co-op option.
Kemuri: Hunt the Unseen made its debut during today's PlayStation State of Play, and quite frankly, it woke me out of the slight boredom I was experiencing watching Wolverine impale someone's face for the 15th time. Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of Marvel Games and I'm looking forward to Marvel's Wolverine, but that trailer was just a whole lot of slashing people to a bloody pulp and not a whole lot else. Kemuri: Hunt the Unseen, on the other hand, looks like something fresh, new, and weird in a way you would rightfully expect from Nakamura.
Fast, fluid, frenetic, and brimming with colorful J-pop style, Kemuri looks like a decidedly non-spooky take on Ghostwire Tokyo, the supremely underrated 2022 action horror game that Nakamura was originally creative director on. You team up with up to two other players and take on Kemuri City, which of course is the city "closest to the afterlife," and hunt down some ghosts inspired by Japanese folklore. It seems you have numerous ways of traversing the city both horizontally and vertically, with the trailer showing player characters gliding around environments, wall-running up buildings, and rail-grinding across ledges in pursuit of yokai which you can form contracts with and absorb their powers, changing your appearance, combat, and movement.
In terms of battles, it seems there's a mix of fast-paced supernatural ability-based melee and ranged combat, with what looks to be a Devil May Cry-influence.
Kemuri is in development at Nakamura's new studio Unseen, hence the subtitle. There's no release date just yet, but you can expect it to land on PS5 at some point in 2027.
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