Grasshopper Manufacture have revealed they are making Shadows of the Damned Remastered, and will be unveiling it in their first Grasshopper Direct.
The Grasshopper Direct is scheduled on Wednesday, June 14, 2023 at 9 PM PT, and will be mainly shown on YouTube. It certainly sounds like this will be a smaller affair than other events and shows going on over the next week.
But, if Grasshopper Manufacture is patterning their Grasshopper Direct in the same way that Nintendo does it, they might surprise us with some details about this remaster’s development. Or it could just be a brief livestream where they do all the announcements in the span of an hour.
Shadows of the Damned is a 2011 action game, that was, until now, only available on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. This was also a collaboration between Goichi Suda and Shinji Mikami, or at least, that’s what most fans know about it.
While the two legendary game developers did come together to make this game, they weren’t the only legends on board. Akira Yamaoka, who had made a name for himself making the soundtracks to the Silent Hill games, joined Grasshopper and made this his first game with the company.
Shadows of the Damned’s wild and inventive monsters come courtesy of Q Hayashida, a dark fantasy anime artist most famous for Dorohedoro, and had previously worked on Dreamcast and PlayStation 2 video game Maken X.
Intriguingly, this marks the latest Suda51 game to receive a modern rerelease. While some considerably earlier works, such as the Twilight Syndrome series and Michigan: Report From Hell continue to be stuck in their original platforms, most of his other games, including deep cuts like Killer7, and even deeper cuts like Flower, Sun, and Rain, have seen modern rereleases.
It’s also a strange coincidence that Grasshopper Manufacture had been working on this at the same time that a Lollipop Chainsaw remaster was also being worked on. Their announcements are months apart, so clearly there’s quite the overlap between them.
We don’t know what platforms Shadows of the Damned Remastered will be on, but given Suda51’s preference for Nintendo, it has probably been designed to be playable on the Nintendo Switch. The Switch might even be its lead platform! Of course, it is also likely to hit Windows, PlayStation, and Xbox platforms, as Grasshopper has also been doing to their other recent games.
You can watch the campy Shadows of the Damned Remastered announcement below.
