Let’s do something fun here. When hearing the video game name Murdered: Soul Suspect, which do you think out of these two conversations was more likely to have occurred during the design meeting?
Is it this one?
“Alright. We’ve got this video game coming out about someone that’s been killed and it’s got ghosts and stuff in it. We’re thinking that it has to be spiritual, but also involve a lot of police proceedure? We’re going for this mix-up of the two and we think it’s going to be really compelling, but what do we call it?”
Or this one?
“Soul. Suspect. Like Sole Suspect for when you’ve only got one person you think could have done it, but instead it’s Soul, like it’s a ghost or something.
Pretty heavy, right?
Now, is there a game around that? Can we do anything here?”
Either way, we can pretty much be certain they both ended with:
“Nah, Soul Suspect is too interesting. Can we add literally the most generic and uninteresting video game word that can go before the subtitle?”
We don’t know a lot about this upcoming Square-Enix published game and can only assume our knowledge will be fleshed out more in the upcoming months.
Please petition them to drop a word from the title. I’m begging you. It is embarrassing to think about walking into a store and asking if they have a copy of “Murdered” in stock, bringing home a copy of “Murdered”, cancelling weekend plans and dates to stay home and play “Murdered” and telling my mother over the phone that she should get a copy of “Murdered” for my step-dad’s Christmas present.
I don’t want to do that. Don’t make that a reality.