Legendary game developer Hidetaka “SWERY” Suehiro took to social media to announce that he’s heard fan outcry and taken a couple of months to add a Story Mode to his upcoming game, Hotel Barcelona.
In a post made on his personal social media accounts, SWERY assuaged fan worries that the game would be too hard for some to enjoy the story, saying, “For 2 months, I worked to create a Story-Focus difficulty (Easy Mode). Today it’s finally complete.”
Over on the Hotel Barcelona Steam page, SWERY published a longer, wilder, and very on-brand message about the game’s Easy Mode, clarifying that it would be added to the game as part of the Day One Patch on September 26th.
Hotel Barcelona is a 2.5D Hack’n’Slash action-roguelike, and the combined brainchild of SWERY and another iconic Japanese developer, Goichi “Suda51” Suda. A mysterious hotel inhabited by serial killers stands on the border of Pennsylvania and West Virginia, and it is up to novice federal agent Justine to clear it out. But Justine has a secret; she shares her mind with the deranged murderer Dr. Carnival!
Slash your way through enemies, growing in power as you are soaked in their blood, and use “Slasher Phantoms”, past versions of yourself from previous runs, to aid you on your mission. Explore 7 1980s horror movie-inspired areas of the hotel, from haunted mansions to ghoulish laboratories, and even play with two friends in online co-op, if you can figure out how!
Hotel Barcelona already had a lot of buzz around it, what with both SWERY and SUDA51 co-heading the project, but with this new addition of a “Story-Focus” mode, more people can experience what could be the most gory, surreal, and unforgettable game these two creators have ever made!
Hotel Barcelona is releasing on September 26th across PC(Steam), PS5, and Xbox Series.
Are you looking forward to Hotel Barcelona? Does the new “Story-Focus” mode change your mind on the game at all? Let us know in the comments below.
