Suda51 would like to make a new Shadows of the Damned game, ideally with Shinji Mikami involved

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Goichi Suda (aka Suda51) has said he’d like to make a new game starring the characters from Shadows of the Damned, without the restrictions placed on him the first time.

The original Shadows of the Damned was released in 2011 and, while developed by Suda’s studio Grasshopper Manufacture, was published by EA.

Suda’s frustration with the original game’s development is well-documented, as clashes with EA led to him making multiple redesigns and compromising his original vision.

Now that Grasshopper is working on a remaster of Shadows of the Damned, VGC asked Suda in a recent interview if he was able to put some of those previously compromised ideas back into the game.

Suda told us that while this won’t be the case and the remaster will be based on the version that was released, he does hope to use those ideas at some stage in a future project.

“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,” he told us.

“So this time it’s going to be a faithful remaster of the original game, so it’s the game fans got before, only remastered and improved.

“Hopefully some time in the future I might get a chance to actually use the ideas that I wasn’t able to use in the beginning – I’ve got them stocked up for possible future use, so hopefully maybe someday we can see something closer to my original vision for the game.”

We asked Suda if this meant he’d like to make a sequel to Shadows of the Damned in the future.

“Yeah, I really love the characters of Garcia and Johnson, and Fleming in particular,” he replied.

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