Shadows of the Damned Remaster Won’t Feature Any of Suda51’s Original Ideas

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If you recall Shadows of the Damned, you might have been surprised to see that the game is getting a new lease on life. This title launched in 2011, so we wouldn’t be surprised if you don’t recall the game. Developed under Grasshopper Manufacture and published by EA, Shadows of the Damned had launched for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. However, it was very clear after the game launched that Goichi Suda, better known as Suda51, who founded Grasshopper Manufacture, was upset with how the game turned out. 

This is documented in the past, but the game development underwent a few changes. According to Suda51, the ideas were first presented to EA so that they could publish the title. While it looked like the game idea was well received, the famed developer revealed that EA suddenly demanded several changes. There was fear that some of the ideas coming from the development team would be lost on Western gamers. One example is that the game protagonist wouldn’t initially have a gun within the story. However, EA quickly killed off that among some of the more unique ideas Suda51 initially had. 

The result was a game that significantly changed from Grasshopper Manufacture’s original concept. Now that the game had since been announced for a remaster, VGC reached out to see if any of these ideas that EA initially forced to be scrapped would make a return. Unfortunately, that won’t be the case. Suda51 revealed that making some of these changes to the game would force the developers to create the gameplay experience from scratch.

If we were to make Shadows of the Damned in the way I’d originally planned and used all the ideas I originally wanted to use for the remaster, we’d basically have to remake the entire game from the ground up.