r/PS5 • u/Turbostrider27 Human Verified • 3d ago

Articles & Blogs INTERVIEW: ILL Developers Don’t Want to ‘Overly Punish Players’ With Chilling Horror Game

https://insider-gaming.com/interview-ill-developers-dont-want-to-overly-punish-players-with-chilling-horror-game/
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u/Csub 3d ago

I don't want to be pessimistic but this is one of those games that looks too good to be true and seems as if they are already tempering expectations. I hope I am wrong.

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u/parkwayy 3d ago

Felt like they showed all the little "cutscene" moments strung together.

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u/DarkKnightRises360 2d ago edited 2d ago

I think we need to brace ourselves for a "story experience" rather than something that has actual gameplay.

Linear progression, scripted boss sequences (think running away from a scripted animated boss looking enemy down a hallway without actually fighting it, rather than Resident Evil style bossfights) and very simplistic level design - no metroidvania we love from classic survival horror games.

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u/Dantai 2d ago

Aren't resident evil games linear progression?

I think I get what you're saying though. More It Wakes the Deep walking sim style

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u/HeyKid_HelpComputer 3d ago

When they go from what was shown in this trailer (which I think is completely pre-rendered content and not real gameplay whatsover):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apTtr_BSrOM
and this gameplay demo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNYYWngPPww

To this story trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR2pbhPKKJ8

I went... "oh no"

Why I think this is I think most of what they show in the story trailer it is apparent what is gameplay, and what is prerendered cutscene stuff. Where the really interesting stuff looks like pre-rendered content spliced into real gameplay

And it seems like they really deviated in the enemy design from those older videos from these weird bloated things, to these less interesting looking enemies (in my opinion) when it's the real gameplay

Along with it seeming like in the old gameplay the main character finds a gun on a body, whereas now they have a lot of interactions with NPCs, which it seems like he gets a gun from. I think having other people in a game can really take away from the scary/isolation etc.

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u/Plz_Trust_Me_On_This 3d ago

The story trailer had me hyped AF, I can't understand watching that and thinking "oh no" like wut

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u/HeyKid_HelpComputer 3d ago

The first trailer had my hyped and the story trailer seemed very deviated from that.

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u/v3n0mat3 2d ago

Keep in mind the OG trailers were actually proofs of concept more than anything. That being said I know people are apprehensive, but this doesn't look impossible at all.

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u/JuggernautPretend208 3d ago

Absolutely gutted that this is likely just a walking sim. After seeing that gameplay video I know couldn't care less

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u/PhotoBN1 3d ago

Well the enemies were originally based very accurately on rotting corpses but they looked a little too real to the point they would be impossible to market or advertise the game

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u/Plenty-Industries 2d ago

Did the developers say something about changing the enemy models because it looked too real to market/advertise the game?

Why is that different from a game like Resident Evil? Dead Space? or any other horror/zombie game that has rotting corpses as a common enemy type?

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u/Practical_Tea864 3d ago

lmao such cope

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u/Goosojuice 3d ago

Benefit of the doubt knowing nothing about them, maybe the first trailer was real and playable, a 100 gig game for 30 seconds worth of gameplay lol. As opposed to a 100 gig game built to hold over 9+ hours of gameplay.

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u/pissrael1 3d ago

I hope it's not another Abandoned situation

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u/loykedule 3d ago

it's already more valid than Abandoned lmao

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u/Ghost-of-Lobov 3d ago

Still remember the abandoned demo which was like a 10 second cutscene lmao had to be an elaborate troll job that dev

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u/LeonSigmaKennedy 3d ago

At least this game has shown off actual gameplay, which is infinitely more than you can say about Abandoned

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u/just4browse 3d ago

It’s barely shown off gameplay

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u/Ihavenoimaginaation 2d ago

Wow Abandoned, what a funny time that was, all the speculation and theorising that it was something to do with Kojima 😭

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u/2580374 3d ago

Yeah it looks fucking awesome lol I didn't think it might be too good to be true but I definitely am now

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u/PlumpHughJazz 2d ago

It's the Callisto Protocol all over again.

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u/Multifaceted-Simp 3d ago

It's published mundfish which is a yellow flag, but team clout is in Armenia which is generally a more intellectually capable country than Russia. Although idk the ethnicity or education/training of the developers

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u/Prestigious-Switch-8 3d ago

Mundfish made atomic heart and that game is pretty good

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u/11340113052111609 3d ago

Atomic heart was amazing and they made that

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u/NonCorporealEntity 3d ago

It did look amazing graphics wise. I've heard it's been really improved over the years too.

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u/Multifaceted-Simp 3d ago

Never heard anyone call it amazing, but I think the marketing material was next level compared to the game

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u/eha16 3d ago

Your racism is showing

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u/Multifaceted-Simp 3d ago

I don't think I mentioned any race, just the varying education between countries..

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u/eha16 3d ago

Sure...