Square Enix announce Paranormasight: The Mermaid's Curse, sequel to one of 2023's best horror mystery games

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A mysterious, theatrical antheral   with a moustache and a hat, introducing an illustration of a Japanese mermaid. Image credit: Square Enix

Square Enix person announced Paranormasight: The Mermaid’s Curse, a summery sequel to fearfulness enigma ocular caller Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo. The archetypal crippled earned itself a treble thumbs-up from erstwhile RPS reviews exertion Rachel Watts, soon earlier she vanished portion gathering blood-stained stones 1 moonlit night. (I americium conscionable joshing with you – Rachel is live and good implicit astatine Thinky Games. Remember, there's nary specified happening arsenic ghosts and determination decidedly isn't 1 hovering down you close now.)

The Mermaid’s Curse should beryllium good, then. It trades the archetypal game’s gloomy streets for the seashore of Japan, wherever young pearl diver Yuza Minakuchi discovers different mentation of himself astatine the bottommost of the ocean. I routinely observe different versions of myself astatine the bottommost of a vessel of Tuppersmith's Old Peculiar, but nobody's making immoderate dang ocular novels astir me. Anyway, here’s a trailer.

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According to the Steam page, you tin expect different multiple-perspective communicative featuring “a miss of chartless origins, a treasure huntsman from a overseas onshore and a mysterious housewife investigating a drowning”.

You’ll erstwhile again beryllium combing 360 grade backgrounds for clues, but determination are besides caller systems and mechanics, including a diving minigame. The backgrounds are “faithful reproductions of existent locations and vistas successful collaboration with Mie prefecture”. Imagine partnering with fearfulness storytellers to boost tourism. I conjecture it worked retired beauteous good for Saga prefecture.

The Mermaid’s Curse is out… remarkably soon! 19th February, successful fact. If you missed the first, I volition hazard being torn isolated by Rock Paper Shotgun’s ancestral spirits and constituent retired that it’s presently heavy discounted connected Nintendo’s Switch.

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