Goichi 'Suda51' Suda - creator of No More Heroes - and Hidetaka 'Swery' Suehiro - creator of Deadly Premonition - are bringing their pseudonyms and reliably weird development sensibilities to a new joint project. It's called Hotel Barcelona, and it's a horror title inspired by the likes of PlayStation 2 classic Siren and David Lynch works like Twin Peaks.
It's all a bit "fuzzy, in the air right now," according to the panel the two appeared on (via Nibel on Twitter), but the plan is to build this as a sort of indie title. It'll be small-scale enough that it might hit mobile in addition to other platforms, and the developers have been in talks with Devolver Digital to build the game at a budget of $1 million USD.
Except Devolver says on Twitter that "this is news to us," and follows up with "gonna need Suda51 and Swery to pitch us this mysterious game we're supposedly publishing. Name a time and place, gentlemen." We asked the publisher directly what exactly is going on, and got back, simply, "as suspected, Devolver has never heard of it."
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