Developer Serafini Productions has introduced a brand new entry its first-person horror sequence BrokenLore. Dubbed BrokenLore: Ascend, the title will as soon as extra showcase the studio’s penchant of tackling troublesome topics by its psychological horror trappings. The title was introduced with a trailer, which you’ll try beneath.
BrokenLore: Ascend may have gamers expertise the story of a pair of rooftop climbers – Ren and Yui – who determine to climb the seemingly-cursed Tokyo Tower solely to come across the yokai Rokurokubi – a yokai recognized for its capacity to stretch its neck to unimaginable lengths. The story of the title will revolve round Ren and Yui making a brand new video for his or her channel, SKYLIMIT, which additionally finally ends up feeding into their want to tackle extra harmful challenges.
Whereas Rokurokubi by itself may solely be a single entity, the yokai additionally finally ends up embodying the deepest fears of the 2 protagonists, which have been described as “the phobia of being forgotten, of turning into atypical, invisible, irrelevant.” Together with the franchise’s first-person gameplay, BrokenLore: Ascend additionally introduces new climbing-based gameplay components which can even probably feed into what sort of horrors gamers can anticipate to face.
BrokenLore: Ascend doesn’t but have a launch date. The title is confirmed to be in improvement for PC and PS5.