Every Horror Movie Reference In Hotel Barcelona So Far
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
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