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Every Horror Movie Reference In Hotel Barcelona So Far
25.09.2023 - 14:03 / screenrant.com / Stanley Kubrick
is a gory onslaught of classic horror-inspired enemies. The newly-announced side-scrolling Soulslite is the newest game from both Hidetaka «SWERY» Suehiro and Goichi «Suda51» Suda, two developers who specialize in delightfully devilish, off-kilter games that wear their inspirations on their sleeves. SWERY's and its sequel comprise a duology of pastiche, featuring small-town murder mysteries, eccentric detectives, and old ladies with fortunetelling pots. Suda's series stars the gamer-turned-assassin Travis Touchdown, who's been known to debate the merits of with his targets before finishing them off.
The first trailer for dropped at Tokyo Game show, as part of the Xbox presentation on September 21, 2023. It's due out next year, with Suda fresh off the conclusion to his stylish action series, , and SWERY living in his latest and greatest town sim/murder mystery. Suda devised the original concept for the game, and SWERY wrote and directed it based on his ideas. The trailer takes players through a preview of various combat scenarios, showing giant bosses, hilariously parodic enemies, and brutal, hack-and-slash circular saw action. These are all the horror movies it's been shown to reference so far.
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While there's no one, concrete reference to contained in the trailer, its title and concept is a reference to the supernatural Overlook Hotel from the Stephen King novel, later adapted into a film by director Stanley Kubrick. Like the Overlook, the Hotel Barcelona exists out of time. It appears to serve as a gateway to many different worlds, each of which is torn directly from the pages of a horror script. is decidedly different from The Overlook, which is more of a temporal anomaly containing memorial manifestations of all the sordid affairs it's ever seen. But SWERY admits to being inspired by 's creepy setting.
includes a boss based on Jason Voorhees from the series, only the game's own Jacob swaps the hockey mask for a football helmet and the machete for a giant, spiked baseball bat. In case that wasn't enough, Jacob's voice lines reference a spooky summer camp, complete with a cursed lake. In another scene, the protagonist of fights an enemy wearing a cut-out pillowcase and swinging a wood ax, referencing Jason's look in. The official game may have been killed by its online-only status, but Jason lives in 's tongue-in-cheek boss battles.
puns on another slasher classic with the parody. Its take on Leatherface, who appears to be named Nigel, looks a little different. Instead of the cobbled-together mask, he wears a chef's toque and carries an enormous bone saw. His custom wheelchair is also tricked out with a pair of red-hot flamethrowers.
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